StandOut 2.0: Assess Your Strengths, Find Your Edge, Win at Work

"In the years since publication of First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, millions have had the simple but powerful realization that to get the most out of people you must build on their strengths. And yet...as Marcus Buckingham astutely points out, even though the strengths-based approach is now conventional wisdom, the tools and systems inside organizations--performance appraisals, training programs, and succession planning systems--remain stubbornly remedial, exclusively focused on measuring skills, finding gaps, and attempting to plug them. It's a crisis for individuals and organizations, with management ideas and management practice utterly out of sync. That's about to change. StandOut 2.0 is a revolutionary book and tool that enables you to identify your strengths, and those of your team, and to act on them. The original StandOut provided top-notch management insights from one of the world's foremost authorities on strengths, as well as access to a powerful, cutting edge online assessment tool. StandOut 2.0 is your indispensable guide and tool for building on your strengths to further your career, and to help your team and organization win"--
Provides tools for identifying the strengths of individuals and teams and acting on them, with access to a strengths-based performance management system and an evaluation tool to assess performance levels of team members.
The New York Times best-selling author of StandOut builds on that first book to deliver readers a self-help guide for a new age. 50,000 first printing.
Buckingham presents a handbook for enhanced performance, aimed primarily at employees and managers. Founded in '”strengths-based” management, the book begins with an explanation of the concept and how it can be applied. Included is a code that can be used one time to take an online assessment, which identifies the taker's top two strengths (out of nine). Buckingham describes a program for using this information to become a higher achiever at work. There are three general lessons for building on strengths, descriptions of each of the nine strengths in practical terms, and recommendations for enhancing strengths, which are tailored to each strength. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
The Groundbreaking Strengths Assessment from the Leader of the Strengths RevolutionIn the years since the publication of First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, millions have come to the simple but powerful realization that to get the most out of people, you must build on their strengths. And yet, as Marcus Buckingham astutely points out, though the strengths-based approach is now conventional wisdom, the tools and systems inside organizationsperformance appraisals, training programs, and succession planning systemsremain stubbornly remedial and exclusively focused on measuring skills, finding gaps, and attempting to plug them. It’s a crisis for individuals and organizations, with management ideas and everyday practice utterly out of sync.That’s about to change. StandOut 2.0 is a revolutionary book and tool that enables you to identify your strengths, and those of your team, and act on them. The original edition ofStandOut provided top-notch insights from one of the world’s foremost authorities on strengths, as well as access to a powerful, cutting-edge online assessment tool. Now, in addition to a much more powerful assessment and a robust report on your most dominant strengths, StandOut 2.0 contains or provides access to:A StandOut profile, easily customized and exported, that you can use to present the very best of yourself to your team and your companyYour own Personalized Strengths Channel, which, after you’ve taken the 15-minute assessment, will send you a weekly tip, insight, or technique to help you do your best work this weekAn entire strengths-based performance management system, including check-in and evaluation tools to track your progress, and that of your teamAnd much more. StandOut 2.0 is your indispensable guide for building on your strengths to further your careerand help your team and organization win.