Become a certified Clifton Strengths Coach

Considering introducing a strengths-based approach into your culture?  

Expand your knowledge and skills with this 'Strengths Finder Coaching' certified course. Discover how to harness the power of strengths-based coaching and conversations, enabling individuals and teams to unlock their full potential, improve self-confidence and relationships, and elevate performance. 

Join this intensive Clifton Strengths® Coach Certification course. It's a customisable, 2-day programme covering 5 essential pillars, with an optional 3rd day on Using Clifton Strengths with Teams. Whether virtually or in-person, you'll learn essential skills and make a positive impact to the lives of others.

What does the course cover?

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    • Understand how the Strengths Finder® model was developed

    • Use the model with credibility and understanding

    • Understand the characteristics of each Strength

    • Consider the impact of the four strength categories on relationships, performance, and organisational outcomes

    • Appreciate the 'smoothie' effect of strengths combinations

    • Dive deeper into strengths, understanding what they add, need, and their possible ‘watch-outs’

  • Enable your clients / colleagues to:

    • Understand how they use their top five strengths in different parts of their role

    • Motivate and energise with strengths

    • Build performance, teamwork, resilience, and career progression with strengths

    • Uncover the 'shadow-side' of unmanaged strengths

    • Manage the ‘shadow-sides’ of their strengths

    • Enhance self-awareness, self-management, and emotional intelligence

    • Foster psychological safety and cognitive diversity with strengths

    • Skills practice during the course and between sessions

    • Increase cognitive diversity by exploring strengths in behaviours, thought processing, decision-making, and preferences

    • Boost mutual understanding and collaboration within teams

    • Strengthen relationships, resilience, conflict resolution, and stakeholder influence with strengths

    • Enable others to harness their strengths for personal productivity and effectiveness

    • Learn how to download team results from Gallup website and create team profiles

    • Understand how to use a Team Profile when working with a team

    • Use Clifton Strengths with teams to build culture and performance by:

      • Understanding the spread of strengths across the team 

      • Discussing how team strengths contribute to team goals and culture

      • Exploring which strengths team members volunteer to the team

      • Identifying effective partnerships across the team

      • Discuss the ways ‘shadow sides’ show up in the team and ways to manage this

      • Understanding those in the team who have similar, and very different strengths and ways to work together more effectively

      • Discussing any gaps and ways to reduce these

      • Building psychological safety through the language of strengths

      • Discussing HOW they work together, not just WHAT they work on

      • Identifying potential areas of conflict and ways to resolve these

      • Agree action plans and ways of holding themselves accountable

    • Empower clients or colleagues to take action and achieve success using their strengths

    • Identify next steps to incorporating strengths into your work, team and culture

As part of the programme you will also receive:

  • Access to all our course materials and activities - with editable versions for you to adapt or rebrand

  • Practical application during the sessions, including team analyses and your own examples, to support your preparation working with your employees / clients.

    Interested in using CliftonStrengths to grow your people and culture? 

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What our clients say...

  • “Working with Kate is a pleasure. Professional, as expected, but also efficient, insightful and adaptable as a trainer and in providing feedback to coaches. Everyone learned loads about CliftonStrengths and even more importantly, Kate ensured we knew how to put our learning into action!”

    James Farrell, Head of Coaching, Environment Agency

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  • "What sets Kate apart is her ability to tailor the Strengths training to our specific needs, both as individuals and as a team… We felt confident and equipped to apply what we had learned with our teams. Kate's expertise and personalised approach made a lasting impact, and I’m confident she can do the same for any team or organisation."

    Nadine Tapp – Head of Learning & Development, Flagship Group

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