Playing to Your Strengths - Introduction

CKN Pastor’s Lunch
February 11, 2010
Indianapolis

CoreClarity®
In-Powering People™:
Introduction

Presented by:
Rex Miller,TAG Consulting
© Copyright CoreClarity, Inc. 2004 - 2009. All rights reserved.
Monday, February 15, 2010

The CoreClarity® Process

Living Your Strengths
by Albert L. Winseman,
Donald O. Clifton and Curt Liesveld

Read pages 1-13
 Clifton StrengthsFinder™

 Code located on sticker on inside
of book jacket


Productivity

10x

1x

-x


Productivity

10x

1x

-x
Actively Disengaged

Productivity

10x

1x
Not Engaged
-x
Actively Disengaged

Productivity

10x

Actively Engaged

1x
Not Engaged
-x
Actively Disengaged

A congregation of knowledge workers?


• Bottleneck

• Bias toward
Blockbusters

• Focus on Mass
Markets

• Most of the
Good Content is
Invisible


Gifts – Talents – Strengths?


 Ephesians 4:11; to the church


 1 Corinthians 12:1-14; individual


 Romans 12:6-8; individual


 Stir up the gift – 2 Timothy 1:6


 Sons of Issachar – 1 Chronicles 12


 Sons of Issachar – 1 Chronicles 12
 Eternal traits – Jeremiah 1:5


A Unit with Parts


A Unit with Parts

The body is a unit, though it is made up of many
parts; and though all its parts are many, they
form one body.

So it is with Christ.

1 Corinthians 12


Benefits
 Right people in the right seat
 Sense of purpose
 Release of enthusiasm
 Talents build to strength
 Find natural synergies
 Anticipate friction
 Means to deal with conflict


A Team or Players?

2004 2008

Life As We Know It


Life As We Know It

School - Grades


Life As We Know It

Work - Performance Appraisals


Today’s Agenda


Today’s Agenda
 How Talents are Developed


Today’s Agenda
 Relationship Between Talents and Strengths


Today’s Agenda
 Clifton StrengthsFinder® Assessment


Today’s Agenda
 Talent Themes


Today’s Agenda
 Talent Themes
 CoreClarity® Key and CoreDrill


Today’s Agenda
 Talent Themes
 The CoreClarity Process


Today’s Agenda
 Talent Themes
 The CoreClarity Process
 Insights into Effectiveness and Purpose


But first, a word from our attorneys…


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Don O. Clifton, Ph.D.


Don O. Clifton, Ph.D.
 Known as “Father of Strengths Psychology”
 Wondered what makes people successful - not
what makes them fail
 50 years systematically studying excellence
 2 million+ high-performance achievers
 Asked open-ended questions
 1988-1992 – SRI purchases Gallup
 1998 – Marcus Buckingham


Successful people understand
their talents and strengths
and build their lives upon them.

Successful organizations don’t
just accommodate
differences in employees,
they capitalize on them.


You Already Know
Describe days when you came home
energized and enthusiastic.

Describe days when you came home
exhausted and drained.


How Are Talents Developed?
 42 days after conception
 First brain cell formed (neuron)


 Next 120 days
 Over ½ million neurons created every
minute
 More than 100 billion in all


 Next 120 days
 Over ½ million neurons created every
minute
 More than 100 billion in all
 60 days before birth
 Neurons start trying to communicate
with each other


 Between 0-3 years of age
 Each neuron creates approx. 15,000
synaptic connections


 Age 3
 Nature & nurture step in
 Reinforced connections (talents);
ignored connections (not talents)


 Age 3
 Nature & nurture step in
 Reinforced connections (talents);
ignored connections (not talents)
 By age 16
 Half of network is gone – and they are
actually smarter!


Talents and Strengths?



Talent
Naturally recurring pattern of thought, feeling
or behavior that can be productively applied



Talent

Strength = Talent + Use + Skills + Knowledge



Talent

Strength = Talent + Use + Skills + Knowledge

Strength
Consistent, near perfect performance
in an activity you love doing

Clifton StrengthsFinder®

 Identified 34 prevalent talent themes
 More than 33 million potential
combinations
 Positive language to describe:
 How we think
 Why we behave in certain ways
 What’s great about us!


The 34 Talent Themes
Achiever Connectedness Futuristic Maximizer
Activator Consistency Harmony Positivity

Adaptability (Fairness) Ideation Relator

Analytical Context Includer Responsibility

Arranger Deliberative (Inclusiveness) Restorative
Belief Developer Individualization Self-Assurance

Command Discipline Input Significance
Communication Empathy Intellection Strategic

Competition Focus Learner Woo


Categories of Talents


 Connect – used to create, develop and
sustain relationships with others over time


 Reflect – involves the way people gather,
process and make decisions with information
and mental images


and mental images
 Energize – the way one pushes oneself
toward results


and mental images
 Energize – the way one pushes oneself
toward results
 Mobilize – used to motivate others to
action

External Interaction


Internal Interaction

Internal Motivation

External Motivation


The CoreClarity Pyramid


Steve Cheryl Henry Joe Mary



Now, Discover Your Strengths
by Marcus Buckingham & Donald O.
Clifton, Ph.D.

Read first three chapters
 Clifton StrengthsFinder™ URL
on page 79
 Code located on blank side of book
jacket



StrengthsFinder 2.0
by Tom Rath

Read pages 1-31
 Clifton StrengthsFinder™
URL on page 31
 Code located on card inside sealed
packet in the back of book


Additional Information for
Young Adults and Children
 High school/college students (Ages 15-25)

www.StrengthsQuest.com or
https://store.gallup.com/category/product/variant/272/StrengthsQuest.aspx

 Same assessment as StrengthsFinder – somewhat
different information in book and on Internet
 Grade/middle school students (Ages 10-14)

www.StrengthsExplorer.com
 Ten “Emerging Strengths”
 Results feature top three emerging talents


Empower vs “In-Power”



 Empower – implies the giving of power



 In-Power – the power within



 In-Power – the power within

Insights into
Effectiveness and Purpose

Your talents are already inside you –
it is your responsibility to
know, show and grow them into
strengths!

Questions?
Rex Miller
rmiller@tagconsulting.org
214-498-3055


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