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Strengthscope®

Development WorkbookYOUR STRENGTHS TO SUCCESS AND PEAK PERFORMANCE

DR PAUL BREWERTON & JAMES BROOK

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ContentsAbout Strengths Partnership LtdStrengths Partnership is an assessment and development company dedicated to helping organisations deliver positive workplaces and lasting success by optimising people’s strengths.

Established in 2006, we are now a world leader in delivering pragmatic strengths-based solutions across four consulting practice areas: Organisation Development, Leadership Development, Talent Assessment and Team Development.

Our values Passion for helping people achieve success through strengths

Down to earth pragmatic approach

Professionalism in all aspects of our work, ensuring we deliver high quality outcomes that delight clients

Strong partnership with customers, partners and our communities

Dr Paul Brewerton, BA (Hons), MA, MSc, PhD, Chartered Occupational Psychologist

Paul is co-founder and Director of Strengths Partnership Ltd, an HR consulting firm providing strengths-based leadership development, coaching and talent management solutions. Paul is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and has a Doctorate in Organisational Psychology with around 20 years experience in individual, team and organisational development. Paul has worked across a wide variety of sectors; recent clients include Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Tesco, Bank of England, Legal and General, Panasonic, Police Service Northern Ireland, Royal Air Force and many more. In recent years, Paul has dedicated his business activities to helping organisations translate a strengths-focused approach to bottom line business performance.

James Brook, BA (Hons), MSocSc (Organisational Psychology), MBA, FCIPD

James is co-founder and Director of Strengths Partnership Ltd, an HR consulting firm providing strengths-based leadership development, coaching and talent management solutions. He has around 20 years international experience in leadership development, coaching, organisational change and talent management. For the past 12 years, James has focused on helping organisations identify and translate strengths into innovation, engagement and business success. Recent clients include Facebook, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, PhotoBox, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Royal Bank of Scotland and Tesco. He is a regular speaker on strengths-focused human resources and has contributed to a wide range of business and professional publications in this area.

About the authors

Section 1Introduction to Strengthscope®

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Section 2The 5-As Strengths to Success Development Process

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Section 3Aspirations - Setting clear Aspirations for your performance and development

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Section 4Awareness - Building Awareness of your strengths and performance risks

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Section 5Action - Taking Action to optimise strengths and reduce performance risks

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Section 6Agility - Striving to be Agile in the way you stretch and adapt your strengths

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Section 7Achievement - Celebrating Achievement and building momentum for future success

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Section 8 Your Feedback - Capturing feedback from your Manager and stakeholders

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ABOUT STRENGTHS PARTNERSHIP LTD

How to use this workbook

To gain the most from the activities, it is best to complete only a few at one time so that you can reflect on each task before moving onto the next.

• Each activity should only take 10-20 minutes to complete (sometimes even less)

• Take your time as you work through this workbook

• Complete the workbook over a number of sessions rather than all in one go

• Think about who you could support you whilst you complete this workbook. The activity on page 20 should be able to help you identify someone to work with.

When you see this icon it means you will need to refer to your Strengthscope® Profile.

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Strengthscope® is the world’s most extensive strengths profiling and development system that measures work related strengths – characteristics that energise people, helping them to perform at their best.

Strengthscope® will help you to improve your performance, confidence and engagement by enhancing your understanding of: Your work-related strengths or sources of energy and peak performance.

The consequences of not using your strengths in the right amount in the right way and with the right people.

How your strengths are perceived by co-workers and other key stakeholders.

Where there are opportunities to use your strengths more often and more effectively.

How you can harness your strengths to reduce performance risks.

Strengthscope® is the only strengths profiler offering a multi-rater, 360° feature which enables up to 8 other people to provide feedback on the extent to which they see the respondent using their strengths at work.

Your Strengthscope® profile provides a comprehensive account of your strengths along with ideas on how to put these strengths to best use at work.

Our definition of strengths comprises of 3 parts. Strengths do not necessarily relate to what you are good at, but to what energises, enthuses and excites you.

They can also provide the greatest opportunities for development and personal growth. Research is growing that suggests stretching strengths is more beneficial than developing weaknesses in maintaining career success.

Research also shows increasingly that using our strengths at work is more likely to lead to sustained high performance, confidence and engagement.

Strengths are personal sources of energy that you can draw on...

