Our Core Beliefs:

• You were born different from everyone else.
• You are the best teacher about what makes you different.
• You must learn this to perform better, contribute more and achieve your greatest personal success.
• You will become more creative, enjoy life and business, and have fun.
• You can live your designed life.

How to get started:

• Understand that you are in control of your life.  Learn what you feel you need to know about Strengths Focus and designing your life.
• Take the Gallup Strengths Finder assessment (you'll need the code from the back of Strengths Finder 2.0 book or Strengths Based Leadership book, by Tom Rath)
  • Receive a personalized Strengths Insights Report and Action Planning Guide.
• Once you have your top 5 strength themes, refer to the Strengths Finder book for specific descriptions of each strength theme.
  • Select a few specific action steps to further develop your strength.
• Use additional resources to become even stronger.  Do less good work and more GREAT work.

Advanced Strengths Focus:

• Help others discover their strengths and put them to greater use. Send them an email link to resources from this site.
• Focus on Strengths Based Leadership for your team, your department, your business. Follow the 12 core elements that measure engagement of a local work team.
• Integrate your strengths with Getting Things Done methodology.
• Develop a master-mind group or peer-to-peer entrepreneurial board such as TAB, The Alternative Board, to learn and share with like-minded people.
• Involve a personal business coach to help keep you on track and focus on what you want to accomplish.

The majority of the work for the Strengths Revolution comes from Gallup research and two key researchers, Tom Rath and Marcus Buckingham.  Both provide excellent resources as they carry on the strengths-focused revolution.....

From Tom Rath:

Every Interaction Counts- How Full is Your Bucket?

From Marcus Buckingham- leading expert on how to achieve personal and career success

The Truth About You - Today Show Interview

Go Put Your Strengths to Work

Strength revolution in business - Your top sales person is not an administrator.

David Allen, the founder of GTD- Getting Things Done, also has a well developed and useful systematic approach.  See related links on this site.

Making it all work- gain Control and Perspective

Scott Belsky: Don't Let Your Genius Go Unnoticed.  Scott believes that the greatest breakthroughs across all industries are the result of creative people and teams that are especially productive.  More from his company, Benance.