Archive for 'Strengths Approach' Category

How were you better today?

Posted by Sharon 27 January 2010

The cute video advertising Daniel Pink’s new book Drive, suggests we ask two questions:
1. “What’s my [epitaph] sentence?  E.g. “She loved connecting people with ideas that their growth”.
2. Was I better today than yesterday?”  …or the strengths-based version - “How was I better today than yesterday?”

Co-operative not Superior Specialists

Posted by Sharon 9 April 2008

I’m working with a client whose strategy was to hire the best specialists and throw them together to solve the problems faced by their clients. You can imagine the result - not quite what the founders imagined. It’s similar to the outcomes described by Dr Meredith Belbin, the creator of the Belbin Team Roles […]

Hunters and Carers

Posted by Sharon 8 March 2008

I’m grappling with the consequences of implementing the strengths based philosophy and a recent conversation with a good client is indicative of the dilemma. This organisation wants their Relationship Managers to be as good at bringing in new clients as they are at looking after them, but few in the team seem to have […]