Picture this: You have a great idea; you start a company and you get funding. You use that funding to hire a team of smart, skilled, capable and hardworking individuals; it seems that nothing could possibly go wrong. Surprisingly, a year down the track, the team has produced underwhelming results, operate in silos and don’t openly discuss failures or problems. What went wrong? It doesn’t always happen in this way, but this is not an uncommon occurrence in a team. Many leaders we work with often describe it as “we’re not bad, but we could be much better”. In his book, The Five
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What is Clifton StrengthsFinder?
Conventional wisdom teaches us that if we want to improve, we must work on our weaknesses. Think back to your school days when your parents found you a tutor if you were struggling at English or Math. We are so focused on fixing our weaknesses that we don’t often think about increasing our strengths. Enter Donald O Clifton. Dubbed the father of Strengths Based Psychology, he developed the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment (clearly he was high Significance), an online assessment that identifies the talents in which an individual has the greatest potential for turning into strengths. Now
