Maximise your team’s performance using Strengths Finder®
Discover the Hidden Strengths of Your Team
Imagine your team’s performance if every member understood their unique strengths and talents and knew how to harness them for maximum impact.
Strengths Finder® provides valuable insights into individual strengths, leading to better communication, collaboration, and team culture. By focusing on strengths, rather than just fixing weaknesses, team members align their work with their natural abilities, resulting in increased engagement, motivation, and productivity.
What is Strengths Finder?
Strengths Finder® is an online psychometric tool used by millions of people globally to identify their natural talents and what they do best. Based on the CliftonStrengths Strength Finder tool developed by Don Clifton, now popularised by Gallup – the CliftonStrengths Finder use series of online questionnaires to identify the top strengths of your team members from a list of 34 unique strengths grouped into four domains: Executing, Influencing, Relationship Building and Strategic Thinking
How is StrengthsFinder used?
Strengths Finder® is used to accurately describe a team’s personality, motivations, values and behaviours. It enables team members to understand their natural talents and how they can excel in various areas of their projects and goals.
Find out how to take your team to the next level using Strengths Finder® by contacting me for an informal conversation.
Employee Benefits of Strengths Finder
Using the StrengthsFinder method within your team can provide employee benefits across a range of factors, including engagement and productivity.
Most organisations utilising the StrengthsFinder method find their employees to be:
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Employees report being more engaged at work as they feel they are working to their skill level and on projects that fit their natural abilities.
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Employees productivity increases after using StrengthsFinder as they are more comfortable with their place within their team and the wider organisation
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Employees gravitate towards projects suited to their natural strengths and this makes them more productive and engaged in the work they are involved in.
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Employees feel less stressed by work as their projects are more focussed towards harnessing their skills and in areas they have a natural ability in and affinity for.
In a one-on-one coaching session with me, your team members will gain actionable insights to:
Harness the power of their top five strengths and understand how they work together (the 'smoothie' effect)
Recognise how they currently use their strengths in their roles
Capitalise on their strengths to achieve excellence at work
Discover the link between their strengths and what motivates and energises them at work (and what they can do about any misfit!)
Identify potential pitfalls of misuse or overuse of their strengths and behaviours and develop ways of managing these
Organisational Benefits of Strengths Finder
Strengths Finder® fosters a positive team culture of empowerment, by allowing your team to understanding each other better, they feel more valued and motivated to contribute their best, creating a supportive environment that nurtures collaboration, innovation, and creativity.
Strengths Finder has the ability to unlock the full potential of your team - leading to improved team performance and results.
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Organisations benefit from an increase in employee engagement of up to 23% - meaning employees are more beneficial to an organisation’s overall goals
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Employees perform better following StrengthsFinder training - feeling more capable and confident in their roles provides an extra performance boost across the workforce.
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Organisations benefit from employees that are less wary of their work commitments and enjoy the tasks they undertake. Employees feel like they have more control over their working lives and this positively impacts all aspects of their performance.
The purpose of the team session is to elevate the team’s performance. Here’s what they can achieve:
Discover and leverage their unique strengths for maximum impact
Recognise how individual and team strengths impact goal achievement and team culture
Harness the power of partnerships by using diverse strengths within the team
Identify the value of their team strengths for the organisation and stakeholder relationships
Understand and manage potential 'shadow-sides' or gaps in team strengths
Increase psychological safety across the team, fostering an environment of trust and collaboration
Use strengths-based language to address differences and foster cognitive diversity
Create a targeted action plan to utilise strengths for achieving goals, seize opportunities, and overcome challenges.
What are the common results from the Strengths Finder process?
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Teams report an improvement in team dynamics and enhanced team performance in general
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StrengthsFinder can make team members comfortable in their role within the team is and enables them to perform that role with greater confidence
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Understanding your team’s individual strengths enables employers to address conflict and disagreements in a constructive way.
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Knowing your team’s individual and group strengths allows organisations to properly harness the diverse skills and personalities within the team, and increase innovation and creativity
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Team members who feel as if their innate skills and desires are being met within their job improves their level of job and life satisfaction
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Understanding your team strengths can boot the effectiveness of your ability to manage the expectations and performance of your team
What do clients say?
“Managers and staff have also commented that the skills and knowledge gained from your Strengths Finder coaching has enabled them to get the best out of people, improved their leadership skills and transformed their understanding of Emotional Intelligence and interactions with colleagues.”
Maggie Brown, Head of HR, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (formerly part of Cambridge University)
“Since our Strengths Finder® work with you, team performance has noticeably improved, and our employee engagement scores have increased considerably.”
Vicky Garfitt, Head of Data Activation, Kingfisher PLC
Join the growing number of organisations using Strengths Finder® to elevate performance. Contact Kate Jennings Coaching for an informal conversation about your requirements.