Being a leader can be lonely and overwhelming. We have to wear many hats and some of them don’t fit as well as others. Wearing those hats for too long can leave us drained, uninspired, questioning our value or impact.
Becoming a Strengths-Based Leader helps you lean into your superpowers while allowing your team members to lean into theirs. This creates the snowball effect of effortless improvements in performance and engagement across teams and organisations.
In this post, we outline the Three step to Becoming a Strengths-Based Leader:
- Connect – take the first step towards Strengths-based leadership by learning about your unique Strengths profile and how it describes you at your best
- Communicate – start using the language that Strengths gives you to describe how you uniquely show up every day, what you bring to your team, and what you need in return
- Create – create powerful teams by learning how your Strengths profiles combine to enhance and influence performance
Communicating your CliftonStrengths®
Sharing your Strengths insights with others allows them to understand how you show up, and how you see yourself at your best.
When they share their perceptions of your Strengths with you, then you know how the world responds to what you bring.
Communicating what your Strengths bring and need builds understanding and manages expectations. If you know how someone is going to respond to a certain situation then you can talk about how to support that person.
Most importantly it gives language for the team to talk to each other in a positive way – a way that speaks about people at their best.
Creating with your CliftonStrengths®
Now you can create performance. Aim individuals and their unique Strengths profiles at the tasks and relationships that will ensure success.
Even more, you can combine profiles to stack or dovetail, boosting teamwork towards powerful combinations.
Connect – Communicate – Create – Putting Your Strengths in Motion
If you’re connecting with your strengths, communicating using the right language and co-creating with your team while all leaning into your unique talent profiles, this is what it looks like.
- People who focus on using their strengths are three times as likely to report having an excellent quality of life, and are six times as likely to be engaged in their jobs.
- Gallup studies have found 8% to 18% performance improvement and 2% to 10% increases in customer engagement among strengths-based organisations
- People who focus using their Strengths Maximise their potential. People who learn to use their strengths everyday have 12.9% greater productivity. Teams who receive strengths feedback have 11.7% greater profitability.
CliftonStrengths® gives leaders and teams the tools they need to thrive. Strengths-based organisations know how to talk about each other at their best and show up in their own unique way every day.
Take the first step and connect with your own strengths by contacting us on hello@mandyherold.com
