Episode 156 - Brandon Miller | Discover Your Leadership Strengths: Strategies to Grow Engagement and Productivity

Do you want to grow your team engagement? Are you looking for leadership strategies to leverage your strengths? Are you committed to transforming your leadership for more impact, engagement and productivity?

Our special guest Brandon Miller answers these and other questions about leadership, engagement and personal development.

Brandon Miller is one of the first 7 Certified Gallup Clifton StrengthsFinder Coaches in the world. Over 15 years ago, he was a very early practitioner of Clifton StrengthsFinder using it as the Executive Leader for a non-profit organization. He has since coached hundreds of leaders to find and leverage their strengths for themselves and their teams.

Today, Brandon is the CEO of 34 Strong, a coaching and consulting firm dedicated to improving employee engagement. He has nearly 15 years of experience providing specialized leadership training, coaching, advising and facilitating.

Brandon is also the Co-Founder of Incredible Family, a consultancy agency passionate about seeing families engage in a strengths-based parenting approach to parenting that lets parents unlock their best selves and raise strong, happy, children and teens.

Brandon and his wife Analyn are successful business owners, the parents of seven children and authors of Play To Their Strengths and Incredible Parent. Incredible Parent gives you an innovative, strengths-based, intentional approach to child raising will make you more confident, aware and energized as a parent.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

Using Clifton StrengthsFinder as a tool for personal, professional and team development
Understanding the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment tool
Redefining people’s roles and responsibilities based upon their strengths
Understanding your grind time, greatness time and genius time and the impact on your energy
Using your strengths to enhance your productivity
Fixing our broken hiring processes
Reframing the obstacle of negativity bias (belief that I can improve your ability to do something good by solving where you’re lacking competence or weakness)
Shifting from negativity bias to positive intent to grow trust
Understanding that engagement creates productivity creates profits
Value of authoritative leadership over authoritarian leadership
Impacts of leadership’s well-being and mindset on engagement
Engagement requires a ratio of giving team members five to one positive to negative feedback
Changing the employee review conversation to enhance improvement and engagement
Using the Q12 engagement assessment tool
Key engagement metric – Have you received recognition or praise in the past 7 days?
Looking for ways to commend the common things that may have been otherwise overlooked
Applying StrengthsFinder to children and parenting
Importance of creating cultures of safety for your team
Understanding the unique challenges faced by mothers in the workforce
Bringing your parental leadership into your business leadership
Unique elements of engagement in the public sector
Being an advocate as a leader