Our staff had the best Professional Development day last Friday, men and women alike. I would like to share some of it with you.
Each person received the book “Strengths Finder 2.0” by Tom Rath. The book contains a one time use access code to do Gallup’s Strengths Finder test. At the end of it we received our top five strengths. In the past, the conventional wisdom with deficits was to put in more practice time and hope to improve. For example, a lousy math mark meant more time practicing math. Well if you don’t have a natural talent in an area all the practice time and energy is not going to overcome the deficit. We can learn some strategies and yes improve but if you don’t have a talent for numbers you’ll never be a really good or great accountant. It is better to invest in ourselves and children in areas where there is most potential for greatness. For example, “Michael Jordan who embodied the power of raw talent on a basketball court, could not become” a Tiger Woods in golf, “no matter how hard he tried.” (I don`t mean for this be a bad joke.) They are both talented athletes but each in their field of talent.
This is a link to the test we took. http://strengths.gallup.com/110440/About-StrengthsFinder-2.aspx
Here is what I would like to share with you – a free test for women based on Strengths.
http://www.stronglifetest.com/
Marcus Buckingham worked at Gallup for 17 years where he also helped create the “Strengths Finder” assessment tool.
I love the focus of looking at our strengths instead of our deficits. Take the test and let me know what you think.
Just checking in to say “hi” and hope to see you some time over the summer. I did the quiz – there were some questions where I wish I could have chosen “none of the above” but otherwise it came out pretty well, I think.