52 WEEKS: WEEK 48 - Team strengths

Focus Question: What strengths have your teams been leaning into this year?

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What are the strengths you can leverage?
 
Teams which get results are often complimentary in skills. What are the skills each team member brings to the table?
 
In times of disruption and/or change, it’s even more important for us to be focusing on our strengths. Strengths and what we are good are often the things that we tend to rely on, or lean into, first.

• As a team what do you notice about your strengths?
• The overlap between different members of the team?
• The gaps between different members of the team?

 
Over an extended period of time, especially when under pressure or stress, we may tend to over leverage our strengths.
Consider dialogue around this question:

• Where, and how, the team is overleveraging their strengths?
• What impact is it having?

​Check out this great March 2020 podcast from Gallup .

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Activity 

This week spark a dialogue around strengths. If you have done some strengths-based work (see the earlier focus in Week 8 of the Remote Pathways 52 weeks guide), spend time exploring it…

Possible avenues to explore are StrengthsFinder 2.0 OR VIA Strengths.

What do you notice about your strengths? What’s working? What blindspots have you created? What’s not working?
 
For more on this topic check out: Section 1 and 2 of Coaching Business Builder and PlanDoTrack.

Enjoy!
Jennifer

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Jennifer Britton
Co-host of the Remote Pathways Podcast
Potentials Realized – Coaching, Training and Consulting Services for remote teams, leaders and professionals 
 
Check out the most recent Remote Pathways Podcast Episode, where we explore the people, places and processes of exceptional remote work. You can listen to the latest episode here, or on your favorite podcast player.