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Chapter 1ª
Pat Hand – Playing the Cards You’re
Dealt introduces the
Strengths Revolution emerging in
business, academia, and
psychology, because engaging
strengths increases personal and
organizational success. In
it, we define strengths as the
innate talent and gifts that
underpin skills and passions.
Readers explore how strengths
are broad and deep, and are so
much more than the sum of their
experiences, skills, and
education. Chapter 1 sets
the stage for discovering and
applying strengths in your work,
your team, your organization,
and your life.
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In
Chapter 2ª
Dealer’s Choice – Naming the Game
You’ll Play, you have the
opportunity to name your
strengths. You’ll create
your own Leadership Brand – the
unique differentiator that fuels
your leadership success.
Often, we do not see our
strengths clearly because they
are our natural element – the
air we breathe. Our
strengths are so much a part of
us that we cannot imagine anyone
not doing it the way we do!
To find our strengths, we have
to pull back, see the strengths
that lie within, and become
crystal clear about who we are
and what we contribute. If
you’ve ever been asked “What is
your leadership style?” you’ll
discover the answer in chapter
2.
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How can you gain clarity
about your weaknesses and learn to
manage them so they don’t steal precious
time from playing to your strengths?
In
Chapter 3ª
Discards – Knowing When to
Hold ‘em or Fold ‘em, you’ll
identify your weaknesses and – don’t
despair – create a plan to manage them.
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In
Chapter 4ª
Showdown – Playing for High Stakes,
we explore what to do now that you know
your strengths. How does knowing
your strengths affect your career, your
development, the design of your job, and
your personal satisfaction? We
consider how you can grow and use your
strengths and align your job to make the
most of them.
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In
Chapter 5ª
Ante Up – Building the Kitty,
you’ll look at how to invest in
your staff’s strengths to make
everyone richer. As a
leader and a manager, you
already know it is imperative to
hire people who will expand your
team’s effectiveness. You
naturally look for skills to
augment your staff while
boosting its capacity. We
explore how strengths improve
your basic management processes
– processes you use every day –
hiring, managing performance,
delegating and accountability,
rewarding, and developing your
people. Having a clear
handle on strengths helps
you acquire, retain, and inspire
truly great talent to achieve
your most important goals.
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In
Chapter 6ª
Ace in the Hole – Uncovering Hidden
Strengths, we explore how to mine
strengths from the people you lead.
We consider how to hold conversations
about strengths; how to help others
discover their strengths; how to catch
them using their strengths; and how to
inspire them to build their strengths,
creating greater success for the
organization. We delve deeply into
the most effective tool you have for
working with your employees’ strengths –
the process of coaching. Chapter 6
shows you how to use coaching to engage
and motivate others by helping them
uncover and use their hidden strengths.
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Chapter 7ª
Dolly Parton – Completing the 9 to 5
Straight, highlights
strengths in teams of all types
– intact, project, temporary,
long-term, ad-hoc, virtual, or
any other. We provide
tools you can use to assist a
team in establishing and
sustaining a strong team
foundation, including
chartering, establishing ground
rules, creating interlocking
accountability, and developing
team strengths.
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Chapter 8ª
Go All In
– Committing the Full House,
speaks to senior leaders
intrigued by the idea of
creating a strengths-based
culture. We look at the
key people systems and processes
found in every organization and
show how to shift them to
sustain and nurture a culture
that redoubles strengths.
We believe senior leaders have a
huge responsibility and
considerable untapped potential
to build the most effective
organization they can. We
also believe strengths-based
initiatives provide the key to
this goal because using
individual strength invariably
leads to a stronger
organization!
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Chapter 9ª
Royal Flush – Winning the Most
Important Game challenges
you to further apply your
strengths in the most important
arena – the game of life.
We explore how you can use
your strengths in the
communities you touch
professionally and personally
through mentoring, serving your
community, and leaving a legacy
that surpasses your hopes and
expectations.
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