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    Strengths Focused Leadership

    Definition of Strengths
    Underlying qualities that energise us, contribute to our personal growth and lead to peak performance
    Brewerton and Brook, 2006 - Strengthscope

    Strength and Talent

    Strength consistent, near perfect performance in an activity. The key here is consistent for something to be a strength, they must be able to demonstrate it over and again. Talent naturally recurring patterns of thought, feeling or behaviour. These are peoples innate abilities; the raw materials for building strengths.

    Buckingham.M Now, Discover Your Strengths 2005

    Realising your strengths- a model


    STRENGTHS
    Optimal Functioning Authentic
    Energising Development Performance
    Authentic

    Energising

    Pre-existing Capacity
    Behaving Thinking Feeling
    Professor Alex Linley Director, CAPP Growing Success September 18, 2008 Glasgow

    What 3 words describe YOU at your best?

    Buckingham and Clifton at Gallup


    When people are given the opportunity to do what they do best every day at work, their organisation is more likely to have: 50% higher retention 38% more productivity 44% better customer satisfaction Yet only 20% of employees in large organisations feel that they use their strengths every day at work

    Do you use your strengths every day at work?


    U.S.A. 32% Canada 30% China 14% Japan 15% U.K. 17% Germany 26% France 13%

    Gallup 2007 global client database)

    Caret, 2008. All Rights Reserved

    Strengths focus = engagement

    Biggest Drivers of Engagement

    Fairness and accuracy of informal feedback (39.1%) Emphasis on performance strengths (36.4%) Autonomy (36.1%) Internal communication (34.4%) Working on the things you do best (28.8%)

    Organisations - Flawed Assumptions

    Each person can learn to be competent in almost anything. Each persons greatest room for growth is in his or her areas of greatest weakness.

    strengths-based model

    Each persons talents are enduring and unique. Each persons greatest room for growth is in the areas of his/her greatest strength.

    Business Case
    Focus on weaknesses or strengths?

    Employee performance is, on average, 36% higher when line managers focus their appraisals on staffs strengths and talents (Corporate Leadership Council, 2005). Customer retention is 44% higher in companies where people are allowed to do what they do best every day (Harter et al, 2002). Teams with line managers who take a strengths-based approach are 86% more effective than teams which dont (Gallup, 2002).

    Gallup Poll asked parents: Your child shows you the following grades. English-A; Social Studies-A; Biology-C; Algebra-F. Which grade deserves the most attention from you? . . .
    100% 77% 80% 60% 40% 52% 43% 83% 87% Percent A's Percent F's 56%

    22%
    20% 0%

    18% 6% 7% France Japan 8% China

    7% U.S. UK

    Canada

    Around the world a majority of parents believe that the F deserves the most attention.

    Roots of Strengths Focus

    Positive Psychology Martin Seligman VIA (Values in Action) questionnaire 24 character strengths http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu
    Concept of FLOW Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi being completely involved in an activity

    Strengths in Balance

    Kaplan and Kaiser (2009)

    Strengths in Balance

    Under used or underestimated

    Appropriate use

    Over used or overestimated

    Self awareness Self management

    Example - Resilience

    What happened to weaknesses?

    Allowable no significant impact

    Limiting impacts and needs managing

    Mini Essay
    This week the mini theory essay is on 'Strengths based leadership has more advantages than disadvantages. Discuss' in 500 words. Research conducted by Gallup since 2002 suggests that if organisations focus on their peoples strengths then the workforce will have a higher level of engagement which can bring beneficial results to the organisation. However, Kaiser and Kaplan in their article Stop overdoing your strengths argue that it is possible for your strengths to become your weaknesses. So in order to answer the essay do the following:
    1. Read the resources provided in class and on Blackboard on strengths based leadership. 2. Write your essay remembering to look at the guidance in your MSG on academic writing

    Mini Essay

    What is SBL? What are the arguments that it is a good thing? Retention, productivity, customer satisfaction, employee engagement. What are the arguments that it can be a problem? No focus on weaknesses? Too much focusing on strengths can turn them into a weakness Need for a balanced approach/versatility Conclusion?

    Self-Reflection Piece

    This week the reflective piece is on 'How can strengths based leadership help me?' in 300 words. In order to do this you need to do the following: 1. Read the lecture notes and the handouts provided for this week. 2. Reflect on the activities we did in class and then do the following: DESCRIPTION Briefly describe the activities relating to skills and SBL INTERPRETATION What was the result of these activities? What are your strengths? What happened? OUTCOME What have you learned about yourself and your leadership practice? Will you focus on your strengths or on your areas for development? How can SBL help you?

    Some sources

    Buckingham. M and Clifton.D (2005) Now, Discover your Strengths London: PocketBooks Goffee.R and Jones,S. Why should anyone be led by You? Linley.A (2008) Growing Success September 18, 2008 Glasgow Conference proceedings Kaplan,R.E. and Kaiser,R.B. (2009) Stop over doing your strengths. Harvard Business Review February pp 100-103 www.Strengthscope.com http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu

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