Strong Teams

The Strengths ShortCut: A Pathway to Understanding

At Leadership Vision, we constantly seek to innovate our approach by connecting best practice in other domains to the integration of Strengths. Recently, we have been layering Strengths with behavioral science. A ‘cognitive miser’ is someone who finds different ways to save time and effort when negotiating the social world. We revert time and again, to the thinking pathway we know the best: a shortcut. When using Strengths with Teams, it is necessary to create opportunities for individuals to begin to excavate personal assumptions and biases to allow people to recognize their own Strengths ShortCuts. Keep reading as Aleasha gives examples how to do this.

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Our Top 5 Posts from 2015: All About Teams

2015 was a great year for Leadership Vision. We grew our team by three, took on several new clients, and launched an online offering of our core offering. A big theme we kept coming back to was team. Not only in the way we thought about and intentionally grew our own team, but the way we worked with other teams has changed as well. Teams are vitally important to any organization. Drilling into our google analytics, it was obvious that this is what our readers cared about as well. Keep reading to learn our five most searched and shared articles from 2015. All of them, in some way, reference Strengths work with teams.

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3 Things any Manager can do to Grow a Team using StrengthsFinder

How do you help a team grow, become highly productive, and operate out of their strengths? Almost since I was introduced to StrengthsFinder in 2000 […]

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Team Health Check: Is your Team Surviving or Thriving?

We have worked for over fifteen years, helping people understand their own strengths and reveal their greatest potential. But after, we repeatedly heard, “So now what?” A common thread in our findings was that a team’s greatest potential for function or dysfunction existed in the alignment within these areas. So, we responded by creating a strengths based Team Engagement Model that will gauge this alignment. Click below to read more about what we are doing with teams and strengths.

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