Becoming a
Strengthsquest school
“Individuals gain more when
they build on their talents, than
when they make comparable
efforts to improve their areas of
weakness.”
--Clifton & Harter
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A shift in paradigm
Not
• what’s wrong, but
what’s right!
• what’s missing,
but what’s there?
• about a
destination, but a
journey
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The ‘Positive Psychology’ Model
“Positive Psychology … is the
scientific study of optimal human
functioning [that] aims to discover
and promote the factors that allow
individuals …to thrive. [It is the]
psychology of happiness, flow, and
personal strengths.”
(Seligman, 1999).
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•Agriculture Age (farmers)
•Industrial Age (factory workers)
•Information Age (knowledge workers)
•Conceptual Age* (creators)
*Murakami Teruyasu: “Age of Creation Intensification”
Source: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
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WoW
•Speiler
•Limnologist
•BellyBuilder
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Dr. Testum and Mr. Tellum
• Prescriptive
services rarely
work
• We are infinitely
more complex than
any one test could
show
• The Pace of
CHANGE
• Serendipity
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Job titles of the future
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Your most important life events
• List the five most important events in
your life. They can be in any order. You
could change your mind tomorrow.
• There are no right or wrong answers. You
do not have to share the list; you can
change the list; you can list four or seven
events rather than
• 5 or as many you can quickly jot down. Go
with what is on the top of your mind.
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4C the future
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Contemplation-reflective seeing
Creativity-imaginative seeing
Connectedness—holistic seeing
Collaboration-inclusive seeing
• Welcome to the innernet revolution
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What a Career is:
• The sum total of
your experiences,
paid and unpaid,
formal and informal
• You are already in
career development
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A Career is not
• A job
• A straight line
•A prescription
•A profession
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Career development is not
• A one time
thing…
• The answer to a
test…
• One size fits all…
• Quick…
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What is Career Development?
Self
Hopes and Dreams
Work Dynamic
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Self
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Talents
Interests
Personality
Weaknesses
Strengths
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Work Dynamic
• Global Labour
Market information,
–
–
–
–
US
Canada
UK
Australia
• For planning
purposes
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Hopes and Dreams
• Develop a plan,
but
live a process
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What is Career Development?
Self
Hopes and Dreams
Career!
Work Dynamic
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What is Career Development?
My World
The Ideal World
Career!
The World
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LMI
Match?
Talents
PI
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Keys to our program
• Self-exploration
• Keep doors open
• Global yet kids able to target
• Build a plan, but commit to a
process
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Media based career development
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Every class and activity is
• A chance to explore a career
• An opportunity to develop
transferable skills
• Practice ground for developing
positive attitudes
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The High Five
Change is
constant
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“If you don’t like
change, you’re
going to like
irrelevance even
less.”
—General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff. U. S. Army
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Read these books
QuickTime™ and a
TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
QuickTime™ and a
TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
QuickTime™ and a
TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
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“It is not the strongest
of the species that
survives, nor the most
intelligent, but the one
most responsive
to change.” —Charles Darwin
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successful
people are those
who are good at
plan B.”
James Yorke, mathematician,
on chaos theory in
The New Scientist
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Change is
constant
The High Five
Follow
your heart
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Kids have dreams
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Kids have dreams
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What is your north star?
• “…if you do follow your bliss you put
yourself on a kind of track that has been
there all the while, waiting for you, and the
life that you ought to be living is the one
you are living. When you can see that, you
begin to meet people who are in your field
of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say,
follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and
doors will open where you didn't know they
were going to be.”—Joseph Cambell
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Life Work
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Mission
Purpose
Bliss
Calling
“Work worth
doing”
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Planned happenstance
• Use goals to guide you, not govern you
• Treat goals as hypothesis
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Focus on
the
journey
Change is
constant
The High Five
Follow
your heart
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Career Serendipity
• Serendipity
• "the faculty of
making happy
and unexpected
discoveries by
accident".
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Stay
learning
Focus on
the
journey
Change is
constant
The High Five
Follow
your heart
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half-life of knowledge
• the time span from when knowledge is
gained to when it becomes obsolete.
