Welcome to the Strong Circles Year 1 Microsite, where you can access all of the resources references in Strong Circles Year 1.
Please note: Unless noted as “in-session,” the resources highlighted here are for optional further learning at your individual discretion, not required components of the Strong Circles program. All of the articles and videos should be available for free via the links accompanying them. Harvard Business Review (HBR) allows one free article per month, so there is no more than one article from HBR per session. Books are available to purchase for interested participants.
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Session 2: Introduction to Positive Leadership
In-Session Articles
Six Essential Ways to Build a Positive Organization
Article by Kathy Caprino, Senior Contributor, Forbes
What Positive Leadership is Not
Article in the Huffington Post by Chris White
Principal, Riverbank
Faculty Associate, Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations
How to Avoid Being a Fake Positive Leader
Article in The Huffington Post by Chris White
Principal, Riverbank
Faculty Associate, Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations
How to be a Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact, Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Jane E. Dutton
Session 3: Growth Mindset / Continual Improvement
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol Dweck.
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Angela Duckworth
Session 4: Applying the Positive Lens
First, Break All the Rules, Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement, Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres
Session 5: Leading With Purpose
In-Session Videos
Start With Why, Simon Sinek
How to Motivate People? Don't Do it Yourself
Article in The Huffington Post by Chris White
Principal, Riverbank
Faculty Associate, Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations
How an Accounting Firm Convinced Its Employees They Could Change the World
Article in Harvard Business Review by Bruce Pfau
The Job Crafting Exercise
The Job Crafting™ Exercise helps you make your job more fulfilling and engaging. This interactive tool allows you to view your job as a flexible set of building blocks. Using this unique perspective, you create a visual plan for redesigning your job to better suit your values, strengths, and passions. The result is a more optimal fit between you and your job, boosting your happiness and effectiveness at work.
Session 6: Leading From Your Best Self
How to Activate your Best Self and What Happens When You Do
Dan Cable, Think at London Business School
How to Play to Your Strengths
Article in Harvard Business Review by Laura Morgan Roberts, Gretchen Spreitzer, Jane E. Dutton, Robert E. Quinn, Emily D. Heaphy, and Brianna Baker
The Reflected Best Self Exercise
The Reflected Best Self Exercise™ (RBSE) is a personal development tool that helps you see who you are at your best, engaging you to live and work from this powerful place daily. Created from research at the Center for Positive Organizations (Ross School of Business, University of Michigan), the RBSE has helped thousands of executives, managers, employees, and students discover new potential. Unlike most other feedback tools, the RBSE isn’t limited to self-assessment. It invites people from your life and work to share stories of moments they feel they’ve seen you at your best, surfacing what few of us become aware of otherwise. The RBSE enables you to gain insight into how your unique talents have positively impacted others and gives you the opportunity to further leverage your strengths at work and in life.
Session 7: Servant Leadership
The Servant Leader, Ken Blanchard
Give and Take, Adam Grant
Session 8: Transformational Leadership
Lift: The Fundamental State of Leadership, Robert Quinn and Ryan Quinn
Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within, Robert Quinn
Moments of Greatness: Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership
Article in Harvard Business Review by Robert E. Quinn
Session 9: Leading With High-Quality Connections
Energize Your Workplace, Jane Dutton
Awakening Compassion at Work, Monica Worline and Jane Dutton
Session 10: Creating a Helping Culture
Session 11: Creating a Feedback Culture
Three Steps to Create a Feedback Culture
Article in The Huffington Post by Chris White
Principal, Riverbank
Faculty Associate, Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations
Three Questions for Effective Feedback
Article in Harvard Business Review by Thomas DeLong
See specifically the Stop-Keep-Start Feedback Model