1. Bringing Out the Best In Self and Others
SMART Strengths
Bringing Out the Best In Self and Others

3. Discovery Appreciating Discovery Appreciating Destiny Sustaining
“What gives life?”
The best of what is.
Appreciating
Discovery
“What gives life?”
The best of what is.
Appreciating
Destiny
“How to empower, learn, and improvise?”
Sustaining
Destiny
“How to empower, learn, and improvise?”
Sustaining
Dream
“What might be?”
Envisioning
Results/Impact
Dream
“What might be?”
Envisioning
Results/Impact
As we move from discovery to dream, the goal is to build upon our strengths, values, highpoint experiences from our positive core as we envision our preferred future.
Design
“What should be – the ideal?”
Co-constructing
Design
“What should be – the ideal?”
Co-constructing

4. Principle number 1: Everyone makes a difference.
Principle number 2: Success is built on relationships.
Principle number 3: You must continually create value for others.
Principle number 4: You can reinvent yourself regularly.

5. DISCOVERY
Purpose: To identify the positive core of your school that will set the stage for individual and organizational valuing.
What attracted you to your position/school? What were your initial impressions?
What do you value most about your work at your school?
Tell us about a high point/peak experience at your school. What made it a high point/peak experience for you?
What factors give life to this organization?
What are your strengths and how do they support your work?

9. t Spotting Managing Advocating Relating Training SMART Strengths
When you know your own strengths, you are better observers of strengths in others and are more attentive to spotting what is good instead of trying to find fault.
Managing
Your strengths are a family of traits that can be combined, tapped, and promoted for bringing out the best in you and others.
Advocating
Learning how to advocate with your strengths will help you to build a bridge from yourself to others. When you put your learning into your own words, you can effectively convey both your strengths and needs.
Relating
Good relationships are about using strengths while connecting with and appealing to others. Sometimes strength buttons get pushed when other people’s strengths are in conflict with your own.
Training
Once you have tools, approaches, exercises, and techniques to use in helping you spot, manage, articulate, and relate your strengths individually and in relationships, you will want to use them to develop these skills in others.
Connect SMART Strengths to the development of resilience, relationships: Training and living the model

10. Paul Potts video

11. When we seek to discover
the best in others,
We somehow bring out
the best in ourselves.
- William Arthur Ward

19. Leadership Agility Lead and Empower Confidence and Humility
Stability/Continuity and Innovation/Transformation

23. Assessing     Almost Always Often Sometimes Seldom Almost Never
Values = positive results of focus on the left pole
Values = positive results of focus on the right pole
Fears = negative results of over-focus on the left pole to the neglect of the right pole
Fears = negative results of over-focus on the right pole to the neglect of the left pole * **
and
Assessing  
Almost Always
Often
Sometimes
Seldom
Almost Never
Almost Always
Often
Sometimes
Seldom
Almost Never  
Almost Never
Seldom
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always
Almost Never
Seldom
Sometimes
Often
Almost Always

25. Athletic Department Polarities
Mission and Vision
Accountability and Support
Values and Performance
Team and Athletic Program

26. CAPITALIZATION

28. Our Deepest Fear
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson