Ways to Build the Strengths of Your Employees 1. Name the strengths Don’t assume that employees know their strengths. People often take their most powerful talents for granted. Meet individually with team members to discuss how they—and you—see their core competencies and strengths. Name each strength out loud and ask how those strengths might be applied to your project. 2. Apply individual strengths to achieve the team’s overall goals Help your team understand each other’s strengths and how these talents unite to create a powerful picture and improve teamwork skills. Speak to the strengths of individual team members in the presence of project compatriots.Suggest how the team might take advantage of others’ strengths and listen to what the team has to say. Look beyond your projects to the wider organization to see whether demonstrated strengths can be used in neglected areas of the broader business. 3. Assign team projects based on employees’ strengths You would never intentionally assign tasks based on weaknesses, but you might overlook strengths unless they’ve surfaced. Instead, you need to pay more focus while assessing the tasks and assigning them to the right team member mapped upon their strengths. This will guarantee better results and higher team spirit. 4. Incorporate strengths into performance conversations and reviews Help employees set goals based on their core competencies and strengths, and build on these strength-based goals in your regular performance reviews. You can relate their successes to their strength and suggest better usage of their strengths for better performance.
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