Gaining New Strengths
By David Zinger on Feb 15, 2007 in David Zinger
Be strong. Get the two new strength based leadership resources from Marcus Buckingham and Tom Rath.
On March 6th., Marcus Buckingham is coming out with Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
This will include information on:
Why your strengths aren’t “what you are good at” and your weaknesses aren’t “what you are bad at.”
Why your strengths aren’t “what you are good at” and your weaknesses aren’t “what you are bad at.”
How to use the four telltale signs to identify your strengths.
The simple steps you can take each week to skew your time at work toward those activities that strengthen you, and how to manage around those that weaken you.
How to talk to your boss and your colleagues about your strengths without sounding like you’re bragging.
The fifteen-minute weekly ritual that will keep you on your strengths path your entire career.
Tom Rath from Gallup has just released: StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup’s Now, Discover Your Strengths. Visit Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0 to learn more about this new version. Here is a list of some of what’s new for the StrengthsFinder 2.0:
Your top five theme report, built around the new strengths insight descriptions
50 Ideas for action (10 for each of your top five themes) based on thousands of best-practice suggestions we reviewed
Strengths discovery activity that helps you think about how your talents, investment, experience, skills, and knowledge work together to build strengths
Strength-Based Action Plan for setting specific goals for building and applying your strengths in the next week, month, and year
Action-Planning Guide that you can personalize and print to start focusing on actions you can take to build your strengths
Certificate creator to display your top five themes
Reference guides for strengths development, including full and brief theme descriptions
Strengths screen saver you can download
Top 5 grid you can use for mapping the talents of those around you
Guide for strengths-based discussions in organizations and at home
These books are two new exciting resources for all of us to increase our awareness and application of strengths. I believe this is a very strong start to 2007 and gives increased impetus to the strength movement that is sweeping though our workplaces.
