Director of Training and Operations Krista Eichhorst We all have talents that we bring to the table. By using the StrengthsFinder assessment we will learn about the benefits of playing to our strengths, explore our top five talents, and discover how to use our team's collective strengths to accomplish our goals in the year ahead

1. Playing to your strengths

2. Eat your veggies activity
1. Think of your vegetable and write it down
2. Gather with everyone in the room who also likes that vegetable
3. Share your favorite way to eat that vegetable

3. Who?
StrengthsFinder Basics
Donald O. Clifton Tom Rath Marcus Buckingham

4. What?
Research-based
Paradigm shift
Strengthsfinder basics
VS.
“What am I bad at doing?” “What am I good at doing?”
Strengths
Weaknesses
Strengths
Weaknesses

5. Why?
Strengthsfinder basics
Engagement

6. Definitions
Talent
Knowledge
Skill
Investment
Strength
Strengthsfinder basics
Talent + Knowledge +
Skill
X
Investment
=
Strength

7. Story time!Your strengths story

8. 1. Partner up with someone at your table
2. Share your responses to the following questions:
 Which of your top 5 talents resonate with you?
 Which of your top 5 talents are you uncertain about?
Top 5 activity

9. 1. Choose the top 5 talent that you identify with the most
2. Stand next to the corresponding poster in the room
3. Share your response to the following questions with the others at your
poster:
 Why do you identify most with this talent?
 How do you see this talent playing out in your life?
Identify yourself Activity

10. Strengths-based teams

11. Domains of leadership
Executing + Influencing +
Relationship Building + Strategic
Thinking
=

12. Domains of leadership
Executing Influencing
Relationship
Building
Strategic
Thinking
• Achiever
• Arranger
• Belief
• Consistency
• Deliberative
• Discipline
• Focus
• Responsibility
• Restorative
• Activator
• Command
• Communication
• Competition
• Maximizer
• Self-Assurance
• Significance
• WOO
• Adaptability
• Developer
• Connectedness
• Empathy
• Harmony
• Includer
• Individualization
• Positivity
• Relator
• Analytical
• Context
• Futuristic
• Ideation
• Input
• Intellection
• Learner
• Strategic
Story time!

13. 1. Break into two groups: Governing Council and Platform Committee
2. In your group, complete the Team Top 5 Grid and discuss what your
combined talents suggest about how you will make decisions,
communicate, build relationships, and overcome obstacles
3. Now complete the Domains of Leadership Strength Grid
Get to know your team activity

14. 1. Have one person from your group answer the following questions for the
large group:
 What did you discover about your team?
 Does your team share a lot of the same or different talents?
 How can you use this information to tailor tasks to each team member?
Group share activity

15. The big picture

16. 1. What skills/talents/strengths we can rely on each other for?
2. How will you utilize your team’s strengths in the coming year?
3. How can we use these strengths to accomplish our organizational
goals in the coming year?
Group brainstorm activity