Leadership and Management Skills to Enhance Your Professional Role

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The talk focused on understanding psychological character strengths in leadership and their application in clinical settings. It emphasized the importance of recognizing and utilizing individual strengths to enhance workplace productivity and satisfaction. An exercise tested attendees' awareness of their strengths - first writing with their dominant hand and then with their non-dominant hand to highlight comfort and efficiency linked to one's natural strengths.<br /><br />The discussion highlighted how character strengths significantly influence workplace dynamics, promoting engagement, team cohesion, and overall job satisfaction. When people focus on strengths, rather than weaknesses, they tend to be more productive and satisfied, have enhanced problem-solving capacities, and feel a stronger commitment to their roles and organizations.<br /><br />The talk also introduced two major tools for character strength assessment: the VIA Inventory and the Clifton StrengthsFinder, emphasizing their role in identifying key personal strengths. The discussion concluded with research findings suggesting that environments nurturing character strengths see less conflict and higher life and job satisfaction, ultimately contributing to a more effective and harmonious workplace.

Keywords

psychological character strengths

leadership

workplace productivity

team cohesion

VIA Inventory

Clifton StrengthsFinder

job satisfaction

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