Strengths Based Leadership
We offer a range of program options that focuses on helping individuals build awareness and confidence in their strengths, while also providing powerful insights around risks to performance associated with weaker areas and strengths in overdrive (when strengths are used ineffectively).
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As a global organisational consulting firm, we have a dedicated facilitation practice that combines our strength in diversity, inclusion, inclusive leadership, recruitment, talent identification and management, succession planning assessments, development and talent sourcing.
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Our key programs helps leaders and employees optimize their strengths and identify strategies to deal with performance risks improves their effectiveness, confidence, engagement, agility and well-being as well as creating an environment where staff can speak up, share ideas, ask questions and make mistakes without fear of humiliation or retribution.
Creating Safe Workplaces: The importance of safe workplaces for all team members is at the forefront of our program
Boosting Team Development: Creating cohesion throughout the team is important towards psychological safety
Breaking Bad Habits: Our course aims to recognise the communication and hierarchical problems within your team
Improving Leadership: Though our program, team leaders will learn essential skills into conducting a safe work environment
Engaging in Conversations: Building on team connections in the whole workplace hierarchy allows for greater psychological safety
Enhancing Productivity: Outcomes of our course aim to let your teams create new ideas faster
Help leaders create higher levels of psychological safety so people can speak up, provide different views, and bring their full selves to work.
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Creating a Thriving Workplace Culture
We take a strengths-based approach to leadership which is more effective than the traditional method of focussing on performance weaknesses. To help organisations grow and thrive we need to tap into people’s strengths. Our strengths-based leadership program is an approach to leading others that builds on what’s strong, rather than what’s wrong. Our research and evidence-based best practice shows that strengths-based leadership empowers leaders, and the people who follow them, and fosters healthy and positive workplace cultures.
In a constantly changing work environment employees now face increasing levels of stress, change and uncertainty. Disengagement, absenteeism, interpersonal conflict, lowered productivity and turnover are a consequence. Under these conditions, it is not enough for leaders to simply be task focused, delegating, running effective meetings, and monitoring performance.
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Today, leaders also need to think about how they engage, inspire and develop their people to be resilient and to flourish – despite the day-to-day challenges they might face. Our strengths-based leadership program enables leaders to bring out the best in themselves and others by igniting their core character strengths. The focus on strengths is all about understanding and building on an individual’s best opportunities for success.
This concept draws on the fundamentals of well validated approaches like Positive Psychology, PsyCap and Authentic Leadership which suggest that to help people succeed and thrive, leaders need to focus on helping their staff understand, harness and build on their skills, talents and capabilities. Our approach does not discount that we need to understand and better manage our weaknesses (or blind spots) – however it emphasises the basic principle that individuals (and organisations) gain most from when they build on their strengths rather than focus on their deficits.
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What makes a strengths-based leader?
Great leaders don’t have one single ingredient that makes them great. Charisma, political nous, smarts and a whole range of attributes may contribute to their effectiveness.
But a consistent trait of great leaders is that they know their strengths and how to use them to become more influential in their leadership practice. Simply put, bringing out the best in an organisation’s leaders tends to bring out the best in an organisation’s employees.
Who they are
Strengths-based leaders are self-aware, know who they are and what they value. They understand what their leadership enablers and de-railers are, and know how to manage these to get the best outcomes. They invest in their strengths, are clear on their leadership purpose and know how to engage and influence others to follow their lead. They demonstrate fundamental traits around hope, optimism, self-efficacy (confidence) and resilience.
How they work
Strengths-based leaders create the conditions for others to be successful. They do this by recognising and honing in on the strengths, talents and skills of their employees. They lead by example, are transparent and authentic in their relationships with others, have strong guiding principles, are able to have a positive impact and enable a workplace environment that supports people to reach their full potential.
The difference they make
Ultimately, strengths-based leaders build trust, confidence and followership by being true to who they are, fostering a can do environment and being consistent in their leadership style and approach. They enable individuals to be more energised, engaged and motivated to go over and above what is expected of them. Most importantly, they promote and align the best in others towards achieving optimal outcomes, performance and organisational success.