1. Living Your Strengths!

2. What will we learn? To identify our five key strengths
To recognize the value of our strengths
To use our talents for growth & service
To develop a strength based community

3. You’re One in a Million (Actually, You Are One in 33 Million)
You are unique!

4. What is My Passion in Life?
What do I want from myself?

5. We want to be the good servant!
“Caring is the basis for community, and the first job of the leader is to build community, a deep feeling of unity, a fellowship.” -- Richard Farson: Management of the Absurd: Paradoxes in Leadership

6. Identifying My Strengths from Living Your Strengths or Discover Your Strengths
On-line Survey reveals your five dominant themes.
Your “Signature Themes”
By identifying and refining these signature themes you will be in the best possible position to use your strengths to the fullest

7. 20 seconds to answer What You Will See
When you are talking to someone, how do you know if you are doing a good job of listening?
20 seconds to answer
Very much like me
neutral
Very much like me
“I know that I am doing a good job of listening if I can understand and repeat back what the other person is saying”
“I know that I am doing a good job of listening if the other person keeps talking”

8. However, try not to use neutral excessively.
If neither of the paired statements triggers a strong reaction or if both statements fit you equally well, neutral is an appropriate answer.
However, try not to use neutral excessively.
“I know that I am doing a good job of listening if I can understand and repeat back what the other person is saying”
“I know that I am doing a good job of listening if the other person keeps talking”

9. Instructions
Look on the inside jacket of your book to find your personal ID code
Go to
Log on using your ID code
Take the test and print out your five strengths

10. Break Time
"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done." -- Ralph Lauren

11. Why Strengths?
Many people find it easier to recognize the strengths of others, than their own.
As a result most of us do not consciously build our lives around our strengths.
Instead, we spend a lot of time and energy trying to repair perceived flaws, while our real strengths lay dormant and neglected.

12. Gallup Research
In February of 2001 the Gallup Organization asked 1,016 adults the question:
Which would help you be more successful in life:
knowing what your weaknesses are and attempting to improve them, or
knowing what your strengths are and attempting to build on them?

13. Gallup Research (cont.)
The Gallup Organization asked 1.7 million employees of 101 companies, from 61 countries:
“At work do you have the opportunity to do what you do best everyday?”
Only 340,000 agreed = 20%
“The longer an employee stays with an organization and the higher he climbs the traditional career ladder, the less likely he is to strongly agree…”
Intro Gallup's research
Clarify the dynamics of “at least once a day”
Then ask how many would agree with the statement
“At work do you have the opportunity to do what you do best everyday?”

14. Handwriting Exercise
Use the sheet provided in the handout and have them write their name first in their dominate hand, then with their other hand.
Tell the broken arm story

15. Handwriting Exercise ABCDEFGHI ABCDEFGHI ABCEFGH I ABCDEFGHI With
Lots of
Effort
and
Practice
ABCDEFGHI
ABCDEFGHI
Dominant
Hand
ABCDEFGHI
With
Lots of
Effort
and
Practice
Use the sheet provided in the handout and have them write their name first in their dominate hand, then with their other hand.
Tell the broken arm story
ABCEFGH I
Minimum
Level Of
Performance
Alternate
Hand

16. Focus On Your Strengths
Imagine you and everyone around you wanting to utilize their strengths….excited, enthusiastic, eager to use their God given talents to do great things.

17. Discover Your Strengths & Living Your Strengths (Finder®) Themes… A Common Language
Achiever
Activator
Adaptability
Analytical
Arranger
Belief
Command
Communication
Competition
Connectedness
Consistency
Context
Deliberative
Developer
Discipline
Empathy
Focus
Futuristic
Harmony
Ideation
Includer
Individualization
Input
Intellection
Learner
Maximizer
Postivity
Relator
Responsibility
Restorative
Self-Assurance
Significance
Strategic
Woo
Copyright © 2004 The Gallup Organization, Princeton, NJ. All rights reserved.