• Half of what is known today was not known
10 years ago.
• knowledge has doubled in the past 10 years
• and is doubling every 18 months
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Half life of knowledge
100.00
90.00
80.00
70.00
60.00
50.00
40.00
30.00
20.00
10.00
0.00
Knowledge
Knowledge
now
100.00
1st
50.00
2nd
25.00
3rd
12.50
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Half life of…
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Engingeering
Marketing
programing
now
6 mos
18 mos
60 mos
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1000
900
800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
now
programing
Marketing
Engingeering
6 mos
18 mos
60 mos
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And college?
• Welcome to the 40 year degree
• Just in time learning
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Stay
learning
Follow
your heart
Change is
constant
The High Five
Be an
Ally
Focus on
the
journey
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Already connected
• Web
• Six degrees of …
• Who are your allies
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learning
Follow
your heart
Change is
constant
The High Five
Be an
Ally
Focus on
the
journey
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Four paradoxical principles
1. Be focused & flexible about what you want
2. Be aware & wary of what you know
3. Be realistic & optimistic about what you believe
4. Be practical & magical about what you do
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“You do not merely
want to be the best of
the best. You want to
be considered the
only ones who do
what you do.”
—Jerry Garcia
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And parent should?
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…and parent should?
• Listen and encourage kids dreams and
passions
• Push for possibilities
• Provide opportunities
• Be the yin for the yang (paradoxical
parenting)
• Share their own stories
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The future?
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health care,
robotics,
computer graphics,
infotech,
biotechnology,
and lasers.
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The future?
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Counseling
Nursing
Designers
Entertainment
Meaning makers
Consultants
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“If there is nothing very
special about your work,
no matter how hard you
apply yourself you won’t
get noticed, and that
increasingly means you
won’t get paid much
either.”
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Dan Pink’s take
• Can someone overseas do it cheaper?
• Can a computer do it faster?
• Am I offering something that satisfies the
non-material, transcendent desires of an
abundant age?
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Dan Pink’s take
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Design
Story
Symphony
Empathy
Play
Meaning
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Writing Challenge
• Write 5 things you are known for
• Write these same five with non-dominant
hand
• What is the Difference?
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“Failure’s hard, but
success is far more
dangerous. If you’re
successful at the wrong
thing, the mix of praise
and money and
opportunity can lock
you in forever. It is so,
so much harder to
leave a good thing.”
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Strengths + Future Planning
Grade 9
DWYA
Grade 10
Strengths
Career
DWYA
Grade 11
College
Match
Junior
Interview
Strengths
Career
DWYA
Grade 12
Senior
Retreat
College
Match
Junior
Interview
Strengths
Career
DWYA
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Grade 9
DWYA
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Grade 9
DWYA
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Grade 9
DWYA
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Grade 10
Strengths
Career
DWYA
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Strengths + Future Planning
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What is it
How we used it
Pitfalls
Recommendations
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What Are Talents?
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Naturally occurring
Thoughts
Feelings
Behaviors
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What Are Strengths?
Knowledge
Talent
Skills
= Strength
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Questions to Identify Strengths
• What did you learn with
the greatest ease in high
school?
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Questions to Identify Strengths
• Describe a successful
day.
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Questions to Identify Strengths
• What was your favorite
assignment?
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Questions to Identify Strengths
• What subjects do you
enjoy studying the
most?
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Questions to Identify Strengths
• What comes easily for
you?
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Questions to Identify Strengths
• Tell me about a time in
your life when you
accomplished
something you were
proud of.
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Evidence of your Strengths
Intense
satisfaction
Achievements
yearnings
Rapid
Learnings
Flow
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“Individuals gain more when
they build on their talents,
than when they make
comparable efforts to improve
their areas of weakness.”
--Clifton & Harter, 2003
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Building Strengths
Identify the natural talent themes
– Ways of processing information
– Ways of interacting with people
– Ways of seeing the world
– Habits, behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs
that can be productively applied
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What are strengths?
