#480 Recognizing and Leveraging Team Strengths

Join Coach Curl on the Today's Leader podcast as we explore how to recognize and leverage the unique strengths within your team. Learn how aligning these strengths with business goals can boost engagement, productivity, and innovation.

team strengths, leadership, productivity, engagement, innovation, Coach Cole, Today's Leader podcast,

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⏱️⏱️VIDEO CHAPTERS⏱️⏱️:

00:00:00 - Recognizing and Leveraging Team Strengths

00:01:11 - Focusing on Strengths Over Weaknesses

00:02:15 - Using Assessments to Identify Strengths

00:03:20 - Aligning Roles with Individual Strengths

00:04:24 - Celebrating and Acknowledging Team Strengths

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Way to go, guys. Way to go. Keep it

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going. Good job, guys. All right, Paul, I

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see you. Great job, guys.

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Hey there. I'm Coach Cole and welcome to

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the Today's Leader podcast, building

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tomorrow's best leaders today. Today

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we're talking about recognizing

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and leveraging the strengths that you

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have within your team. So every

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person on your team has got unique

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skills, unique talents, and their

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own experiences. But the question I've

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got to ask is, are you using them to your

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fullest potential?Great

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leaders don't just assign tasks,

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they align strengths.

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I want you to think about that. Today

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we're going to uncover how do we identify

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the individual strengths. We look for

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ways to align strengths with our business

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goals. And how

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leveraging strengths creates higher

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engagement, productivity and innovation.

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Let's get started. Many leaders

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focus on fixing weaknesses instead

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of amplifying strengths. But research

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shows us that people are more

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engaged, they perform better and they're

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happier when they work in their areas of

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strength. So think about it, a team

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member who's naturally analytical.

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Excels in problem solving.

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Someone who's graded relationship

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building should be in client facing

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roles, not behind a spreadsheet. A

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detail oriented planner

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ensures execution stays on track,

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so why overwhelm them with big

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picture strategy?When

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strengths are properly leveraged,

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productivity increases, morale improves,

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teams work smarter.

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So the key there is you have to know your

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people. So how do we

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recognize team strengths?First

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up, you need to observe and listen.

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Watch how your team naturally work

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and what task creates

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energy. Listen to what they enjoy

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doing and where they feel

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most confident. You can use

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strength assessments. There's things like

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Clifton Strengths, there's DISC, Myers

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Briggs. They can provide you some

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insights as well. But, and you can

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often find things like simple surveys or

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self-assessments can work too.

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You have to ask the right questions. What

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task?So questions you may ask your

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team is what tasks do you feel most

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confident in?What part of your job do you

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love the most?And when do

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you get in the zone?You know we all

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experience being in the zone, so ask your

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team when do they feel?In the zone,

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get peer inputs. Another way we

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can sometimes Uh teammates will see

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our strengths more than what we recognize

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ourselves. So ask around,

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encourage team feedback to highlight

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hidden talents and

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then you can always just put them into

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the real world scenario. We give team

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members new challenges in their areas of

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strength so we can test it.

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And we can reinforce and reengage.

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And then the key is once we've been able

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to identify these strengths, we wanna put

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them into action, align strengths

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and roles. So put people in the

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right roles, which shift

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responsibilities where we can to

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fit their skill set. We wanna

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con uh, put together pair

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complementary strengths, a visionary.

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Pairs well with the detail-focused

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operator. A very detail-focused

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operator who executes well.

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Encourage strength-based collaboration.

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Let natural leaders mentor

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strategic thinkers plan

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and recognise and celebrate strengths.

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Public acknowledgement fuels

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motivation. Always does. So when

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leaders focus on strengths, they turn

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good teams into great teams. So your

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team is full of untapped potential.

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Unlock it and this week's challenge. What

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I want, uh, once again, the worksheet

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will be. Just follow the link in the show

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notes. Choose one team member, identify

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a key strength, and find ways

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to use it more effectively.

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Hey, thanks for tuning in to the Today's

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Leader podcast. Um, if you found value

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in today's episode, please share it with

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your network and download

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Download our worksheet to start

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leveraging your team's

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strengths. Let's keep building

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tomorrow's best leaders today.