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WMPMI!
January 2017!
How Strong Are You?!
M. Nora Bouchard, MA, PCC!
• Executive & Leadership
Coach!
• Over 10,000 hours since
mid-90’s!
• Emerging leaders,
experienced leaders,
organization leadership, and
private clients!
My context:!

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What Is Executive Coaching?!
All about the shift in
perception. !
You:!
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Hi, My name is _________.!
!
I’m really good at
______________________!!
Me:!
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Hi, My name is Nora.!
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I’m really good at story-
telling and feedback!!

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Our Agenda!
• Explore why we should focus
on strength, not weakness!
• Define strength 3 ways!
• Acquire tips on how to identify
strengths!
• Explore your own strengths!
Are Happier!
More Confident!
Have Higher !
Self-Esteem!
Have More!
Energy!
Are Less!
Stressed!
Are More!
Resilient!
Are More!
Likely to Hit!
Goals!
Perform Better!
Are More!
Engaged!
Are Better at !
Developing Others!
People Who Use
Strengths:

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Corporate Leadership Council
Study (2002)!
• 19,000 employees!
• 34 companies!
• 7 industries!
• 29 countries!
36.4% 21.3%
26.8%
Gallup Engagement Research (2014)!
1
61
38
Actively Disengaged
Engaged
Not Engaged
Supv Focuses on Strengths
22
45
38
Actively Disengaged
Engaged
Not Engaged
Supv Focuses on Weaknesses
40
2
57
Actively Disengaged
Engaged
Not Engaged
Supv Ignored Directs
Random sample: !
1003 employees!
What’s the
challenge for
PMs?!

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Strength Assessments!
Qualities that enable a good life! Innate talents, skills, knowledge!
Behaviors you perform well !
that energize you!
24 Character Strengths!
in 6 Categories!
Top 5 Themes! 60 Strengths in 4 Categories!
Free! With purchase of book! $25US!
Non-Profits, Teachers!
Social Workers!
Corporations, Non-Profits! Corporations, Non-Profits!
Realise2 Strengths Profiler!

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Realise2 Strengths Profiler!
• Marshall your go-to strengths; don’t over
use them!
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• Manage your learned behaviors; avoid
burn out!
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• Minimize your weaknesses; avoid if you
can, learn if you can’t!
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• Maximize your inactive strengths; tap
into something you’ve forgotten!
Managing Your Strengths: 4M Model!
Uncovering Strengths!
• VIA, StrengthsFinder, Realise2
Strengths Profiler!
• Observation of others!
• Questions to explore more
deeply!

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Activity: Uncovering Strengths!
1. Two volunteers per table!
2. First volunteer shares a story about
something they do well: planning,
budgeting, skiing, skating, etc. !
3. Observers note language used, body
language, and emotions present!
4. Second volunteer shares a story
about something they do poorly -
their Kryptonite: planning, budgeting,
skiing, skating, etc.!
5. Observers note language used, body
language, and emotions present!
What to Observe:!
Strength Users:! Kryptonite Users:!
Possess high energy! Show low energy!
Lose track of time! Struggle with focus!
Learn faster! Learn slower!
Show repeated success! Resist trying again!
Yearn to use it! Withdraw from it!
Speak clearly, rhythmically! Struggle with language!
Focus on the future! Focus on the past!
Love to respond to questions! Focus on problems & issues!
Active body language! Passive, resistant postures!
Great eye contact! Poor eye contract!
Are more supportive! Are more critical & unforgiving!

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Questions to Identify
Strengths!
• When do you feel most
authentic?!
• What makes a really good day
for you?!
• What are you looking forward
to doing in the future?!
• What would be easy for you to
teach to others?!
• What activities have you done
since you were a kid?!
• When are you most relaxed at
work?!
• Tell me about your best day
ever.!
• What is your most significant
accomplishment?!
• When are you happiest at
work?!
• What energizes you most at
work?!
Your Strengths!
1. Pair up. !
2. Ask, “When do you feel most satisfied at work?”!
3. Which strengths are you using?!
4. Which strengths might you be over-using?!
5. Which learned behaviors (do well, but draining) are you using?!
6. Which weaknesses (do poorly, draining) do you have to use?!
7. Which new strengths could you use? !

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In Closing!
“A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your
strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties
but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes
your possibilities.” – William Arthur Ward!
M. Nora Bouchard!
nora@mnorabouchard.com
www.mnorabouchard.com!
www.linkedin.com/in/!
mnorabouchard!
@mnorabouchard!
www.facebook.com/
bouchardexecutivecoaching!

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• Centre for Applied Positive Psychology www.cappeu.com
• VIA Strengths www.viacharacter.org
• Gallup Strengths www.gallupstrengthscenter.com
• StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
• The Strengths Book, Be Confident, Be Successful, and Enjoy
Better Relationships by Realising the Best of You by Linley,
Willars & Biswar-Deiner
• Now, Discover Your Strengths by Donald O. Clifton & Marcus
Buckingham
• Strengths-Based Leadership, Great Leaders, Teams and Why
People Follow by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie
• http://www.gallup.com/businessjournal/167462/employees-
strengths-company-stronger.aspx
Resources!