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Strength-Based Coaching Creates Growth and Development
An effective way to gain a thorough and valuable understanding of the content in your strengths assessment is through a feedback session followed by coaching with a certified Strengths Coach. The coaching process transforms insights and knowledge into actions and lasting development. Coaching can foster growth and development for individuals, leadership styles, or teams.
7 Strategies for creating a Strengths-Based Culture
In connection with collaborations with several hundred companies and organizations, Gallup has identified a number of key characteristics that have proven significant in relation to their strengths-based interventions. These companies and organizations typically work on developing a strengths-based culture through the following seven strategies.
Can Strengths-Based development Pay Off?
There can be many different opinions about whether strengths-based development is the right approach for a company. That’s why Gallup conducted a study to determine whether a focus on strengths actually works.
The study included:
- 49,495 business units
- A total of 1.2 million employees
- Across 22 companies
- Representing 7 different industries
- In 45 countries
What sets your heart on fire? Maybe setting the right Goals?
Often, the goals we set are about fixing what we think we’re doing wrong.
We want to lose weight, eat healthier, drink less alcohol. Goals that, in the beginning, feel exciting and motivating—especially when they work for a while. But suddenly, they’re forgotten.
The running shoes gather dust.
The weight starts creeping back up.
And it hurts—that what you had hoped would happen… doesn’t.
Again.
We turn talents into strenghs
Strengths-based development makes you more of who you already are.
The good news is—you don’t need to change yourself.
You don’t need to become someone completely different to reach your goals or become the best version of yourself.
Because everything you need is already within you.
A strengths focus is about becoming more of yourself.
The Strong Team
Maybe it sounds a bit old-fashioned to talk about “becoming a strong team” — almost like a joke, right? 😉
But here’s the deeper truth:
When you know your own strengths — and your weaknesses — and you understand your colleagues’ as well, there’s a lot to gain.
Strengths-based Leadership
A team’s success always depends on its ability to achieve results together.
Gallup’s research shows that the most direct path to improving team members’ engagement and performance begins with an investment in developing each individual’s greatest talents.
Et teams succes afhænger altid af evnen til at skabe resultater sammen. Gallups undersøgelser viser, at den direkte vej til at optimere og forbedre team deltagernes engagement og resultater begynder med en investering i at udvikle hver enkelt medarbejders største talenter.
Hvad sætter dit hjerte i brand?
50 years of research proves that a strengths-based focus has multiple effects on a wide range of business outcomes
Based on 50 years of research, Gallup developed the CliftonStrengthsFinder assessment to help people identify and understand their strengths.
Gallup has studied the impact of strengths development on individuals, teams, and organizations — and their findings revealed the following:
People who use their strengths are 6 times more likely to be engaged at work and 3 times more likely to report a high quality of life.
Additionally, those who receive feedback on their strengths are 8% more productive.
Teams that focus on their strengths every day are 12.5% more productive, and business units led by managers who received strengths coaching show 8.9% higher profitability.
„Employees who feel engaged at work and who can use their strengths in their jobs are more productive and profiabe, stay longer, have happier costumer and produce higher quality work.”
State of the Global Workplace 2013. Gallup
„For organizations seeking to improve performance on crucial business outcomes, strengths-based development is a proven solution. To boost their business, leaders need to start developing people based on what is right with them.”
Global Study: ROI for Strengths-Based Development 2016, Gallup
Gallup also studied the impact of strengths development on sales, profit, customer engagement, employee engagement, turnover, and safety.
On average, all areas improved in organizations where teams received strengths-based development. In fact, 90% of teams showed performance improvements, including:
- 10% to 19% increase in sales
- 14% to 29% increase in profit
- 3% to 7% higher customer satisfaction
- 6% to 72% lower employee turnover
- 9% to 15% higher employee engagement
- 22% to 59% fewer accidents
Our programs are supported by a number of highly validated tools
CliftonStrengths
Q12
Since the 1950s, Gallup® has interviewed millions of individuals to better understand human talent.
While each person’s talents are unique, Gallup’s research has identified 34 distinct talent themes. These form the foundation of CliftonStrengths (formerly known as StrengthsFinder™) — an assessment that helps individuals discover their natural talents.
Based on your test results, we guide you in developing and becoming more aware of your talents — ultimately turning them into strengths.
📈 Employees who are aware of their talents are up to 6 times more satisfied with their jobs!
Gallup® has spent many years studying employee engagement and has identified 12 questions that best measure engagement and drive growth and development within organizations.
Employee surveys are essential for understanding the current state of the organization.
With a Gallup Q12 survey, teams and companies gain valuable insight into how strengths and weaknesses are distributed across the organization — revealing both areas of success that can be learned from, and areas where improvement is needed.