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The Natural – Your Talents Point To Your Strengths

September 1, 2009 · 6 comments

in Leadership Development

Everyone is “a natural” at something.  Think about it.  I’m sure you know someone who is naturally gifted, endowed with more of a particular talent.   If you’re like me, sometimes you get tempted to envy them.  But you’re a natural at some things, too! In Strengths Finder 2.0 [1]  Tom Rath used the 34 “themes” of strength that were identified by years of research done by the Gallup organization for the book Now Discover Your Strengths.  Gallup surveyed over 100,000 people on their strengths and passions, and in their first book they identified and described the top 34.

Rath expanded the results to create ideas for action to help people spend more of their time working in the area of their greatest strengths.  The evidence described in the book explained that when a person’s boss ignored them, there was a 40% chance they would disengage in their job.  [click to continue…]

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Leaders Know Their Team’s Strengths

July 13, 2009 · 5 comments

in Resources

Do you know the strengths of your teammates? By strengths, I mean the activities that your teammates are energized by and that they are good at. In the book Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath, he defined a strength as:

Talent X Investment = Strength

Talent is defined as “a natural way of thinking, feeling or behaving.” Investment is defined as “time spent practicing, developing your skills and building your knowledge base.” And a Strength is defined as “the ability to consistently provide nearly perfect performance.”

Do you know what areas each of your team members consistently provide nearly perfect performance? [click to continue…]

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