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• History of positive psychology and the strengths-based movement
• Developing students, professionals, and teams

• Advising
• Career development
• Groups & teams (student organizations)

The following institutions have been recognized for exemplary strengths development:
• Asbury College
• Azusa Pacific University
• Baylor University
• Berry College
• Bethel University
• Bluffton University
• Chattanooga State
Community College
• Creighton University
• Evangel University
• Harper College
• Kalamazoo Valley Community College
• Lee University
• Lipscomb University
• MidAmerica Nazarene University
• The Ohio State University
• Southern Methodist University
• Tabor College
• Texas Christian University
• Texas Tech University
• Tompkins Cortland Community College
• University of Minnesota
• University of Missouri
• Washington University -- St. Louis

• Talent, strengths
• Importance of understanding your team members’ strengths for both their personal productivity, but also the effectiveness of your overall team or organization
• Dominant hand exercise

• Determine strengths:
– Take the test
– Review and choose 5
• Understand their strengths
– Assumption pairs: what you’re probably good at
– The person who was assumed, gives an example of how that plays out in their daily life
• Using your strengths
– Issue in current position: how can you use your strengths to alleviate that issue (talk in pairs)

• Creating diverse strength groups
– Interviewing for positions
– Committees
– Project groups
• Fake group activity
– Pairs and then choose 2 ghost members’ strengths to compliment their group
• Four domains of leadership strengths
– Executing, influencing, relationship building, & strategic thinking

• http://freestrengthsfinder.workuno.com/
1-free-strengthsfinder-test.html
• www.strengthsquest.com
(cost)