Were you to ask the question What Does a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach Do? of each member of our growing tribe of Gallup Certified Strengths Coaches around the world, the answers would vary but would have a common theme:
Applying research, insights and materials developed by Gallup, a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach helps other people use their talents in new ways to accomplish what is important to them in work and life.
But how?
Perhaps you've seen the book StrengthsFinder 2.0, published by Gallup Press.
This Wall Street Journal #1 business bestseller is based on more than 50 years of Gallup research and promotes people having the opportunity to do what they do best every day. With access to a new version of the Clifton StrengthsFinder™ assessment, StrengthsFinder 2.0 also provides strategies people can use to build their talents into Strengths and apply those Strengths in work and life.
Maybe you're among the people who bought the book, took the assessment, had a brief boost in self-awareness, and then shelved the results because you had no good answer to the What next? question. Gallup Certified Strengths Coaches help with that What next? question by helping people leverage their Strengths toward clearly defined outcomes, utilizing research-based insight, materials and approaches.
There's more to the story about what we do, though, because each Gallup Certified Strengths Coach has his or her unique niche that relates to the contexts in which we work, our life and work experiences, our purpose and passion, and, yes... our Strengths.
We coaches have many things in common. All of us who are Gallup Certified Strengths Coaches work with the Clifton StrengthsFinder™, have completed a certification process with Gallup, and help people focus on performance and results. We all know that there's a unique power to a Strengths approach, because there's a compelling correlation between people doing what they do best and their engagement, productivity and happiness.
Yet each of us is utterly distinct. Hailing from more than twenty different countries, we each use our knowledge, experience, and our own constellation of Strengths in utterly unique ways to help people thrive in work and life. For example, from my place on the map, I work with high-performing leaders of purpose-driven organizations and their teams as they navigate through change and challenge, helping them turn challenge into opportunity as they ignite and deploy their Strengths toward well-defined outcomes.
And I daresay most all of us share a sense of calling to our work. And this is what makes me happiest about our tribe: We want to help people be their best and contribute their best. That's a privilege and a calling.
If you've never taken the Clifton StrengthsFinder™ and are curious about it, take a look at https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/ For a modest sum and a half hour of your time, you can take the assessment online and immediately receive assessment results.
To connect with a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, access Gallup's coaching directory at https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/Coach/en-US/Index
