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How to Utilise Gallup Clifton Strengths Coaching for Top Results

Melanie Marx
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30 Oct
2024
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Employees
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How to Utilise Gallup Clifton Strengths Coaching for Top Results

What we do

We can easily adapt to your environment and coach you every step of the way, either on your site, off-site, on the phone or online. You will get a dedicated Consultant to support you with all your people and culture requirements.

Processes & Guidelines

We will tailor your HR processes and policies to perfectly fit your company's unique needs and goals. We conduct a thorough evaluation of your current HR documents, policies & frameworks to identify gaps & improvement areas.

We will then work with you to create bespoke documentation, templates, guides, policies and toolkits that suit your internal culture. We also work with our employment lawyer to ensure your documents comply with current legislation so that your HR department has the fundamentals in place to operate smoothly (without going overboard with paperwork)!

People & Culture Strategy

In the initial phase of our collaboration, we engage with clients through either an employee engagement survey or a client discovery session. This step allows us to gather essential insights into the current HR dynamics and employee perspectives. The outcomes from these discovery phases allows us to craft a bespoke HR strategy that aligns with business goals and prioritise key focus areas.

Our partnership approach ensures the HR strategy we develop addresses both the immediate and long-term needs of the organisation.

Remuneration & benefits

We collaborate with you to refine your remuneration and benefits approach, ensuring they're competitive and reflect your company's mission. By leveraging market insights, we craft strategies that attract and retain talent while maintaining financial viability.

Our role extends to effectively communicating these benefits to your employees, emphasising their value in supporting both professional and personal growth. This approach boosts employee satisfaction and positions your company as a preferred employer.

Talent management and planning

We help you align your talent strategy with your business goals, identifying skill needs and talent gaps to ensure your workforce is future-ready. Our services include succession planning and talent development, aimed at creating a flexible and growth-oriented organisation.

Our proactive talent management approach focuses on nurturing high-potential employees and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. This keeps your team competitive and engaged, preparing your company for both current and future success with enhanced employee retention.

Organisational design

We partner with our clients to identify key talent needs and develop strategies to attract, retain, and develop the right people. Our approach includes performance management, leadership development, and succession planning, all tailored to enhance your team's capabilities and readiness for future challenges.

Our support extends beyond strategy development; we also provide practical tools and guidance for implementing effective talent management practices. This includes creating engaging employee development programs and establishing clear career paths that motivate and retain high performers.

Diversity and Inclusion

We collaborate with you to develop strategies that foster an inclusive workplace, where diversity is not just recognised but celebrated. Through targeted training programs, policy development, and awareness campaigns, we help create an environment that encourages open dialogue, mutual respect, and equal opportunities for all employees.

Our goal is to ensure that every team member feels valued and empowered to contribute their best, driving innovation and enhancing company performance.

Wellbeing initiatives

We assist our clients in crafting and implementing comprehensive wellbeing initiatives that address the physical, mental, and emotional health of their workforce. By conducting thorough needs assessments, we identify specific areas where support is most needed, creating tailored programs that promote a healthy work-life balance, stress management, and overall employee wellness.

Our services range from developing wellness workshops and fitness challenges to offering resources for mental health support. We aim to foster a supportive environment where employees feel valued and have access to the tools they need to maintain their wellbeing.

Recruitment support

Our recruitment support services are designed to streamline the hiring process for our clients, ensuring they attract and retain the best talent for their needs. We offer a comprehensive suite of services, including job description development, writing & placing job adverts, screening candidates, conducting initial interviews, and facilitating the final hiring steps and onboarding.

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What we do

We can easily adapt to your environment and coach you every step of the way, either on your site, off-site, on the phone or online. You will get a dedicated Consultant to support you with all your people and culture requirements.

Processes & Guidelines

We will tailor your HR processes and policies to perfectly fit your company's unique needs and goals. We conduct a thorough evaluation of your current HR documents, policies & frameworks to identify gaps & improvement areas.

