Week 2 – Claim It Gain awareness and appreciation of your strengths
Lesson 9 Your 1 in 33 million, point of difference
CliftonStrengths (StrengthFinder) can help identify and clarify the uniqueness of each person. It can give a lens of the cognitive diversity within your organisation and team and assist people as they seek to apply and amplify what is best in them.
There are 34 strength themes in total. If you completed a Top 5 profile you were presented with your 5 CliftonStrengths in order of dominance. These Strengths Themes were identified and refined based on 50 years of research, in 48 countries, and on tens of millions of profile completes. This data tells us that the chances of someone getting the same…
5 strengths as you and in any order is 1 in 278,256
5 strengths as you in the order of your results is 1 in 33,390,000
34 strengths as you in the order of your results is 1 in 259,000,000,000,000
A Metaphor for Uniqueness
Our strengths are not independent of each other. They blend and bend together, moving up and down the order of dominance depending on who we are with, what we are doing and where we are. I use the analogy of the cake to help describe this concept. One strength is the flour, another is the eggs, another is the sugar. They all blend to make the experience that is you. The cake doesn’t fundamentally change, but the weighting of the ingredients will slightly alter each time.
The Challenges We Face
The cartoon above is a good metaphor for the schooling system. As mentioned at the start of this course, we all must take Maths, Science, Social Studies, English. However, we all have different talents and therefore will be better at some things than others. Einstein puts it best…
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
Team Leader Debrief
That’s the end of this week’s online learning. Do you have a 15 minute debrief booked with your team leader/sponsor? Aim to answer the questions
What is one discovery you have made?
What is one thing you will do differently?
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