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Putting Your Strengths to Work

Paula Beadle

By embracing your natural talents, developing your strengths, and putting them to work, you will increase your satisfaction and performance.

Your natural talents are a powerful source

• f strength.

Now, Discover Your Strengths

Gallup conducted a study of excellence over 4 decades with millions of high performers to determine the most natural thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

• 34 patterns emerged as prevalent themes of human

talent

• Designed strengthsfinder assessment to identify

signature themes

• Introduced a new vernacular to describe people’s

talents and strengths

• Changed the conversation away from shortcomings

Only 1/3 of respondents strongly agreed they have an opportunity to do what they do best everyday.

Working within your strengths leads to more engagement, satisfaction, and improved performance

Imagine doing what you do best everyday.

At the end of the day, are you energized and satisfied?

Why understanding your strengths is important?

• More engagement leads to better performance and increased

job satisfaction

• Happier in your work, less burn-out
• A new vernacular to talk about yourself
• Tool to help you achieve your goals
• A catalyst to discuss professional development
• Understanding of others strengths leads to greater appreciation

Your greatest opportunity for growth and excellence lies in focusing on your strengths not your weakness.

Talents

are your naturally recurring patterns of thought, feeling

• r behavior that can be

productively applied

Skills

can be learned – they will help you perform, they will not help you excel

Knowledge

consists of the facts and lessons learned

Strengths

are a consistent near perfect performance in an activity

Strengthsfinder 2.0, Tom Rath

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How to Identify Your Talents

• Monitor your behavior and your feelings over an extended period of time
• Look for consistent thoughts - often what comes easy is a sign of a strength
• Listen to what others tell you - gratitude, recognition and applause are meaningful
• Consider your successes
• Take assessment by purchasing Strengthsfinder 2.0 by Tom Rath and visit

strengthfinder.com to reveal your 5 dominant themes of talent

Overview of Talent Themes

Achiever Activator Adaptability Analytical Arranger Belief Command Communication Competition Connectedness Consistency Context Deliberative Developer Discipline Empathy Focus Futuristic Harmony Ideation Includer Individualization Input Intellection Learner Maximizer Positivity Relator Responsibility Restorative Self- assurance Significance Strategic Woo

Put your strengths to work.

How will you achieve a goal or solve a problem using your signature strengths?

Key Messages

• Talents combined with skills and knowledge leads to strengths
• By focusing on your strengths you have a greater opportunity

to achieve excellence

• People are happier when they are working within their strengths
• There are no “bad” strengths, strengths do not define who you are, they are a useful

tool

• Your 5 signature talents do not represent your only strengths, they just fire first
• Teams who understand and appreciate each others strengths are more productive,

happier, and effective

Build a strength based family, community, and workplace.

Change your daily conversations from shortcomings to strengths.

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