When the going’s good • They help you to excel In challenging times or when under pressure

• They boost your confidence, resilience and resourcefulness To be authentic

• To be more authentic and build your unique value in the eyes of your co-workers and customers

Introduction to Strengthscope® Why use a strengths approach to development?

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life…have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.Steve Jobs, Former CEO Apple

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“Underlying qualities that energise you, contribute to your personal growth and lead to peak performanceBrewerton and Brook, 2006

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SECTION 1

Introduction to Strengthscope®Introduction

The 5-As Strengths to Success Development Process

The 5-As Strengths to Success Development Process will support you to get the most from your Strengthscope® profile. It helps you to:

Clarify your purpose and goals

Build positive energy

Develop a solutions mindset

Achieve sustained success

The process focuses on the whole person, encourages a high level of personal ownership for development and is grounded in the day to day realities of the organisation.

There are five areas that you will need to focus on as shown in the model below. They are described in more detail on the following page.

The 5-As Strengths to Success Development Process

What are strengths?

ASPIRATIONS

AWARENESS

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SECTION 2 The 5-As

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This section is about clarifying what you want to achieve and what success will look like when you get there.

Aligning your personal goals to your organisation’s vision and goals ensures that your strengths are being used in a way that creates real value for customers and stakeholders. This, in turn, will increase your chances of success. The next activity helps you to set such goals.

Setting clear aspirations

Top Tip Being as specific as possible in setting your goals and describing how you will feel, is the key to

getting the most out of this activity. Top sports people use this kind of visualisation technique to prepare themselves and gives them the best possible chance of success.

Aspirations Aspirations

ACTIVITY 1 – Setting my strengths goal

The career or development goal that is most important to me to achieve by / / is:

I want to achieve this because:

When I have achieved this, these are the specific things that I will feel, see happening, or hear people saying:

The things I value deeply that I will not give up or compromise on in pursuit of this goal are:

Please complete the following sentences:

Summary of Section 3Aspirations

Clarify what you want to achieve and what success will look like.

Be specific in describing your goals.

Identify how your goals will benefit you, your stakeholders, your customers and your organisation and use your strengths to achieve peak performance.

By the end of this section you will be able to:

Describe your career or work-based goal and what it will look like when you have achieved it. Identify ways that your strengths and goals support and align to the purpose and goals of your organisation.

Identify what benefits your goal will give to you, your stakeholders, your customers and your organisation.

SECTION 3 - ASPIRATIONS

Setting Clear AspirationsSECTION 3 - ASPIRATIONS

Setting Clear Aspirations

The benefits this goal will bring to me, my stakeholders, my customers and my organisation are:

Benefits to me:Benefits to my

stakeholders/customers:Benefits to my organisation:

The key things I have learned from this section are: In light of what I have learned I will do the following:

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Awareness

Branding is all around us. The way products are branded is fundamental to how we perceive them. It influences our choices. Branding also applies to people. We all have a personal brand (what other people think of us and the value they believe we bring to work and relationships).

Building our brand (or promise) and communicating it to others, helps us to:

Differentiate ourselves in a highly competitive internal and external marketplace.

Increase our visibility in the company and make others aware of our presence.

Ensure people have a clear sense of who we are and how to work with us.

Become more self-confident and self motivated as we gain in self-awareness and what we have to offer.

Strong personal brands are not built overnight, they take a long time to evolve. It’s worth the effort though, as all great brands produce strong results in terms of improved demand, perceived value, reputation and results.

A brand pyramid is a tool used by branding professionals to clarify and control their messages. It can also be a powerful tool enabling you to communicate and control your personal brand.

Here is an example:

Building your personal brand

Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the roomJeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon

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Now complete your own brand pyramid. Start at the bottom with your values and work your way up.

While you do this think about how your brand can help you to achieve the goal you identified earlier.

ACTIVITY 5 - Building my personal brand

Awareness

My brand helps me to deliver my goal by:

Summary of Section 4Awareness Staying on the Path of Possibility™ is key to achieving peak performance.

Spend time understanding your standout strengths and what gives you energy.

Build and communicate your personal brand to provide clarity and confidence on what you offer.Top Tip Your essence is how you want others to describe you, it is about the best that you bring and what you want others to say about you when you are not in the room.

MY ESSENCEThe best of what I bring.

MY PROPOSITIONThe value I want to contribute to the organisation.

MY STRENGTHSMy standout strengths, skills & expertise.

MY VALUESCore values & attitudes that guide me.

“I build peak performing

teams!”

