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StrengthsAssessmentNotes.pptxStrengths-Based Leadership
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What is the Strengths-Based Leadership Assessment?
It is a user based assessment that categorizes people into the four domains of leadership strength:
Executing
Influencing
Relationship Building
Strategic Thinking
What is the Strengths-Based Leadership Assessment? (Continued)
It is a tool to find areas of strength in your leadership style and provide affirmation for the areas you do well
It is not a weakness assessment, nor should you be evaluating yourself based on the areas you are missing
“Although individuals need not be well rounded, teams should be” (Rath and Conchie, 2008, p.23) It is a tool to find out how you lead in a team, what needs and expectations do you have when you lead?
Executing
“Leaders with dominant strength in the Executing domain know how to make things happen. When you need someone to implement a solution, these are the people who will work tirelessly to get it done. Leaders with a strength to execute have the ability to catch an idea and make it a reality. ” (Rath and Conchie, 2008)
These leaders are often:
Driven to succeed
Task oriented but never satisfied that the work is done
Implementers of vision
Executing
Likes to be Busy
Problem Solver
Consistent
Likes to have clear expectations
Needs advanced notice
Needs a clear destination
Expect Quality
Observant
Influencing
“Those who lead by Influencing help their team reach a much broader audience. People with strength in this domain are always selling the team's ideas inside and outside the organization. When you need someone to take charge, speak up, and make sure your group is heard, look to someone with the strength to influence. ” (Rath and Conchie, 2008)
These leaders are often:
Loyal to the team members
A voice for the team members
Concerned for the well being and success of the people
Influencing
Action Oriented
Need CLEAR goals
Likes to be independent
Has opinions and isn’t afraid to share them
Needs information timely Invigorated by competition
Likes to encourage people
Builder of Goodwill
Relationship Building
“Those who lead through Relationship Building are the essential glue that holds a team together. Without these strengths on a team, in many cases, the group is simply a composite of individuals. In contrast, leaders with exceptional Relationship Building strength have the unique ability to create groups and organizations that are much greater than the sum of their parts.” (Rath and Conchie, 2008)
These leaders are often:
Understanding of the unique skills of the team
Able to delegate effectively
Get the team cohesively on vision
Relationship Building
Lives in the moment
Builds connections
Recognizes people’s progress
Sensitive to others
Looks for common ground
Wants everyone to be part of the team
Dislikes generalizations
Naturally upbeat
High value on trust
Strategic Thinking
“Leaders with great Strategic Thinking strengths are the ones who keep us all focused on what could be. They are constantly absorbing and analyzing information and helping the team make better decisions. People with strength in this domain continually stretch our thinking for the future.” (Rath and Conchie, 2008)
These leaders are often:
Concerned with future growth and possibilities
Evaluators of internal and external influences
Curious
Strategic Thinking
Needs time to think
Likes Exact
Needs the “Why”
What did we learn?
Looks Ahead
Wants to know how things fit together
Perceptive Planner
34 Themes of Leadership Sorted into Domains
Why do people Follow?
What leader has the most positive influence in your daily life?
Now, please list three words that best describe what this person contributes to your life.
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https://PollEv.com/free_text_polls/flwFOCyo3Tx8XGv7CqllX/respond
Why do people Follow Continued
Trust
Compassion
Stability
Hope
Trust
Gallup’s latest research on trust in leadership also suggests that this foundation is closely linked to employee engagement in an organization.
Engagement is 1/12 vs 1/2 (don’t trust the leadership vs trust the leadership)
Trust also increases speed and efficiency in the workplace.
When you know someone you understand them, when you trust them you support them and they support you.
“Relationship flat-out trumps competence in building trust.”
Compassion
We have asked more than 10 million people to respond to the item “My supervisor, or someone at work, seems to care about me as a person.” And we found that people who agree with this statement:
are significantly more likely to stay with their organization
have much more engaged customers
are substantially more productive
produce more profitability for the organization
Compassion comes from the heart. Compassion means caring about the people, not just how well they are doing at work. The first step to compassion is relationship, you need to know them outside of their work life.
Stability
At a company-wide level, nothing creates stability as quickly as transparency. Followers need to have a basic sense of confidence about where their career is headed and how the organization is doing financially.
The employees need to know they will have a regular source of income and regular hours, even during a crisis.
When stability decreases so does trust and worker efficiency
Hope
Instilling hope may seem like an obvious requirement for leading other people. Hope gives followers something to look forward to, and it helps them see a way through chaos and complexity. Knowing that things can and will be better in the future is a powerful motivator. When hope is absent, people lose confidence, disengage, and often feel helpless.
If spend your time focused on reacting to current problems the employees will lose hope in the future
Being intentional about creating hope for the future especially in hard times creates unity and stability
Where do I go to do the Test?
