Maximise your team’s performance using Strengths Finder®

This week, to celebrate International Coaching Week, we’ve been exploring different aspects of coaching. We’ve covered ‘What is coaching’, ‘Does coaching work?’ and ‘What’s involved in working with a coach’. Today we’ll take a different angle, exploring one aspect of team coaching.

Imagine your team where every member understands their unique strengths and talents and knows 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. Through a series of online questions, Strengths Finder® identifies the top strengths of your team members from a list of 34 unique strengths (link to the 34 strengths page) grouped into four domains:

·         Executing

·         Influencing

·         Relationship Building

·         Strategic Thinking. 

Team members understand their natural talents and how they can excel in various areas of your team's projects and goals.  Whilst there are numerous psychometric tools on the market, and I use many of them, Strengths Finder® seems to be the one that clients find most accurately describes their personality, motivations, values and behaviours. 

Strengths Finder is also known as CliftonStrengths and is owned by the Gallup Foundation.

What are the benefits of Strengths Finder®?  

 Employees who act on their strengths are:

X 6 more likely to be engaged at work

X 7.8 more productive in their work

X 6 more likely to do what they do best every day

X 3 more likely to report having an excellent quality of life

Teams that use their strengths perform better than teams that don’t (infographic?)

7-23% higher employee engagement

8-18% increased performance

20-73% lower attrition

‘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

But Strengths Finder® goes beyond individual insights - it also fosters a positive team culture of empowerment. By understanding each other better, team members feel valued and motivated to contribute their best, creating a supportive environment that nurtures collaboration, innovation, and creativity. This unlocks the full potential of your team and leads to improved team performance and results, greater diversity and reduced conflict.

Empower your team with this proven tool and watch as they achieve results, energised by their unique strengths and talents. Contact me for an informal conversation.

StrengthsFinder® is a Trademark of the Gallup Organization, Washington, D.C and is also known as CliftonStrengths