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I highly recommend this for managers AND their teams. I'd also suggest taking the strengths test and having a book group with others who have read it; even your team. The conversations can be brilliant!
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Really enjoyed Gallup's "First, Break All the Rules" as a foundational management book. This was interesting but a bit weaker, with only about 100 pages of content. Gallup argues that not every leader can be strong in everything (fair). But then it's unclear to me still if leaders must be strong in one of the four areas they recommend, or if the leadership team as a whole needs to encompass the four areas. If so, it would have been more helpful for Gallup to share how a leadership team can balance itself out and collaboratively develop these strengths, as opposed to spending the majority of the book on case studies of leaders with strengths in a particular area. I thought the case studies were interesting and I underlined a lot, but it still didn't teach me how to form that holistic leadership team.
A professor of mine gave me this book to read before starting my MPH degree as an introduction to finding my leadership style. This was an okay read that had some good information and was easy-to-follow. I particularly enjoyed when they explored 4 different styles with examples of four very successful real life leaders.
Read for a work-related activity. This is the second time I've taken the strengths test, and I got slightly different results after about six months. Enjoyed reading the various strengths with my coworkers in mind, learning more about how they operate and what motivates them.
Building off of the others in this series, this book is really helpful when working with groups. There is little in my consulting practice which is as much fun as assigning a group of work colleagues to each take the Strengthsfinder 2.0 test online and then share their printouts with each other. As each person in the room tells what they learned about each of their top signature themes of talent, you can almost see lightbulbs coming on. People grow in their understanding not only of themselves, but of each other. And that is a beautiful thing.
Stengths-Based Leadership is especially fun, not just because it provides tips and strategies for leading with the various strengths (or leading others with the various strengths) but because it sorts the 34 themes into four categories: Implementing, Strategic Thinking, Relationship-Building, and Influencing. The authors teach us that individuals do not need to be well-rounded but groups do. I like to plot group members' strengths on a grid and then look at it when everyone is finished. It helps to see how the team can make the most of each person's unique contributions to the group, and sometimes to see what kinds of strengths to look for in new teammates.
It turns out that my own strengths are stacked up in Strategic Thinking, with little in Relationship Building and nothing in Influencing. That is all well and good, until I desire to influence others. That's when I need a partner with a healthy dose of Woo, or at least Communication or Self-Assurance. The truth is that it is very helpful to know this.
These guys could put out a new book every year as far as I am concerned. Keep the learning coming fellas! The applications of the strengths knowledge must be endless!
Stengths-Based Leadership is especially fun, not just because it provides tips and strategies for leading with the various strengths (or leading others with the various strengths) but because it sorts the 34 themes into four categories: Implementing, Strategic Thinking, Relationship-Building, and Influencing. The authors teach us that individuals do not need to be well-rounded but groups do. I like to plot group members' strengths on a grid and then look at it when everyone is finished. It helps to see how the team can make the most of each person's unique contributions to the group, and sometimes to see what kinds of strengths to look for in new teammates.
It turns out that my own strengths are stacked up in Strategic Thinking, with little in Relationship Building and nothing in Influencing. That is all well and good, until I desire to influence others. That's when I need a partner with a healthy dose of Woo, or at least Communication or Self-Assurance. The truth is that it is very helpful to know this.
These guys could put out a new book every year as far as I am concerned. Keep the learning coming fellas! The applications of the strengths knowledge must be endless!
Read this book as a follow-up from the strengths finder. I found it helpful to read about all of the types and how each works. I really enjoyed the parts about who you should pair up with.
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