552 - 5 Effective Ways to Manage People's Strengths

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Understanding your team’s strengths can help you mix and match a group of high-performers to achieve results far above what you could otherwise reach. Read the transcript at https://quickanddirtytips.com/business-career/manage-strengths Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows: www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts FOLLOW GET-IT-DONE GUY Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetItDoneGuy Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetItDoneGuy

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0:00.0	This is Steveer Robbins.
0:02.2	Welcome to the Good It Dung Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.
0:09.1	Today's an exciting day at Green Growing Things Plant Store.
0:12.6	It's annual review time.
0:14.5	Annual reviews are important.
0:17.3	The owner Bernice calls in her employees.
0:19.7	She asks each one to identify their strengths and their weaknesses, and together they come up with a personal development plan to shore up all of those weaknesses.
0:28.5	But why?
0:29.9	Although business results come from day-to-day management, Bernice has all of her people working on fixing their weaknesses.
0:35.9	That's the wrong way to go about it.
0:38.0	Annual reviews are not very effective. We think they are, but we're gullible, aren't we?
0:42.6	A 1998 meta-analysis found that annual reviews were more about people having their voices
0:47.8	heard and less about changing their actual performance. In other words, annual reviews are
0:53.0	forward-covetching. Let's take a look at a better way,
0:55.8	effectively managing people by using their best qualities.
1:00.2	One. Focus on Strengths. Consider Bernice's employee Europa. Europa's emotional intelligence
1:06.3	is off the chart. She's the secret overlord of the Eastern Block, which she holds together
1:10.7	through sheer force of personality. Augmented, of course, with control of a small R off the chart. She's the secret overlord of the Eastern Block, which she holds together through
1:10.9	sheer force of personality, augmented, of course, with control of a small arsenal of tactical
1:15.7	nuclear weapons. But when it comes to computer skills, Europa still thinks that a mouse
1:21.3	is cat food. Oh dear. Although Europa's development plan could concentrate on shoring up her
1:26.9	weaknesses by sending
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