Why Strengths-Based Development?
The best-led organizations know that the direct path to individual, team, and organizational strengths begins with a primary investment in their employees’ greatest talents. Find what’s naturally right with your people, and build on it. All organizations seek to perform with strength. To get there, many follow conventional wisdom: Focus on fixing weaknesses. Find what’s wrong with your people, and try to correct it. Unfortunately, that “wisdom” leaves the organization struggling on the path to mediocrity. A growing number of strength-seeking organizations have learned that although weaknesses must be avoided and managed as necessary, a fixation on weakness is a mistake. What happens when a person is not operating from strength? He or she is quite simply less fulfilled and less effective. In the workplace, an employee is six times less likely to be engaged in the role. A person not able to use his or her strengths at work probably: • dreads going to work • has more negative than positiv
