Strengths-Focused Guide to Leadership, The: Identify Your Talents And Get The Most From Your Team

Description

This effective guide shows you how to identify and develop the strengths of both yourself and your people, and ensure that talent is spotted and nurtured at every step.

Strengths-Focused Leadership is the only step-by-step practical guide on the market to identifying and enhancing people’s innate strengths - which leads to higher levels of energy, job satisfaction and engagement.

Rather than relying on online assessment tools, this book shows you how to discover your strengths yourself and how to use this process to assist others.

The authors have used their executive coaching backgrounds to build a practical model for using and applying the strengths focus. The MORE model focuses on 4 key elements:

• Myself – how do I identify and develop my own strengths and overcome my weaknesses?
• Others – how do I help my people do the same?
• Regular conversations – how do I ensure that ‘strengths thinking’ becomes part of business as usual?
• Employee processes – how do I apply a strengths focus to recruitment, induction and performance?

Broken into 3 chapters on each element, the Model teaches you how to use the strengths focus to tackle key business challenges – collaboration, change and strategy.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

About The Authors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART 1 - WHAT IS STRENGTHS-FOCUSED LEADERSHIP 

1 - What is a strengths focus and why is it important?

2 - The mindset of a strengths-focused leader

PART 2: THE  MORE MODEL

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3 - Identifying My own strengths

4 - Developing My strengths and managing My weaknesses

5 - Aligning My goals & objectives with My strengths

Others

6 - Introducing a strengths focus to Others

7 - Identifying & developing strengths in Others

8 - Supporting Others to Manage Their Weaknesses

Regular conversations

9 - Applying a strengths focus to day-to-day conversations

10 - Strengths-focused meetings

11 - Strengths-focused coaching

Employee Processes

12 - Strengths-focused performance appraisals

13 - Strengths-focused development discussions

14 - Strengths-focused recruitment

PART 3 - APPLYING THE STRENGTHS FOCUS TO BUSINESS CHALLENGES

15 - Building High Performing Teams

16 - Leading Change

17 - Developing Strategy

Putting it all together

ON A FINAL NOTE

Appendix 1: Template for Business Objectives Action Plan

Appendix 2: Template for Development Objectives Action Plan

Appendix 3: A strengths-focused team development plan

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