Taking strengths to the next level

TEAMMATES AMBASSADORS

BOB ARP

ASHLEY DENTON

MAURIE & PEG DEINES

MIKE FISK

LORI SAMUELSON

STACIE HIGGINS

SHAWNA MAYER

CAPSTONE PRESENTATIONS AND

DISCUSSION PANEL

FOCUS ON YOU

• What HAVE you celebrated recently or what WILL you be celebrating?

• Which of your Top 5 will you use to celebrate this success?

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CAPSTONE PROJECTORDER OF

PRESENTATIONS

BOBASHLEY

MAURIE AND PEGMIKELORI

BOBCAPSTONE PRESENTATION

My Mission as a Strengths Ambassador is to support an awareness and appreciation for every person’s unique combination of strengths resulting in each rising to their highest possible level of achievement.

Bob Arp

ASHLEYCAPSTONE PRESENTATION

TeamMates Strengths Capstone: AshleyMission: Empower TM matches to explore and grow in their strengths

Constituents: 5 current matches

Change in Practice: hands-on meetings driven by strengths of each match

Guiding: Guiding strength matches through in-depth examples, questioning, and ideas

Assess: Pre/Post data collection via questionnaires (see design worksheet attached)

Impact: Match Capstone

DesignWorksheet

MAURIE AND PEGCAPSTONE PRESENTATION

Gallup Strengths is the “keystone”

Relationships

Self confidence

Hope

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Mentor Mentee

The “strength” of your mentoring relationship may be depending on your Strengths commitment.• Mentor Survey:• Have you taken the Strengths Assessment?• Is your Strengths information readily available?• Have you used the “To Go cards” to discuss with your mentee?• Would you like a “refresher” on Strengths? If so,• How about joining others for coffee?• How about an individual refresher?• Have you looked at the TeamMates blog?• How about partnering with another mentor who is confident using

Strengths?

Signs of hope for our community understanding and using strengths:

• Counselors utilizing “strengths” outside of TeamMates

• Mentors investing in “strengths” with their mentees

• Each of us sharing our “strengths” story with others

• Know others well enough to name their strengths back to them

MIKECAPSTONE PRESENTATION

TeamMates / Gallup Strengths WebinarFinal Assignment

(Current / Future Action Items)April 24, 2014 - Mike Fisk

Case Study: The “Nebraska Infrastructure Protection Conference” - April 23 & 24, 2014 Double Tree Hotel Conference Center (Downtown Omaha)

Mike Fisk: NIPC Session Coordinator (Session: “Gang Violence”)

Past Conference “Gang Violence” presentations … a Law Enforcement Focus # gangs # gang members # gang related crimes # gang arrests Gang unit current activities, priorities, collaboration, etc. All good, valid, insightful, information

Problem Statement

Kids pulling triggers. Kids getting shot.

o A complex issue (poverty, family, community, school, peers, hopelessness, individual). o It takes the talents and strengths of many people and organizations to impact change.

Decided focus of the session needs to be a “strengths based, solutions based, 360⁰ approach”

Result: April 24, 2:45 – 4:15pm Gang Violence: Implications, Interventions, Collaboration, Progress Melissa Tibbits, PhD – Assistant Professor, UNMC College of Public Health (“a significant, preventable issue”) Chevist Johnson - Gang Intervention Specialist, City of Omaha (“a purpose problem”) Senator Brad Ashford – Judiciary Chair, Nebraska State Legislature (“a champion of proactive solutions”) Willie Barney – President, the Empowerment Network (“collaboration, coordination, collective efforts”)

This session will address the multi-faceted factors and underlying issues contributing to youth violence, gun violence, and gang activity. The session will also address the multi-faceted efforts of many diverse service agencies and organizations providing positive action, and ideally, a continuous “cycle” of progress.

Also discussed will be the value of a “collective” and coordinated focus on comprehensive prevention, intervention, legislation, and proactive activities intended to decrease violence and increase productive, positive outcomes. After the presentations, an interactive “Q&A” panel discussion will occur.

TM Webinar Strengths in action - now and in future

Everything! Identifying real strengths, creating real strategies, leveraging learned strengths “processes”, and coordinating / executing real activities must happen.

Goals: Hope, better choices, confidence … “More kids with a book. Less kids with a gun.”

Example: Impact One (March 27 meeting at Impact One, myself w/ UNO Goodrich Scholarship Program Leaders ; will be there again soon regarding Strengths – and 4-5 copies of “Strengths Quest”)

Like Chevist says: "We don’t have a gang problem in our neighborhoods, cities and nation. We have a purpose problem!“ (strengths, what’s right … Name, Claim, Aim!)

“If you can cook up crack in the kitchen, you can probably be a chemist or a scientist of some sort,” Johnson said. “You have great gifts and talents. You're just using them the wrong way.”

Help these kids realize they have strengths … cultivate “strengths” and “purpose”.

Chevist says “offer up the kind of advice that means something to kids who think their only option is to live and die in neighborhoods ruled by gangs” (think about this … it’s a chilling statement)

“That's when you see their eyes brighten up, the light bulb come on, the hopelessness fading away”.

What does all this have to do with the TM Strengths Webinar? What’s the point?

What’s Next?

Name, claim, aim; “What’s Right”; Authentic, Meaningful, Motivating Goals (talents, performance) Impact One Follow-up (inside and on the streets) Collaborate with Chevist and Beto Gonzales Back to Blackburn/ILP All kids have strengths and the ability to achieve (we have proof!) Suzanne, Ally (“How about a cup of coffee?”)

Thanks to all who devoted so much to this webinar!

Sincerely,Mike Fisk

It’s a process and a journey. (be disciplined!!)

Review the tools, review the tools, review the tools!

LORICAPSTONE PRESENTATION

HOPE

The Cycle of Hope

Goals

Agency

Pathways

Overcome

Obstacles

Futurecast

1. How might strengths look and feel?

2. What would this program need from you and others to succeed?

3. How could strengths be invested in, developed, and applied for success?

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