become a strengths finder® coach

Tailored to your needs. This programme can be delivered virtually or face to face.

Programme Duration:

2 days. Flexible to meet your requirements.

Suitable for: 

  • Anyone who would like to feel more informed and confident to have strengths-based conversations with their staff, colleagues and those they coach

  • And / or those interested in the benefits of introducing a strengths-based approach into their culture.

“Organisations where staff use their strengths every day experience: higher levels of profitability and productivity, higher levels of staff retention and higher customer satisfaction scores.”
— Gallup

Become a Strengths Finder® Coach

The research background to the Strengths Finder® tool

  • Using the model with credibility and understanding

The 34 Strengths Themes

  • Understanding the main characteristics of the 34 Strengths Themes

  • Understanding the four categories of strengths (executing, impacting, relationship-building and strategic thinking) and how they affect relationships, energy levels, performance, and organisational outcomes

  • Understanding the ‘smoothie’ effect of strengths – how different combinations of strengths work

  • Exploring deeper dives into strengths – what each strength adds / needs / is frustrated by and its possible dangers

Strengths Finder® coaching

  • Understanding someone’s top five strengths and how they use them in their role / life

  • Identifying how strengths motivate and energise people in their roles

  • Exploring how strengths can be used to help build performance, teamwork, resilience and career progression

  • Helping delegates understand how unmanaged strengths (the ‘shadow-side’) can have a negative impact on themselves and / or others

  • Supporting clients to be more proficient both in self-awareness and self-management, and become more emotionally intelligent and resilient

  • Using strengths to build psychological safety

  • Skills practice during the course, and between the sessions

Strength-based conversations with clients, colleagues and stakeholders

  • Enabling others to harness their strengths for greater personal productivity and effectiveness

  • Using an understanding of strengths to explain differences in behaviours, thought processing styles, decision-making, pace of work, preferences, energy levels etc. and grow levels of mutual understanding and collaboration within teams

  • Using strengths to improve relationships, resilience, deal with conflict and influence stakeholders

Action planning

  • Creating action plans to use strengths as part of their coaching with clients

The programme can be adapted to meet your needs.

What is the training like?

Training is very interactive with a range of activities, discussions, 1:1 conversations, co-coaching conversations and case studies. Practical activities and regular breaks help to maintain the energy and engagement.

To find out how you can harness the power of people's strengths in your organisation please contact us.