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Ep 144 - We're Baaack

Lead Through Strengths - July 14, 2024 10:02 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
Woo hoo. The Lead Through Strengths podcast is back in action. In this quickie bonus episode, find out who my new co-host is. She's one of my CliftonStrengths besties. Weekly episodes re-start now. 

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Personal Branding Through Strengths

Lead Through Strengths - March 18, 2022 09:30 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
If you want to register directly, you can find the next CliftonStrengths training at https://leadthroughstrengths.com/events/ To stay up on the latest quarterly training events as they're posted, I recommend joining our email list at https://leadthroughstrengths.com/challenge/ Other resources ...

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Free CliftonStrengths Training

Lead Through Strengths - January 08, 2022 01:10 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
To stay up on the latest quarterly training events as they're posted, I recommend joining our email list here: https://leadthroughstrengths.com/challenge/ Or, if you want to register directly, you can find them at https://leadthroughstrengths.com/events/

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3 Ways To Focus on Strengths In A Staff Meeting

Lead Through Strengths - September 16, 2021 20:07 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
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New CliftonStrengths Manager Report

Lead Through Strengths - June 29, 2021 22:11 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
CliftonStrengths for Managers Report See your Top 10 talents, and how they might help or hinder your personal leadership https://store.gallup.com/p/en-us/14216/cliftonstrengths-for-managers Attend our Open-To-The Public StrengthsFinder Training https://leadthroughstrengths.com/events Bo...

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He Refuses To Participate In StrengthsFinder — Should We Make It Mandatory?

Lead Through Strengths - May 02, 2021 08:30 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
If Someone Refuses To Participate In StrengthsFinder, Invite Them To The Session Anyway Maybe it was a bad experience with another assessment tool, or the thought that another assessment is unnecessary. But if someone in your team refuses to participate in StrengthsFinder, it helps to gather i...

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Team Is Under 10% On Influencing Strengths — Is This A Weak CliftonStrengths Lineup?

Lead Through Strengths - April 18, 2021 08:30 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
Influencing Strengths Not Part Of Your Top 5? Chill, You're Not Alone    It’s totally normal for you or your team to hope for a balanced distribution of themes across all four domains of strengths: strategic thinking, relationships, executing, and influencing. You may think that you are not as...

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Strengths Based Conversations – Get ROE (Return on Effort) Today

Lead Through Strengths - April 04, 2021 08:30 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
Team Questions and Active Listening Impact Strengths Based Conversations      At Lead Through Strengths, our StrengthsFinder events are designed to help you dial deep into your strengths so you can understand yourself better and strengthen team performance. What better way to launch this goal i...

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April Announcement & Strengths Tip

Lead Through Strengths - March 28, 2021 08:30 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
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Using Strengths For Sales Teams

Lead Through Strengths - March 21, 2021 08:30 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
Applying Strengths For Sales Teams Can Boost Performance  If you look over those moments where you closed a deal or knocked out a killer proposal, you were likely in the zone. That whole idea of "flow" or being in the zone - it's a clue to your greatest strengths. Work feels effortless because...

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First Step: Talking About Strengths To Get In The Zone

Lead Through Strengths - March 07, 2021 09:30 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
What's the first step after the CliftonStrengths assessment?  The StrengthsFinder Test, StrengthsFinder training, and the StrengthsFinder 2.0 book are all a wealth of resources for uncovering what your top talent themes are, and how you can apply them.  After your team gets their results, t...

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Managing To People's Strengths

Lead Through Strengths - February 21, 2021 09:30 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
Managing To People’s Strengths, A Simple Path To Better Performance This topic opens a series of interviews featuring Lead Through Strengths facilitator Joseph Dworak. Now this particular episode looks at the value of workplace conversations, especially when the team is remote. People have ...

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Stop The Soul Suck — Get Assigned Work In Your Strengths Zone

Lead Through Strengths - February 07, 2021 09:30 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
Work In Your Strengths Zone To Make Work Enjoyable How often you work in your strengths zone has a lot to do with living your best life. Here at Lead Through Strengths, we believe that choosing easy doesn't equate to choosing lazy. It means choosing efficiency and getting more of what works fo...

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Save Time At Work With Your Strengths — It's Easy, Not Lazy

Lead Through Strengths - January 24, 2021 09:30 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
Take The Path of Least Resistance To Save Time At Work One of the best things that happen when you are aligned with your natural talents is that work ceases to feel like "work." This is that sweet spot where you accomplish your tasks feel like you're in a state of flow. This is when things on ...

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Not Feeling Very Worky Today? Get To The Truth About Why

Lead Through Strengths - January 10, 2021 09:30 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
If You're Not Feeling Very Worky Today, Your Feeling Is Valid If you woke up not feeling very worky today, you're not alone. All around the world, this happens for reasons that are either obvious or hard to dig. Being in a funk is a real struggle that can last from days to months and can imp...

