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Win Make Give with Ben Kinney

Assessing Strengths: Science & Strategy with a Talent Plus Expert

Win Make Give with Ben Kinney

Ben Kinney Training

Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Is there a science behind leveraging natural talents? In this episode, Chad Hyams chats with Scott Whiteford, Ph.D., the director of leadership analytics at Talent Plus, Inc., about developing strengths and maximizing potential. 

In this episode, we cover several topics, including:

  • Should you focus on strengths or weaknesses? [1:17]  
  • Is there a better way to think about our strengths? [2:03]
  • Examples from basketball greats Stephen Curry and Shaquille O'Neil [3:25]
  • How do you identify your strengths? [6:28]
  • Do strengths dictate the position you should have? [9:00]
  • How much time should leaders invest in developing their team? [11:40]
  • Is company culture what leaders say it is? [15:22]
  • Do great leaders show or tell? [18:48]
  • Attitude or behavior; which wins? [20:26]
  • Can you repair or reinvent company culture? [22:09]
  • How do you know if a candidate aligns with your mission, vision, and values? [24:30]
  • What one question should you ask in an interview? [29:21]
  • How do you keep employees engaged? [31:43]
  • Example of a team engagement assessment [33:01]
  • What are the benefits of understanding strengths at all role levels?  [36:06]

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Transcript

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0:00.0

And I'm flying solo. That's right. I'm not really flying solo yet. I ditched Bob and Ben,

0:17.8

and it's just me bringing you an amazing interview. So you know we're going to get to the

0:21.6

real stuff, not some of those crazy questions, Bob likes to ask as we get going. And I want

0:26.2

to get right into it for you today, folks. And I want to welcome to our podcast, our guest today,

0:33.2

Dr. Scott Whiteford. Scott, welcome to the podcast. Dad, it's great to be here. Thanks for having me

0:38.5

on. All right. Scott, I don't read bio stuff. Our audience knows this. So I'm putting you in the

0:43.9

hot seats, introduce yourself. What is it you want our audience to know about you? Well,

0:50.4

that I've worked in the field of strength management theory for 20 years. That opportunity to

0:56.2

coach over 2000 executives on focusing on their strengths and how they can utilize those to

1:05.7

develop themselves, bring their team together, understand their team's culture and their

1:10.0

organizational culture, and basically how you can have a little bit more fun at work while

1:15.2

leading other people. Okay, I'm in love, right? Because you're hitting on all the words I love

1:22.5

here and in there. I wrote a book. Our audience knows I wrote a book. And one of the chapters is

1:28.4

all about developing your strengths and leveraging your weaknesses, right? Because too many people

1:33.6

have always said, well, if I just fixed my weaknesses, right? So before we even get into the culture,

1:37.9

before we get into having more, just take me down that path because, well, even though I might have

1:42.4

written about it, you sound like the expert on the topic. Well, I haven't I haven't written a book

1:47.2

on it. So I still behind you a little bit on that. Well, you got those letters in front of your name,

1:51.5

the D and the R there that that makes you a little bit more of an expert than I in some of these

1:55.4

things. Well, so it's really interesting. I often like to talk to my client partners and

2:02.0

my podcast guests about thinking about strengths in a little bit of a different way. Okay.

2:07.8

First of all, we often talk about knowledge, skills, and experience. And a lot of times when we

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