Best-selling authors, TED Talk stars and strengths-based leaders Tom Rath and Marcus Buckingham have brought the strengths-based message to business that researchers have known for years: investing in strengths, understanding others’ needs and surrounding yourself with the right people (those who want to maximize their best skills, AKA strengths) are essential keys to leadership effectiveness. Attend this workshop if you want to: • Identify and understand your strengths to be most effective at work and home; • Build strong and diverse teams; and • Lead to your full potential. Your ROI? • Leverage your natural talents; • Align your strengths with the right projects; and • Get results that positively affect work culture, innovation and productivity, and ultimately the bottom line.

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Strengths Based
Leadership
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Introductions
• Name
• Company / Title / Role
• Your #1 character strength
• What are you hoping to learn today?

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Handout
• ViaMe!TM Character Strengths
• Scenarios – Applying Strengths
• Virtues – Classification of Strengths
• The 5 Happiness Strengths
• Resources
24 Character Strengths
• Signature Strengths
strongest and most natural
• Middle Strengths
situational
• Lesser Strengths
least naturally occurring but still fundamental

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A Little Creativity…
1. If you had an extra two hours today,
what would you do with it?
2. What is your definition of fun?
3. Draw a picture that represents your
top strength.
The Science of Character

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The Science of Character
• Who do you admire and why?
“Admiration is the first stair toward trying
your wings.” Pepper Blair
Partner Up
• Choose one of your signature strengths
• How do you use this strength?
• At work
• At home
• With friends
• How do people respond to you when you use this strength?
• What does it look like when you overuse this strength?

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Positive Psychology
• In the early 2000s, a 3-year project involving 55
distinguished scientists was launched.
• A study of character traits throughout time.
• Chris Peterson and Martin Seligman
• VIA Classification of character strengths & virtues
24 Character Strengths
• What is best in you!
• Morally and universally valued
• Encompass our capacities for helping ourselves
and others
• Produce positive effects when we express them

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Using Your Character
Strengths Leads To:
• More positive emotion
• More engagement
• Better relationships
• More meaning
• More accomplishments
6 Virtue Categories
• Wisdom
• Courage
• Humanity
• Justice
• Temperance
• Transcendence
www.viacharacter.org

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Wisdom & Knowledge
• Cognitive strengths that entail the acquisition
and use of knowledge
www.viacharacter.org
Courage
• Emotional strengths that involve the exercise of
will to accomplish goals in the face of
opposition, external or internal
www.viacharacter.org

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Humanity
• Interpersonal strengths that involve tending and
befriending others
www.viacharacter.org
Justice
• Civic strengths that underlie healthy
community life
www.viacharacter.org

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Temperance
• Strengths that protect against excess
www.viacharacter.org
Transcendence
• Strengths that forge connections to the larger
universe and provide meaning
www.viacharacter.org

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Reflect briefly…
• Think about a time, recently or awhile back,
in which you were happy and fully engaged in
your life, work, and play.
Write it down…
• How were you taking action during this
time?
• What were you doing that contributed to
this happiness and engagement?
• What character strengths do you think you
were frequently using at this time?

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Scenarios
Using Signature Strengths
• Scenario #1
Marketing Firm & Restaurant
• Scenario #2
Private College & Strategic Planning Team

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Scenario Discussion Results
• What was your approach?
• How did you use everyone’s signature
strengths?
• What did you learn from this activity?
5 Happiness Strengths

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Look Back At…
1. If you had an extra two hours today, what would
you do with it?
2. What is your definition of fun?
3. Draw a picture that represents your top strength.
4. Who do you admire and why?
5. Reflection…happy and fully engaged.
Your Pearl for Today

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What learning will you apply in the next week?
Write it down.
Make it happen.

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Comment Card

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