1. Strengths In Your Career

2. Brandi Mair Learner, Input, Achiever, Self-Assurance, Adaptability Curtis Larsen Ideation, Strategic, Learner, Maximizer, Achiever About your presenters

3. So what do you remember about StrengthsQuest? When have you used your talents since we last met?

4. SECTION HEADER Must copy/paste this slide, when needed.

5. Barriers to Strengths Strength that is lived in a negative way A strength that is mistaken or devalued Find balance and reduce stress

6. Well Being

7. Five Essential Elements Career Social Financial Physical Community

8. Career Wellbeing: Your Identity What do you do? The Economic Journal, June 2008. “Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction”: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis. Andrew Clark, et. al.

9. An Organizational Focus

10. Heart, Health and Boss Of Cortisol and cholesterol “Have a good weekday.”

11. Career Interview: What I do Best worksheet

12. “Despite the American myth, I cannot be or do whatever I desire– a truism, to be sure, but a truism we often deny. Our created natures make us like organisms in an ecosystem: there are some roles and relationships in which we thrive and others in which we wither and die” -Parker Palmer

13. Career Well Being Those who report high Career Well Being are twice as likely to have a thriving personal life. -- Tom Rath and Jim Harter

14. Finding your Sweet Spot Interest & Passion Job Requirements Your Talents

15. The Gallup Q12

16. The Gallup Q12 Basic Needs Do you know what is expected of you at work? Do you have the materials and equipment to do your work right? What do I get?

17. The Gallup Q12 Individual Contribution At work, do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day? In the last seven days, have you received recognition or praise for doing good work? Does your supervisor, or someone at work, seem to care about you as a person? Is there someone at work who encourages your development? What do I get? What do I give?

18. The Gallup Q12 Teamwork At work, do your opinions seem to count? Does the mission/purpose of your company make you feel your job is important? Are your fellow employees committed to doing quality work? Do you have a best friend at work? What do I get? What do I give? Do I belong?

19. The Gallup Q12 Growth In the past six months, has someone at work talked to you about your progress? In the last year, have you had opportunities to learn and grow? What do I get? What do I give? Do I belong? How can I grow?

20. Team Weave

21. The Four Main Categories of SQ Executing Influencing Relationship Building Strategic Thinking

22. Executing When you need to get things done Achiever, Arranger, Belief, Consistency, Deliberative, Discipline, Focus, Responsibility, Restorative

23. Influencing When you need to sell what you have to as many people as possible Activator, Command, Communication, Competition, Maximizer, Self-Assurance, Significance, WOO

24. Relationship Building When you need to create an organization that is greater than the sum of its parts. Adaptability, Developer, Connectedness, Empathy, Harmony, Includer, Individualization, Positivity, Relator

25. Strategic Thinking When you need to take the organization to the future from where it has been. Analytical, Context, Futuristic, Ideation, Input, Intellection, Learner, Strategic

26. Appreciation Of Other Strengths ExecutingInfluencing Relationship Building Strategic Thinking

27. How do the groups work? Benefits of different talents in a team Barriers that talents may create in a team

28. Flourishing Which specific activities did you find yourself looking forward to last week? Was there any time last week when you got in your zone? What specific activities last week made you feel strong?

29. Talk about your Strengths without bragging.

30. How will you use your strengths?

31. Questions??? Brandi Mair Student Life & Leadership 801-957-4652 brandi.mair@slcc.edu Curtis Larsen Student Life & Leadership 801-957-4644 curtis.larsen@slcc.edu