StandOut 2.0: Assess Your Strengths, Find Your Edge, Win at Work

Marc Notes: In the years since publication of First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, millions have had the simple but powerful realization that to get the most out of people you must build on their strengths. And yetas Marcus Buckingham astutely points out, even though the strengths-based approach is now conventional wisdom, the tools and systems inside organizations-performance appraisals, training programs, and succession planning systems-remain stubbornly remedial, exclusively focused on measuring skills, finding gaps, and attempting to plug them. It's a crisis for individuals and organizations, with management ideas and management practice utterly out of sync. That's about to change. StandOut 2.0 is a revolutionary book and tool that enables you to identify your strengths, and those of your team, and to act on them. The original StandOut provided top-notch management insights from one of the world's foremost authorities on strengths, as well as access to a powerful, cutting edge online assessment tool. Now, in addition to a much more powerful assessment, and a robust report on your most dominant strengths, StandOut 2.0 provides: A StandOut profile, easily customized and exported, that you can use to present the very best of yourself to your team, and your company Your own Personalized Strengths Channel, which, after taking the 15 minute assessment, will send you a weekly tip, insight, or technique, to help you do your best work this week For team leaders, the ability to create a team dashboard including each member's StandOut profile, to help you make the right moves Access to an entire strengths-based performance management system, including a check-in tool to capture priorities and track engagement;a survey tool to help you gauge what your team is thinking and feeling;and an evaluation tool to help reveal real-time performance levels of every single team member StandOut 2.0 is your indispensable guide and tool for building on your strengths to further your career, and to help your team and organization win--; Provided by publisher.; In the years since publication of First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, millions have had the simple but powerful realization that to get the most out of people you must build on their strengths. And yet...as Marcus Buckingham astutely points out, even though the strengths-based approach is now conventional wisdom, the tools and systems inside organizations--performance appraisals, training programs, and succession planning systems--remain stubbornly remedial, exclusively focused on measuring skills, finding gaps, and attempting to plug them. It's a crisis for individuals and organizations, with management ideas and management practice utterly out of sync. That's about to change. StandOut 2.0 is a revolutionary book and tool that enables you to identify your strengths, and those of your team, and to act on them. The original StandOut provided top-notch management insights from one of the world's foremost authorities on strengths, as well as access to a powerful, cutting edge online assessment tool. StandOut 2.0 is your indispensable guide and tool for building on your strengths to further your career, and to help your team and organization win--; Provided by publisher. Biographical Note: Marcus Buckingham s books have sold more than four million copies. His training and development firm, TMBC (TMBC.com), helps managers and organizations access the untapped potential of their people s strengths. Prior to launching TMBC, he spent nearly two decades at the Gallup Organization. He has been profiled in the "Wall Street Journal," the "New York Times," "Fortune," and "Fast Company" and has worked with companies such as Facebook, Kohl s, Hilton, Microsoft, Chick-fil-A, and The Walt Disney Company. Dr. Courtney McCashland partnered with Marcus Buckingham to design, develop, and validate the original "StandOut" strengths assessment. She currently serves as CEO of Strengths Research, LLC."Publisher Marketing: The Groundbreaking Strengths Assessment from the Leader of the Strengths Revolution In the years since the publication of "First, Break All the Rules" and "Now, Discover Your Strengths," millions have come to the simple but powerful realization that to get the most out of people, you must build on their strengths. And yet, as Marcus Buckingham astutely points out, though the strengths-based approach is now conventional wisdom, the tools and systems inside organizationsperformance appraisals, training programs, and succession planning systemsremain stubbornly remedial and exclusively focused on measuring skills, finding gaps, and attempting to plug them. It s a crisis for individuals and organizations, with management ideas and everyday practice utterly out of sync. That s about to change. "StandOut 2.0" is a revolutionary book and tool that enables you to identify your strengths, and those of your team, and act on them. The original edition of "StandOut" provided top-notch insights from one of the world s foremost authorities on strengths, as well as access to a powerful, cutting-edge online assessment tool. Now, in addition to a much more powerful assessment and a robust report on your most dominant strengths, "StandOut 2.0" contains or provides access to: A StandOut profile, easily customized and exported, that you can use to present the very best of yourself to your team and your company Your own Personalized Strengths Channel, which, after you ve taken the 15-minute assessment, will send you a weekly tip, insight, or technique to help you do your best work this week An entire strengths-based performance management system, including check-in and evaluation tools to track your progress, and that of your team And much more. "StandOut 2.0" is your indispensable guide for building on your strengths to further your careerand help your team and organization win."

Contributor Bio:  Buckingham, Marcus Marcus Buckinghamis a best-selling author with more than 3.7 million copies of his landmark bestsellers in print. Profiled in theNew York Times, Fortune, andFast Company, hehas consulted with brands such as Toyota, Coca-Cola, and Best Buy.