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Building Teams Using Strengths

Building Teams Using Strengths. Connie Plowman, PMP PMI-Portland Chapter May 18, 2011. Today’s Objective. Become familiar with StrengthsFinder 2.0 Identify the 34 Talent Themes Examine the 4 Domains of Leadership Provide suggestions for using in our project teams Q&A.

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Building Teams Using Strengths

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  1. Building Teams Using Strengths Connie Plowman, PMP PMI-Portland Chapter May 18, 2011

  2. Today’s Objective • Become familiar with StrengthsFinder 2.0 • Identify the 34 Talent Themes • Examine the 4 Domains of Leadership • Provide suggestions for using in our project teams • Q&A

  3. Strengths Definition Talent: naturally recurring patterns of thought, feeling or behavior that can be productively applied Strengths: Intersection of all three Knowledge: Facts and lessons learned Skills: Steps to an activity

  4. 34 Talent Themes

  5. Strength Formula TalentNatural way of thinking, feeling or behaving InvestmentTime spent practicing, developing your skills, and building your knowledge base __________ STRENGTHThe ability to consistently provide near- perfect performance

  6. My Investment Corporate Leader Cadence Management Corporation • Spent 12 years with IBM in employee, customer & executive education • Started project management career with Cadence in 1988 • Named Chief Operating Officer in 2006 • Retired for 6 weeks in 2011 Education Leader Portland Community College • Interim Executive Director, CLIMB Center for Advancement • Volunteer Leader • Member – 1998 • PMP – 2002 • VP Certification (3 years) • President-Elect (1 year) • Chapter President (1 year) • Past President (1 year) • Component Mentor (2 years) • Leadership Institute Advisory Group (2 years) • PMI Professional Awards Program • Member Advisory Group (Current)

  7. 4 Domain of Leadership • Executing • Knows how to make things happen • Influencing • Helps the team reach a much broader audience • Relationship Building • Has the essential glue that holds a team together • Strategic Thinking • Keeps us focused on what “could be”

  8. Leadership Strengths

  9. Suggested Team Exercise #1 • Each team member takes the online assessment • Each makes a presentation to the team on your top 5 strengths • Include your challenges, pet peeves, gotcha’s, etc. • Outcome: Provides a great opportunity to get really clear on how to best work together

  10. Suggested Team Exercise #2 • Create a team for your organization based on the 34 themes and the 4 leadership domains • Describe what project you have • Describe why and what talents you need • Outcome: Provides an opportunity to examine why and how you would use these skill sets/talents for creating a high-performance team

  11. Your Turn • With your learning partner, create a team exercise using the 34 Talent Themes and/or 4 Leadership Domains • Have at least 3 steps/activities and 1 outcome • Time to share!

  12. Today’s Objective • Become familiar with StrengthsFinder 2.0 • Identify the 34 Talent Themes • Examine the 4 Domains of Leadership • Provide suggestions for using in our project teams • Q&A

  13. Questions? Contact me - CONNIE PLOWMAN, PMP Email: connie@plowman.us Cell phone: 503-784-1461 See you on Linked In! Thank you for your time!

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