“I create environments in which teams thrive and I develop

each individual to be the best they can be”

Efficiency

Honesty Humility Trust Collaboration Quality

Results Focus

Project Management

Communication skills

Courage

MY ESSENCEThe best of what I bring.

MY PROPOSITIONThe value I want to contribute to the organisation.

MY STRENGTHSMy standout strengths, skills & expertise.

MY VALUESCore values & attitudes that guide me.

Remember you identified some of your values in Activity 1 on pages 8 and 9, and you identified your standout strengths in Activity 3 on page 12.

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Building Your Personal BrandSECTION 4 - AWARENESS

Building My Personal Brand

The key things I have learned from this section are: In light of what I have learned I will do the following:How will I communicate my brand?

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Performance risks are things that potentially could get in the way of you achieving peak performance in your job. We have identified three types of performance risk, and will look at each in turn. They are:

Strengths in overdrive This is when certain strengths (or a combination of strengths), if over-used,

or used in the wrong situation or with the wrong person, can be counterproductive, resulting in unintended negative outcomes.

Weaknesses 1. Limiting weaknesses are weaknesses that represent a genuine blocker to

achieving success in your goal, your job or your career. 2. Allowable weaknesses are weaknesses which aren’t serious as

they don’t lead to significant problems with our performance or relationships.

Interference/Blockers Blockers tend to be perceptual in nature. There are two types:

1. Internal blockers might be limiting beliefs and assumptions that hold you back from using your strengths.

2. External blockers arise from the external environment. These may include your work environment or managerial and communication barriers that undermine productive use of your strengths. For example, if an organisation’s culture doesn’t value compassion, a person with this strength might feel discouraged to use it and may even hide it.

Reducing performance risks

What strength in overdrive do you feel you most need to address?

ACTIVITY 7 - Reducing my performance risks

Think about a strength in overdrive that may get in the way of you achieving your goal. It might be helpful to read the definitions of your significant 7 strengths in overdrive in section 3 of your profile.

How could this strength in overdrive interfere with you achieving your development/career aspirations?

Action

What strengths could you use to reduce this performance risk?

What other strategies or strengths can you use to reduce these performance risks?

This section is about identifying what kind of support you need to help you to optimise your strengths and achieve your development goals. There are a number of potential supporters you could think about - see below:Your Personal Development Board

Your personal development board

SPONSOROpens up new opportunities and areas at work and promotes your profile within the organisation.

Action

What limiting weaknesses or sources of interference might get in the way of you achieving your goal?

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Reducing Performance RisksSECTION 5 - ACTION

Your Personal Development Board

REDUCING PERFORMANCE RISKS

COACHProvides focused support to help

you acquire a specific skill, think about learning and development, overcome challenges and improve

your contribution.

FEEDBACK-GIVERSomeone who can observe your

behaviour and give you honest and constructive feedback.

ENCOURAGERProvides motivation and recognition

for your abilities, potential and achievements, gives you energy to

grow and succeed.

MENTORGives you long term support and

guidance by sharing their wisdom and experience in your organisation.

COLLABORATORA person in a similar situation to yours

with similar interests and goals.

CONNECTORBridge-builder who helps connect you with others.

COUNSELLORProvides emotional support and

encouragement.

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Action

Summary of Section 5Action Optimise your productive habits and reduce your performance risks in order to achieve your goals.

Prioritise your critical performance risks, and find strengths-based approaches to reduce those risks.

Identify who are the best people to support you in pursuit of your goal.

Think about the goal that you would like to achieve and write the names of the people who you think would best be able to support you in each circle and why you think they would be perfect for that role. Some people may take on more than one role.

ACTIVITY 8 - My personal development board

Your Name:

______________’s

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

BOARD

COUNSELLOR

FEEDBACK-GIVER ENCOURAGER

MENTOR

COLLABORATOR

They will help me to achieve my goal by:

They will help me to achieve my goal by: They will help me to achieve my goal by:



Insert Name

Insert NameInsert Name

Insert Name

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SPONSORThey will help me to achieve my goal by:

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COACHThey will help me to achieve my goal by:

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CONNECTORThey will help me to achieve my goal by:

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My Personal Development Board Action

ACTIVITY 8 - My personal development board

SECTION 5 - ACTION

My Personal Development Board

Now you have identified the key roles you would like people to take for you, the next step will be to talk to them about whether they would like to take on that role. They are likely to want to know what you would like them to do, so be prepared to describe to them how you think they can best support you.

