STRENGTHS-BASED COACHING AND CONSULTING
STRENGTHS FOR CAREERS
ABOUT STRENGTHS
Whether you are an individual looking to improve or a leader wanting to empower your people to perform better, research has proven that our ability to achieve excellence and get the most out of life is connected to the extent to which we intentionally build strengths from our talents.
Everybody has different talents. A talent is a theme of recurring pattern of thoughts, feelings or behaviours which come to a person naturally. Talents influence our choices and our actions. They explain why we are better at some things than others. Talents are a key source of our potential because when they intentionally exercised, or ‘flexed’ they become our strengths.
Strength
(the ability to consistently provide near perfect performance)
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Talent
(A natural way of thinking, feeling or behaving)
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Investment
Time spent practicing, developing your skills and building your knowledge base
Gallup is a world leading research and consulting company which has studied human behaviour, leadership and organisational performance for over half a century. Gallup’s research based on millions of interviews and decades of research has proven that people are most successful when they are aware of their own strengths, those of others and know how to work with them.
People who understand and actively use their strengths are more likely to be confident, feel happy and energetic, achieve goals and treat others with respect. They are also three times as likely to report having an excellent quality of life and six times as likely to be engaged in their jobs. People who focus on their top strengths have the biggest chance to become most successful.
I work with the Gallup ‘CliftonStrengths’ approach. The first step is a comprehensive on-line assessment tool which measures your natural patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving, so when you are done you'll have discovered your talents. You’ll receive a personalised report with insights about how they appear in your life. The pinpoint accuracy will be surprising, leaving you inspired and empowered with a newfound self-awareness. You will find out how you learn and work with information, how you develop relationship with others, what your drivers are; what motivates you to action and what impact and influence you have on others.
The StrengthsFinder report is only the starting point. The next stage is a coaching conversation to help you fully understand your strengths profile and to appreciate the dominant themes and unique talents. We will explore how you accomplish tasks, reaches desired goals, builds relationships and works with others. Then we will begin to develop strengths, by creating a plan which will help you to purposefully invest in your talents so that you are better equipped to accomplish your goals and desired outcomes and respond to everyday situations.
It has been proven that the strengths-based approach significantly improves key performance outcomes.
Gallup’s research show people who use their strengths every day are:
6x
as likely to be more engaged at work
7.8%
more productive in their role
3x
as likely to have an excellent quality of life
6x
as likely to do what they do best every day
7% increase in profit
29% increase in customer engagement
15% increase in employee engagement
59% decrease in safety incidents
72% decrease in employee turnover (high turnover organisation)
16% decrease in employee turnover (low turnover organisation)