Last week the team spent a day with Judy from Shiift, who specialise in leadership, culture and performance training. In our session we were learning about strengths via the Clifton Strengths model. In a shift from the usual way, we discuss strengths – a sandwich for what could be improved – the whole session focussed on our top five strengths.
To get to the top five, we all took a lengthy quiz. This quiz was puzzling, so many questions were asked and then asked again in a different way. After plugging through the 100 questions – it was only about 20 mins – we were emailed a report.
The report was spookily accurate in what our top 5 talents are and knew things about us that we didn’t think possible. Spending the day with Judy helped us to understand our own and each other’s talents and how we could turn them into our top 5 strengths.
Walking out of the session we knew a much smarter way of working that allowed each person to utilise their strengths every day. We also understood ourselves better and had a much clearer understanding of why we love and excel at some tasks and procrastinate on others.
For all those interested, we’re a team of mostly strategic thinkers and executers – not surprising now we look at it!
Contributed by Cait Fleming, Industry Development & Trade Manager, Tourism Whitsundays
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