Discover your Strengths - South Mountain Community College

Discover Your Strengths
by the number of years you have worked for MCCD
• Introduce yourself
• Share a story about a moment you were at your best
at South Mountain CC
Define talent, theme, and strength.
Discuss the role that talent and strength play in
the success of top achievers.
Identify and define, in basic terms, their own
themes of talent.
Discuss their themes of talent with significant
others.
Define, in basic terms, the 34 themes of talent.
Recognize the unique, but different, talents of
others.
HELPING STUDENTS, STAFF, AND FACULTY ACHIEVE ACADEMIC,
CAREER, AND PERSONAL SUCCESS.
The TRUTHS that allow you to play to your
strengths most of the time
As you grow you become more of who you already are
You are going to grow and develop the most in your
areas of strength
What your team needs of you most of all is for you to
bring your strengths deliberately
Grade and Progress Reports
Performance Evaluations
The Rabbit
and
the Duck
Two million interviews
Thoughts, Feelings and Behaviors
Over 400 talents
Validated
Success
Talent
(a natural way of
thinking, feeling, or
behaving)
X
Investment
(time spent practicing,
developing your
skills, and building your
knowledge base)
=
Strength
(the ability to consistently provide nearperfect performance)
Strengths are talents used
productively
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Behavior patterns that make you effective
Thought patterns that make you efficient
Beliefs that empower you to succeed
Attitudes that sustain your efforts toward
achievement and excellence
Motivations that propel you to take action and
maintain the energy needed to achieve
You can not not do it
Talents are potential strengths!
Clifton Strength Finder
measures for 34
Achiever
Competition
WOO
Developer
Input
Empathy
Similar talents grouped
into themes
Underline or highlight the phrases in your
strengths report that resonate with you.
Cross out those that don’t
The highlighted are your talents.
Talents used productively
Talents are refined with knowledge and skill
a diamond in the rough
requires purposeful effort
Strength = Talent X Skills + Knowledge
“Despite the American myth, I cannot be or do
whatever I desire – a truism, to be sure, but a truism
we often defy.
Our created natures make us like organisms in an
ecosystem: There are some roles and relationships
in which we thrive and others in which we wither
and die.”
Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak
“Despite the American myth, I cannot be
or do whatever I desire – a truism, to be sure,
but a truism we often defy.
Our created natures make us
like organisms in an ecosystem:
There are some roles and relationships
in which we thrive and
others in which we wither and die.”
Parker Palmer,
Let Your Life Speak
Thrive!
My boss doesn’t care if I’m thriving,
or energized by my work…
she just wants the job done.
Energy
Outcomes
Expectations
You're expected to attend a party
There will be 50 people there and won't know
anyone
PARTY!!!!!
Your closet:
InputSituation
Your Strengths
Lens
Your Energy
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You are required to attend a “brainstorming” session
to dream up new ideas.
You are ask to serve on a team responsible for
designing a college wide event
With a partner…
What was your first reaction to your Clifton
Strengths Finder results?
What new discovery have you made about
yourself?
What, if anything, surprised you about your
results?
Have you shared your “Top 5” with anyone? What
was their reaction?
1,656,272
1,524,351
1,519,142
1,494,103
Achiever
Relator
Learner
Responsibility
Strategic
Input
Harmony
Maximizer
Adaptability
Empathy
Arranger
Restorative
Positivity
Developer
Ideation
Woo
Focus
Communication
Individualization
Connectedness
Intellection
Analytical
Includer
Belief
Competition
Activator
Deliberative
Consistency
Futuristic
Context
Significance
Discipline
Self-Assurance
Command
1,223,431
1,074,795
955,653
913,730
865,487
857,759
776,452
764,738
746,418
731,315
707,074
696,649
695,123
645,838
628,325
627,649
600,349
597,736
590,316
574,575
570,479
562,524
531,325
520,855
514,919
443,066
334,369
313,940
311,754
261,594
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5.
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Achiever
Relator
Learner
Responsibility
Strategic
Discover/Awareness
Session 1
Understands, can
define and verbalize
their themes.
Has a basic
understanding of their
themes.
Develop/Integrate
Can see a clear
connection between
their themes and past
and present behavior.
Can link strengths to
successes.
Session 2
Apply/Application
Can utilize the
knowledge of their five
themes to plan,
strategize, analyze and
direct their behavior.
Relationship
Has a clear understanding of
their uniqueness and sees
others strengths.
Has a relationship(s) that is
encouraging their strength’s
development.
Session 2
Session 3
30
Talk to other co-workers who have at least
one Signature Theme different than your
own.
Jot down the theme you discussed, and at
least one benefit of that theme.
Focus on strength not weakness
You own your strengths, pick out 5 more
Feel free to replace one with another
No one knows your talents like you do!!
Top 5 – Top 10
Hawthorne effect
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“Nice to meet you. What do you do at
South Mountain Community College?”
Rather than simply sharing your title, try
and integrate some of your signature
themes into your answer
Know your top 5
Be proud of your top 5
Post your top 5
Donate your top 5! Donate them every
day!
One of my Signature Themes that I want to learn
more about and consciously apply more often:
One thing I will do differently starting tomorrow: