Strengths- Based leadership

SLIDE XX: STRENGTHS BASED LEADERSHIP

What is strengths-based leadership?

Why is it important?

SLIDE XX: Article: Strengths or Weaknesses – Resisting the lure of the wrong choice (Jack Zenger) - Reflection

Facilitator story about a manager/mentor who focussed on strengths. 

SLIDE XX: STRONGEST TO WEAKEST CORRELATION POLL

Exercise

Question in Menti Poll - During a formal performance review what has the most impact on performance? Rank from least/most effective when managers focus on one of the elements.

MENTI POLL

https://www.menti.com/re34w553mt

SLIDE XX: CHART SHOWING FOCUSING ON POSITIVE DRIVES HIGH PERFORMANCE

SLIDE XX: BENEFITS OF STRENGTH BASED LEADERSHIP

● Improving consensus and delegation

● Improving engagement

● Effective hiring

● Encouraging creativity

● Thriving (improved mental health)

Marcus Buckingham (Gallup) The acid test of a strength – you can only see yourself do it repeatedly, happily and successfully.

Capitalise on our strengths and manage around our weaknesses. Benjamin Franklin called wasted strengths ‘sundials in the shade.’

Research has also shown that by focussing on strengths, that there are positive effects on health, particularly depression.

By building and using our signature strengths, we can achieve:

• higher emotional satisfaction

• authentic happiness, productivity and success.

In other words, strengths make us stronger.