The document discusses the strengths-based approach to personal development. It outlines that the strengths-based approach focuses on identifying and developing individuals' talents and strengths, rather than trying to fix weaknesses. The conventional approach aims to improve weaknesses, but the strengths-based approach believes success is better achieved by leveraging strengths and managing around weaknesses. It also defines strengths as natural talents that have been developed through practice into consistent high performance abilities.

1. Strengths-Based
Development
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2. Strengths-Based Development Defined
 Your best bet for success lies in building on who you already are, not in
trying to become someone you’re not.
 Focus on TALENTS not WEAKNESSES
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3. Conventional Approach to Personal
Development
 Maintain each person’s strengths and work on fixing weaknesses.
Identify
improvement
areas
Develop
improvement
plan
Assumptions
1. Behaviours can be learned.
2. The best in a role display the
same behaviours.
3. Weakness fixing leads to
success.
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4. Strengths-Based Approach to
Personal Development
 Focus on each person’s strengths and manage around weaknesses.
Identify
talents
Develop
strengths
Assumptions
1. Only some behaviours can
be learned.
2. The best in a role delivers the
same outcomes using
different behaviours.
3. Weakness fixing prevents
failure; strengths building
leads to success.
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5. Weakness
 In a strengths-based approach:
a "weakness" is a shortage or misapplication of
talent, skill, or knowledge
that causes problems for you or others.
 Managing weakness:
 Get the right education, training and support.
 Leverage your greatest talents.
 Form complementary partnerships.
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6. Strengths
The Clifton StrengthsFinder
measures the presence of talent in
34 general areas or themes.
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7. The Anatomy of a Strength
Talent (a natural way of thinking, feeling or behaving)
X
Investment (time spent practising, developing your skill and knowledge)
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= Strength (the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance)
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8. Coaching Process
NAME IT
CLAIM IT
AIM IT
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9. Impact of Strengths
Who people ARE
and what they
DO BEST
What people DO
BEST and how
people FEEL
How people FEEL
and how people
PERFORM
There is a
strong connection
between
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