Bringing Out the Best In Self and Others SMART Strengths Bringing Out the Best In Self and Others

Discovery Appreciating Discovery Appreciating Destiny Sustaining “What gives life?” The best of what is. Appreciating Discovery “What gives life?” The best of what is. Appreciating Destiny “How to empower, learn, and improvise?” Sustaining Destiny “How to empower, learn, and improvise?” Sustaining Dream “What might be?” Envisioning Results/Impact Dream “What might be?” Envisioning Results/Impact As we move from discovery to dream, the goal is to build upon our strengths, values, highpoint experiences from our positive core as we envision our preferred future. Design “What should be – the ideal?” Co-constructing Design “What should be – the ideal?” Co-constructing

Principle number 1: Everyone makes a difference. Principle number 2: Success is built on relationships. Principle number 3: You must continually create value for others. Principle number 4: You can reinvent yourself regularly.

DISCOVERY Purpose: To identify the positive core of your school that will set the stage for individual and organizational valuing. What attracted you to your position/school? What were your initial impressions? What do you value most about your work at your school? Tell us about a high point/peak experience at your school. What made it a high point/peak experience for you? What factors give life to this organization? What are your strengths and how do they support your work?

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t Spotting Managing Advocating Relating Training SMART Strengths When you know your own strengths, you are better observers of strengths in others and are more attentive to spotting what is good instead of trying to find fault. Managing Your strengths are a family of traits that can be combined, tapped, and promoted for bringing out the best in you and others. Advocating Learning how to advocate with your strengths will help you to build a bridge from yourself to others. When you put your learning into your own words, you can effectively convey both your strengths and needs. Relating Good relationships are about using strengths while connecting with and appealing to others. Sometimes strength buttons get pushed when other people’s strengths are in conflict with your own. Training Once you have tools, approaches, exercises, and techniques to use in helping you spot, manage, articulate, and relate your strengths individually and in relationships, you will want to use them to develop these skills in others. Connect SMART Strengths to the development of resilience, relationships: Training and living the model

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When we seek to discover the best in others, We somehow bring out the best in ourselves. - William Arthur Ward

Leadership Agility Lead and Empower Confidence and Humility Stability/Continuity and Innovation/Transformation

Assessing     Almost Always Often Sometimes Seldom Almost Never Values = positive results of focus on the left pole Values = positive results of focus on the right pole Fears = negative results of over-focus on the left pole to the neglect of the right pole Fears = negative results of over-focus on the right pole to the neglect of the left pole * ** and Assessing   Almost Always Often Sometimes Seldom Almost Never Almost Always Often Sometimes Seldom Almost Never   Almost Never Seldom Sometimes Often Almost Always Almost Never Seldom Sometimes Often Almost Always

Athletic Department Polarities Mission and Vision Accountability and Support Values and Performance Team and Athletic Program

CAPITALIZATION

Our Deepest Fear Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. - Marianne Williamson