320: Better Leadership Through StrengthsFinder, with Lisa Cummings
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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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.
Some leaders see different StrengthsFinder talents as obstacles, but these same difference can make our teams shine. In this conversation, Lisa and I examine the four demands of leadership and how we can honor the talents of each person.
Key Points
- Our true strengths are the things we don’t often see as strengths because they come easily to us.
- Do the things you do well and find other people are good at the things you aren’t.
- Many people think they’re very similar to others, but there are a lot of underlying differences they don’t give themselves credit for.
- The Four Demands of Leadership are Executing, Influencing, Relationship Building, and Thinking.
Resources Mentioned
- CliftonStrengths (formerly StrengthsFinder) assessment
- Four Demands of Leadership
- Lead Through Strengths podcast
- The Ultimate Guide to Using Your Strengths to Get Hired*
- Soar With Your Strengths* by Donald O. Clifton and Paula Nelson
Related Episodes
- How to Interpret Your StrengthsFinder and CliftonStrengths Results, with Steve Dosier (episode 90)
- How to Succeed with Leadership and Management, with John Kotter (episode 249)
- How Teams Use StrengthsFinder Results, with Lisa Cummings (episode 293)
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| 0:00.0 | Did you know that the value your team can get from Strengesfinder goes way beyond just the list of talents each person has? |
| 0:08.0 | On this episode, Lisa Cummings returns to the show to teach us about the four demands of leadership, how they map to |
| 0:15.4 | strengths finder, and most importantly the way they can help us all accelerate |
| 0:20.1 | results during times of change. This is coaching for leaders episode 320. |
| 0:25.7 | Produced by Innovate Learning Maximizing Human Potential. human potential. Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:38.6 | This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made and this weekly show gives |
| 0:46.9 | you access to the practical wisdom that will empower you to become a better leader. |
| 0:53.2 | Well, speaking of being born, we're all born with talents, |
| 0:56.3 | we're all born with strengths, |
| 0:58.0 | and if you've been listening to the show for a bit, |
| 1:00.2 | you have certainly heard my affection for the strengths finder assessment and |
| 1:05.5 | thinking and beyond just the assessment thinking about our talents of |
| 1:09.6 | strengths and being able to leverage our strengths and a couple of months ago I was really pleased to welcome Lisa Cummings to the show |
| 1:16.0 | she is the founder of Lead Through Strengths. We had a great conversation about utilizing |
| 1:21.0 | the assessment within your organization and your team and how to leverage some of the wisdom that comes out of the assessment and the awareness. |
| 1:30.0 | And so many of you reached out and mentioned how much do you love that conversation and also a few folks wrote in with some additional questions |
| 1:37.7 | So I thought it'd be fabulous to have Lisa back to take the next step on helping us to really get the most out of |
| 1:45.0 | strengths finder. And if you didn't listen to the last episode, |
| 1:48.1 | Lisa is the founder of Lead Through Strenges. She brings over 20 years of |
| 1:51.4 | experience into practice. |
| 1:52.9 | She is a certified strengths, performance coach with Gallup, |
| 1:55.8 | and the host of the best podcast I know of |
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