Pulse November 2016 | Page 17

Strengths-Based Leadership Shows Significant Performance Increases F Strengths-Based Leadership, the three keys to being a more effective leader include: knowing your strengths and investing in others’ strengths, getting people with the right strengths on your team, and understanding and meeting the four basic needs of those who look to you for leadership. To read more about the strengths-based best practices of leaders and how you may implement the practice in your own business, visit pulse.experienceispa.com. n indings from Gallup’s global study of companies that have implemented strengths-based leadership—a management practice that maximizes the efficiency and productivity of an organization by focusing on strengths of resources like people, tools and systems—indicated that 90 percent of survey respondents had performance increases at or above the ranges in the chart below. In Tom Rath’s bestseller Increased sales 10% TO 19% Increased profit 14% TO 29% Higher customer engagement 3% TO 7% Lower turnover (low-turnover organizations) 6% TO 16% Lower turnover (high-turnover organizations) 26% TO 72% Increase in engaged employees 9% TO 15% Fewer safety incidents 22% TO 59% 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75