Helping managers bring out the best in themselves & empower their teams to thrive.
Ways We Can Work Together
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Get the foundational knowledge and tools you need to design your personalized, strengths-based management style. This workshop is perfect for managers just starting out, leading a new team, or seeking a fresh start to their management style. If you want to learn how to make a positive impact and build an engaged, successful team, then this workshop is for you!
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Discover Your Team Talents is a strengths-based experience designed to help your team become more aware of each other’s talents; understand how these talents influence everyday interactions such as communication, decision-making, prioritization; and develop an appreciation of what each person contributes to the team. This workshop is the key kick-off for managers that want to build engaged, strengths-based teams.
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The Strengths-Based Team Bundle is a yearlong set of curated experiences you need to begin building your engaged team. Through the lens of CliftonStrengths, we will focus on how to maximize your team and manager talents, deepen the understanding and appreciation of how these talents impact your team’s work together, and develop practical ways to apply these tools within your team. Let’s cultivate a culture to help your team thrive.
Imagine better understanding how each member of your team thinks, prioritizes, approaches decision-making, or accomplishes their work. Get to know why they do what they do. As a manager, that insight is one of the most valuable tools to leading your team. We can do this!
What Clients Are Saying
“I loved getting to know more about my staff and see how we best function together as a team. I also think it’s super helpful as a preventative measure to any potential office conflict due to misunderstanding or miscommunication.”
— Suzanna C.
“Getting to learn more about how we can best work together was really helpful. It was also very engaging and that can be hard to accomplish being an online program. Also, Heather was a gem and a well of knowledge.”
— LeShawn S.
“Heather helped us to better understand not just ourselves, but our colleagues. This program led to discussions about what we need as individuals and how we could better support and communicate with one another.”
— Alicia C.
A Strengths-Based Approach
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A strengths-based approach focuses on maximizing what’s great about people and their unique talents versus their deficits. It’s about helping people identify the distinctive contributions they make to a team. It’s about intentional development of these talents to better understand themselves, each other, and how they can best apply these tools in their professional and personal lives. As a manager, it’s also about how to understand the talents and perspective you bring to your leadership role and how you can best tailor your approach to the talents of your team.
To get started, individuals complete the CliftonStrengths assessment. The assessment measures your talents - your natural patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving - and categorizes them into the 34 CliftonStrengths themes. Then the fun begins! By focusing on the strongest CliftonStrengths themes of talent, individuals are able to better articulate why they do what they do, enhance their own self-awareness, better manage potential weaknesses, and understand what makes them stand out.
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Using a strengths-based approach in your management style and with your team not only promotes a more positive work environment but also helps you get the best out of each of your team members. It allows team members to see how they fit in the team. It provides a common language for team members to best understand each other and how we approach everyday interactions like decision making, communication, conflict, and project planning. In fact, according to Gallup, people who use their strengths every day are three times more likely to report having an excellent quality of life, six times more likely to be engaged at work, 8% more productive, and 15% less likely to quit their jobs. So it’s worth it!
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As a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, I use the lens of a strengths-based approach in all of my programs. In New Manager Essentials we will focus on understanding the talents and strengths you bring to your role as a leader and how this influences your approach with your team.
In Discover Your Team Talents, I introduce your team to the strengths-based approach and then curate a selection of activities that focus on their own self-awareness, understanding of each other’s talents, and how everyone’s talents impact the team as a whole.
In the Strengths-Based Team Bundle we go all in! Together we build a long-term plan to infuse a strengths-based culture with your team. Through a variety of mediums including workshops, team activities, conversation starters, and more - we develop a program that keeps growing the conversation, learning, and development of your team.
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While I began my work with CliftonStrengths over 16 years ago, becoming a certified coach allowed me to deepen my understanding, appreciation, and practice of this philosophy. For you, this means I will not only share my expertise with you and your team, but I bring depth in designing practical applications to a strengths-based practice for you and your team.
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