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Below is INSIGHTMirror 360 list of ten
key publications pertaining to the most
current research regarding people’s
weaknesses and strengths in the
workplace. We have found that a truly
superb way to find additional material
on The Strength’s Movement is to
subscribe to
The Gallup Management Journal. |
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Now, Discover Your Strengths,
Marcus Buckingham, Chief Researcher for
the Gallup twenty-year Study on
Leadership, and Dr. Donald O. Clifton
–The father of The Strength Revolution. |
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THIS is the book that started “The Strength Revolution” in schools, work places, and management consulting firms. In 2001 The Gallup Organization twenty-year study of 200,000 managers came out with their Leadership Research Study concluding, among other things, that: – Organizations cannot afford to just fix employees' weaknesses. Because fixing weaknesses often doesn't work, and at best it only helps people prevent failure. It's within the strengths of employees - almost always overlooked by organizations - that lie the true opportunities for world-class performance.
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Strengths Based Leadership, Tom
Rath and Barry Conchie, 2008. |
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CONTAINS the newest leadership
version of Gallup's premier StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment. This
assessment will identify your top
five strengths and assist you in
developing strategies to fully
incorporate these strengths within
your leadership style.
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Driving Engagement by Focusing on
Strengths, Article by Brian Brim
and Jim Asplund, November 2009. |
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SUCCESSFUL organization run on the
support of Engaged Employees
who maximize the productivity of
their organization through their
individual work effort. Article
discusses how to continue the path
of engage employees, and shift the
patterns of disengaged employees by
focusing on disengaged employee’s
strengths.
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Building Great Leaders at the
IRS – Dr. Jim Trinka |
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AN
emphasis on building strengths is as
much as eight times
more effective than correcting
weaknesses, and can improve an
organization’s results as much as
80%.
THE
effects of fixing “fatal flaws” on
overall perceived leadership
effectiveness are not as dramatic as
building profound strengths. |
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4b. |
IRS 360º Assessment Study:
Developing Great Leaders
On page 17 of this PowerPoint
Presentation: |
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BUILDING
strengths raises
perceptions of overall leadership
effectiveness much more than sealing
“performance perforations.”
ONE
of the keys to building leadership
strengths is leveraging a leader’s
passions.
WHEN
building strengths, sometimes the
best way is to build around them. |
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'Strong Words' An interview with Marcus
Buckingham about the
importance of playing to your strengths. |
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“SUSTAINED success is about
harnessing those activities that
energize or invigorate you – in
other words, playing to your
strengths.” –Marcus Buckingham
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How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive
Strategies for Work and Life,
2004, by Tom Rath and Dr. Donald O.
Clifton |
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THE
authors offer a prescription for
reversing the trend toward
negativity currently endemic to the
American workplace.
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Soar With Your Strengths,
by Donald Clifton, and Paula Nelson. |
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THIS
classic book gives research and
outstanding examples showing by
fixing weaknesses, you will only
become an average performer.
Instead, if you put the same energy
on your strengths you will standout.
Excellence can be achieved by
focusing on strengths and managing
weaknesses, not through the
elimination of weaknesses, or trying
to turn a weakness into a strength.
The latter can be done, but rarely
well.
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8. |
Book: The Best of the Gallup Management
Journal 2001-2007 |
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“MORE than anything, executives and
managers need quantifiable,
measurable strategies for making the
‘intangible’ side of their
businesses as productive and
profitable as it can be. For years,
hardheaded business leaders and
gurus have said that it's impossible
to measure these intangibles. The GMJ argues that they're wrong, and
this book offers the proof.”
–Editors of GMJ.
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The
Strengths to Confront Tough Times,
Article by Brian Brim and
Heather Wright, April, 2009. |
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ALMOST daily, companies are cutting
workers and morale and productivity
are suffering as a result. In this
environment a strengths-based
approach is vital because it creates
hope, opens the doors to untapped
potential, and brings out the best
in people and in companies.
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Debunking Strengths Myth #1:
Adopting a strengths-based approach
doesn’t mean you can ignore your
weaknesses. Article by Brian
Brim, Oct. 2007. |
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THE INSIGHTMirror 360º Action
Planning Guide concurs with Mr.
Brim. “Of course you have to deal
with people’s weaknesses. If you
don't manage the weeds, you will
soon be left with a once beautiful
garden now left in decay. In
addition, if one has an overwhelming
weakness seriously hurting
productivity, that although you try
to work with the person’s strengths
to overcome this critical weakness,
very often one simply has to go to
the heart of the weakness and
'fix-away,' as in the old style of
(non-strength-based) management". |