18. Signature Themes Tag
Please, put your top 5 signature themes on your name tag
1. Positivity
2. Relator
3. Includer
4. Belief
5. Woo

19. Second Activity Open the Living Your Strengths book to pages 14-104
Read only about your five themes
Think about the relationship of each theme and how the combination of themes effect you.
Then get up and spend the next 20 minutes asking others about their themes.

20. Break Time
"It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such." --Joe Klock, author, speaker and syndicated columnist

21. Identifying Your Strengths with Living Your Strengths (Finder®)
Reveals your five dominant themes of talent
Your “Signature Themes”
By identifying and refining these signature themes you will be in the best possible position to use your strengths to the fullest .

22. The Equation Talents + Knowledge + Skill = Strengths
To build your strengths, identify your talents, add knowledge & skills to serve God
Talents + Knowledge + Skill = Strengths
(naturally (learned) (service)
occurring) Eccl 5:18

23. Strength Themes can be divided into four dimensions
Relating
Impacting
Striving
Thinking

24. Relating Striving Thinking Communication Empathy Harmony Includer
Individualization
Relator
Responsibility
Impacting
Command
Competition
Developer
Maximizer
Positivity
Woo
Striving
Achiever
Activator
Adaptability
Belief
Discipline
Focus
Restorative
Self-Assurance
Significance
Thinking
Analytical
Arranger
Connectedness
Consistency
Context
Deliberative
Futuristic
Ideation
Input
Intellection
Learner
Strategic

25. WHAT IS MY PASSION? Why do I feel I must meet everyone?
Why do I have no fear walking up to a motor cycle rider with body piercing?
Why do I try to find common things to talk about?
Why do I HATE people being rejected?
Why do I see good when others see bad?

26. Pair Up
Spend the next 20 minutes talking about how your passions are related to your strengths.

27. What are these Characters Strengths
Split into equal size groups
Each group chose one of character and try to identify 5 strengths.
Be sure your able to back up why this person has this talent.
Lincoln
Gandhi
Martin Luther King
Solomon
Jesus

28. How Will You Use Your New Knowledge for Your Life and Community?
Teaching
Leading Service Challenge
Providing Vision
Helping others
Learning
Training Others
Taking a stand
Seeing what needs to be done then doing it
Helping elderly and poor
Learning new things in order to improve your community

29. Group Exercise Break into equal teams.
Pick one of the following scenarios and develop the team to best handle that set of circumstances.

30. Scenarios
Selection of a team to build an astronomer booth, community star gazing center.
Benevolence work in the Community
Renovation and expansion of the county historical museums
Highway rest stop
How can I change my neighborhood

31. Explain Your Scenario Who is on the Team? Why are they on the team?
What combination of talents are needed to resolve each scenario?
Who will lead the team?

32. Hunting Camps Scenario
Who is in a hunting camp?
What responsibilities are their responsibilities?
What talents are needed?
What should the final team look like?
Break into groups and answer all four questions.

33. Successful Hunting Camps Have! From SNS Outfitters in Casper Wyoming
Camp Manager
Wrangler
Guide
Cook
Camp Jack

34. What talents are Needed?
Outfitter
Communicator
Arranger
Idealistic/Futuristic
Strategic

35. What talents are Needed?
Camp Manager
Communication
Responsibility
Command
Thinking/Learner

36. What talents are Needed?
Wrangler
Consistency
Deliberative
Achiever
Self Assurance

37. What talents are Needed?
Guide
Realtor
Competitive
Achiever
Includer

38. What talents are Needed?
Cook
Woo
Includer
Significance
Learner

39. What talents are Needed?
Camp Jack (Jack of All Trades)
Self Assurance
Learner
Discipline
Consistency

40. ?
Evaluations

41. Fulfill your God given destiny!
LIVE YOUR PASSION
Fulfill your God given destiny!