StrengthsExplorer For Ages 10 to 14: From Gallup, the Creators of StrengthsFinder

StrengthsExplorer For Ages 10 to 14: From Gallup, the Creators of StrengthsFinder | KidLead recommends this book.

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	StrengthsExplorer For Ages 10 to 14: From Gallup, the Creators of StrengthsFinder Gallup Press, 2007 - 28 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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The Strengths Explorer For Ages 10 - 14 package includes:

? Youth Workbook
? Parent Guide
? one online youth strengths assessment access code

Gallup?s StrengthsFinder titles ? including Now, Discover Your Strengths and StrengthsFinder 2.0 ? have helped millions of adults discover their strengths. Now, in response to repeated requests from parents, Gallup has created a strengths assessment program specifically for young people. StrengthsExplorer For Ages 10 to 14 was developed with the renowned rigor and expertise of Gallup researchers, many of whom participated in the development of StrengthsFinder for adults. The program is a fun, simple way for adolescents to discover and develop their own unique gifts and abilities. An ID code allows teens to access a specially designed website. Then, by answering a series of questions about themselves, they learn about their strengths. An activity-filled workbook helps them focus on those strengths, while a parent?s guide suggests ways that parents can learn more about their child?s abilities and encourage their continued development.

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Excellent resource for parents and small group leaders

As a parent of a teen boy, it was a wonderful resource to understand how he works and especially, how different his strengths are from mine. By naming his strengths, we could better use them to his advantage and frankly, ours too. We could appeal to his strengths in meeting homework deadlines, chores, etc.

Also, as a small group confirmation leader, I found the exercises to be useful for the boys as they faced awkward preteen years. They could go into situations knowing and naming their strengths and pull confidence from them even if they all handled similar situations differently. As with any inventory, the discussion that follows can be the most important and the prompts for parents or significant adults was helpful. The ability to see others as different and valued is so important at this or any age.

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KidLead recommends this book.

There are very few resources that seriously recognize and tap the latent potential in kids, especially in this age bracket. As America's only leadership development program for 10-13 year olds, KidLead (www.kidlead.com) applauds these authors and recommends this book as a resource to KidLead parents. Thanks!

Alan Nelson, Ed.D.

Useful

I'd recommend this to any parent who wants to help their 10 - 14 old year old kids focus on their strengths. The package has a couple of useful workbooks (one for parents and one for kids) and one access code to the so called online StrengthsExplorer test . The test is like the adult version (StrengthsFinder) except it's shorter and it is apparently based on research with kids . Looks like both SF and SE test are by the same company, Gallup. Btw, one of the reviewers made it sound like it's a bad thing that the kid version of the test is shorter than the adult version. Somehow I can't imagine a 10-year old focusing for about 30 minutes (that's how long it took me to do adult StrengthsFinder) answering a bunch of somewhat abstract questions on line. So, to me, the fact that the kid version of the test is shorter, just makes sense. Another difference between SF and SE is that the SE report consist of Top 3 strengths as opposed to Top 5 in StrengthsFinder for adults.
Overall, especially if you thought StrengthsFinder was insightful, this is worth doing with kids.

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