Strengths: Stories

We often learn from other people’s experiences. So this section contains stories about how people, teams and organisations have used their strengths. Some stories are quite ‘personal’. For example, how individuals have set up their own businesses or have overcome adversity. Some stories are more ‘corporate’. For example, how Sony Europe has implemented The Strengths Way across its business.

Corporate stories

THE STRENGTHS WAY OF WORKING WITH PEOPLE
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Roy White “Staff reward schemes? Forget star treatment. Try breeding a culture of self-managing achievers and then stoking the fire within their bellies,” advises CEO of the UK’s leading search agency.

How did the CEO achieve this?

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Sony Europe, building on employee’s strengths

A three-step process to maximize staff contributions to the business. By Roy White, VP of HR Sony Europe published by Strategic HR Review, Melcrum Publishing, July/August 2006.

When Sony Europe began a restructure in 2003, Roy White, VP of HR, realised that focusing on each employee’s key strengths and introducing mentoring projects would be crucial to enhancing performance.How did Roy White focus on key strengths?

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Personal stories

Our journey with our son Jakob: the Himmelstrand’s story

Jonas, Tamara and Jakob Every parent wants the best for their children. Every child is special-so every journey with every child is special.In this article Tamara and Jonas Himmelstrand describe the route they took with their first child, Jakob, who had great difficulty communicating with other people. Employing the Son-Rise method, they have seen great improvements in Jakob’s progress.

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Charlie’s story

What might it take to set you on your journey? A trip to a primary school Christmas fair where his wife, a newly trained teacher, was clearly ‘in the zone’ set Charlie on his.

Inspired by his wife’s obvious fulfilment, Charlie chose to free himself from the shackles of corporate life and go it alone that evening. Three years later and he is enjoying running Charlie Duggan Associates , a niche business providing support to businesses that outsource elements of their recruitment process.

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Sue’s story

“The police met with me and my sisters and asked if we were victims of abuse. I stood up, faced the policeman and said “NO, I AM A SURVIVOR OF ABUSE”.’
People can choose their attitude. They can’t always choose what happens to them - but they can choose their attitude towards these events. A person can choose to be positive or negative, a creator or a complainer, a volunteer or a victim. They can choose to take responsibility or avoid responsibility. Here’s the story of Sue Carter who chose to succeed rather than sulk, finding the strength to create a new positive legacy for future generations of her family.

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