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StengthsFinders 2.0 and EA at U-Washington - Jim P. - UWash

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StrengthFinders is a........ for personal and group leadership, such as who do we collaborate with, what are our strengths, who can help us, etc.

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Piet - Own profile is conversation started with project manager on major project to help set team expectations and understand team dynamics

StrengthFinder StrengthsFinder at EDUCAUSE - Susan Grajk - EDUCAUSE

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Correlated team member to each other to pare up with people least like us to discuss, think about how to improve their collaboration and communications, and develop appreciation our differences & reduce friction - helps see people in difference light.

StrengthsFinder at UW-Milwaukee - Beth Schaefer - UW-Milwaukee

Found that succesful people were ones who leveraged their strengths

Used as employee retention and engagement

Strenghts incorporated into employee dev plan and to improve communications with client services planning team

Use as part of employee onboarding

Seems to have helped build more relations in siloed areas once staff got to known each other better

Lessons learned

Assure buy-in from leadership/mgmt

It is for awareness building

Have dedicated resources (when using at scale)

Plan for ongoing training and exercises (when using at scale)

Question: How long have you used the program and what is compelling difference seen before & after?

Beth - Used since 2010.  Seen cross-functional team communication significantly improved

Susan - Benefit is to learn about yourself and colleagues in the workplace by creating a shared vocabulary on how to talk to one another.

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  Also increases self-knowledge (emotional intelligence building)

Piet - Only been applying for 1 year (age of EA team).  Motivated by need to put structure in place to focus on strengths.  Indiviidually gives focus on their professional development.

Itana Org Updates

API Working Group - last week's meeting was cancelled

Business Architecture Working Group - 

EA Maturity Model - Expect a message to the list showning examples and calls for others to participate

IoT White Paper - Reported on last week

Book club - 1st discussion in 2:00 to 3:00 pm CST.  See Itana calendar for connect info and agenda.