OL140 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter #3: Positive Psychology, Job Performance
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Ol 140 - chapter #3 - engaging strengths. Each one of us has identifiable leadership skills that allow us to thrive and excel. The challenge of leaders is to identify our own strengths as well as the strengths of others and then use these to make our organizations and followers more efficient, productive, and satisfied. In american culture expressing positive strengths can be seen as boastful or self serving. A strength is an attribute or quality of an individual that accounts for successful. Strengths are the ability to consistently demonstrate exceptional work. They are positive features of ourselves that make us more effective and allow us to flourish. Gallup organization conducts research in other areas of the social sciences. Strengthsfinder is one of the most widely used self-assessment questionnaires in the world. Psychology was expanding its discipline to not only involve what is wrong with people but also what is right with people and their positive attributes.
