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HIGH5-Free-Team-Activity.pdf

Strengths Sharing for Teams

TEAM ACTIVITY

The objective of this team-building exercise is to explore the results of individual strengths assessments to deepen understanding, appreciation, and collaboration among team members.

HIGH5 strengths assessment results for each participant (previously completed, can be done with free or full report)

• Deepens understanding and application of individual strengths. • Facilitates meaningful conversations and collaboration based on employee unique strengths. • Enhances problem-solving abilities by leveraging a diverse range of strengths within the team. • Encourages a strengths-focused mindset, promoting personal growth and development. • Promotes team cohesion and mutual support.

1. Setup and introduction: • Gather all team members in a comfortable and relaxed setting. • Remind participants that today’s activity will focus on exploring and celebrating top 5 strengths. • Emphasize the importance of understanding and leveraging individual strengths collectively.

2. Strengths Sharing (15 minutes): • Ask each participant to briefly share their top 5 strengths from their HIGH5 report. • Encourage them to explain why they resonate with 1 or 2 of those particular strengths and how they believe

using those strengths contributes to their and the team’s success.

3. Strength Exploration (15 minutes): • Brainstorm and discuss examples of how each strength could be applied to solve a specific work-related

challenge or improve a team process. • Encourage participants to think creatively and share personal experiences related to their strengths. • Explore the opportunities for collaboration that arise from combining different strengths of team members.

4. Reflection and Action Planning (10 minutes): • Allow participants to share their observations, insights, and the impact of the activity on their understanding

of their own strengths and those of their teammates. • Discuss practical ways in which team members can leverage their strengths to support each other, enhance

team performance, and achieve common goals. • Encourage participants to set individual and collective action plans to apply their strengths in their daily work.

5. Wrap-up (5 minutes): • Reinforce the importance of leveraging strengths and fostering a culture of collaboration within the team. • Encourage ongoing discussions and exploration of strengths in future team interactions.

45-60 min

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PARTICIPANT SHEET

Strengths Sharing for Teams What are your top 5 strengths? How would you explain them to a peer?

Which strengths resonate particularly with you and why?

How can your team combine individual strengths and use them to solve problems?

What are the practical actions you can take to leverage team strengths more effectively?

Get the HIGH5 Team Strengths Report

TEAM STRENGTHS REPORT

Stop wasting resources on trying to change the way the group works naturally. Instead, learn how the team would set their goals and how they would achieve results if they used more of what they are already great at.

Remove blocks that stand in the way of your team’s best performance. These blocks are also where the team might experience frustration and misunderstanding. HIGH5 provides actionable insights on how to mitigate these risks both on the personal and team levels.

One of the key challenges for any manager is how to make the most of the resources they have. The Team Strengths Report provides actionable insights on how and when to leverage the unique contribution of every team member. Apart from them being appreciated, you will make sure no strengths of the team are left unused.

No team is exactly the same. Unlike other assessments that put you or your team into one of 4 buckets, the HIGH5 Team Strengths Report unlocks what is unique about your team. Trigger ‘aha’ moments for your team when they reveal why their colleagues do what they do, what motivates them or when they’re at their best.

Discover natural team dynamics

Help your team love working together

Mitigate team conflicts and performance risks

Uncover and leverage your team’s hidden gems

Create the Team Strengths Report for your team here: https://high5test.com/team-strengths-report/

Leader.pdf

As a leader, you want to understand our strengths and how you will lead your organization and team. Through the past activities in this assessment, you tackled the topics of leadership styles and traits, leadership development, and succession planning. You will now use this information to complete this formative assessment. The information from the self-assessment will help you prepare for Summative Assessment 3.

Take the High5 self-assessment.

Links to an external site.

This assessment will test your strengths for free. It is comparable to StrengthFinders; therefore, if you have taken the StrengthFinders assessment, you can use those results as well.

Once you have taken the self-assessment

Links to an external site.

, provide a response to the following questions:

● What surprised you? ● What would you take from this analysis to develop yourself as a leader? ● How does your leadership analysis impact the development of a succession

plan?

https://high5test.com/test/