• Attitudes that sustain efforts toward
achievement and excellence
• Behavior patterns that make a
person effective
• Beliefs that empower a person to
succeed
• Motivations that propel a person to
take action and maintain the energy
needed to achieve
• Thought patterns that make a
person efficient
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The Highest Achievers
• Spend most of their time in their areas of
strength
• Focus on developing and applying their
strengths and managing their weaknesses
• They don’t necessarily have more
strengths —they have simply developed
their strengths more fully and have
learned to apply them to new situations
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More About the Highest Achievers
• Use their strengths to overcome obstacles
• Invent ways of capitalizing on their strengths in
new situations and using their strengths to
overcome areas of weakness
• Or partner with someone with complimentary
strengths
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StrengthsQuest – Program Overview
• Based on more than 35 years of
GALLUP research into human talent
and strengths
• Set aside 40 uninterrupted minutes
• 180 questions, forced choice
• 20 seconds per question
• Report: Top five signature Strengths
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Clifton StrengthsFinderTM
• Used with over 4 million people in
17 languages
• over 250,000 college students
• Over 400 Colleges
• Over150 high schools
• 34 signature themes – top 5
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Why Use an Instrument?
• Provides a common language to talk
about strengths
• Validates and affirms students’
experiences
• Jump starts the conversation and
provides a springboard for discussion
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Using Strengthsfinder
• Identifies top 5 themes
• Six-month test-retest reliability across all
populations ranges from .60 to .80
• Three-month test-retest reliability among college
students ranges from .70 to .76
• Study from Harvard: Students preferred Strengths
over MBTI or the Values Information Assessment
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Why Strengths?
Aim for:
• consistent, near-perfect
performance in a given
activity.
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The Focus Changes
FROM:
• Problems
• Attendance
• Preparation
• Putting into
the student
• Average
TO:
• Possibilities
• Engagement
• Motivation
• Drawing out
from the student
• Excellence
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Relationship between Positivity, Negativity,
and Productivity.
–
Study by Dr. Elizabeth Hurlock in 1925
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Top Strengths of ECA High School Faculty
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Achiever (2)
Activator
Adaptability (2)
Arranger
Command
Consistency
Deliberative (2)
Discipline
Empathy (4)
Focus
Harmony
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Ideation (2)
Includer (2)
Individualization
Input (4)
Learner
Positivity
Relator (2)
Responsibility
Restorative
Self-Assurance
Strategic
WOO
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Profile of typical ECA staff
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Input – 15
•
Learner – 14
•
Intellection – 11
•
Strategic – 10
•
Achiever – 10
•
Adaptability – 10
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Strengths – Teaching Staff
The Math Department Strengths at ECA
Faculty Strength 1 Strength 2 Strength 3
Strength 4 Strength 5
Teacher 1
Teacher 2
Teacher 3
Teacher 4
Analytical
Deliberative
Achiever
Achiever
Deliberative
Input
Learner
Focus
Competition
Analytical
Strategic
Learner
Adaptability
Maximizer
Analytical
Self-Assurance
Empathy
Intellection
Intellection
Relator
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How to manage a person strong in Responsibility
• This person defines himself by his
ability to live up to his commitments. It
will be intensely frustrating for him to
work around people who don’t. As far
as possible avoid putting him in team
situations with lackadaisical teammates.
• In discussing his work, talk about
its quality first.
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How to manage a person strong in SelfAssurance
 Give this person a role where he has the leeway
to make meaningful decisions. He will neither
want nor require close hand-holding.
 Position him in a role where persistence is
essential to success. He has the self-confidence
to stay the course despite pressure to change
direction.
 Put him in a role that demands an aura of
certainty and stability. At critical moments this
inner authority will calm his colleagues and his
customers.
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How to manage a person strong in Learner
 Position this person in roles that require him to stay
current in a fast-changing field. He will enjoy the
challenge of maintaining his competency.
 Regardless of his role, he will be eager to learn new
facts, skills, or knowledge. Explore new ways for
him to learn and remain motivated, lest he start
hunting for a richer learning environment.
 Help him track his learning progress by identifying
milestones or levels that he has reached. Celebrate
these milestones.
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How to manage a person strong in Includer
 This person is interested in making everyone feel
part of the team. Ask him to work on an
orientation program for new employees. He will
be excited to think about ways to welcome these
new recruits.
