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Human Services Career Discovery HMNS 10078 Intro to Strengths Exploration
Nature of Strengths
+Gallup Asked the Following Questions:
Which would help you be more successful in your life?
…knowing what your weaknesses are and attempting to improve your weaknesses?
or
…knowing what your strengths are and attempting to build on your strengths?
+Positive Psychology
Deficit Approach
Study what is wrong with people
Strength-based Approach
Study what is right with people
+What is a Strength?
A strength is the ability to provide consistent, near-perfect performance in a given activity.
The key to building strength is to first identify your
dominant themes or talents.
+Outcomes of Strengths-Based Development
Workplace: increases in employee engagement and productivity
Education: improved attendance, grades
Relationships: sees unique strengths of others and optimize team relationships
Community: increased civic engagement
5 Clues to Talent
1. What are you naturally inquisitive about?
2. What activity are you engaged in when the time flies by?
3. What activity gives you a great deal of satisfaction?
4. What do you pick up rapidly?5. What can you do to near perfection?
+3 Myths that Keep You From Living a Life that Plays to Your Strengths:
1. Myth: As you grow you change.
2. Myth: You have the opportunity to grow most where you are weak.
3. Myth: You must continue to “chip in” for the good of the team even when the task does not play to your strengths. Yes, but…
+34 StrengthQuest Themes1. Achiever
2. Activator
3. Adaptability
4. Analytical
5. Arranger
6. Belief
7. Command
8. Communication
9. Competition
10. Connectedness
11. Consistency
12. Context
13. Deliberative
14. Developer
15. Discipline
16. Empathy
17. Focus
18. Futuristic
19. Harmony
20. Ideation
21. Includer
22. Individualization
23. Input
24. Intellection
25. Learner
26. Maximizer
27. Positivity
28. Relator
29. Responsibility
30. Restorative
31. Self-Assurance
32. Significance
33. Strategic
34. Woo
+StrengthsQuest & Learning *top 5 Strengths Finder Themes for Peggy French
Intellection Loves to engage in intellectual discussions.
Individualization Builds productive teams because talents and strengths of
members understood
Learner Desire to continuously improve
Achiever Has stamina and a high level of motivation
Competition Pushes self and others to be the best
+Jessica’s Daily Affirmation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR3rK0kZFkg
+Talents
Which main talent is Jessica exhibiting?
+34 StrengthQuest Themes1. Achiever
2. Activator
3. Adaptability
4. Analytical
5. Arranger
6. Belief
7. Command
8. Communication
9. Competition
10. Connectedness
11. Consistency
12. Context
13. Deliberative
14. Developer
15. Discipline
16. Empathy
17. Focus
18. Futuristic
19. Harmony
20. Ideation
21. Includer
22. Individualization
23. Input
24. Intellection
25. Learner
26. Maximizer
27. Positivity
28. Relator
29. Responsibility
30. Restorative
31. Self-Assurance
32. Significance
33. Strategic
34. Woo
+Here is What Gallup Knows About Top Achievers:
Top achievers fully recognize their talents and build on them to develop strengths.
Top achievers apply their greatest talents in roles that best suit them.
Top achievers invent ways to apply their greatest talents to their achievement tasks. (Strengthsquest, p.8)
+3 Stages of Strength Development
At the individual level strengths based development involves three stages:
1. Identification and celebration of talents
2. Deliberate integration of talents
3. Applying - intentionally living a life that plays to strengths
Talent + Knowledge + Skill= Strength
+Analyzing the Equation
Talent = naturally recurring pattern of thought, belief, or behaviour that can be productively applied. Basically the innate capacity to do something.
Knowledge = facts and lessons learned
Skill = basic ability to perform specific steps of an activity
Talent + Knowledge + Skill= Strength
+Pop Quiz Break: Skill, Talent or Knowledge
1. An innate desire to outperform the competition.
2. A familiarity with the basic rules of the game.
3. The ability to pitch a curveball.
4. Knowing the basic plays the team uses during the game.
5. The aptitude of rebounding the basketball.
+Workplace Engagement
Gallup Research (Oct 2005 survey of US employees):
31 percent were "engaged" at work 52 per cent were "not engaged" 17 percent were "actively disengaged.”
Best fit = roles that match your greatest talents
Check out StrengthsQuest – Chapter 12
+Career Discovery’s Goal
Mohawk’s Human Services Foundation wants you here:
31 percent were "engaged" at work
* Even if this means you leave Human Services
+I Believe My Most Dominant Strengths Theme Is... Where am I most frequently using my dominant theme?
In what areas, roles, responsibilities? How often am I using this dominant theme? (minutes or
hours per day/week?) In what specific activities am I tending to use this dominant
theme? What am I doing to develop and nurture this dominant
theme? What am I doing to make it stronger, faster, more efficient,
more flexible or versatile? Where and how am I applying this theme to become more
effective or successful? a. interpersonal relationships b. learning/academics c. career preparation d. Spiritual life
+What is a StrengthsQuest? Your Quest addresses your personally meaningful
questions
Your Quest is an adventure of discovery Discovering your talents Figuring out the connection between your past
achievements and talents
Your Quest generates optimism
Your Quest provides a sense of direction
Your Quest generates confidence...your potential for excellence
Your Quest generates a sense of vitality...satisfaction and motivation
+What is a StrengthsQuest?Following on the definition of QUEST….
We will be doing a fair number of assessments throughout this semester to assist you in finding your path
StrengthsQuest will be our hook or framework throughout the semester
We will continue to reflect back, integrate, and comment on our Strengths even as we continue with our other assessments
Please keep up with the readings!
+ "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better
judge what to do, and how to do it."
Abraham Lincoln