I will approach my development board to ask them if they will take on the roles I would like them to have by:


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AgilitySECTION 6 - AGILITY

Powerful Strength CombinationsAgilitySECTION 6 - AGILITY

Powerful Strength Combinations

ACTIVITY 10 - Powerful strength combinations

How could you use those combinations now to achieve your goal?

Using Strengths as moderators You may find that your Self-confidence strength can often tip into perceived arrogance.

By turning your Empathy strength up you can moderate your Self-confidence strength by focusing on the situations of others, rather than what you want or think is best.

EMPATHY SELF CONFIDENCE

+ =INCREASED

AWARENESS OF OTHERS AND DECREASED

POTENTIAL TO BE PERCEIVED AS

ARROGANT.

Which of your strengths regularly go into overdrive?

Describe a situation when this happened? Can you identify what triggered your strength to go into overdrive?

Complete the activity below, see the example for guidelines on what to do:

My strength in overdrive

Personal Triggers (that move this

strength into overdrive)My moderator

strengths

+ + =

Results

My strength in overdrive

Personal Triggers (that move this

strength into overdrive)My moderator

strengths

+ + =

Results

Example

Empathy

When a colleague has been treated

unfairly and is upset

ResilienceCommon Sense

Less personally affected by the colleague's issues

and so more able to be objective and provide support

Summary of Section 6Agility Find opportunities to positively stretch your stand-out strengths. Match your strengths to meet the different needs of each situation. Identify how different strength combinations can help you in challenging situations. Find strengths that you can use to moderate other strengths that go into overdrive.


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Achievement

Celebrate achievement and build momentum for future success

By the end of this section you will be able to: Gain leverage from your past successes to help you to achieve your current goal. Identify the key elements that will help you on your path to success. Create and implement an action plan on how getting the best from your strengths will benefit you, your stakeholders, your customers and your organisation.

SECTION 7 - ACHIEVEMENT

Celebrate Achievement

ACTIVITY 11 - Celebrating and learning from your successes

Achievement

Summary of Section 7Achievement Recognise and celebrate your strengths and achievements to help you build inner strength, self-belief and resourcefulness.

Learn from past successes to enable you to achieve your goals in the future. Use your ‘path to success’ summary on the next page to check your progress and maintain momentum in pursuit of your goal.

Looking at section 4 in my Strengthscope® profile, the feedback that I have had from others about how I use my strengths well is:

The meaningful ways that I would like to be recognised for what I do and celebrate success are:

SECTION 7 - ACHIEVEMENT

Celebrate Achievement

I can use these strengths more to achieve my goal by:

The strengths that my colleagues would like to see me using more are:


Complete the boxes in the podium below to identify your greatest achievements and what you have learned from them. Start with the box at the bottom and work your way up.

I can use what I learned to achieve my current goal by:

What I learned:

My greatest achievements at work are:

Think about what strengths you used well and what you learned about yourself and others.

Many of us tend to take our achievements for granted and don’t take time to enjoy what we have achieved orlearned from successes.

Looking for what’s working well and finding meaningful ways to recognise and celebrate your strengths and achievements will help you build inner strength, self-belief and resourcefulness for future success. It will also help you to stay on the Path of Possibility™.

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Strengths Partnership Ltd Products and Services

Strengths Partnership (www.strengthspartnership.com) is a world leader in providing practical strengths-based solutions to translate individual, team and organisational strengths into measurable success, innovation and engagement.

The company has five consulting practice areas: selection and assessment; leadership and talent development; coaching; building peak performing teams; and organisational development and effectiveness.

Strengths Partnership’s Strengthscope® online assessment system is the most comprehensive on offer and has multiple applications across the full employee lifecycle. Specific profilers making up this system include:

The company also offers a wide range of innovative strengths-based training and development solutions that will help to embed the strengths approach into HR processes. These include:

For more information, contact us at [email protected]

Strengthscope® Standard Strengthscope360™

StrengthscopeTeam™ Strengths Engagement Index™

Solution

Organisation Development

Leadership Development

Talent Assessment

Team Development

Develop

Strengths for Success™ ProgrammeMy Strong Self Resilience Training

Positive Work Practices™ Workshop

StrengthsAccelerator™ Leadership Development

Strengths Coaching for Results™Engaging Performance Conversations™

Executive Coaching

Peak Performing Team Programme

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Email: [email protected] | Website: www.strengthspartnership.com

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