 As him to lead a task force to recruit minority
persons into your organization. He is instinctively
sensitive to those who are or have been left out.
 When you have group functions, ask him make
sure that everyone is included. He will work hard
to ensure that no individual or group is
overlooked.
 In certain situations it may be appropriate to ask
him to be your organization’s link to community
social agencies.
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Sample of
Graders
strengths at ECA
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Strength 1
Analytical
Adaptability
Consistency
Learner
Context
Competition
Adaptability
Restorative
Activator
Connectedness
Strength 2
Includer
Self-Assurance
Discipline
Responsibility
Relator
Learner
Command
Empathy
Adaptability
Discipline
Strength 3
Adaptability
Competition
Achiever
Focus
Restorative
Deliberative
Competition
Woo
Includer
Ideation
Strength 4
Consistency
Positivity
Positivity
Ideation
Intellection
Restorative
Activator
Achiever
Consistency
Communication
Strength 5
Competition
Woo
Futuristic
Input
Input
Achiever
Positivity
Positivity
Arranger
Self-Assurance
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strengths in English 10 class at ECA
Student Grade Strength 1
Student 1
10 Restorative
Student 2
10 Communication
Student 3
10 Achiever
Student 4
10 Includer
Student 5
10 Input
Student 6
10 Includer
Student 7
10 Positivity
Student 8
10 Developer
Student 9
10 Learner
Student 10 10 Maximizer
Student 11 10 Adaptability
Student 12 10 Learner
Strength 2
Adaptability
Strategic
Activator
Learner
Context
Adaptability
Adaptability
Self-Assurance
Focus
Achiever
Ideation
Arranger
Strength 3
Includer
Woo
Woo
Focus
Futuristic
Deliberative
Activator
Strategic
Context
Harmony
Developer
Individualization
Strength 4
Belief
Futuristic
Input
Analytical
Intellection
Restorative
Woo
Learner
Ideation
Includer
Empathy
Significance
Strength 5
Responsibility
Ideation
Positivity
Connectedness
Empathy
Context
Developer
Restorative
Deliberative
Responsibility
Communication
Futuristic
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People Differ in
Five Dimensions of Strengths
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Their particular strengths
The relative intensity of their strengths
Their unique combination of strengths
The extent to which they have developed
their strengths
• The extent to which they are applying their
strengths in a given situation
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Fundamental Educational Shift
“Survival of the fittest”
“Deficit remediation”
“Strengths-based education”
• "As educators, our challenge and our joy is helping students
move to levels of personal excellence by becoming the persons
they have the potential to be. And the marvelous thing about this
perspective is that in the process we also move toward our own
levels of personal excellence, becoming the persons we have the
potential to be."
Chip Anderson
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uncover
Apply to others
Apply to self
claim
develop
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Our plan
uncover
• Complete StrengthsFinder
• Share results with
claim
– Counselor
– 2 friends
– Your parents
• Answer two reflection questions and send
to your counselor
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Our plan
• Group work
• Scavenger
• Balconies and Basements
claim
develop
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Our plan
• Mission statement
• Career development
Apply to self
develop
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Our plan
• College portfolio
• Leadership development
Apply to others
Apply to self
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Strengths Development Model
Knowledge
of Self
Knowledge
of Others
Management
of Self
Management
of Others
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The Challenge of Identifying and
Affirming Talents
• May be so automatic that you are not aware of
using them
• You may have been put down or criticized for
your talents
• Many people try to control you by focusing on
your weaknesses
• We can be reluctant to focus on talents because we
don’t want to look arrogant
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Challenges, cont
• Our society believes that the best way to
improve is to overcome weaknesses.
