2. 2020 VISION : To be the Industry’s
Most Essential Resource
Endless Opportunities
Meritocracy
Entrepreneurial Spirit
Strengths Based
Organization
High Performance Culture

3. Kolbe
DiSC
Strengths Finder

4. DISC
 Dominance
 Influence
 Steadiness
 Conscientiousness
 Discover your
communication styles
 Understanding others

5.  Discovering your Strengths
• Determine your individual
strengths and/or team’s
strengths
• Analyze results
• Identify strengths
• Identify opportunities

6. Kolbe
 Fact Finder
 Follow Thru
 Quick Start
 Implementor
Kolbe Assessment identifies how
you take action.
Stay tuned…
Will occur in 2014!

8. Do you ever wonder why you make certain choices?
Why you do what you do?
Why you like certain things?
Why you are better at some things than others?

9. Donald O. Clifton, PH.D
(1924-2003)
The father of Strengths-
Based Psychology and
Creator of the Clifton
StrengthsFinder
• Gallup was the first organization to intentionally
research and record information about human
strengths and has studied the subject for decades.
• Gallup & Clifton Created StrengthsFinder Assessment
• Measures the prevalence of 34 talent themes in
individuals
• Created to help people worldwide discover their
strengths

10.  Natural behavior
 Apply your talents =
reach your full potential
 Act with confidence,
direction & hope

11. Identify
Improvement
Areas
Develop an
Improvement
Plan
 Most, if not all, behaviors
can be learned.
 The best in a role display
the same behaviors.
 Weakness fixing leads to
success.
Maintain each person’s strengths
and work on fixing weaknesses.

12. Identify
Talents
Develop
Strengths
Focus on each person’s strengths
and manage around weaknesses.
 Only some behaviors can be
learned (skills and knowledge).
 The best in a role deliver the
same outcomes using different
behaviors.
 Weakness fixing prevents
failure; strengths building
leads to success.

13. Key Points on your journey:
• Talents, Knowledge, and skills
• Our greatest talents = best opportunities for
excellence.
• Personal development: To focus on your greatest
talents
• Find ways to manage or work around your lesser
talents.

15. Responsibility theme applied to create a strength:
 Able to Finish a task
 Always Delivers
Ideation theme applied to create a strength:
 Discussing Ideas
 Go-To-Guy/Girl
Relator theme applied to create a strength:
 Establishing Relationships with
People
 Visiting Clients/Relationship Builder

16. Talent
(A natural way of
thinking, feeling or
behaving)
X
Investment
(time spent practicing,
developing your skills,
and building your
knowledge base)
=Strength
(the ability to
consistently provide
near-perfect
performance)

17. Theme n. a category of talents. Themes help you begin to discover and talk
about your greatest talents
Talent n. a natural way of thinking, feeling, or behaving. The greater the
intensity of the talent, the greater its power, and the greater you opportunity for
success.
Skill n. the basic ability to move through the fundamental steps of a task. Skill
can be acquired through formal or informal training.
Knowledge n. what you know. Knowledge can be acquired through formal or
informal education.
Practice n. the time spent working, exercising, and applying your skills,
knowledge.
Strength n. the ability to consistently produce a positive outcome through near-
perfect performance in a specific task. To finish with strength, start with talent.

18. 1. What do these five themes reveal about how I build relationships?
2. What do these five themes reveal about how I manage the things I do
or am responsible for each day?
3. What do these five themes reveal about what motivates or energizes
me?
4. What do these five themes reveal about how I influence others?
5. What do these five themes reveal about how I think about and
process information?

19. ◦ Take an online assessment to discover your key talents.
 http://www.discprofile.com/
 http://www.strengthstest.com/
 http://www.kolbe.com/
◦ Discuss those talents on your next annual review and
how to build on that.
◦ Trained to develop and build on people’s strengths.

20.  Questions and Answer?