A strengths-based approach to leadership culture is characterised by all everyone focussing on their strengths continual learning and, through this, on the improvement of engagement, team work and success.
Supporting leaders to understand and focus on their strengths rather than developing ‘strong’ weaknesses makes perfect sense and is aligned ideologically to our values, focuses on pragmatism, and encourages leaders to think ‘leadership teams’, not heroic, charismatic leadership or worse autocratic ‘just do it’.
Gallup created a diagnostic which is available via the book Strengths Based Leadership readily available online.
Useful for
Identifying the pattern of your strengths and of your team’s strengths. These will include a possible 34 Strengths across the 4 domains.
- Executing: People with strengths in this key domain know how to rally around a goal and get things done. Differing strengths might dictate the style of getting to the goal, but people who have strengths in this area make a massive contribution to things happening.
- Influencing: People with strengths in this key domain know how to share and embed the team’s ideas both inside and outside the organisation. These people are natural persuaders, inspire others to adopt their ideas and are vital to moving teams forward in communities.
- Relationship Building: Those with strengths in this domain tend to keep groups together. They’re the social glue: the mortar between the foundation building blocks. They know how to create and maintain groups such that the whole is much greater than its parts.
- Strategic Thinking: People with strengths in this domain tend to force the group to look at the big picture and toward the future – what might be. Always reviewing the data and applying what they learn, strategic thinkers move the organisation forward – stretching its members to think beyond what is, to the possibilities of the future.
Resource: Strengths Based Leadership
Helpful additional information
- Complete the code in the Strengths Based Leadership Book and then contact Fiona to arrange a conversation [email protected].