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Coaching for Leaders

293: How Teams Use StrengthsFinder Results, with Lisa Cummings

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Lisa Cummings: Lead Through Strengths

Lisa Cummings is the founder and CEO of Lead Through Strengths, a firm that exists to help people find and use their strengths at work. Lisa and her team serve large teams and organizations to help them leverage the results of the CliftonStrengths (formerly StrengthsFinder) assessment. She is also the host of the popular Lead Through Strengths podcast.

Many organizations utilize the StrengthsFinder assessment, but few leaders go beyond a brief discussion and perhaps asking employees to share their results with peers. In this conversation, Lisa and I discuss how she helps leaders and teams leverage StrengthsFinder results and how to utilize them for ongoing coaching and talent development.

Key Points

  • Understanding another person’s strengths can help you work better with them.
  • CliftonStrengths (formerly StrengthsFinder) conversations should not just happen one day a year, they should be discussed and thought about often.
  • Ask employees, “How did you use your strengths yesterday?”
  • Think of a CliftonStrengths (formerly StrengthsFinder) session as a starting point for an ongoing conversation, not just a one-time event.
  • Partner with people who are strong where you’re weak.

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0:00.0

So you've heard good things about the Strengesfinder assessment, perhaps you've taken it yourself or even administered it to your team.

0:07.0

But what do you do in order to really leverage the results? On today's episode, how to leverage Strengths Finder and to tap into the strengths strategically for your team.

0:17.0

This is Coaching for Leaders episode 293.

0:21.0

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

0:27.0

Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made. And this weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom that will

0:45.9

empower you to become a better leader and thank you so much for tuning in today I

0:51.6

know today's conversation is going to be

0:53.4

really helpful to you, especially if you're the kind of person that really likes to

0:58.0

leverage and maximize the things you do really well and not only do that for you but to be able to do that for the people around you and it was probably 20 almost 25 years ago now, that I was in college reading a book called

1:17.4

Soar with your Strengths and it was the very first introduction that I had to

1:22.2

the concept of looking at our strengths versus always trying to

1:26.8

improve upon and manage our weaknesses and today's guests I know is going to

1:31.6

really help us to think through some of the strategies that we can use in order to lead through our strengths and again not only for us but to be able to lead our teams effectively.

1:42.0

And that person is Lisa Cummings. able to lead our teams effectively.

1:42.6

And that person is Lisa Cummings.

1:44.5

Lisa has delivered training and speaking events

1:47.3

to over 9,000 participants in 14 countries.

1:50.6

You can see her featured in places like Harvard Business Publishing, Training Magazine, and Forbes.

1:55.0

She is the CEO of a company called Lead Through Strengths.

1:59.0

And when she's not out spotting strengths with teams, you'll find her rescuing stray dogs or playing the drums.

2:05.8

Lisa, welcome to coaching for leaders.

2:08.8

Thank you for having me, psyched to be here with you.

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