Standout 2.0: Assess Your Strengths, Find Your Edge, Win at Work - Hardcover

Standout 2.0 comes with the strengths assessment and the report it produces, so the book is the way in, not a recap of someone else's results.

The premise is a complaint. Everyone agrees people do better work from their strengths, and almost every system inside a company still measures gaps and tries to plug them. This is the tool for the other approach.

Good to know

The report is exportable, which is the part people actually use. Managers hand it round a team, and more than one reader has taken it into an interview. The assessment site itself gets described as basic.

Who it's for

Anyone running a team who has already read the earlier strengths books and wants something to do rather than something to agree with. Also bought for graduates starting out.

From the publisher

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 organizations--performance appraisals, training programs, and succession planning systems--remain 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. StandOut 2.0 also includes the assessment and a robust report on your most dominant strengths.

The report is easily exported so you can use it to present the very best of yourself to your team and your company. StandOut 2.0 is your indispensable guide for building on your strengths to further your career--and help your team and organization win.