Finding Your Forte Binder for Tamicia Stephens

Finding Your Forte Binder for Tamicia Stephens

FINDING YOUR FORTE TAMICIA STEPHENS

MAY, 2020

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Welcome to Finding Your Forte

crescendo n. (kre-shen-do)

1 a gradual increase; specifically: a gradual increase in volume of a musical passage 2 the peak of a gradual increase.

I am really excited you have chosen to invest your time, energy and resources to the pursuit of your purpose and ultimate impact. I am also humbled that you have chosen me and Your Crescendo to navigate that path forward with you. Purpose is an empowering pursuit and I am committed to making its path available to you through guidance, collaboration, resources and support. I look forward to this period of discovery, reflection, deliberate and intentional planning but most of all uncompromised action. I want the world to have your best and for you to share the rewards of that.

Your Crescendo is your growth. Your increase in volume. Your peak. We find it highly appropriate to carry the name of what we are commited to. Your Crescendo.

About Your Crescendo We are on a mission is to empower purpose and impact for leaders and talent in their business performance, leadership and careers.

Thank you for the opportunity to engage. I look forward to our progress together.

Peace and blessings,

Reggie Hammond, Founder and Managing Partner Launched 2011 Career Highlights Accenture (Ohio and Atlanta) 1991 – 2005 Exervio Management Consulting Atlanta Office Lead (Vice-President) 2005 – 2011 Passion Empowering others performance through their gifts and purpose

Reggie Hammond Your Crescendo

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WHAT WE DELIVER ON PURPOSE

Our Programs Using a range of talent development channels, we focus on driving purpose as an individual and organizational growth strategy.

A Moving Performance To bring it’s’ most inspired performance, a symphony must have talented musicians that are at their best, well rehearsed and all engaged on the experience it is looking to inspire for its audience.

Our mission is to orchestrate an inspired performance for maestros, instrument sections and musicians to bring their best performance.

LEADERS

INDIVIDUALS

TEAMS

Leadership on Purpose  Leadership Development  Executive / Leadership Coaching

Building High Performing Teams  Team Retreats  Forums  Strategic Planning Facilitation Finding Your Forte

Finding Your Forte  One-on-One Coaching

Placement on Purpose  Talent Acquisition - Full-Time Roles - Consultants and Contractors

 Group Coaching  Speaker Series

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“THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT DAYS IN YOUR LIFE ARE THE DAY YOU ARE BORN…AND THE DAY YOU FIND OUT WHY”

MARK TWAIN

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WHY YOUR FORTEMATTERS

Our Approach Finding Your Forte is the first phase of our approach to engage the purpose and impact of professionals in their project/role, business performance, career and purposeful lives. Doing so empowers them to bring an engaged and inspired presence to their role and their organizations’ mission.

Why is Finding Your Forte Important? All too often, professionals are merely focused on doing their job and don’t have the opportunity to be strategic about performing in a way that plays to their strengths, leverages their passions and rewards them in ways that motivate them. Using purpose as an engagement strategy drives satisfaction, job performance and retention.

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FIND YOUR FORTE

Gifts

PURPOSE

Passions

Motivations

Short term

Medium term

Long term

IMPACT

Optimal Contribution

Vision Snapshots

VISION

VISION

COMPOSE YOUR MASTERPIECE

Your Best Needs A Plan

PLAN

PLAY YOUR CRESCENDO

IMPACT

Stronger business and career performance

Leadership from Your Strength

Engagement and Fulfillment

Your Most Organic Success

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FINDING YOUR FORTE What is YOUR FORTE?

Finding Your Forte empowers purpose and impact in talent and leaders. It provides a proven approach, the tools, time, space, and guidance for them to be strategic about their work and to put it in the broader context of their company’s mission, broader career and purpose.

Your Forte is where your strengths and gifts meet your passions in a way that rewards you and serves your purpose to bring your greatest impact. Your Forte is optimized when you do:

n. (fôr′tā′, fôrt) 1 Something in which a person excels: “His forte was in defusing negative rumors before they ever exploded into news accounts”. 2 The strong part of a sword blade, between the middle and the hilt.

What you love, What you’re good at in a way that Rewards you and bringing it to a mission you feel called to impact.

