STRENGTHS
Why Strengths
Understanding strengths will awaken the potential that lies within your business. With roots in positive psychology, strength-based management encourages organizations to achieve success by leveraging unique differentiators.
The incorporation of Strengths in leadership and team development takes a strategic approach to arranging, aligning, and partnering talents to highlight synergies and excellence within teams.
A New Way of Thinking
Using a strengths-based approach is different than what we have all experienced in our growth. Conventional methods to improve tell us to focus on fixing weaknesses and, essentially, to be being good at everything. This simply is not possible. In fact, we end up spending double our time correcting areas of weakness in order to achieve overall mediocrity.
Strengths-based approaches to personal and professional development identify areas of strength and encourage us to invest in those areas to build expertise in them.
Why is it important to know our strengths? Once we know and understand our talents, we can shape our lives around them, welcoming in success and happiness.
What about our weaknesses? We do not have weaknesses, rather talents that we are less-dominant in. It’s important to acknowledge where these gaps are - not so we work on them, rather so we can identify people who excel in them to create strategic, strengths-based partnerships.
Levels of Strength Immersion
Our strengths affect the lens through which we see and experience life. It’s important for us to acknowledge how our strengths land within the world and how they contribute to our individual success. The more we understand them, the more efficiently we can leverage them to create success, happiness, and joy.
My approach to Introduce, Immerse, and Integrate strengths creates an incredible journey for individuals and teams.
Gallup CliftonStrengths Overview
Your strengths profile is unique to who you are. In fact, your chances of meeting someone with the same Top 5 in the same order is 1 in 33.4 MILLION!
The Gallup strengths assessment tests for 34 specific talents. Your results will number these strengths 1-34 based on their intensity, with the strongest talent at number one. The power of each talent is based on your personal journey and investment in them.
While we may experience subtle shifts in our strengths throughout our lives and careers, we tend to retain many of the same ones over time.
The 34 talents that are evaluated belong to 4 Strength Domains: Executing, Influencing Relationship Building, and Strategic Thinking.
Are you ready to discover the power of your strengths?
Why Gallup CliftonStrengths?
There are many assessments available to organizations and individuals, marketed as tools to better understand and posture their development.
Many of these serve as a Personality Tests rather than a Professional Development Tools. Personality Tests place individuals in a metaphorical box, labeling them: this is who you are. These assessments and labels can be used with judgement and work against individuals.
Strength-based leaders understand that people are dynamic. In my practice, I have three preferred tools: Gallup CliftonStrengths, DiSC, and Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI). These assessments measure a multitude of strengths (without creating a “profile” or “label”) which grow with us over time and investment.
After coaching and managing individual and team growth throughout my career using these tools, I became a Certified Gallup CliftonStrengths Coach in 2019. Utilizing this assessment tool and Gallup’s proven methodology creates a baseline of deeply meaningful insights that impact and drive individual and team performance and development.
what to expect
Whether you are at a point of transition, looking for growth, or simply taking time for personal development, let your strengths guide you.
As Your Strengths Advisor, I will invest in bringing your talents to life. Based on your intentions and the personalized roadmap we build, our sessions will move through these three phases of understanding your strengths.
The first step of strengths advisory is having a solid understanding of your strengths and how they lend to your career.
The second step of strengths advisory is exploring the people and environment within your organization and how/if they bring out the best in you.
The third step of strengths advisory is understanding and reaching your potential by modifying what is in your control.
Strengths Offerings
Coaching for Individuals
Begin your personal strengths journey with these incredible coaching options.
Introductory Coaching Session - $550
For individuals interested in investing in their strengths, Gallup Strengths Coaching provides the perfect opportunity to learn about and leverage your talents.
The introductory coaching session will provide a strong foundation of strength knowledge and an opportunity to receive guidance on any areas of interest you may have.
Inclusions
Gallup CliftonStrengths Assessment & Reports
1.5-hour Individual Strengths Coaching Session
Immersive Coaching Session - $250
Your strengths journey continues beyond the Introductory Coaching Session, with Immersive Coaching Sessions.
These sessions deepen the knowledge of your strengths and offer clarity on specific aspects of your career, strategic partnerships, and personal relationships.
Inclusions
1-hour Individual Coaching Session
Suggested frequencies: Weekly, Monthly, Bi-Monthly, Quarterly, or Yearly.
