Posted by Jamie Resker on Wed, Jun 18, 2008 @ 07:01 PM
Has anyone used the Strengthsfinder assessment to look at a team of people at work? I have a client who had her team of 20 (managers and director level folks) take the assessment and then they went through some exercises as a group to get a better understanding of one another. One of the findings was that someone on her team that she's had some issues with in terms of work style isn't particularly suited to her role and the way the organization works. The employee's response was, "our strengths are so different, isn't that great, we compliment each other". In fact, her boss, the head of HR was thinking, gee, I kind of understand why I've been so frustrated with this person. Her strengths just really don't play to this role. The result was a discussion about here's the one thing I need you to work on in order to be succesful in your role....
In any event I'm looking to use this tool in some of the work I do with employee performance effectiveness. Clearly there are people in roles that are not a match for their strengths and where it will be nearly impossible to make improvements or sustain those improvements. Has anyone had experience faciliating strengths coaching within a corporate type setting...I'm interested in how you've handled finding people who are struggling in terms of meeting the expectations of their role and then through Strengthfinder it becomes apparent that they aren't suited for the role based on the assessment findings.