Marcus Buckingham
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Find ways to find strengths
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He said he was unique
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Build my strengths and manage around my
weaknesses
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Which do you think will help you be most
successful? (2000)
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Building on strengths or fixing weaknesses
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United states is the most focused strength
country
§ 59%
said fixing problems but only 41% said building on weaknesses, but it was still
the highest. (2000)
§ China
lowest with 29% on strengths
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You only learn about excellence by studying
excellence... not the opposite of failure
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Purnell School in New Jersey
§ Helping
students find their strengths when other schools were telling them they had no
strengths.
§ Asks,
“when will someone ask if something is wrong with the system”
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These are the signs that we are moving from a
remedial society to a strength based
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2006 building on strenths was 37% strengths
based
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2007 41% strengths based, right back where it
started in 2000
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What % of people spend most of the day playing
to their strengths?
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2005 – 17%
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2006 – 14%
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2007 – 12%
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People’s strengths are our greatest assets
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As leaders how do you move this number?
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You should start with yourself first.
§ Are
you one of the 12%
ú If
you aren’t how do you get to be?
ú What
is stopping most of us is that we believe the wrong stuff
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3
myths
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Myth 1 – as you grow, your personality changes.
§ Truth
– as you grow, you become more of who you already are.
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Myth 2 – you grow most in your areas of greatest
weakness
§ Truth
– you grow most in you areas of greatest strength
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Myth 3 – a great team member put his strengths
aside and does whatever it take to help the team
§ Truth
– a great team member volunteers his time to areas of his strengths
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3 skills to learn
§ identify
what your strengths are, be specific.
§ Change
something, each week put together a strong/weak plan and push towards them.
§ Be
able to talk about strengths without bragging and your weaknesses without
complaining
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