Developing Strengths into Talents

Overview

Working to your strengths means more engagement, higher productivity, better flexibility and positive results for your organisation.

This Short Course explores the nature of a strengths based approach, which is directly correlated with performance and productivity in any organisation. We will look at Gallup organisation’s Buckingham Clifton and Rathand Positive psychologists Martin Seligman, Mihaly Csikszentimahalyi and Kaplan’s Balanced Scorecard. In addition, we will draw on contemporary neuroscience practitioners Matt Liebermann, Jeffry Schwartz and John Ratey.

Topics Covered

• The case for focusing on your strengths
• Where do strengths come from?
• The ingredients of a strength
• Discover your own strengths
• Talents versus strengths
• Develop your strengths to become talents
• Learn new techniques for discovering other’s strengths
• Building great teams using a strengths based approach
• Benefits of using a strengths based approach.
• Uncover your weaknesses and learn techniques to minimize them.
• An overview of Strengths based profiles – how can they help, hinder and what to choose from

Who should attend

• CEO through to middle management
• Anyone who is responsible for leading a team of people
• Professionals looking for a new leadership tool to apply not just at work but in the wider society. e.g. family, sports teams, charity and community works.

Outcomes

• Have a comprehensive understanding of the strength based approach
• Identify your own strengths and how to leverage those.
• Have a personalised plan to use a strengths based approach with your teams.
  
  
• Know how to structure your teams to utilise strengths for maximum productivity.
• Bring more value to your workplace