Executive coach and team development expert: Jamie Douraghy  jdouraghy com. LinkedIn profile:     Hello Everyone.  I'm excited to welcome Jamie to this podcast and introduce you to him. You may wonder why we have the same last name… It's because we're married! I was looking to create this series of podcasts on company culture and realized that, right here,is someone who has expertise in helping companies and leadership teams build culture using the strengths of the team And I thought… Hey, Jamie, would you come and talk to me about building company culture? So here we are!  Jamie, glad to have you here. Finally, after 30 years of marriage, our first podcast together! Jamie: Yes, we've been negotiating this moment for quite some time now.  Katty: Exactly, So what I wanted to dive in with you in this….With everything that has changed in the past few years with COVID and the Great Resignation and this whole movement with hybrid and remote and so on and so forth. We talk about how companies go about in terms of building culture, and learn about their teams. And I know that one of the frameworks that you use is StrengthsFinders. So I wanted to talk to you a little bit about that and the importance of knowing what strengths people BRING, and what it is that they NEED on a particular team. Would you mind just sharing a little bit about your background and how you've come to this point.   Jamie: Absolutely. My, journey into this world of understanding why, how, and what people need to do to work better together began about 11/ 12 years ago, when I went through the proverbial discovery of your WHY, and then the HOW and WHAT became easier. What I appreciate about CliftonStrengths is that it focuses on HOW we do what we do, when we know our WHY, which is intrinsic and very personal, our WHAT can become much more dynamic. And then many individuals can get lost in how they're doing what they're doing when they're not clear on that. And CliftonStrengths, as you take the assessment, you look at your 34 complete talents and the top five become your strengths. Those are the ones to initially focus on. When I'm working with companies is focus on the talents of 6 through 10, because that's where we are learning that the true potential lies and the greatest potential to be unlocked are, is in the talents that are not necessarily our strengths. Katty: So you mean the first five of those 10 is something that naturally occurs. It's the six through 10 that the potential and the opportunities lie within. Jamie: Exactly. For example, Context is my number two (strength). I don't have to think about watching a documentary or what I'm going to learn from a specific book. I just pick it up, or I just do it.    My number six or seven is Maximizer, where I need to take good things and I want to make them great. I have to put a little bit more intentionality and a little bit more thought into it. It's not an automatic process. Katty: So really a growth opportunity even for every individual. Jamie: Definitely. Our greatest growth, for me, lies within the six through ten.  Katty: How would you say…from a team dynamics standpoint,  I know you've shared in the past that GallupStrengths or CliftonStrengths is not a hiring tool, but more of a development tool.  Can you share a little bit more about that and how hiring managers as a whole can utilize tools like CliftonStrengths to be able to develop their core team, and their people? Jamie: These tools show how good a person may be on paper,  or as a result of algorithms and science that have been put out there. Where the greatest growth happens is when they are doing the work.  And when I know how I can do some things better than others, then I can team up with the right people that are, if not, better at certain areas and partner up with them.  And for me, that's where team dynamics become more important than growing just one individual.  It's really how you grow the entire team, and what are the indiv