Strengths, Clarity, and Focus

About the Book

Strengths, Clarity, and Focus: Thinking Differently to Achieve Breakthrough Results provides ample research evidence and common sense stories to make a sound business case to realize organizational success by adopting the approach. Jim Trinka challenges you to leverage success in all situations, provide clarity to reduce the uncertainty of the future, and apply focus to achieve results both meaningful and important to the organization. He also provides an action plan to guide you in adopting this strategy for yourself.

“Dr. Trinka is known as a unique thinker sorting the noise to discover the focus that drives impact in life and work. In this book, he shares with us years of research, teaching, and the wisdom of others to help us achieve breakthrough results.”
—Les Wallace, PhD
President, Signature Resources, Inc.

Thinking differently about work at all leadership levels and functions can serve as a guide to achieving breakthrough results in both family and work situations. The strengths, clarity, and focus approach uses data-based research from countless employee surveys to simplify a busy manager’s “To-Do” list down to a manageable few actions that have great impact on employee engagement and productivity.

About the Author

Jim Trinka is the Chief Learning Officer for the Office of Information Technology (OIT) within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In this role, he develops, implements, and manages a comprehensive employee and leadership development program designed to create and sustain a high-performing OIT workforce to serve our Nation’s Veterans. He is the primary advocate for transforming OIT into a learning organization. Previously, Jim served as the Executive Director of the Leading EDGE Program to design, develop, and deliver a government-wide program to help senior executives improve government performance and face challenges of decreasing budgets, increasing workloads, and unprecedented complexity. Prior to Jim’s appointment with VA, he was the Technical Training Director for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), where he oversaw the development and implementation of an integrated workforce plan to hire and train 17,000 new air traffic controllers and received an FAA Leadership Award for his efforts. Prior to the FAA, Jim served as the FBI’s Chief Learning Officer and managed the prestigious FBI Academy, the National Academy for state and local law enforcement officers, the Center for Intelligence Training, and the Leadership Development Institute. He implemented training initiatives crucial to the FBI’s efforts to strengthen its intelligence workforce, build on its counterterrorism expertise, and prepare agents to deal with future global threats. Prior to the FBI, Jim served as the IRS’ Director of Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness and led development programs to new heights, which continue to serve as benchmarks for both public and private institutions. He began his government service with a distinguished 22-year career as a fighter pilot in the Air Force. Jim holds a doctorate degree in International Politics from The George Washington University and has authored numerous works on leadership development and political science.

You may contact the author, Jim Trinka, at JTrinka@cox.net or through the website www.SingatureResources.com.