Overview
The ‘Strengths Based Leadership’ Workshop is a two-day focused training program that enables individuals to identify and leverage their Strengths at work so that they can make their greatest contribution to the team, the company, and customers.
Years of research have shown that individuals and teams playing to their Strengths significantly outperform those who don’t. In a Gallup study of more than 8,000 teams, involving hundreds of thousand of employees, teams in which people feel they have the opportunity to play to their Strengths every day are
- 50% more likely to work in business units with lower employee turnover,
- 38% more likely to work in more productive business units, and
- 44% more likely to work in business units with higher customer satisfaction scores.
The strategies shared in this workshop allow participants to quickly grasp the core concepts necessary to excel.
Program Curriculum
Phase 1: Identify
Individuals need to identify those activities that invigorate them.
- Bust the Myths: This first step looks at the psychological outlook people need in order to play to their Strengths at work. There are many social and cultural factors that drive people to focus on Weaknesses. This step helps people overcome any limiting beliefs that can get in the way of moving forward on their Strengths Journey.
- Get clear on what’s in it for you to live a Strong Life and how this will impact others around you.
- Find out what prevents people from leading a Strengths-based life and how you can think differently to be a more effective contributor.
- Get Clear: This step helps employees increase their consciousness of those activities they do at work and their emotional reaction to them. Some activities will make a person feel empowered and engaged; other activities drain energy. Employees follow a process that helps them get clear on what their specific Strengths are.
- Learn the most complete definition of Strengths.
- Establish the 4 SIGNs of a Strength
- Identify activities in your job that strengthen you the most
- Create your own Strength Statements
- Learn the most complete definition of Strengths.
Phase 2: Change
People need to change their actions or perceptions so that they are spending a majority of time playing to their Strengths.
- FREE your Strengths: In this step, people learn four different strategies to help them leverage their Strengths in the workplace.
- Learn the 4 strategies for leveraging your Strengths.
- Understand how to use your unique Strengths to do your job more efficiently.
- Determine the action steps to maximize one of your Strengths and link your actions to achieving business outcomes.
- STOP your Weaknesses: Step four supports people in getting comfortable talking about their Weaknesses. People will learn to identify the activities that weaken them and then learn four strategies that can minimize either the amount of time they spend on weakening activities or the impact those activities have on them.
- Learn the true definition of Weaknesses.
- Create your own Weakness Statements.
- Learn the 4 strategies to decrease the amount of time you spend doing activities that weaken you.
- Determine the action steps to minimize one of your Weaknesses.
Phase 3: Grow
People grow on their Strengths Path by learning to communicate Strengths and Weaknesses to colleagues and elicit their support.
- Speak Up: This step teaches people how to share their Strengths and Weaknesses with colleagues, to offer up their Strengths to make a bigger contribution, and to get help with their Weaknesses. Then they explore how to have a successful conversation with a manager to further increase their contributions.
- Collaborate with your team and leverage each other’s Strengths to meet goals and objectives.
- Learn how to have successful conversations with your peers and manager.
- Develop strategies to coordinate an ongoing Strengths focus for yourself and for your teams.
- Build Strong Habits: The final step explores the processes and discipline employees need to put in place to be sure they are staying on their Strengths Path and sustaining their increased contribution.
- Understand the 4 essential habits to adopt so you can lead a Strong Life.
- Learn to consistently leverage your Strengths
- Create an action plan to help you stay on your Strengths Path.
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