First, go to: https://store.gallup.com/h/en-ca and create an account using your …@mytwu.ca e-mail address.
Please select [For Education] on the top bar.
There is a dropdown manual, please select [Assessments].
At the bottom of your screen, please select [Shop Now]
Add a quantity of 1 (one) to your cart
A drop-down menu should show Subtotal: C$16.79.
Click [Check Out] and pay for your purchase
Go to your myTWU email to find your code to complete the StrengthsFinder Assessment
Assignment Criteria PART 1: Strengths Presentation
In your presentation please answer the following questions:
What did you learn about yourself?
What are your 5-strengths?
Talk about each strength individually: Brief definition of the theme. Strategies you use to leverage that strength to meet the four basic needs of your followers. (Hint: The four basic needs can be found on p. 22-26 of Rath and Conchie’s Strengths-Based Leadership.
How would you lead others who are also strong in that strength?
Using those strengths as a reference, how will you strengthen your team and the people around you?
What is the best way other people can work with you that will bring out the best in both of you (as well as others that may concern you)?
Assignment Criteria PART 1: Strengths Presentation (Continued)
4 minutes maximum
Slides are required
You are welcome to prerecord it and just play the recording for us during class if it is easier for you
You are required to be present for the whole presentation class out of respect for your colleagues. If you are not present in zoom during our check in time you will be marked as absent for the class (if you need to go to the washroom during presentations please let me know privately in zoom chat)
Rob’s Sample Presentation
Strengths based Leadership Report
Ideation
People who are especially talented in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.
Building Trust: Simplify your ideas and explain why you do what you do. “The clearer things seem to people the more certain they can be that you are doing what is right and makes sense.”
Show Compassion: “Ask others to dream with you.” I married an Executing woman who is very different in her perspective of the world, we balance each other well.
Ideation Continued
How to lead others who are strong in Ideation:
Show them the connections when a project is finished.
Encourage them to excel in unique situations
When decisions are not consistent be sure to explain the unique reason for the exception
Communication
Communicators are relaxed conversationalists and presenters
Show Compassion: Shut up and listen, ask questions and seek out their joy in sharing rather than getting your own joy from hearing yourself speak
Names matter: how you title things is how they will be portrayed (Hence the “call me Rob.” See me as a partner in your learning rather than a tyrant looking down from an academic tower)
To support others with this skill give them opportunities to support others in their presentation skills, make them the spokesperson for the organizations culture.
I like to tell stories hence the story nature of many of the assignments
Input
“Curiosity killed the cat” by burying it in useless data. Leaders with input love acquiring information on a wide range of topics.
I teach knitting, JavaScript, Graphic Design, PE, Outdoor survival training, and a wide range of other classes. Input likes to acquire data because it may one day be useful for something.
Create hope: Input without output can lead to stagnation, as you gather information be aware of the individuals and groups that can benefit from your knowledge. Dialogue, discuss and debate so that you can utilize and share your acquired knowledge.
Help other Input’s share their information and develop a system to access/store collected data
Learner
Much like Input, people who are talented in Learner desire to constantly improve and grow. The process of learning rather than the outcome excites them.
Show Compassion: Bring others into your learning experiences “sign them up for the course too.”
To help others with this skill place them in a fast-changing field so they will continuously need to adapt, learn and grow.
Includer
People who are talented in the theme of Includer seek out others with the hope that they can join in an experience together and develop relationship together.
Build Trust: “Your utter lack of elitism inspires respect and honor. Others can rely on you to find common ground and recognize the contributions each person makes to the whole.”
Show Compassion: “Everyone needs an includer as a friend. You help people feel welcome and immediately make them a part of something larger than themselves.”
Using those strengths as a reference, how will you strengthen your team and the people around you?
Current Goal/Reflection:
In class I need to use my ideation, input, and learner to develop a way or find a technology that makes zoom classes more including and communicative
At home: I could use my including more with my kids, I communicate my ideas and thoughts and bring them into a variety of learning environments with me but I could always include them in more responsibilities. By giving them responsibility for the chores they develop ownership in the organization (home)
Citation of Source
Here is the APA citation for the text: feel free to copy and paste this.
Rath, T., & Conchie, B. (2008). Strengths-based Leadership : Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow. Gallup Press.
Rath, T., & Conchie, B. (2021). Strengths Report for Robert Tegelberg. New York, New York, U.S.A.: Gallup, Inc.
Break OUT ROOM
Which domain do you think relates most to you?
Which domain do you feel the least attracted to?
Discuss the 2 assignments as a group and see if there is any confusion.
Come back to class after 10 minutes for a few last minute comments and a question answering time before dismissal.
