The Advantages of a Strengths-Based Team

Self-awareness is the one of the fundamental components of professional development and leadership success. When you combine that self-awareness with an awareness of the strengths of your teammates, you will enhance your team’s communication, collaboration, and effectiveness.

In a study by Gallup of 50,000 teams across 22 organizations in 7 industries and 45 countries, the strengths-based teams had:

increased sales
increased profits
higher customer engagement
decreased employee turnover
fewer safety incidents
increased productivity
higher employee engagement
less burnout
fewer sick days

Also, for our teachers and principals that follow this blog, strengths-based schools have been documented to have increased student engagement, higher average GPA, and increased teacher engagement.

At Melanie Massey Physical Therapy, strengths-based teamwork has become one of the fundamental pillars of our culture over the last 9 years.

Here are some examples of how we apply these concepts:

Ask someone with Discipline or Arranger to help with event planning.
Ask someone with Learner or Input to help with research.
Ask someone with Woo or Communication to help with marketing.
Ask someone with Includer or Positivity to help with customer and employee recognition.
Ask someone with Ideation or Strategic to help with brainstorming.

Here are 3 shifts to make to create a strengths-based team:

Shift to studying what works instead of spending the majority of your time trying to fix what doesn’t work.
Shift to maximize the unique talents of each person on the team instead of expecting everyone to be well-rounded.
Shift to weekly check-ins and quarterly reviews instead of just annual goal setting.

People who have the opportunity to do what they do best every day are 3 times more likely to report having an excellent quality of life and 6 times more likely to be engaged at work. Which shift will you emphasize today to help others focus on their strengths instead of their weaknesses?

If you are a CEO, pastor, principal, director, or supervisor, did you know we can come to your workspace and help you build a stronger, cohesive team?

If you’re reading this and you’re not in a leadership position, talk to your leader about subscribing to this blog or discuss the premise of these concepts.

Perhaps you can introduce us to them, and then we can come and talk to them directly about what we do. We are always open to serving teams of all sizes as it is our mission to create strong cultures!

Use Your Gifts!

Melanie Massey Groves and Brian Russell with MoCo: Leadership, Strengths, and Culture Coaching

If you would like to read more content from MoCo on becoming a stronger leader and building a stronger team, you can click on the links to our social media pages above.

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The Advantages of a Strengths-Based Team

Self-awareness is the one of the fundamental components of professional development and leadership success. When you combine that self-awareness with an awareness of the strengths of your teammates, you will enhance your team’s communication, collaboration, and effectiveness.

In a study by Gallup of 50,000 teams across 22 organizations in 7 industries and 45 countries, the strengths-based teams had:

increased sales

increased profits

higher customer engagement

decreased employee turnover

fewer safety incidents

increased productivity

higher employee engagement

less burnout

fewer sick days

Also, for our teachers and principals that follow this blog, strengths-based schools have been documented to have increased student engagement, higher average GPA, and increased teacher engagement.

At Melanie Massey Physical Therapy, strengths-based teamwork has become one of the fundamental pillars of our culture over the last 9 years.

Here are some examples of how we apply these concepts:

Ask someone with Discipline or Arranger to help with event planning.

Ask someone with Learner or Input to help with research.

Ask someone with Woo or Communication to help with marketing.

Ask someone with Includer or Positivity to help with customer and employee recognition.

Ask someone with Ideation or Strategic to help with brainstorming.

Here are 3 shifts to make to create a strengths-based team:

Shift to studying what works instead of spending the majority of your time trying to fix what doesn’t work.

Shift to maximize the unique talents of each person on the team instead of expecting everyone to be well-rounded.

Shift to weekly check-ins and quarterly reviews instead of just annual goal setting.

People who have the opportunity to do what they do best every day are 3 times more likely to report having an excellent quality of life and 6 times more likely to be engaged at work. Which shift will you emphasize today to help others focus on their strengths instead of their weaknesses?

If you are a CEO, pastor, principal, director, or supervisor, did you know we can come to your workspace and help you build a stronger, cohesive team?

If you’re reading this and you’re not in a leadership position, talk to your leader about subscribing to this blog or discuss the premise of these concepts.

Perhaps you can introduce us to them, and then we can come and talk to them directly about what we do. We are always open to serving teams of all sizes as it is our mission to create strong cultures!

Use Your Gifts!

Melanie Massey Groves and Brian Russell with MoCo: Leadership, Strengths, and Culture Coaching

If you would like to read more content from MoCo on becoming a stronger leader and building a stronger team, you can click on the links to our social media pages above.

If you would like to receive our Monday MOtivation emails in your inbox, you can click on the link below.