CSC322.01 2016F, Class 04: Strengths Finder

Overview

Preliminaries

Hear About Diversity and Inclusion from Intercultural Affairs Candidate Friday, Sept. 2 4:15 p.m., Joe Rosenfield '25 Center, Room 209
CS Table Tuesday: Passwords and more.
CS Extras Thursday: PM
Convo, September 8 (Thursday, 11:00 a.m., JRC 101): Roberto Gonzales on "From Undocumented to DACAmented: Understanding Legal Status in a New Policy Context".
- Get a free copy of his book Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America by visiting Macy 203 during regular office times.

Designed by Gallup.
Versions for both school (Strengths Finder) and professional (Strengths Quest)
Developed from school of positive psychology
Helps you identify tendencies.
Gallup talked to 1000s of CEOs and asked them what allowed them to do their best work.
Gave them 300 qualities ("talents").
Refined that list to 34 qualitities ("themes").
Data is at their Web site.
They rank all 34 depending on your responses.
You can do all of them. But you can likely pick up the top ones more quickly.
Should you spend your energy on something you are poor at, which may make you average, or something you are good or aveage at, which may make you great.
"Talent" - Natural ways of thinking, feeling, or behaving.
Multiply by Investment - Things to build the skill.
That gives you a strength.
"Strength" - Ability to consistently perform at near-perfect levels.
Each strength has five characteristics
1. Yearnings
2. Satisfactions (maybe an element of joy or fulfillment)
3. Rapid learning
4. Glimpses of excellence (compared to the average person); you stand out compared to the average person
5. Total performance
These could also be characteristics of talents, but they are likely to lead you to invest and build it toward a strength.
Exercise: Write your name five times with each hand
- We are all much faster with our dominant hand
My strengths and how to use them.

Bring up your five strengths (Sam is Learner, Strategic, Achiever, Activator, and Ideation)
For each, give
- how you define it
- what it empowers you to do
- an example of how the strength came out today
[Exercise: Chat with each other.]
Scavenger hunt!
- Repeatedly: Find someone with a different strength and find out what it means to them.
How do your strengths match in your team specifically?
We have a page that lets us look at these issues. Fill in your group's sheets.
Working together in groups