Finding Your Forte Modules PERFORM

GROW

LEAD

Gifts / Strengths

Purpose and Impact

Exemplary Leadership Professional Brand High Performing Teams Strategic Articulation

Passions

Vision Casting

Motivations

Vision, Goals and Actions Execution and Accountability

Priorities

THE DELIVERABLE Find Your Forte lands a personalized strategic framework that includes purpose empowered by gifts/strengths, passions, leadership practices, motivations, priorities and vision snspshots, long-, medium- and long-term. Compose Your Masterpiece builds on the vision snapshots by adding each vision snapshot’s goals and action items.

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“YOU ARE NOT HERE MERELY TO MAKE A LIVING. YOU ARE HERE IN ORDER TO ENABLE THE WORLD TO LIVE MORE AMPLY, WITH GREATER VISION, WITH A FINER SPIRIT OF HOPE AND ACHIEVEMENT. YOU ARE HERE TO ENRICH THE WORLD, AND YOU IMPOVERISH YOURSELF IF YOU FORGET THE ERRAND.”

WOODROW WILSON

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YOUR FORTE

YOUR FORTE is a planning document that operates much like a building blueprint or a company’s strategic plan. These are the parameters to leverage in building your vision and plan.

While items may shift over time, you should be able to complete a forte and revisit it periodically for updates, possibly quarterly.

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VIDEO REFLECTIONS

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WHAT’S YOUR IKIGAI?

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“MOST PEOPLE THINK THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE GOOD AT. THEY ARE USUALLY WRONG…..AND YET, A PERSON CAN PERFORM ONLY FROM STRENGTH. ”

PETER DRUCKER

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STRENGTHS VIDEOS

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STRENGTHSFINDER 2.0

Results of the research are 34 themes that were developed that became the common language for talent. These are very specific terms that describe what people do well.

 34 themes o Common language o Classification of talents

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WHEN YOU DON’T USE STRENGTHS

When you’re not able to use your strengths at work, chances are that you

 Dread going to work  Have more negative than positive interactions wit colleagues  Treat your customers poorly  Tell your friends what a miserable company you for work for  Achieve less on a daily basis  Have fewer positive and creative moments People who do have opportunity to focus on their strengths every day are six times as likely to be engaged in their jobs and more than three times as likely to report having an excellent quality of life in general.

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LEADERSHIP DOMAINS - STRENGTHS

INFLUENCING  Activator  Command  Communication  Competition  Maximizer  Self Assurance  Significance  Woo

RELATIONSHIP  Adaptability  Developer  Connectedness  Empathy  Harmony  Includer  Individualization  Positivity  Relator

STRATEGIC  Analytical  Context  Futuristic  Ideation  Input  Intellection

EXECUTING  Achiever  Arranger  Belief

 Consistency  Deliberative  Discipline  Focus  Responsibility  Restorative

 Learner  Strategic

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BASEMENTS AND BALCONIES

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BASEMENTS AND BALCONIES

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BASEMENTS AND BALCONIES

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STRENGTHS AND GIFTS

STRENGTH From StrengthsFinder

WHAT IT MEANS In Your Words

RESONATES Do you agree? (High, Med, or Low)

BASELINE How much you

currently utilize it? On a scale of 1 – 10

ACTION ITEMS How will you leverage ?

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PRIORITIES

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BRAND 360

CURRENT STAGE OF BRAND 360  Check completed items

Register your email Set up the customization Complete the self assessment Gathered email addresses of those to include Sent email addresses

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MODULE 2: PASSIONS, MOTIVATIONS AND PRIORITIES

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FIND YOUR PASSIONS

These questions are from the Your Crescendo PassionsAssessment that you may have already completed.

1. When I was younger, I would think “When I grow up, I’m going to Also comment on the effort you put in to pursue that ambition.

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2. In my career, I once had an assignment or project that afterwards, I thought “If I could have a career focused on this, I would be completely fulfilled and in my zone.” What was that experience?

3. If I all of a sudden realized I had unexpected free time to put in work on something, I would use the time to .

4. If you know me well, you would likely know that I REALLY love to work on .

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FIND YOUR PASSIONS

5. The topic that I have built the most expertise on my own drive, interest and work is .

6. If a television network called and said “We’d like to feature you in a how-to TV show, what would you like it to be about?” What would you suggest .

