Lead Through Strengths

Lead Through Strengths Facilitator Strother Gaines Shares His Thoughts On How To Not Sound Arrogant When You Offer Out Your Strengths In this episode, Lisa Cummings and co-host Strother Gaines talk about the different ways you can present or offer your strengths at work and how to not sound arrogant in doing so.  How you can be received or appreciated for your contribution at work depends on how y...

Lead Through Strengths Facilitator Strother Gaines - Helping You Figure Out What To Do When You Don't Like Your Strengths This episode is all about the situation when you don't like your strengths — or you don't think you like someone else's strengths. It's easy to stereotype one of the CliftonStrengths talent themes, good or bad, when you only take a cursory glance at it. It's also easy for your...

We have now reached the ninth and final core concept in our STRENGTHS series, where we've been discussing the importance of engaging in strengths-focused conversations with your team over time. If you've been following this conversation, congratulations on getting this far! And if you've been applying even just some of our tips and taking on our tiny but impactful challenges, then you're well on y...

Finding Energizing Tasks At Work We're almost at the end of our STRENGTHS series , where we discuss a total of nine concepts that will help you implement strengths with your team at work. In this episode, we'll explore one of the most interesting topics in this series: Honored and Insulted.  This topic always generates the liveliest conversations. Why? Because people generally have this special ke...

Our seventh core concept in this STRENG T HS series, "Takes Time and Intention," may sound like a lame title compared with our previous topics (" Troublemaker Talents ," "Easy Buttons," " Gimme That Escalation ," etc.), but as we go along you'll find that there's a lot more nuance to it than that. You'll get a deeper sense of why strengths take time, and hence calls for intention along with consis...

Our sixth core concept is a perfect build-on to the "Plus One, Minus One" activity mentioned in our previous episode, Concept #5: "Not an Excuse ."  Plus one, in particular, is about mining your team of the things they want to have more of. Then, as you dig deeper into this challenge, it's amazing what you'll discover from each of the team member's responses.  The Story Behind 'Gimme That Escalati...

If you've been following this series, you'll know we've been spelling the word STRENGTHS with nine core competencies that pop out as the most elusive, interesting, or unconsidered when implementing strengths at work. So far, we've had: 1. S .E.T. (Skills, Experience, and Talents) 2. T roublemaker Talents 3. R egulate by Situation 4. E asy Buttons Now we are midway through as we explore our fifth c...

We notice it all the time: when we point out to people their natural talents through meaningful conversations, their success comes more easily. In this episode, we refer to this phenomenon as "easy buttons" — our fourth core concept in this series. Here at Lead Through Strengths, we love seeing people's potentials. It's always an amazing experience to help others realize something special about th...

If you want others to experience the best of your StrengthsFinder talent themes, you'll love our third core concept -- regulate by situation .  A Simple Concept? Imagine you're in front of a mixing board wherein you're looking at your Top 5 or Top 10 from your CliftonStrengths reports. Each of your talent themes is assigned a fader so that each of them could have its own volume.  To regulate by si...

From the S.E.T and "Aspirational You" concepts in the previous episode, we now move towards a seemingly favorite topic for discussion: troublemaker talents! When talking about strengths, curiosity about the other side -- the so-called "shadow side" or "blind spots" -- tends to surface. And that's exactly why our next core concept is worth discussing. Troublemaker talents are natural talents that h...

In this episode, we start joining important puzzle pieces together to make your team a genuinely strengths-powered one. When we zero in on the nuts and bolts that make strengths work, we develop the kind of perspective that can build and rebuild teams as often as necessary -- no matter what changes or challenges arise in your work environment. Once you've mastered these core concepts, you will hav...

Core Concepts for Stronger Teams In this series, you'll explore 9 core concepts that will help you implement strengths with your team at work. The concepts we chose for you came straight from you - both from listeners of this show and from participants in our training classes. These are the concepts that pop out as most important or elusive. If you know the overlooked or unconsidered angles that c...

I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Achiever  to your career. In this series, you get one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you're exploring this concept as a manager, use this series for career development ideas...

I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Activator  to your career. In this series, you get one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you're exploring this concept as a manager, use this series for career development idea...

I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Adaptability  to your career. In this series, you get one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you're exploring this concept as a manager, use this series for career development i...

I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Analytical  to your career. In this series, you get one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you're exploring this concept as a manager, use this series for career development ide...

I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Arranger to your career. In this series, you get one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you're exploring this concept as a manager, use this series for career development ideas...

I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Belief to your career. In this series, you get one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you're exploring this concept as a manager, use this series for career development ideas an...

I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Command to your career. In this series, you get one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you're exploring this concept as a manager, use this series for career development ideas a...

I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Communication to your career. In this series, I break down one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you're exploring this concept as a manager, use this series for career developm...

I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Competition  to your career. In this series, I break down one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you're exploring this concept as a manager, use this series for career developme...

I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Connectedness to your career. In this series, I break down one strength per post so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you're exploring this concept as a manager, use this series for career developm...

I hear a lot of reflections about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Consistency to your career. In this series, I break down one strength per post — so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you're exploring this concept as a manager, use this series for career developm...

I hear a lot of curiosity about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Context to your career. In this series, I break down one strength per post — so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you're exploring this concept as a manager, use this series for career development id...

I hear a lot of curiosity about how to apply your CliftonStrengths talent theme of Deliberative to your career. In this series, I break down one strength per post — so that you can add to the insights from your StrengthsFinder report and make an even stronger alignment between your current job and your strengths. - If you're exploring this concept as a manager, use this series for career developme...