Engage Employees Through Strengths - With Grace Laconte

Published: Dec. 14, 2015, 8:30 a.m.

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From Grace, you\\u2019ll learn:

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  • Knowing You\\u2019re In Your Strengths Zone.
    What it\\u2019s like when you feel the \\u201chigh\\u201d of using your natural talents and getting a literal paycheck to show you that you\\u2019re moving in the right direction.
  • When Your Strengths Are Opposite Of Someone Else\\u2019s.
    What to do when you have a talent of sparking ideas and projects, yet your constant ideas and activation of new projects drives your team crazy. In her case, she realized that her employees needed things she wouldn\\u2019t naturally bring. She gives great examples of how she listened deeply to understand what her employees needed.
  • Noticing Other People\\u2019s Strengths At Work.
    How to notice other people\\u2019s needs, even when you don\\u2019t consider yourself a great relator.
  • Full Openness Between Employee And Manager.
    Whether it\\u2019s a good thing or a bad thing to talk about other job opportunities with your current employees.
  • When People Are Grumbling About Work.
    How to consider what you could do differently on the team to impact this phenomenon.
  • Engagement Driving Turnover.
    Why turnover happens at a high % and great expense\\u2014and how your employee retention practices may not be getting the results you want. Grace shared this study that shows how people leave for reasons very different from what execs believe.

In this study, it showed that people leave because of:

  • Relationships \\u2014 With supervisor and among colleagues
  • Staffing \\u2014 Under staffing, disorganized processes,\\xa0and inequitable\\xa0assignments
  • Personal Reasons \\u2014 Lack of recognition and respect, burnout,\\xa0unreasonable job\\xa0demands,\\xa0and limited promotional opportunities

Grace shared her Top Five StrengthsFinder Talent Themes: Focus, Activator, Ideation, Input, Futuristic. If you want to explore your Clifton StrengthsFinder Talent Themes, you should check out the show called Theme Addicts. Grace is a co-host on that show.

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You can also find Grace on her company website, on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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