Get In Your Strengths ZONE !

Strengths Coaching Approach for Business Teams and Individuals

The Clifton StrengthsFinder measures the presence of talent in 34 general areas or themes. Our talents help us understand who we are. They describe us. They influence our choices. They direct our actions. They explain why we are better at some things than others. They help us filter our world.

Conventional approaches to personal development often seek to maintain each person’s strengths and to work on fixing weaknesses. It assumes that most, if not all, behaviors can be learned, that the best performers all display the same behaviors, and that weakness fixing leads to success.

A Strengths-Based approach to personal development focuses on each person’s strengths and manages around weaknesses. It is based upon the ideas that only some behaviors can be learned (skills & knowledge), that the best performers deliver the same outcomes using different behaviors, and that while weakness fixing may prevent failure, strengths building leads to success.

The key to success is to fully understand how to apply your greatest talents and strengths in your everyday life. A strengths coach can help your employees fully appreciate how his or her strengths profile influences their behaviors, activities, and relationships. The strengths coach can help your employees look at themselves and examine their past successes in a new way – as an individual with powerful talents in particular areas. In other words, a strengths coach can help them identify their unique talents (“Name it”), appreciate the power, opportunity and genius of his or her dominant themes (“Claim it”), and then help them intentionally invest in the development of their talents (“Aim it”).

People who focus on using their strengths are three times as likely to report having an excellent quality of life and six times as likely to be engaged in their jobs.

When people work in their strengths zone they look forward to going to work, they treat customers better, have more positive than negative interactions with co-workers, achieve more on a daily basis, and have more positive, creative, and innovative moments.

SwiftRiver can provide a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach to provide team-building strengths sessions to employee groups of six or more as well as targeted, one-on-one strengths-based coaching to achieve meaningful performance and development improvements.

You can also visit https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.comfor more information about StrengthsFinder and to take the Clifton StrengthsFinder Assessment.

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