We will then work with you to create bespoke documentation, templates, guides, policies and toolkits that suit your internal culture. We also work with our employment lawyer to ensure your documents comply with current legislation so that your HR department has the fundamentals in place to operate smoothly (without going overboard with paperwork)!

People & Culture Strategy

In the initial phase of our collaboration, we engage with clients through either an employee engagement survey or a client discovery session. This step allows us to gather essential insights into the current HR dynamics and employee perspectives. The outcomes from these discovery phases allows us to craft a bespoke HR strategy that aligns with business goals and prioritise key focus areas.

Our partnership approach ensures the HR strategy we develop addresses both the immediate and long-term needs of the organisation.

Remuneration & benefits

We collaborate with you to refine your remuneration and benefits approach, ensuring they're competitive and reflect your company's mission. By leveraging market insights, we craft strategies that attract and retain talent while maintaining financial viability.

Our role extends to effectively communicating these benefits to your employees, emphasising their value in supporting both professional and personal growth. This approach boosts employee satisfaction and positions your company as a preferred employer.

Talent management and planning

We help you align your talent strategy with your business goals, identifying skill needs and talent gaps to ensure your workforce is future-ready. Our services include succession planning and talent development, aimed at creating a flexible and growth-oriented organisation.

Our proactive talent management approach focuses on nurturing high-potential employees and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. This keeps your team competitive and engaged, preparing your company for both current and future success with enhanced employee retention.

Organisational design

We partner with our clients to identify key talent needs and develop strategies to attract, retain, and develop the right people. Our approach includes performance management, leadership development, and succession planning, all tailored to enhance your team's capabilities and readiness for future challenges.

Our support extends beyond strategy development; we also provide practical tools and guidance for implementing effective talent management practices. This includes creating engaging employee development programs and establishing clear career paths that motivate and retain high performers.

Diversity and Inclusion

We collaborate with you to develop strategies that foster an inclusive workplace, where diversity is not just recognised but celebrated. Through targeted training programs, policy development, and awareness campaigns, we help create an environment that encourages open dialogue, mutual respect, and equal opportunities for all employees.

Our goal is to ensure that every team member feels valued and empowered to contribute their best, driving innovation and enhancing company performance.

Wellbeing initiatives

We assist our clients in crafting and implementing comprehensive wellbeing initiatives that address the physical, mental, and emotional health of their workforce. By conducting thorough needs assessments, we identify specific areas where support is most needed, creating tailored programs that promote a healthy work-life balance, stress management, and overall employee wellness.

Our services range from developing wellness workshops and fitness challenges to offering resources for mental health support. We aim to foster a supportive environment where employees feel valued and have access to the tools they need to maintain their wellbeing.

Recruitment support

Our recruitment support services are designed to streamline the hiring process for our clients, ensuring they attract and retain the best talent for their needs. We offer a comprehensive suite of services, including job description development, writing & placing job adverts, screening candidates, conducting initial interviews, and facilitating the final hiring steps and onboarding.

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Melanie Marx
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30 Oct
2024
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Do you ever wonder how focusing on your strengths can help you reach your full potential? CliftonStrengths, which is short for Gallup Clifton Strengths Coaching, is a unique way to improve yourself and your career. Instead of focusing on your flaws, this method tells you to use your natural strengths.

Gallup Clifton Strengths Coaching is a great tool for people in New Zealand who want to use their skills to improve their lives and careers. If you know how to use this coaching well, you can make big changes in your life and at work. Let's begin with the important things!

What Is Gallup Clifton Strengths Coaching?

Gallup Clifton Strengths Coaching is based on the CliftonStrengths assessment, which was developed by Don Clifton, the “father of strengths-based psychology.” This assessment helps you identify your top talents from a list of 34 strengths. These strengths are categorised into four domains:

  1. Executing: These strengths help you turn ideas into reality.
  2. Influencing: These traits enable you to persuade others and make an impact.
  3. Relationship Building: These qualities help you connect and build trust with others.
  4. Strategic Thinking: These strengths involve processing information and planning for the future.

