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Programs for organisations - team leadership skills

An organisation can choose sessions for individuals or sessions for groups or combine the two. Our recommendation is to combine the two types of programs in order to maximize success in achieving the change your organisation is seeking. Team leadership skills training is our speciality.

You can pilot a strengths-based program and evaluate its impacts on individuals and teams in realizing and exceeding your business objectives you have for them. We can assist you in planning a long – term approach to nurturing and developing the talent of your organisation or we address a specific issue or situation.

Once we are aware of what change you want to achieve, and what outcomes you need from any program, we will provide a range of options including a small pilot to a Rolls Royce model. We will always step out a program to allow for evaluation of its impact and progress. This is about a return on your investment.

Gallup research shows evidence that investing in the development of the strengths of your people, and cultivating team leadership skills, will increase their productivity and their personal well-being.

The Strength Partners Session options

Overview:
Participants will gain a clearer path to success by learning their top talents as well as strategies and techniques to develop them.

Before attending this course, participants must complete the CliftonStrengths assessment to identify their most dominant talent themes.

During this course, participants will gain:

  • Insights into their natural talents by working with their CliftonStrengths Signature Themes Report and their Strengths Insight Report
  • An understanding of how strengths develop
  • The ability to harness their talents and strengths for greater personal productivity and engagement
  • Tools and insights that will help them use their natural talents to fulfill their goals and achieve their greatest potential

Participants will receive the CliftonStrengths Discovery packet. By combining the tools in the packet with the education they acquire during this course, participants will have a clearer path to success.

Who it is designed for:
It can be a collective group of individuals from the same team or different teams in the same organisation or a collective group who maybe don’t know each other but still want to find out their strengths. We are only bound by the space you have or you want us to find.

How Many people:
4-400

Where:
We can run this either at your location or external venue of your choosing or we have a list of venues we use in various locations. We have run workshops on sofas for an Exec offsite to huge balls rooms to outside at country parks. As long as there is space and somewhere to make notes we are not bound. For groups of 8 or more we find that cluster tables or 4-5 work much better than board room style set up. As our facilitation is hands on and experiential if we have space to break out then all the better.

How long:
Half day is classed as 4 hours

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Overview:
Participants will gain a clearer path to success by learning their top talents as well as strategies and techniques to develop them.

Before attending this course, participants must complete the CliftonStrengths assessment to identify their most dominant talent themes.

During this course, participants will gain:

  • Insights into their natural talents by working with their CliftonStrengths Signature Themes Report and their Strengths Insight Report
  • An understanding of how strengths develop
  • The ability to harness their talents and strengths for greater personal productivity and engagement
  • Tools and insights that will help them use their natural talents to fulfill their goals and achieve their greatest potential

Participants will receive the CliftonStrengths Discovery packet. By combining the tools in the packet with the education they acquire during this course, participants will have a clearer path to success.

Who it is designed for:
It can be a collective group of individuals from the same team or different teams in the same organisation or a collective group who maybe don’t know each other but still want to find out their strengths. We are only bound by the space you have or you want us to find.

How Many people:
4-400

Where:
We can run this either at your location or external venue of your choosing or we have a list of venues we use in various locations. We have run workshops on sofas for an Exec offsite to huge balls rooms to outside at country parks. As long as there is space and somewhere to make notes we are not bound. For groups of 8 or more we find that cluster tables or 4-5 work much better than board room style set up. As our facilitation is hands on and experiential if we have space to break out then all the better.

How long:
Full day is classed as 8 Hours

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Overview:
When team members are aware of each other’s talent filters, they have an understanding of how each person is inclined to think, act and feel. This awareness helps the team navigate the issues all teams encounter. They understand how they can work best together to accomplish their goals and performance objectives. The Strengths coaching approach enables leaders to develop and inspire their teams to maximise their personal and professional potential through the change journey and beyond.

Sample outcomes

  • Each individual will have a clear understanding of their signature talents strengths and opportunities for application. Identify new opportunities for self-managing the development of their talents into strengths
  • They will have a language to describe their talents, strengths, weaknesses performance goals and expectations. The answer to why they do what they do and what makes them unique
  • Understand how to harness and use their strengths for greater personal productivity, engagement and business results
  • Recognise how the dynamics of each strength affect how they influence and interact with others
  • They will have new knowledge and awareness how to communicate and work with others effectively
  • How to recognise talents in others and find powerful opportunities to collaborate operate as ‘One Team’
  • Recognise that a weakness may be an over use of a talent and then how to manage weakness that hold back success.
  • Develop action plan for future focused integration of strengths to meet new transformational strategy

 

“A Strengths based team is a group if imperfect but talented contributors valued for their strengths, who need one another to realise individual and team excellence”

 

Who is it designed for:
A team session can be for dependant teams, interdependent teams or independent teams, basically any team who needs to work together at some point to achieve collective outcomes. In the session, we look at self-awareness and self-development but the crucial part about the teams workshop is the understanding others and how we all think feel and behave differently and how we can leverage our collective strengths.

