Make better use of individual strengths
For years, positive psychology has taught us that it’s much easier to build on our strengths than to work on our weaknesses. Much easier. Yet, in many feedback conversations, so-called development areas receive more time and attention than the wonderful strengths. It’s already scientifically proven that focusing on strengths is more beneficial for the company than a focus on weaknesses. Strengthening individual strengths gradually leads to a strengths-based distribution of tasks within your team.
A truly wonderful shower of praise
The concrete examples in the Strengths Workshop make individual strengths more tangible, and participants receive valuable, appreciative feedback and insights from their colleagues. Many people rarely get such specific positive feedback in their daily work. Strengthening Strengths also sharpens the focus on recognising strengths and raises awareness of the importance of expressing appreciation to one another more often in everyday work.
Better outcomes
Everyone prefers to work on tasks that suit them. In a meta-analysis, the Gallup Institute asked 198,000 employees: Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day at work? When comparing the answers to the performance of their respective business units, the power of well-utilised strengths became very clear: those who answered "strongly agree" were 50% more likely to work in departments with lower employee turnover, 38% more likely to be in more productive teams, and 44% more likely to be in business units with higher customer satisfaction scores. Who could resist such compelling statistics?
This is how #Strengthening individual Strength works
This hack consists of two parts. In the first part, the Strengths Workshop, the team is divided into two groups. Each group identifies five strengths for each person in the other group. Then, the other group has to guess which person matches which five strengths. The group reveals the answers and presents the strengths with concrete examples. After this comes the second part of the #workhack: A (physical or digital) board is set up within the team or department for tasks that you and your colleagues would like to hand over because they don’t align with your respective strengths. If someone feels called to take on a task, they can exchange information with the person who wants to pass it on.
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ShareThe concrete examples in the Strengths Workshop make individual strengths more tangible, and participants receive valuable, appreciative feedback and insights from their colleagues. Many people rarely get such specific positive feedback in their daily work. Strengthening Strengths also sharpens the focus on recognising strengths and raises awareness of the importance of expressing appreciation to one another more often in everyday work.
Everyone prefers to work on tasks that suit them. In a meta-analysis, the Gallup Institute asked 198,000 employees: Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day at work? When comparing the answers to the performance of their respective business units, the power of well-utilised strengths became very clear: those who answered "strongly agree" were 50% more likely to work in departments with lower employee turnover, 38% more likely to be in more productive teams, and 44% more likely to be in business units with higher customer satisfaction scores. Who could resist such compelling statistics?
This hack consists of two parts. In the first part, the Strengths Workshop, the team is divided into two groups. Each group identifies five strengths for each person in the other group. Then, the other group has to guess which person matches which five strengths. The group reveals the answers and presents the strengths with concrete examples. After this comes the second part of the #workhack: A (physical or digital) board is set up within the team or department for tasks that you and your colleagues would like to hand over because they don’t align with your respective strengths. If someone feels called to take on a task, they can exchange information with the person who wants to pass it on.
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