1. Clifton Strengths Missouri Training Institute Clifton Strengths
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Clifton Strengths
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2. Your Facilitator Dewey Thompson Director Missouri Training Institute
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Your Facilitator
Dewey Thompson
Director
Missouri Training Institute
University of Missouri
mti.missouri.edu
Top 5
Strategic
Maximizer
Individualization
Connectedness
Empathy
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Missouri Training Institute

3. Clifton Strengths
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Objectives
Introduce the Clifton Strengths tool for personal and team development.
Explore your contributions by naming, claiming, and aiming your unique talents and strengths.
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4. Are You Engaged? Do you get to do what you do best everyday? Engaged.
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Are You Engaged?
Do you get to do what you do best everyday?
Engaged.
Disengaged.
Actively disengaged.
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5. Gallup Global Employee Engagement Survey
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Are You Engaged?
13% Engaged
63% Disengaged
24% Actively Disengaged
Gallup Global Employee Engagement Survey
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6. Are You Engaged? Gallup research indicates:
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Are You Engaged?
Gallup research indicates:
People who use their strengths every day are six times more likely to be engaged on the job.
Teams that focus on strengths every day have 12.5% greater productivity.
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7. Don Clifton, Ph.D. Don Clifton, Ph.D.,
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Don Clifton, Ph.D.
Don Clifton, Ph.D.,
Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Nebraska.
Founded Selection Research, Inc., a human resource consulting company in 1969.
Selection Research, Inc. acquired Gallup in 1988.
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8. Don Clifton, Ph.D. Father of Strengths-Based Psychology:
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Don Clifton, Ph.D.
Father of Strengths-Based Psychology:
“What will happen when we think about what is right with people rather than fixating on what is wrong with them?”
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Missouri Training Institute

9. Clifton Strengths Assessment
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Clifton Strengths Assessment
Over 40 years of Gallup research:
Based on the study of success across a variety of functions (from business to education), and in many different cultures.
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10. Clifton Strengths Assessment
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Clifton Strengths Assessment
Over 40 years of Gallup research:
Top achievers:
Build their lives upon their greatest talents.
Manage their weaknesses.
Invent ways to take their talents into areas where they want to improve and increase performance.
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Missouri Training Institute

11. Clifton Strengths Assessment
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Clifton Strengths Assessment
Over 40 years of Gallup research:
400+ different talent themes initially identified.
Condensed to 34 signature themes that are the most prevalent.
Assessment identifies talent themes; some may be developed into strengths.
The sequence of a person’s talents is unique; odds of someone else having the same top five strengths is 1 in 33 million.
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Missouri Training Institute

12. Clifton Strengths
2/20/2018
Objectives
Introduce the Clifton Strengths tool for personal and team development.
Explore your contributions by naming, claiming, and aiming your unique talents and strengths.
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Missouri Training Institute

13. Strengths-Based Development
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Strengths-Based Development
Name It!
Claim It!
Aim It!
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Missouri Training Institute

14. Talent: A natural way of thinking, feeling or behaving.
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Talent: A natural way of thinking, feeling or behaving.
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15. Name It! Talents define you: Describe who you are.
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Talents define you:
Describe who you are.
Help us filter our world.
Influence our choices.
Direct our actions.
Explain why we are better at some things than others.
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Talent Themes
Strengths
A natural way of thinking, feeling, or behaving.
State of being.
Who you are.
Soul.
Aptitude.
Natural.
Potential.
The ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance.
State of action.
What you do.
Role.
Application.
Intentional.
Performance.
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17. Name It! Five guiding principles: Talent themes are neutral.
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Five guiding principles:
Talent themes are neutral.
Talent themes are not labels.
Lead with positive intent.
Differences are advantages.
People need one another.
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18. Relationship Building
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Name It!
Executing
Influencing
Relationship Building
Strategic Thinking
Know how to make things happen.
Know how to take charge, speak up and make sure the team is heard.
Have the ability to build strong relationships that can hold a team together and make the team greater than the sum of its parts.
Helps teams consider what could be. Have the ability to absorb and analyze information that can inform better decisions.
Strength Domains
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19. Relationship Building
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Executing
Influencing
Relationship Building
Strategic Thinking
Achiever Arranger Belief Consistency Deliberative Discipline Focus Responsibility Restorative
Activator Command Communication Competition Maximizer Self-Assurance Significance Woo
Adaptability Connectedness Developer Empathy Harmony Includer Individualization Positivity Relator
Analytical Context Futuristic Ideation Input Intellection Learner Strategic
Strength Domains
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Missouri Training Institute

20. Clifton Strengths
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Name It!
Complete the Strengths Wheel handout and share your results in small groups.
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Missouri Training Institute

21. Strengths-Based Development
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Strengths-Based Development
Name It!
Claim It!
Aim It!
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22. Clifton Strengths
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Known to Yourself
Unknown to Yourself
Transparent Behaviors, Known Talents and Strengths
Misperceptions and Misunderstandings, Areas Lacking Self Regulation
Unclaimed or Underutilized Talents
Unknown Potential
Grow Quad I:
Inquiry: Ask, remain open and responsive to feedback.
Advocacy: Share, self express, manage risk.
Known to Others
Ask
Share
Unknown to Others
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Missouri Training Institute