How Many people:
Teams come in different shapes and sizes and we can accommodate any size teams, the limitation is often space or availability. Let’s chat and we can talk about what’s possible.

Where:
We can run this either at your location or external venue of your choosing or we have a list of venues we use in various locations. We have run workshops on sofas for an Exec offsite to huge balls rooms to outside at country parks. As long as there is space and somewhere to make notes we are not bound. For groups of 8 or more we find that cluster tables or 4-5 work much better than board room style set up. As our facilitation is hands on and experiential if we have space to break out then all the better.

How long:
The minimum amount of time for a team w would suggest for a team Discovery would be 4 hours and an ideal time is a full day. For check in, reboots or topic specific workshops where Strengths have already been discovered then these can be adapted based on desired outcomes and level of understanding with strengths.

Video Link: https://youtu.be/oi6d2Ivqn4o

Overview:
The pace of change has never been so great and the impacts on people, huge. The role of a leader in helping their people navigate thought these changes is critical. Great Managers and Leaders are more important than ever. Coaching relationships require more frequent, personalised interactions than before and understanding our people’s talents and strengths is the key to this.

In this session we help Leaders understand their role in change and help them navigate the changes through the lens of strengths.

Some of the areas we look at include

  • Leader role in change
  • Impacts of change
  • Change curve and helping people move through this curve
  • Kotter 8 steps
  • Leaders’ strengths and the 4 needs of followers
  • How to coach people using their strengths to navigate change

 

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~ Margaret Mead

 

Who is it designed for:
Managers and Leaders (note a Leader does not have to have a title) who have a role to help others navigate change.

How Many people:
Ideal number for this session is around 14 but again we work with a variety of group sizes so happy to discuss what’s possible. Again, we are only ever bound by venue.

Where:
We can run this either at your location or external venue of your choosing or we have a list of venues we use in various locations. We have run workshops on sofas for an Exec offsite to huge balls rooms to outside at country parks. As long as there is space and somewhere to make notes we are not bound. For groups of 8 or more we find that cluster tables or 4-5 work much better than board room style set up. As our facilitation is hands on and experiential if we have space to break out then all the better.

How long:
Full Day Workshop

To maintain high levels of workplace engagement and productivity, employers in each country need to increase their focus on employees’ strengths, in order to help them do more of what they do well.

“It’s no secret that engaged employees positively impact performance, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that 67% of employees who agree that their manager focuses on their strengths are engaged at work. That percentage plummets to just 2% when employees disagree” ~ Source: Gallup

The Managers role in employees engagement has never been so critical. Managers account for at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement scores.

What we cover:

  • Understanding and actionable insights into your own talents and strengths to help you optimize your strengths as a Manager, overcome challenges and increase employee engagement
  • Understanding of the Full 34 Talents and how to recognise them in others
  • Strategies to individualize your leadership approach and develop your employees’ talents to improve productivity and wellbeing within your organisation
  • Understanding of the GROW model to help coach your people

Who it is designed for:
Managers and Leaders who have direct reports

How Many people:
Ideal number for this session is around 14, but again, we work with a variety of group sizes so happy to discuss what’s possible. Again, we are only ever bound by venue.

Where:
We can run this either at your location or external venue of your choosing or we have a list of venues we use in various locations. We have run workshops on sofas for an Exec offsite to huge balls rooms to outside at country parks. As long as there is space and somewhere to make notes we are not bound. For groups of 8 or more we find that cluster tables or 4-5 work much better than board room style set up. As our facilitation is hands on and experiential if we have space to break out then all the better.

How long:
Half-day or Full-day workshop, we also run a 3 day program combing a number of topics including change, coaching and employee engagement.

Contact us to find out more about our offerings on Employees engagement as every organisation is different with different needs. We use a number of solutions including Gallup Q12 which is very complimentary to Clifton Strengths and our Consultants are Gallup Accredited Engagement Champions trained in the administering Q12 as well as running workshops to interrupt the results and help shift the dial.

Learn more:
https://youtu.be/aqKB3r-WIpQ

We facilitate Executive team offsites – Get in contact to find out what’s possible. Again, this can be structure from 4 hours to a couple of days and will be bespoke to the needs of that team and organisation.