• Sometimes people wish they were not as
talented in certain themes and may consider
those talents weaknesses
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Strengths Connect with
4 Key Motivational Drives
• THINKING
• RELATING
• IMPACTING
• STRIVING
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StrengthsFinder
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Achiever
Activator
Adaptability
Analytical
Arrange
Belief
Command
Communication
Competition
Connectedness
Consistency
Context
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Deliberative
Developer
Discipline
Empathy
Focus
Futuristic
Harmony
Ideation
Includer
Individuation
Input
Intellection
Learner
Maximizer
Positivity
Relator
Responsibility
Restorative
Self-Assurance
Significance
Strategic
Woo
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Average GPA vs. Good Student GPA
3.6
3.2
Average GPA
3
"Good Student" GPA
2.8
ra
ge
Av
e
12
11
10
2.6
9
GPA
3.4
Grade Level
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К
Adaptability
Relator
Strategic
Posi tivity
Competition
2.0-2.5
10
8
3
5
4
2.5-3.0
22
15
12
7
10
3.0-3.5
23
17
16
23
15
3.5-4.0
5
9
9
4
9
Total
60
49
40
39
38
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К
Strategic
Rest orative
Input
Learner
Achiever
Total:
2.0-2.5
3
3
3
1
1
114
2.5-3.0
12
7
4
4
3
237
3.0-3.5
16
10
7
9
12
311
3.5-4.0
9
14
16
19
20
188
Total
40
34
30
33
36
850
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GPA and strengths
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
Strategic
Restorative
2.0-2.5
Input
2.5-3.0
3.0-3.5
Learner
Achiever
3.5-4.0
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Strengths and low performance
25
20
15
10
5
0
2.0-2.5
2.5-3.0
3.0-3.5
3.5-4.0
Communication Developer Activator Relator Includer Adaptability
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Shaun’s themes
Includer
Positivity
Adaptability
Woo
Strategic
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Putting it into practice
Challenges
• Time
• Money
• Cynicism
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Putting it into practice
Advice
• Do it yourself
• Take the training
• Get your teachers to do it
• Start small
• Find ways to link it to everything!
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Strengths + Future Planning
Grade 10
Strengths
Career
DWYA
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Strengths
Career
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Grade 10
Strengths
Career
DWYA
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What is the career you choose?
Why?
What education do you need?
Name three universities/colleges that offer a
program that would lead to career?
What academic areas in high school should a
student have/be strong in to pursue this career?
What are the prospects of that career? (Will
there be a demand for people in this career, can
you make a living off of it, what are some
related fields etc)
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List two specific resources that would be
useful for someone considering this
career (association, website, journal,
book etc)
What do people love about this
career?—talk to your parents, their
friends, research online etc.
What is your biggest concern/worry
pursuing this career?
With this career, would you be following
your bliss? How so, or why not?
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Strengths
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Career
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Grade 11
College
Match
Junior
Interview
Strengths
Career
DWYA
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Junior Interview
Surveys
Parent and Child
The plan
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Match
Junior
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Career
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Goal
Considerations
Self
Values
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Grade 9
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Grade 10
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Career
DWYA
Grade 11
College
Match
Junior
Interview
Strengths
Career
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Grade 12
Senior
Retreat
College
Match
Junior
Interview
Strengths
Career
DWYA
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Door prizes
Educator Seminar
•Minneapolis, MN, April 19-20, 2007
•Phoenix, AZ, May 16-17, 2007
•Omaha, NE, June 26-27, 2007
Strengths Advocate•
•Omaha, NE, June 25-27, 2007
Conference on Building a Strengths-Based
Campus
•Omaha, NE, June 27-29, 2007
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The End
• Feedback
• Questions
• Comments
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• 1: Review
• 2: Career Matching
• 3. Research
• 4. Reflections
• 5. Share
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3. Research
• Labour Market
Information
• What is this job about?
• What do you
• need to do to
• get it?
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5. Share
• Did you send it to your counselor?
• Did you share it with your parents?
• We will share in class—discussion circle
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Key points
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Does it match your personality?
Does it highlight your strengths?
Will you be following your bliss?
Are you taking the right educational
program?
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Focus on strengths=Engagement
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Least occurring strengths to GPA
К
Connectedness
Analytical
Belief
Discipline
Intellection
2.0-2.5
1
К
2
2
2
2.5-3.0
2
4
3
3
1
3.0-3.5
5
К
5
4
3
3.5-4.0
1
6
К
2
6
Total
9
10
10
11
12
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