Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

Conventional management often focuses on fixing employee weaknesses, but this research-based guide argues that individuals reach their highest potential by investing in their innate talents. Based on a Gallup study of two million people, the authors introduce the CliftonStrengths assessment to identify thirty-four specific patterns of thinking and behaving. The text defines a talent as a naturally recurring pattern, while a strength is the result of pairing that talent with specific knowledge and skills. It outlines a framework for managers to build teams around these individual assets rather than trying to force employees into standardized performance molds.

This book serves executives and organizational leaders looking to increase workplace productivity through talent alignment. Readers use the provided assessment to categorize their own dominant traits and learn how to position themselves in roles that require those specific behaviors. By identifying their top five themes, professionals move away from remedial skill-building and toward a strategy of specialized excellence. The conclusion provides a practical vocabulary for discussing human potential and offers a system for managing others based on their unique psychological profiles.

Practical, growth-minded and clear-cut; an easy read.

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