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Special Announcement

Lead Through Strengths - January 07, 2021 00:22 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
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Self Care Ideas: Simple Ways That Strengths Can Fill Your Empty Tank

Lead Through Strengths - December 27, 2020 09:30 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
Self Care Ideas That Most Corporate Professionals Haven't Considered You can't go very far when you're running on empty, no matter how hard you push. And that's why we've come up with this fun episode for you — consider it a virtual "filling station." All you need to do for now is hit the brake...

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My Manager Hates Me: The 'Not Savage' Strengths Approach

Lead Through Strengths - December 13, 2020 09:30 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
How Can I Turn Conflicts Around When My Manager Hates Me? Certain situations can highlight the stark differences within a team, especially when your strengths seem opposite of others' strengths. For example, you might think “my manager hates me” when they seem to value other team members' idea...

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Using Hobbies To Make Money (AKA Translating Interests To Your Job)

Lead Through Strengths - November 29, 2020 09:30 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
Using Hobbies To Make Money And To Uncover Strengths Outside Of The Office Your personal hobbies — those things you do outside of work for fun and creative expression — are most likely a mirror of your talent themes. That's why discovering your top strengths through StrengthsFinder often leads ...

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What Is StrengthsFinder Training? Can It Kickstart Productivity At Work?

Lead Through Strengths - November 15, 2020 09:30 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
What Is StrengthsFinder Training Like? Get A Glimpse Of The Lead Through Strengths Style. So, what is StrengthsFinder training really all about? What will we talk about? What makes the training any different from other strengths courses around? Can we do this for a team building event? Is this ...

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Annoying Coworkers? Send In A Strengths Bomb

Lead Through Strengths - November 01, 2020 08:30 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
On "Bad" Strengths: The Perception Behind Annoying Coworkers If you just got into StrengthsFinder, chances are you are all fired up knowing about your top strengths and, maybe, how they compare to others'. Many of us scroll through all the 34 talent themes and then mentally assign some of them ...

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The CliftonStrengths Report Says You're Awesome! Now What?

Lead Through Strengths - October 18, 2020 08:30 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
Once You Get Your CliftonStrengths Report, How Should You Take Action? Your CliftonStrengths report reflects your greatest strengths. As you focus on applying them to work, you might also wonder how to handle situations that call for talent themes way below your top 5 or top 10.   If you're l...

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Delivering Engaging Presentations When You're An Introvert

Lead Through Strengths - October 04, 2020 08:30 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
Your Strengths Have Everything To Do With Achieving Engaging Presentations Presenting can be a piece of cake for some, but can be a daunting task for others. But whether you are an introvert or someone who loves to be in front of an audience, how well you can capture your audience really depen...

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Is StrengthsFinder Legit And Valid?

Lead Through Strengths - September 20, 2020 08:30 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
StrengthsFinder Legit? Valid? Accurate? If you're wondering, you're actually just like Sara Regan, the Lead Through Strengths facilitator in this interview. Before being exposed to the tool, she was a bit skeptical about it. Usually, before doing some strengths finding with the team, one or t...

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Using Your Strengths For A Productivity Gut Check

Lead Through Strengths - September 06, 2020 08:30 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
Lead Through Strengths Facilitator Strother Gaines Shares How CliftonStrengths Can Help With Productivity. When it comes to work or personal goals, it is one thing to plan out all the things you intended to do and another to carry them out as committed. How we manage time, and how consistently ...

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Superpowers At Work – How To Wield Them And Amp Up Your Work Week

Lead Through Strengths - August 23, 2020 08:30 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
Your Superpowers At Work - New Ideas For Finding Them And Using Them From Lead Through Strengths Facilitator Strother Gaines  In this episode, Lisa Cummings and co-host Strother Gaines discuss, through analogies and practical examples, the impact of knowing how to wield your superpowers at wor...

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How To Start Living Your Best Life By Tapping Into Your Strengths

Lead Through Strengths - August 09, 2020 08:30 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
To Live Your Best Life, Know Your Intention And Be Clear With What You Want  Lisa: What about the conflicts you have in your head as well, so they're not just with others? You know, you fight your own things that you wish you would do, maybe when you're not aligned with the personal leadership...

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Ignite Better Team Collaboration Through Strengths

Lead Through Strengths - July 26, 2020 08:30 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
Conversations About Turning Conflicts Into Strengths Collaboration - With Lead Through Strengths Facilitator Strother Gaines In any work environment, especially widely diverse ones where people with different backgrounds, cultures and management styles work together, conflicts between or among...

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How To Not Sound Arrogant When Building A Career Brand Around Your Strengths

Lead Through Strengths - July 12, 2020 08:30 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
Lead Through Strengths Facilitator Strother Gaines Shares His Thoughts On How To Not Sound Arrogant When You Offer Out Your Strengths In this episode, Lisa Cummings and co-host Strother Gaines talk about the different ways you can present or offer your strengths at work and how to not sound ar...

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What To Do When You Don’t Like Your Strengths

Lead Through Strengths - June 28, 2020 08:30 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 176 ratings
Lead Through Strengths Facilitator Strother Gaines - Helping You Figure Out What To Do When You Don't Like Your Strengths This episode is all about the situation when you don't like your strengths — or you don't think you like someone else's strengths. It's easy to stereotype one of the Clif...

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