1. Preschool Assessment Demonstration Team Summit
Burlington, NC
February 28- March 1, 2018

3. Survey Says….. Team Building Work together by role
How to engage hard to engage children, particularly those with ASD
Approaches to Play and Learning Progressions
Work in role-specific groups to benchmark, troubleshoot, share celebrations and challenges

4. Team Building Goals
Understand how working from your “strengths” results in meaningful change
Understand your own personal strengths
Understand what your strengths mean
Understand how to use your strengths as a team

5. Lead From Your Strengths
Leading from your strengths is the best route to sustain:
Creativity
Top performance
Personal fulfillment

6. Your Leadership Toolkit

7. Gallup Survey If your manager primarily:
The chances of our being actively disengaged are:
Ignores you
40%
Focuses on your weaknesses
22%
Focuses on your strengths
1 %
Having a manager who ignores you is even more detrimental
than having a manage who primarily focuses on our weaknesses

8. When you are not able to use your strengths, chances are that you:
Dread going to work
Have more negative than positive interactions with your colleagues
Treat those you work with poorly
Tell your friends what a miserable company you work for
Achieve less on a daily basis
Have fewer positive and creative moments

9. Marcus Buckingham

10. Recipe for Strength Talent X Investment Strength =
a natural way of thinking, feeling, or behaving X
Investment
time spent practicing your skills and building your knowledge base =
Strength
the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance

11. Practice, Practice Odell Beckham, Jr. video

12. Top Recommendations Quit trying to be well rounded Find your strengths
Differentiate your natural talent from your hobbies
Manage around your weaknesses
Get to know the strengths of your co-workers and form alliances

13. Understanding the Strengths
Take out the Strengths Finder Definitions and your report Share your top strength and read the definition to your group Share an instance where you have used this strength

14. Let’s Build!

15. Your Strengths and Leadership

16. Team Analysis Highlight your top 5 strengths
Identify which domain most of your strengths fall under
Identify team members that have strengths that you don’t have
Think about how you can use your strengths in your role on the assessment team

17. Next Steps For Your Team
Think about these questions:
What strengths do we have that are the same or similar?
What strengths do we have that are very different?
How will our strengths help us meet our goal?
What is something each of us is best at?
Will knowing our strengths help us be a stronger team?

18. Your Strengths by Role

19. References
Conchie, T. R. (2008). Strengths Based Leadership. New York: Gallup Press.
Markus Buckingham leadership video
Rath, T. (2007). Strengths Finder 2.0. New York: Gallup Press.
for additional information on strengths finders and weekly theme webinars
Strengths Based Leadership Guide: file:///C:/Users/vjames/Downloads/strengthsfinder-sd-report.pdf