Standout 2.0: Assess Your Strengths, Find Your Edge, Win At Work [Hardcover]

The Groundbreaking Strengths Assessment from the Leader of the Strengths Revolution

In the years since the publication ofFirst, Break All the RulesandNow, 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 2.0is a revolutionary book and tool that enables you to identify your strengths, and those of your team, and act on them. The original edition ofStandOutprovided 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 2.0also 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 2.0is your indispensable guide for building on your strengths to further your career—and help your team and organization win.

2016 Axiom Business Book Gold Award in CAREER

“If you loved the originalStandOut, you owe it to yourself to readStandOut 2.0, Buckingham's update to the first, bestselling edition that critics called ‘revolutionary.’” —TDmagazine (Association for Talent Development)

“…a good read.” —Supply Managementmagazine