This document discusses strengths-based leadership. It argues that all people have innate talents or strengths that can be developed for leadership. Strengths-based leadership views leadership as a collective process and recommends using different strengths for different leadership situations. The document also outlines four domains of leadership strength: executing, relationship building, strategic thinking, and influencing. It notes that the most effective leaders invest in their own and others' strengths, surround themselves with the right people, understand followers' needs, and can accomplish things through other people.

1. Strengths Based LeadershipPresented by Eric K. Kaufman,

2. Early Leadership Theory: TraitsPremise: All great leaders have common traitsChallenge: Identify the leadership traitsMake people with those traits the leaders

3. Explaining Leadership Differences: Style Approaches to LeadershipLeadership GridSituational Leadership

4. Strengths-Based LeadershipArgues that we all have innate talents to be developed into strengthsViews leadership as a collective processRecommends different strengths for different leadership situations

5. “A leader needs to know his strengths as a carpenter knows his tools, or as 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.”- Donald O. Clifton, Gallup Researcher and Father of Strengths Psychology

6. Key Findings from 50 Years of Gallup Research (Rath & Conchie, 2008)“All too often, leaders are blind to the obvious when it comes to something of critical importance to them – their own personality.”Rath & Conchie, 2008, p. 11The most effective leaders:Are always investing in strengthsSurround themselves with the right people and then maximize their teamUnderstand their followers needs

7. Domains of Leadership StrengthPresent-OrientedTask-OrientedPeople-OrientedFuture-Oriented

8. Executing DomainKnow how to make things happenHave ability to “catch” an idea and make it happen

9. Relationship Building DomainProvide essential glue that holds the team togetherCreate groups and organizations that are much greater than the sum of their parts

10. Strategic Thinking DomainKeep us all focused on what could beConstantly absorbing and analyzing information and helping the team make better decisions

11. Influencing DomainHelp the team reach a broader audienceTake charge, speak up, and make sure the group is heard

13. Strengths-Based LeadershipArgues that we all have innate talents to be developed into strengthsViews leadership as a collective processRecommends different strengths for different leadership situations

14. Lessons for Practice“A leader is someone who can get things done through other people.”Warren Buffet (as cited by Rath & Conchie, 2008, p. 79)