Ivy Sea "Make the Most of Your Strengths" Tip Series
HOW CAN YOU MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR OWN (OR YOUR GROUP'S) STRENGTHS?

Entrepreneurs - whether solopreneurs or multi-person group - are always looking for ways to more clearly identify and communicate their strengths. After all, it's an individual's (or group's) strengths that provide the greatest advantage, offer the greatest service and benefit, and help to distinguish one from the others.

Leaders in all types of organizations are perpetually on the hunt for ways to improve productivity, morale, effectiveness ... you name it. They consult new management techniques, launch special initiatives and introduce the resulting training sessions for employees. Yet there's a caveat. In the midst of the seeming chaos of continuous improvement and change, the very gifts, talents and competencies that helped sustain the business can diminish or disappear altogether.

Likewise, the upheaval that new programs and processes can cause (especially if unclear or unnecessary) can lead to lower morale, disrupted productivity and increased turnover.

We’ve created this tip series to help you recognize and strengthen those organizational qualities that led to your current success (however defined), and which you can incorporate into your group’s planning and goal-setting and measuring discussions.

If you and your group thoughtfully use this tip series for reflection, self-study and dialogue, you'll have a clearer understanding of the activities and behaviors that define your group's strengths and support its successes, and those areas that require more refinement in order to move closer to "mastery level."

The series includes Ivy Sea-tested tips and techniques that you can apply yourself or with your own group, including individual-reflection or group exercises, individual reflections, communications, and other approaches to motivate you toward action.

"Making the most of your strengths" series abstracts:

Strengths tip #1: Unearth core-level strengths

Strengths tip #2: Discover the "recipe" for your organization's strengths

Strengths tip #3: How to feed courage within your group

Strengths tip #4: Co-create a big-vision group

Strengths tip #5: Become more conscious of your strengths

Strengths tip #6: Use Dialogue to identify fears that squelch strengths

Strengths tip #7: Allow strengths to light a stable pathway through change

Strengths tip #8: Find visionary opportunities in sacred cows

Strengths tip #9: Conscious remembering - being strengthened by challenges

Plus, the "Making the most of your strengths" PDF guide and mini-workbook includes several related bonus self-study articles to help deepen understanding and mastery.

The nine-step "Making the most of your group's strengths" article-and-tip series is now available — with related self-study bonus articles, in a PDF tip-kit format from the Ivy Sea Online Resource Store, and is available to Ivy Sea's VIP Member Center Members.

Check out our PDF
kit offerings now.