360° Feedback Assessment - $800+
This proprietary assessment is modeled to your unique strengths profile to enhance developmental coaching.
360° Feedback Assessments utilize your network to provide incredible insight to your noticed behaviors, helping to practice self-regulation in amplifying and curbing your strengths for maximum benefit.
Inclusions
Gallup CliftonStrengths Assessment & Reports
Custom 360° Assessment for peer distribution
Consolidated Responses from Recipients (anonymous)
Coaching for Teams
Invest in your team to discover the strengths and brilliance that lies within it. These offerings are perfect for high-performing teams looking to find their stride and gain a strategic edge.
Team Coaching Package - $400/person
Team coaching strengthens alignment and inclusion within your organization. Each member will receive a strong foundation of strength knowledge and an opportunity to receive guidance on any areas of interest.
Inclusions
Gallup CliftonStrengths Assessment & Reports
1.5-hour Individual Strengths Coaching Session for each team member
One pre-meeting with key client contact (1-hour in length)
One post- meeting with key client contact (1-hour in length)
Minimum of 4 team members to qualify
Inclusions
Gallup CliftonStrengths Assessment & Reports
Personalized team grid creation
Executive summary with concrete actionables
1-hour presentation of findings with key client contacts
Maximum of 10 team members included in pricing
Team Strengths Analysis - $2,500+
Beyond the individual, team strengths help develop synergies and strategic partnerships within workgroups. Gain insight into your team with a customized, strategic look at individual and team strengths.
Team Strengths Workshop - $6,000+
Discover the ultimate team-building opportunity with a Team Strengths Workshop. This immersive experience expands your teams knowledge of strengths and extends it into learning and illuminating those within the team.
Inclusions
Gallup CliftonStrengths Assessment & Reports
Personalized team grid creation
3-hour interactive team workshop (in-person or virtual)
Maximum of 10 team members included in pricing
Coaching Alternatives
Interested to learn about your strengths but not ready to have a coaching session or team breakthrough? These are the perfect options for you.
Strengths Profile Analysis - $250
Whether you are searching for a deeper understanding of yourself or members of your team, there are incredible insights in the Strengths Profile Analysis that will help you prepare for what is next.
Inclusions
Gallup CliftonStrengths Assessment & Reports
One-Sheet Analysis of the Strengths Profile
Strengths Webinar for your Team - $500+
Offer an interactive and purpose-driven virtual event to your team with the Strengths Webinar. The activities identify team strengths and create a fun way to connect with each other and develop an informal knowledge of strengths.
Inclusions
60-minute Strengths Webinar
Additional Strengths Offerings
These intuitive services can be added to any of the Strengths Offerings
Business Advising
Implement a strategic application of strengths into your business operations.
Strengths-based Job Descriptions
Attract top talent to your organization by infusing benchmark talent indicators into your candidate search.
Interview & Article Content Creation
Incorporate business and personal strengths insights into your marketing copy.
Resume Enhancements & Refresh
Showcase your unique strengths profile into your professional resume to help you stand out.
About Gallup CliftonStrengths
The StrengthsFinder Assessment measures the specific order of 34 CliftonStrengths talent themes. This talent DNA explains the unique ways individuals accomplish goals by building relationships, thinking strategically, executing plans, and influencing others.
Gallup research finds that people who know and use their CliftonStrengths are:
More engaged at work | More productive in their role | Happier and healthier
Meet Your Strengths Advisor
Alison is a Business Psychologist and Certified Gallup Strengths Coach, who specializes in talent-mining, business advisory, and change-management. Alison utilizes behavioral science and neuroleadership principles to help her clients reach their personal potential and business goals.
Within her master’s program thesis, Alison developed a compelling People Framework for Start-up Businesses, which she has brought forward into her consulting practice. Rooted in psychological and neuroscientific principles, her framework has identified the optimal driving forces that should make up the foundation of the employee experience.
Her one-on-one advisory work evaluates and diagnoses the existing culture of an organization, then prescribes and implements the deliverables from her People Framework necessary for the client to build and/or reinforce their people strategy.
The scope of Alison’s work is centered on the principles of cultural integrity, human capital planning, strengths-based leadership growth, team engagement, and change management.
Connection to Business Psychology
Strengths are the gateway to understanding brain functionality and how it translates into inherent behaviors.
Recognizing your strengths and the strengths of those around you can help you to individualize your approach, progress with authenticity, and gain more traction with the strategies and ideas you advocate.