This deck is from a 7-minute Ted-style talk I contributed to a conference called Blogalicious--focused on growing a community that celebrates digital diversity and that creates a platform for its members to develop their social media presence, blogs, brands, and businesses.

1. 10
Steps to
Leveraging the
Strengths of Your
Team
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Ten Steps
1. Keep it Classy
2. Create a Clear,
Compelling and
Shared Vision
3. Use Milestones to
Motivate
4. Focus on the
Positives
5. Go for Flow
6. Be Poised
7. Play to Their
Strengths
8. Avoid Too Much
“I” in the “We”
9. Feed Their Ego
10. Give Feedback
Privately and
Constructively
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1
Keep it Classy
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2 Create
clear,
compelling
&
shared
VISION
a
VISION
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3
Use
Milestones
as a
Motivator
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Positive
Experiences of
Positive Emotions
Broaden
Momentary
Thought-Action
Repertoires
Build Enduring
Personal
Resources
Transform People
and Produce
Upward Spirals4
Focus
on the
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 Appreciative
Inquiry is the study
and exploration of
what gives life to
human systems
when they function
at their best.
 This approach to
personal change
and organization
change is based on
the assumption that
questions and
dialogue about
strengths,
successes, values,
hopes, and dreams
are themselves
transformational.
Technique:
Appreciative
Inquiry
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Go for
Flow
5
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Be Poised
6
A
l
w
a
y
s
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Play to Their Strengths
7
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Maximizing strengths involves:
• identification of strengths
• integration of strengths-related knowledge into
how an individual views himself or herself
• behavioral change in accord with capitalizing
on strengths

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Avoid Too Much
“I” in the “We”8

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9
Feedtheirego
@DeEttaMJones

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10
Give feedback
privately and
constructively
@DeEttaMJones

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new
downloadable
book!
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