The Strengths-Focused Guide to Leadership

Appendix 4A strengths-focused team development plan

Here is a development programme for a team that could be run across a period of approximately six months:

Month 1 (whole-day event):

• Give team members an overview of the six-month programme.
• Identify recent successes and challenges for the team.
• Clarify the team purpose and key goals both from an internal and external perspective.
• Following their one-to-one strengths debrief before the event, identify the individual and collective strengths in the team, and any important weaknesses.
• Identify actions to enhance the team’s ability to play to its strengths.

Month 2 (half-day event):

• Identify the characteristics of a high-performing team.
• Clarify the results of a self-assessment by the team ...