Now, Discover Your Strengths

The identification of the talents within you,

and the journey to strengthen them

Todays Agenda

Journey of Self-Discovery
Organizational Impact
Talent Recruitment

Think About This

At work do you have the opportunity to do

what you do best every day?

This question was asked of 1.7 million employees in 101

companies from 63 countries. What percentage do you
think strongly agrees that they have the opportunity to do
what they do best every day?

Some Background
Guided by the belief that good is the opposite of bad, mankind has for
centuries pursued its fixation with fault and failing. Doctors have
studied disease in order to learn about health. Psychologists have
investigated sadness in order to learn about joy. Therapists have
looked into the causes of divorce in order to learn about happy
marriage. And in schools and workplaces around the world, each one
of us has been encouraged to identify, analyze, and correct our
weaknesses in order to become strong.
Introduction to Now, Discover Your Strengths

Think About This

Weakness-Fixing Prevents Failure

Strength-Building Leads to Success.

Think About This

A person can perform only from strength.

One cannot build performance on
weaknesses, let alone on something one
cannot do at all.
-- Peter Drucker

Over Two Million Interviews

The Gallup Organization
30 year systematic study of excellence
The worlds best from different
professions
34 patterns, or talent themes, emerged

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ow

history &
experience

ill
Sk

led

ge

Knowledge, Skills, and Talents

practice &
repetitions
(Obtained)

(Learned)

Performance

Talent
exists naturally within

Knowledge, Skills, and Talents

The Talent Spectrum

Latent

Talent Spectrum

Strength

Think About This

Benjamin Franklin called wasted strengths

sundials in the shade.

Think About This

I ask people What are you good at? Its remarkable the
number of people that dont speak to that question with any
degree of insight. Youve got to know what youre good at
because those are the cards you bring to the party.
Larry Bossidy Chairman Allied Signal

Think About This

I believe that youve got to manage to peoples strengths.
Everybodys got weaknesses. And if you focus on his or
her weaknesses, youre just going to make everybody
unhappy. But if you have good people and focus on what
they do well and kind of work around their weaknesses,
theyll be happy and do better and so will the company.
Bill Steere
Chairman & CEO
Pfizer Inc

Think About This

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow

the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong

Think About This

The appreciation of a talent is a

prerequisite to its application.
Before you can truly live
your talents you must truly
appreciate your talents.

Clifton StrengthsFinder 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

Interesting Combinations
(examples)

Ideation
Ideation
Belief
Belief

Context
Futuristic
Futuristic
Relator

Charles Darwin
Bill Gates
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mother Teresa

Four Domains of Themes

Relating Themes (Working with
people)
Harmony
Communication
Empathy
Includer
Individualization
Relator
Responsibility
Impacting Themes (Influencing
people)
Command
Competition
Developer
Positivity
Maximizer
Woo

Striving Themes (Working harder)

Achiever
Activator
Belief
Significance
Discipline
Adaptability
Focus
Restorative
Self-Assurance
Thinking Themes (Working smarter)
Analytical
Arranger
Consistency
Connectedness
Deliberative
Futuristic
Ideation
Input
Intellection
Learner
Context
Strategic

Points Worth Remembering

A persons Signature Themes will never reveal the
career he or she should choose.
The best managers reach the same destination: strong
business results, engaged employees, and engaged
customers. But they dont necessarily take the same
route.
A strength is a resource, like money or electricity, and,
as with any resource, it can be employed wisely or
poorly.
Your Signature Themes will not change very much
during the course of your life.

Requirements
Do you take a logical and systematic approach to
problem solving? Analytical
Are you a perfectionist who strives for timely completion
of your projects? Discipline
Can you prioritize the urgency of multiple requests and
then take charge to meet these deadlines? Arranger
Do you want to learn how to use SQL, Java, and Perl,
and build world-class database-driven Web sites?
Learner
If you can say yes to these questions, then please call . . .

Thank You!