Workshop: "Identify and Leverage your Skills and Strengths: Part 2 – Using Your Strengths"
- When: 15:45-17:30 on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016
- Where: Lab 3, Seminar Room C700
- Whom: OIST Postdoctoral Scholars and Scientists are strongly encouraged to attend
- Instructors:
- Dr. Natalie Lundsteen, Director of Graduate Career Development and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, USA.
- Registration: is required. Please fill out the form below.
- Registration deadline: Tuesday, Nov. 15
About the workshop:
The true first step in any career exploration should be an understanding of individual skills and strengths.
Building upon the transferable skills workshop, participants will use this workshop to explore concepts of strengths – inherent individual qualities.
Most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them and make career choices. The Gallup StrengthsFinder assessment will be taken in advance of the workshop and results discussed in a group setting, along with individual reflection and exercise about personal strengths.
Results of the Gallup StrengthsFinder can be used in:
• Career planning – individuals find StrengthsFinder helpful as they think about what they are best equipped to do at work
• Team building – people work together best when they understand their individual strengths and how they can leverage one another
• Improving work performance – as people understand their strengths, they are able to focus on using their strengths to get their current jobs done more effectively
• Interview preparation – StrengthsFinder gives individuals a great way to answer the inevitable interview question: “What are your strengths?”
Participants must complete the Gallup StrengthsFinder tool online prior to the workshop and bring a printout of their top five strengths to the workshop. Instructions on how to complete this assessment will be emailed when workshops registration is completed.
About the instructor:
Natalie Lundsteen is Director of Graduate Career Development and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in
Dallas, Texas, USA.
Dr. Lundsteen has developed career programs and resources for graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and alumni at MIT, Oxford University and Stanford University. She is a research associate in SKOPE - the Oxford University Centre for Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance with research interests in workplace learning and doctoral education. She is currently co-authoring a career advice book for PhD scientists, to be published by Elsevier in spring, 2017.
In addition to the workshop and during her OIST visit, Dr. Lundsteen is also offering limited number of one-on-one advice sessions to OIST Postdoctoral Scholars (register below).
To register for this workshop, please fill out the form below at the latest by Monday, Nov. 14: