Gallup poll. Amplify Your Project Team by Utilizing Their Strengths 8/26/2012. The Gallup Poll

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1 Amplify Your Project Team by Utilizing Their Strengths Gina Buser, CEO Like it? #ORG4 #ILTA12 Gallup poll The Gallup Poll Turnover/Retentio n Customer Loyalty Productivity Safety Profits Do you have the chance to do what you do best every day? 1

2 50% more likely to have low employee turnover Like it? #ORG4 #ILTA12 38% more likely to be high-productivity teams Like it? #ORG4 #ILTA12 44% more likely to earn high customer satisfaction scores Like it? #ORG4 #ILTA12 2

3 The key The key: Make sure people have the chance to do what they do best every day. Dread going to work More negative than positive interactions with coworkers Treat peers and customers poorly Tell friends you work for a miserable organization Achieve less on a daily basis Have fewer positive and creative moments As you grow, you become more of who you already are. 3

4 You will grow most in your areas of greatest strength. Skills: Your basic ability to perform the fundamental sets of a task. Knowledge: What you know; must be acquired through formal or informal education. 4

5 Talents: The ways in which you naturally think, feel, and behave. Conventional wisdom focuses on weaknesses Prepared by Find what s naturally right with your people, and build on it. 5

6 Skill assessment? You are the best judge of your strengths. Working outside your strengths drains you of energy. The goal: Spend as much of your workday as possible operating within your strengths. 6

7 Teach what is expected? To survive, you must be flexible enough to let your job shape you. But to excel, you must then be strong enough to mold your job to fit you. + 7

8 Strive to respect and value employees for their individual strengths. Where to go to learn more To understand successful teams, you have to understand successful leadership. Sprinkle learning over the first 90 days 8

9 When leaders focus on and invest in their employees strengths, the odds of each person being engaged goes up eightfold. Engaged employees lead to great teams. The best leaders are not necessarily well rounded. But the best teams are. 9

10 Distance learning Leaders of great companies don t begin with what, but rather with who, by getting the right people on the bus. - Jim Collins Provide direction Surround yourself with people who don t think like you or always agree with you. The world is full of people who achieved great success without doing things your way. 10

11 As a leader, building a team of diverse strengths is one of your most important responsibilities. Executing Using Class Time Influencing 11

12 Follow-Up Activities Relationship Building Flexibility for Distance Strategic Thinking Why do people follow certain leaders? 12

13 Trust Trust Compassion Compassion Stability 13

14 Hope Effective leaders understand team members unique strengths and delegate tasks that ensure they use them. Intellection: Give me time to think about it. 14

15 Analytical: Prove it. Competition: How are others doing? Significance: What I do makes a difference Significance 15

16 Activator: Let s get to it! Every time you meet a person with great strengths, you ve also met a person with great weaknesses. Peter Drucker Rather than focusing on weaknesses, try to manage them. 16

17 What makes a team effective? Be mindful of burnout. When your job leverages your strengths the majority of the time, it feels more like a calling. 17

18 Learn more Marcus Buckingham First, Break All The Rules Now, Discover Your Strengths The One Thing You Need to Know Go Put Your Strengths to Work Tom Rath StrengthsFinder 2.0 Strengths Based Leadership m Peter Drucker The Effective Executive Gina Buser CEO gbuser@travelingcoaches.com THANK YOU! 18