7. If I needed to give someone something that best demonstrated to them what I love to do, it would be .

8. My greatest sense of accomplishment and fulfillment came after I

. Describe the effort required to achieve this accomplishment.

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FIND YOUR PASSIONS

9. If I didn’t have to worry about money or other obligations, and could do something I REALLY enjoyed and could do over and over and never grow tired, I would .

10.As you review your responses above, are there up to recurring themes that we can take away from this exercise as a summary of your passions? What would they be? List up to 3 (if possible, in order of intensity)

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PASSIONS PLANNING

PASSIONS Recurring Themes from your Passions Assessment Responses Focus on passions that reflect work that you’ve invested. (for example, avoid ‘travel’ or ‘relaxing with family’ type responses.

BASELINE How much you currently utilize it?On a scale of 1 – 10

2017 ACTION ITEMS How will you tap into this passion in 2017?

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VIDEO REFLECTIONS: MOTIVATIONS

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THE MOTIVATION MATRIX

These 13 statements represent the range of motivations that excite entrepeneurs and non-entrepreneurs alike. Pick that three that matter most to you.

I want a setting that provides a sense of belonging and colleagues I enjoy. Who do I do something with is almost as important as what I do.

I derive satisfaction from helping others with their concerns. I constantly look for ways to make making customers’ and employees’ lives better.

I find supervision very difficult to live with. I want to make my own decisions.

I expect exeptional monetary rewards. That could mean pulling down a fat compensation

I want work that pushes me to solve problems or master new skills in areas I find intriguing. I prefer to explore further rather than to finish quickly and be done.

package, or starting, building and selling a business.

I want time and flexibility to enjpy my family, leisure activities, or other things outside of the office. I like control over

I want to be responsible for and to direct employees. I derive satisfaction from finding, developing, and rewarding talent.

I value the experiences, people and opportunities that put me in position for my next move. I think long- term: how this will lead me to the next, bigger thing.

I want to make important decisions that affect everything from policy to people. I want to be the one who make things happen.

I desire high recognition and respect – generally through my affiliation with a well-known, well-thought- of organization.

my schedule and proximity to home

I want the opportunity to win praise. I prefer an environment where hard work is appreciated. I feel just as comfortable in a star culture as in a team culture

I value predictable income, benefits, and future employment. Stability (which is to say protection from downsides – upsodes are OK) is very important.

I like to mix the tasks required by my job with activities I find enjoyable, or with the opportunity to seek new challenges.

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MOTIVATIONS

MOTIVATIONS Choose 3 motivations that: • Fuel you • Drive you to pursuit completion • Have been rewards

for your greatest accomplishments

BASELINE Are these rewards currently at stake for you? On a scale of 1 – 10

2017 ACTION ITEMS How will you tap into this passion in 2017?

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PRIORITIES

ACTION ITEMS What action items can you take to improve your

scoring on what’s important to you?

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MODULE 3: BRAND AND PURPOSE

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OUR BRAND TOOLS

WHAT IS YOUR BRAND? WHAT IT IS

WHAT WE ASPIRE FOR IT TO BE

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BE YOUR OWN BRAND

CREATING YOUR BRAND PLATFORM

BRAND DIMENSIONS

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BRAND ETHOS Single, dominant characteristic of your brand dimensions.

BRAND PROMISE A concise, meaningful and inspiring statement that sums up the relationship you will have on others.

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OUR BRAND TOOLS

UNDERSTANDING YOUR REACH 360

BRAND ATTRIBUTE

BRAND PERSONA

SKILLS

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES

ROLES

STRENGTHS

WEAKNESSES

PROJECTION

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BRAND PERSONAS

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LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES

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TEAM ROLES

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VIDEO REFLECTIONS

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YOUR FORTE: PULLING IT TOGETHER

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PURPOSE DISCOVERY

YOUR VISION OF OUR BEST (UTOPIA)

MOST CRITICAL NEEDS GOING UNMET

WORLD

COUNTRY

COMMUNITY

BUSINESS, MARKETS AND ECONOMY

TEAMS AND WORKPLACE

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WHAT’S YOUR IKIGAI?

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VIDEO REFLECTIONS

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FINDING YOUR FORTE: WHAT’S NEXT?

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