After the assessment, you will get a customised report stressing your top five strengths. Gallup Clifton Strengths Coaching then clarifies and guides you in using these strengths in your daily life. For personalised coaching and support on how to leverage your strengths effectively, check out our strengths-based leadership coaching services.

Why Focus on Strengths?

While traditional development methods sometimes focus on shortcomings, Clifton Strengths follows a different path by building on your natural ability. There are several advantages from this change of perspective. First of all, knowing your strengths increases your confidence and helps you to become more self-aware. Using your strengths will probably help you to feel more involved and satisfied at work, which will improve performance and output.

Moreover, Gallup Clifton Strengths Coaching enhances team dynamics. When team members understand each other’s strengths, they can collaborate more effectively. Instead of pushing against the grain, you and your team can work together in ways that feel natural and fulfilling.

How People & Culture Uses a Strengths-Based Approach for Team Development

Starting your road with Gallup Clifton Strengths Coach is easy. It all begins with realising your strengths and learning how best to use them in day-to-day living. People & Culture presents a complete strategy that not only enables people to recognise their strengths but also gives the direction required to include those strengths into their jobs and corporate environment. Let's walk through the key actions to get you going.

Step 1: Discover Your Strengths with the CliftonStrengths Assessment

Starting with guiding participants through the Clifton Strengths assessment, People & Culture shows each person's top strengths from 34 distinct themes including Achiever, Communication, Empathy, and Strategic. This evaluation takes between twenty to forty minutes and guides staff members in matching their roles with their inherent skills.

Step 2: Dive Deeper with Personalised Coaching

People & Culture offers individual coaching after the assessment. A certified strengths coach guides participants towards their best strengths, helps them value their individual traits, and teaches them how to apply these assets to their regular work. This tailored mentoring helps staff members to become more involved and successful in their jobs.

Step 3: Empower Leaders with Strengths-Based Manager Coaching

True roots of strengths-based development depend on leadership support. People & Culture provides managers with specific coaching so they may grasp and welcome a strengths-based approach. These meetings help leaders evaluate the strengths of their team, strategically use those strengths, and approach team issues from a strengths-based standpoint.

Step 4: Build Team Cohesion with Strengths-Focused Team Sessions

Our company helps teams to discover and value each member's particular strengths, so fostering team cohesiveness. Teams learn how their unique strengths interact by means of instruments such as the Gallup Team Grade. This promotes a cooperative environment whereby team members may work together to solve problems and build encouraging alliances.

Step 5: Sustain a Strengths-Based Culture with Ongoing Support

People & Culture provides continuous projects aimed at implementing a strengths-based culture inside the company. This covers consistent communication on the value of strengths, including how to include them into performance reviews, and offering comments with an eye towards strengths. These initiatives guarantee that strengths stay central in the organisational culture, so enabling teams to keep developing and succeeding.

Unleash the Power of Gallup Clifton Strengths Coaching with People & Culture

Gallup Clifton Strengths Coaching is a transformative tool that helps you unlock your full potential, whether you’re seeking personal growth or striving to build a more cohesive and empowered team. By focusing on your innate strengths, you can experience greater fulfilment, productivity, and success in every area of your life. The journey begins with understanding what you naturally do best and then working with a skilled coach to integrate these strengths into your daily routines and professional life. Growth doesn’t have to be about fixing what’s broken, it’s about amplifying the incredible qualities that already define you.

Want to dive deeper into how Gallup Clifton Strengths Coaching can help you? Check out our other article for insights on how to Implement a Gallup Strengths-Based Approach in your business.

If you’re in New Zealand and ready to make meaningful changes, People & Culture is here to guide you. We offer personalised coaching and employee training to help you and your team reach new heights. Ready to take the next step? Contact People & Culture today to learn more about how our strengths-based approach can support lasting, positive change in your organisation. Let's work together to create a workplace that thrives on the power of your unique strengths.