Dependable Strengths
Training Summit – Kitsap Peninsula, Washington
Dr. O.J. Hogan, Director of Employment and Education for
Kitsap Community Resources contacted the Center for Dependable
Strengths to request a one-day overview Dependable Strengths
Articulation Process training for local partners. Dr. Hogan
was interested in promoting DSAP among the WorkFirst, WorkForce,
WorkSource and LPA agencies of the Kitsap Peninsula Local
Planning Area.
The training summit was held on Wednesday, October 27th,
2004. The seminar served 23 staff from around the Peninsula
area---from Forks, to Port Townsend, Port Angles to Bremerton
and two from Mason County. Master Trainers, Sheri Adams and
Susan Terry, from the Center for Dependable Strengths, led
the training.
Dr. Hogan’s goals were the following:
1. Promote the DSAP process as a model of significance
and substance
2. Permeate the attendees' strengths with confirmations
3. Populate the workplace with inner motivational power
The day’s training objectives were to provide participants
with an overview of DSAP as well as some specific strategies
for assisting customers in the job search.
The Dependable Strengths Articulation Process is a valuable
tool to include in the workforce development curriculum because
it quickly shifts view of self and others to a strengths perspective
for improved job satisfaction and productivity; provides new
skills and knowledge for identifying motivated strengths;
and instills greater awareness of one’s own unique strengths
for dealing with staff, patients, partners and the community.
Ninety percent of participant evaluations stated that this
training was a valuable experience that helped them learn
new things about themselves, gave them useful tools to identify
customer strengths, raised their self-confidence in working
with customers and helped them learn about Dependable Strengths.
As one participant aptly described:
“I learned a little about
a process of using my personal and professional successes
to identify my strengths so that they could be used to find
out what type of work I would be at and enjoy and how to
express that to an employer”.
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