23. Claim It! Balconies: Power and Edge Basements: Barrier Labels
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Balconies: Power and Edge
Basements: Barrier Labels
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24. Futuristic Claim It! Imaginative Creative Visionary Inspiring
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Imaginative Creative Visionary Inspiring
Futuristic
Dreamer Lacks Pragmatism Fantasy
Out in Left Field
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Missouri Training Institute

25. Claim It! Theme Dynamics:
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Theme Dynamics:
When two themes come together, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
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26. Claim It! Theme Dynamics: No theme stands alone.
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Theme Dynamics:
No theme stands alone.
Human beings are complex and have more than just one talent.
Provides richer insights into a person’s potential than individual themes alone.
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27. Claim It! Theme Dynamics Strategic Activator Options / Take Action
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Strategic
Activator
Options / Take Action
Strategic
Analytical
Options / Reconsider
Theme Dynamics
Strategic
Adaptability
Options / Flexibility
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28. Clifton Strengths
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Claim It!
Using your Strengths Wheel, share your responses with a partner:
Do you see any immediate connections between any two themes?
How might these themes influence each other?
How do these themes together help you?
How might these two themes get in your way?
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A strengths-based team is a group of imperfect but talented contributors who are valued for their strengths and who need one another to realize individual and team excellence.
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31. Claim It! Discussion Questions:
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Discussion Questions:
What insights can you draw from the team grid?
How does each team member add value to the team?
How might team members partner for better team performance?
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32. Claim It! Using your Strengths Wheel, connect with five other people:
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Claim It!
Using your Strengths Wheel, connect with five other people:
Love: Identify one of your themes you love. What is it about this theme that you appreciate?
Crazy: Identify one of your themes that can drive you or others crazy. Explain.
Envy: Identify one theme you envy in the other. Why?
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33. Strengths-Based Development
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Strengths-Based Development
Name It!
Claim It!
Aim It!
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34. Aim It! Conventional approach to personal development:
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Aim It!
Identify Improvement Areas
Develop an Improvement Plan
Conventional approach to personal development:
Study of what is wrong with people; work on fixing weaknesses.
Assumes:
Most, if not all, behaviors can be learned.
The best in a role display the same behaviors.
Weakness-fixing leads to success.
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Missouri Training Institute

35. Aim It! Strengths-based approach to personal development:
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Aim It!
Identify Talents
Develop Strengths
Strengths-based approach to personal development:
Study what is right with people; focus on strengths and manage around weaknesses.
Assumes:
Only some behaviors can be learned (skills and knowledge.)
The best in a role deliver the same outcome using different behaviors.
Weakness-fixing may prevent failure, but strengths-building leads to success.
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Missouri Training Institute

36. Clifton Strengths
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Results of your assessment serves as a starting point for self-discovery:
Your talents are an instinctive and intuitive source of your wisdom, power, and edge.
With an intentional investment, your talents can develop into strengths.
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Missouri Training Institute

37. Aim It! Natural way of thinking, feeling or behaving.
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Aim It!
Talent
Investment
Strength
Natural way of thinking, feeling or behaving.
Time spent practicing, developing skills, and building knowledge.
Ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance.
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38. Aim It! Investment Strategy Performance Goal Theme Intervention
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Aim It!
Investment Strategy
What needs to be done?
Why is it important?
Performance Goal
What themes can be leveraged?
What specific actions will be taken?
Theme Intervention
What are benchmarks or measurements of success?
Expected Outcome
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39. Aim It! Performance Goal:
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Aim It!
What needs to be done?
Why is it important?
Performance Goal
What themes can be leveraged?
What specific actions will be taken?
Theme Intervention
What are benchmarks or measurements of success?
Expected Outcome
Performance Goal:
What are the biggest challenges you currently face?
What specifically are your short and long term goals?
What new goals or objectives are you being asked to achieve in your role?
What are your most important tasks?
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40. Aim It! Theme Intervention: Which talent themes can be leveraged?
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Aim It!
What needs to be done?
Why is it important?
Performance Goal
What themes can be leveraged?
What specific actions will be taken?
Theme Intervention
What are benchmarks or measurements of success?
Expected Outcome
Theme Intervention:
Which talent themes can be leveraged?
How might you use your talents to help you tackle your biggest challenges?
Are there opportunities to partner with others who are talented?
What knowledge or skill building will turn talent into strength?
Action plan.
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41. Aim It! Expected Outcomes:
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Aim It!
What needs to be done?
Why is it important?
Performance Goal
What themes can be leveraged?
What specific actions will be taken?
Theme Intervention
What are benchmarks or measurements of success?
Expected Outcome
Expected Outcomes:
What measures or benchmarks will determine success?
How will performance or improvement be tracked/monitored?
Continuously improve.
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Missouri Training Institute

42. Complete Strengths-Based Professional Development Plan.
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Aim It!
Complete Strengths-Based Professional Development Plan.
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Missouri Training Institute

43. Clifton Strengths
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. e.e. cummings
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44. Snowball Fight! You get the best of me when. . .
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Snowball Fight!
You get the best of me when. . .
You get the worst of me when. . .
You can count on me to. . .
This is what I need from you. . .
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Missouri Training Institute

45. Clifton Strengths
2/20/2018
Objectives
Introduce the Clifton Strengths tool for personal and team development.
Explore your contributions by naming, claiming, and aiming your unique talents and strengths.
Missouri Training Institute
Missouri Training Institute