Strengths Based Leadership

What? Every person who is in a leadership position today has a unique set of strengths that they use to their advantage in order to be successful in their work environment. In Strengths Based Leadership, there are four main domains of leadership strength. Each of these areas list a set of traits that leaders may have and use to be successful in their position. Wendy Kopp and Mervyn Davies are two examples of executing and relationship building domains that are found in Strengths Based Leadership. Personally I fall under both executing and relationship building according to the Strengthsfinder 2.0 assessment test and can relate to both of these successful leaders.

So What? By using their strengths to their advantage,
both Wendy and Mervyn have made created corporations and made substantial  changes to existing ones to make them more successful than before. For example Mervyn is the CEO of Standard Chartered. Here he used his relationship building strengths to fix the relationships between coworkers and make them work more efficiently as a team. In doing so he created a positive work environment for his employees which in turn made his company provide better services for their clients and become more profitable.

Now What? These traits are essential to successful leadership and businesses. Without them many leaders today would not be as successful as they are today. Through reading this text, I can use both Mervyn Davies and Wendy Kopp as role models for how I should be a leader now and in my future jobs. Although my specific leadership strengths are not the same as both of these successful leaders, I can make my own leadership methods that are unique to me and the situations that I might be in. All in all, I would recommend reading Strengths Based Leadership to anyone who wants to strengthen their leadership skills and how they can be an effective leader in their lives.