So, the managers at my store are reading this.
And I was like, haha!, I will read this too and see what you are up to.
Yeah, this isn't that kind of book.
I've taken Myers-Briggs Personality-type tests before (I'm an ISTJ) so the evaluation tool you take at the Gallup site is pretty similar. And worth the purchase of the book because that gives you the code to take the test to find your top five strengths (check in the back of the book to make sure no one's stolen the code before you buy it). The majority of the book is the description of the 34 strengths and action goals - which are all available at the StrengthsFinder2.0 site which is a bit repetitive.
My strengths are:
1. Input
2. Learner
3. Consistency
4. Intellection
5. Responsibility
Pretty spot on. But what about the next five or ten strengths? And how do these interact with one another?
Oh, snap. You have to pay for a coaching session (about $550) to get the 6-34 list.
So I read the other 29 strengths and found ten that resonated with me so it's safe to assume they rank as the 6-15 crowd. But there's nothing in the assessment spit out by the website or anywhere in the book about how your strengths interact with one another. No "If you've got these two strong strengths be careful you don't come across as a severe hardass" or "Manage your time so people don't think you're a lazybones" type material.
So I'm not sure what this will get the managers. Because I don't see how this will improve one manager's ability to slack off, take extra breaks, and "pretend" to work when we all know she's dickering around calling her grown children. Or another manager's propensity to treat the booksellers like dirt because of his own issues.
Maybe they'll have to read Strengths-Based Leadership by Tom Rath to figure that out.
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