The document focuses on understanding personal strengths and talents, differentiating between talent, which is a natural pattern of behavior, and strength, which is the ability to perform consistently. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing and leveraging one's strengths for effective leadership, as well as addressing weaknesses through communication and support. Additionally, it encourages a mindset of affirming and valuing individual talents to enhance leadership capabilities.

1. Leading With Your Strengths

2. • Graduated from
Benedictine
College in 2008
• Served as the
Resident Director of
St. Scholastica Hall
from 2010-2012

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8. What about YOU?
• Name
• Hometown
• Top 5 Themes
• Why did you decide to come to
BC

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10. Achiever
Activator
Adaptability
Analytical
Arranger
Belief
Command
Communication
Competition
Connectedness
Context
Deliberative
Developer
Discipline
Empathy
Focus
Futuristic
Harmony
Ideation
Includer
Individualization
Input
Intellection
Learner
Maximizer
Positivity
Relator
Responsibility
Restorative
Self-Assurance
Significance
Strategic
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12. Talent vs. Strength
Talent – naturally recurring pattern of
thought, feeling, or behavior that can be
productively applied.
Strength – ability to provide consistent,
near-perfect performance in a given
activity.

13. Five Clues to Talent
Yearning
To what kinds of
activities are you
naturally drawn?
Rapid
Learning
What kinds of
activities to you
seem to pick up
quickly?
Flow
In what activities did
you automatically
know the steps to be
taken?
Glimpses of
Excellence
What sorts of activities
do you naturally do
well?
Satisfaction
What kinds of activities
give you energy and a
sense of passion?

14. Building Your Strengths
Skill
Talent
Knowledge
Strength

15. Barrier Labels
labels undercut and
unfairly judge
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16. Why Strengths?
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A leader needs to know his strengths as a
carpenter knows his tools, or a physician
knows the instruments at her disposal. What
great leaders have in common is that each
truly knows his or her strengths – and can
call on the right strength at the right time.
This explains why there is no definitive list of
characteristics that describes all leaders.
- Dr. Donald O. Clifton

18. Three Types of People
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19. Weakness
Define it and move forward.
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20. • A weakness is something that
gets in your way or in the way
of others.
• Is it a non-talent or a
weakness?
Weakness vs. Non-talent

21. Dealing With Weakness
• Open communication/transparency
• Get the RIGHT training
• Leverage other talents
• Use support systems
• Form complementary partnerships

22. Balconies and Basements
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23. One Final Note About Strengths
• Affirm and Integrate!
– Learn to appreciate and value your own unique
set of talents, then turn them into strengths.
• Great leaders know what they do best and
capitalize on those qualities.