Individuals

We often take our most powerful talents for granted and indeed many of us may not even be aware of what they are. We all need a little help to discover what our greatest talents are.

At the Strengths Partners we use the Clifton Strengths Finder assessment tool to help individuals to discover their talents. Through a series of questions the tool creates a very bespoke report based on the response to the questions which help identify how we think, feel and behave. Through coaching programs we help individuals learn about their strengths, love them and then live them.

Typical outcomes will include:

  • Help individuals to harness and use their strengths for greater personal productivity and engagement and reach their goals.
  • Understand each theme and their dynamics in how they affect relationships, performance, and business outcomes.
  • Provide Individuals with new ways of thinking about their talents and turn them in to strengths so they can experience greater personal success.
  • Help your individuals understand how by using their talents effectively they can overcome obstacles, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities.

Team development

“When teams learn how they can more intentionally use their talents and strengths to help them achieve their performance objectives, they gain a process they can use time and time again to set them up for success.”

Understanding each other’s talents is our best opportunity for team success.

Because each person is guided by his or her unique talents, the same situation can produce differ reactions. What’s ridiculously easy for a colleague may be tedious or uninspiring for him.

When team members are aware of each other’s talent filters, they have an understanding of how each person is inclined to think, act and feel. This awareness helps the team navigate the issues all teams encounter. They understand how they can work best together to accomplish their goals and performance objectives.

A Strengths based team is a group if imperfect, but talented contributors valued for their strengths, who need one another to realise individual and team excellence.

To raise awareness of not only individual’s strengths but the strengths of other team members and how by understanding how they can work best together to accomplish their goals and performance objectives.

Typical outcomes will include:

  • The team will have a clear understanding of their individual and collective strengths and performance gaps
  • They will have a common language to describe each other’ talents, strengths, weaknesses performance goals and expectations.
  • Identify new opportunities for partnership and success

Leading and managing others

A Leaders job is to identify the right talent for the role, task, or project and then focus, nurture and develop that talent. Our approach is to help the Leader gain an awareness and appreciation of their own talents within the context of their roles as people leaders. To then bring an awareness and help each employee within his team, reach inside and release his or her unique talents and use them in a way to improve performance by aiming at the goal of the organisation or needs of their customer.

“There is no single characteristic or set of characteristics that makes an effective manager or leader”

Typical outcomes will include:

  • Understand and appreciate the unique talents of each team member
  • Identify the tasks and activities each person does best
  • Identify opportunities in which each team member can apply his or her talents more often
  • Appreciate the valuable role each team member plays and the potential contribution each person bring to the team
  • Understand what exactly each team member needs from the manager to be successful
  • Develop a strategy to help each team member find the way that works best for that individual
  • Find the format and frequency of communication, development and recognition that works best for the team and each member
  • Understand and appreciate the unique motivational factors and needs of each of his team members and create an environment that encourages recognition and praise
  • To develop tools and frameworks including GROW to further coach their own team.

A strength-based workplace

A strength-based organization can create employees who are emotionally engaged in their work. This can result in better productivity, employee retention and profitability, according to Gallup Inc. Strength-based organization develop the strongest and most talented employees. Strength-based organizations start with different assumptions and attitudes than other organizations which has far reaching positive impact on how the organisation functions.

Gallup research has shown:

Teams that focus on strengths everyday have 12.5% greater productivity

Teams that receive Strengths feedback have 8.9% greater profitability.

Learning to recognise talent is the first key to developing a true strength-based organization. Once Leaders and Managers have an understanding of their own talents and then they must also learn to match strengths and talents with specific roles in the workplace.

The more individuals and teams intentionally think about using their strengths then they will notice how they will contribute to the goals and success of the organization.

Typical outcomes will include:

  • Help individuals understand their unique strengths in the context of others within the workplace.
  • Help individuals to identifying key partnerships that will optimise individual growth and team performance.
  • Facilitate the identification and discussion of a team’s collective talents, and help team members use their talents to achieve specific performance objectives.
  • Teach team members to discover, develop, and use their unique talents for greater team engagement and productivity.
  • Help individuals and teams to connect to a common purpose using their strengths
  • How by collaborating they can find the most effective ways to work together and leverage each other’s talents and resources.

Contact us today

The Strengths Partners provides services that enables individuals, teams and organisations to identify their strengths, develop and purposefully use their unique talents to achieve performance objectives.

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To realize the full benefits of strengths, it is critical that you focus on developing them completely. Partnering with a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach can be the difference between simply knowing your strengths and truly living a strengths-based life.

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