5 Easy Ways to Continue to Cultivate

5 Easy Ways to Continue to Cultivate

a Strengths-Based Culture in Your Organization

Research shows that 70% of learning takes place on the job after a learning event(such as team building training) when team members return to the workplace and try to apply what they’ve learned. In order to get your best results and maximum return on the investment of time and money from the recent retreat, we offer you four easy ways to use StrengthsFinder to keep the learning going in your organization. If you have any questions, or need any help making change happen, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We’re here to help!

Remind Yourself and Others of Your Talents

Display your top 5 talent themes in a prominent location in your office or work space. Some examples include:
Hang your top 5 talents on your office door
Post your top 5 talents above your computer
Include your top 5 talents in your email signature
Use a table tent that has your name and top 5 talents for staff meetings

Openly displaying your talent themes is not only a good reminder for yourself, but also helps remind your colleagues of your top 5 talent themes. The more you think on something, the more you are likely to act upon it. Think opposite the old adage “Out of sight, out of mind.” Display your talents and keep them on your mind as often as possible.

Catch Yourself Using Your Talents

Individual Activity: Challenge yourself to each day catch yourself using one talent theme or more. Maybe when you’re feeling extra productive or perhaps when you’re working in a state of flow, stop and think about which talent theme you’re leveraging and make a note of it.

Catch Your Colleagues Using Their Talents

Leadership Meeting Activity: At every meeting, go around the table and invite every member of theleadership team to share a time during the prior week they observed a peer using one of their strengths.

Seek Work and Team Assignments Based on Employee Strengths

Learn your employee’s strengths and then provide your employees regular opportunities to use their strengths based on those things they do best. It will result in a win for both the organization and the employee.

Integrate Strengths Into Your Performance Management and Development System

Encourage your employees to develop performance and professional development goals aligned with their strengths. Evaluate leaders’ abilities to create opportunities for employees to use their strengths, as well as employees’ abilities to leverage their strengths.