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Strengths Workshops for Faculty and Staff

Looking for workshops that focus on self-discovery, identifying your "why," or digging into the impact you want to make? Check out our Strengths Workshops for Faculty and Staff.

Strengths 101

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

Learn some quick history and facts and then dive into some reflection and practical application for your top five strengths. We recommend this workshop ahead of attending others.

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Strengths 102: Theme Dynamics

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

Explore your top five strengths and how they interact with each other to help you be successful. Look at how your top five strengths interact with strengths both similar and different from your own to help you build stronger partnerships.

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All 34 Strengths Training

Faculty and Staff 90 minutes

This 90-minute training digs deeper into all 34 strengths. Learning more in-depth about all 34 strengths can help you build better partnerships with teammates and understand different communication and conflict-resolution perspectives.

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Strengths-Based Leadership

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

Review your top five strengths and how they help you be successful as a leader. Adventure WV will facilitate an activity with reflection to identify how your strengths help you and where they maybe got in your way during the activity.

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Strengths-Based Leadership: 102-Needs of Followers

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

In this session, we’ll learn about the research behind the four needs of followers, how you can better understand those you lead, and how you can better understand the strengths of those you lead.

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Strengths-Based Feedback

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

In this session you’ll learn how to more frequently give both positive and constructive feedback and how to incorporate strengths into daily performance and recognition.

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Week of Purpose: Understanding Generation Z and Knowing Our Students

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

As part of Week of Purpose, we will look at data collected during New Student Orientation and through Gallup surveys to help us understand the top natural talents and strengths of our incoming freshman and our student body as a whole. We will discuss how this information can be helpful as you interact and communicate with students from Generation Z, build curriculum and programming, and how you can leverage your own unique strengths as you work within higher education.

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Week of Purpose: Working Strengths Into Your Curriculum Panel

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

As part of Week of Purpose, join a panel of faculty members who have successfully integrated Strengths-work into their curriculum. This panel will be moderated by the WVU Purpose Center director, Whitney Godwin, and you'll have opportunities to hear from and ask questions to the follow panelists: Rhonda Black: Director of First-Year Experience Dr. Kelly Nix: Teaching Associate Professor and Program Coordinator, Organizational Leadership, General Business Dr. Ashley Watts: Program Director - Honors College First-Year Experience Dr. Crystal Smith: Teaching Professor of Animal and Nutritional Sciences

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Week of Purpose: How your Strengths Help and Hinder your Success

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

In this one-hour session, we will discuss how you can intentionally aim and/or manage your CliftonStrengths to be the most successful version of yourself. You'll learn how sometimes your unique talents can accidently hinder your success, and learn how to intentionally aim your strengths so that they are helping you! This is a great session to look introspectively at your own natural talents, but can also be helpful when thinking about team dynamics.

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Strengths to Combat Imposter Syndrome

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

Dig into how Imposter Syndrome shows up for you and how you can use strengths-based strategies to fight back against those feelings of inadequacy!

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Strengths to Minimize Overwhelm

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

In this one-hour CliftonStrengths® workshop, we will dig into what motivates us to overcommit while learning techniques for aligning commitments with values and calendars. We will wrap up by learning strategies to set boundaries and say no.

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Strengths-Based Self-Care Strategies

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

As a group, we will discuss how you can focus on strengths-based preventative self-care strategies to help devise unique solutions to help you show up as your best self in all areas of your life!

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Strengths-Based Leadership Style and Effectiveness

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

Learn more about different leadership styles, how your natural talents and abilities might lend themselves to certain leadership styles, and reflect through an activity hosted by Adventure WV on how you can continue to craft your unique leadership style.

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Strengths and Study Abroad

Faculty and Staff 60 minutes

Help students explore how their strengths contribute to their communication style, how to leverage their strengths to manage conflict, and utilize the team grid to understand others in the group, build partnerships, and find roommates for the trip.

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Jordan Carneal

Waterford, NJ Administrative Assistant, Honors College

Top 5 Strengths

Discipline®, Restorative®, Achiever®, Learner®, Context®

Knowing my strengths has helped me become a better communicator in both my personal and professional life. I now understand that not everyone thinks the same way I do. Sometimes, it's better for me to ask, "how do you feel" instead of "what do you think," even if I respond better to the latter question.