Thursday 11 August 2011

StandOut: How to Find Your Edge and Win at Work


In  Summary
This is a 1.5 hour plenary session by Marcus Buckingham. It is basically a marketing pitch with sneak preview for his new book, Standout. Click here to find out more about Standout. You can also view an interview report here.

Speaker
Marcus Buckingham is the co-author of the business bestsellers First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently and Now, Discover Your Strengths, and author of The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success and Go Put Your Strengths to Work: Six Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance.

Evaluation
The session serves as an introduction to his new strength assessment, Standout. It is quite a simple assessment tool to help people to identify their strength. He didn't shared much on research method so could not comment on its reliability, validity and potential applications. I thought his
selection of examples were not quite apt as most are based on his children and since young children
are at different developmental stages. Also, the instrument does not differentiate from other
available instruments though I was glad with its simplicity (StrengthFinder has 34 themes). 
Regardless, Marcus Buckingham is an excellent and entertaining presenter.

Naomi rates this session....

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