High-Performing Teams
Here are the super-powers of my own team. We accomplish together what we could never accomplish alone. I was recently listening to a TED Talk on teamwork and the speaker introduced me to a quote from Abraham Lincoln which is worth remembering; "I don't like that man. I must get to know him better". Within the workshops I facilitate on CliftonStrengths, I speak about how we see the world through the lens of our own talents. What may irritate us about others really helps us understand more about ourselves. It is very likely that the behaviors and actions of people we work with that drive us a bit crazy are actually talents and strengths which are foreign to us. In the world of CliftonStrengths, these are "non-talents" near the bottom of your list of 34 that never "fire" or show up rarely within us. One in thirty-three million people have the same "Top 5" CliftonStrengths in the same order. Bringing these talents to work each