CliftonStrengths: Discovering and Leading from your Strengths
“To achieve excellence at work, communities, and life, focus on your strengths and manage your weakness.”
Business guru, Peter Drucker, comments, “Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong. And yet, a person can perform only from strengths.” This course uses Gallup’s CliftonStrengths (formerly StrengthsFinder) assessment to help individuals, teams, staff, and organizations identify and leverage their strengths to increase performance, raise productivity, and improve quality of life.
Studies have shown that individuals and teams working from strengths results in 7.8% greater productivity; Teams who utilize strengths-based feedback have 8.9% greater profitability;
According to research, only 1 in 4 people work from their strengths daily.
THIS ONE-DAY COURSE TEACHES PARTICIPANTS TO:
• Identify your strengths as individuals, a team, staff or organization for effective outcomes
• Understand theme dynamics or how your themes interact to produce desired results
• Know the strengths of your teammates and partners in the workplace or social life for better collaboration and partnerships
• Develop practical strategies to leverage your strengths for best results
• Understand the strengths of your team collectively, and how to leverage the team’s strengths and manage around weaknesses for high performance
• Discover practical strategies to help create and sustain a strengths-based culture
• Explore and identify some tools, models and practices for giving strengths-based feedback, which studies show increases engagement and productivity
Please contact us for more details. We customize all of our sessions to your culture and needs! Our goal is to help you get better results by increasing engagement.
Creating a culture of engagement with employees and clients
“Engagement relates to hard-core business results.”
Based on 35 years of in depth behavioral economic research involving more than 35 million employees, Gallup identifies 12 core elements that are predictors of employee engagement and work group performance. This includes for-profit, not-for-profit, private and public organizations as well as religious congregations. Gallup has found when employees, participants, or volunteers are engaged, it raises productivity, profitability, performance, and customer satisfaction. Through this course, you will be introduced to the Q12 index and its application in the workplace as well as how to nurture a culture of employee engagement to raise performance and success in your organization, on your staff, team, and in your life.
THIS ONE-DAY COURSE TEACHES PARTICIPANTS TO:
• Develop an understanding of what is engagement and why it is important to them, their workplace, social context, and families
• Learn about current research on engagement in the workplace both nationally and internationally
• Explore three categories of engagement, behaviors of each, and the psychological impact of the categories on the workplace, community, or family
• Identify and describe the 12 elements of engagement and how they look in the workplace, community, congregation, or family
• Discover statistical support, practical strategies, and best practices that invite engagement and ways to de-escalate the impact of non-engagement and active disengagement
• Discuss and identify how can you as a leader, supervisor, manager, pastor, employee, team, staff member, or volunteer can help create a culture of strengths and engagement.
Please contact us for more details. We customize all of our sessions to your culture and needs! Our goal is to help you get better results by increasing engagement.
Gallup Working from our Strengths as Individuals and Teams
Based on the premise of Donald Clifton "What will happen when we think about what is right with people rather than fixating on what is wrong with them" the Clifton StrengthsFinders assessment provides the foundation for a strength-based approach to work and life. This course develops individual and work teams through focusing on talents and strengths to increase performance in the workplace. By identifying talents and learning how to turn those into strengths, performance, job satisfaction, and engagement increase.
Participants shall complete the Clifton StrengthsFinders assessment tool (online) prior to the class. The individual strengths report will be utilized during the course.
Participants shall:
1. Gain an understanding of individual talents and how these inform actions, world and work view, teamwork, and interactions with other.
2. Identify, through the use of Clifton StrengthsFinders assessment tool, their top 5 strengths.
3. Develop an understanding and working knowledge, using StrengthsFinders descriptions, of individual and team strengths.
4. Learn the process of naming, aiming and claiming individual strengths.
5. Construct a personalized plan to further develop identified strength.
6. Learn the connection between job satisfaction and working from strengths
7. Learn how collaboration and teamwork increases when individuals see and understand different strength-based approaches to job performance.
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Gallup: Creating a Culture of Engagement with Employees and Clients
Creating a workplace culture of engagement requires understanding the factors impacting engagement, strategies, and best practices of highly engaged staff, leaders, and congregations. This course will utilize the Gallup Q 12 - The 12 Elements of Engagement; participants will explore how these elements impact the culture, individual ministry, and how to leverage this knowledge for more effective leadership and ministry.
PARTICIPANTS SHALL:
1. Gain an understanding of the 3 categories that people fall into regarding engagement and how each impacts the overall church culture or environment.
2. Experience the 12 elements of engagement through self-assessment
3. Understand the four areas each element impacts to gain a more comprehensive picture of engagement.
4. Understand how to utilize the 12 elements of engagement to develop actionable strategies.
5. Learn how to create high engagement levels over time by focusing on these 12 elements of engagement.
LSUS Continuing Education will take all reasonable efforts to adhere to the CDC guidelines, and we expect the same from our CE clients and the instructors. Everyone is required to wear a mask while on the LSUS campus. Therefore, we ask you to bring your mask and wear it during CE classes. Your safety is our top priority!
