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Gallup's Theme Thursday: Competition

Written by former Gallup Learning and Development Senior Consultant Curt Liesveld, Expanding Your Strengths explores theme dynamics. While each talent theme expresses itself alone in predictable ways, when combined, themes influence each other in myriad ways. The more you know about your themes in relation to each other, the more you will understand them and use them in your day-to-day life. Gallup Senior Learning and Development Consultant Heather Wright explained that Curt loved to talk about strengths as elements on the periodic table. Each strength has its own inherent and unique qualities, but amazing things happen when you observe strengths in combination with each other. Like oxygen and hydrogen, both elements are interesting on their own. But in combination as water, these elements allow life to flourish around the world and become a source of endless study. That is why in Expanding Your Strengths, Curt explores themes in combination to study how they work together. In the book, Curt explains his fascination with these combinations of strengths, saying, "Compatibility is crucial in both personal and professional success. It is the core of great partnerships, great teams, great marriages and great families. As a result, the people we coach are often interested in finding a magic formula for compatibility." In studying theme dynamics, Gallup coaches understand that all 34 themes are compatible with each other, but some themes are more likely to pair together than others. For example, Heather recently coached two Gallup call center managers on their strengths. One manager, Laura, had Positivity and Achiever in her top 5; while John, her colleague, had Analytical as his number one strength. Laura loves to be the cheerleader of the call center -- she is always encouraging interviewers to focus on the end goal. John enjoys diving deeply into call center stats, often trying to determine who is the most successful interviewer of each survey or which interviewer is the most efficient and has the best quality. On their own, Laura and John are good managers because they know how to motivate people -- one with positivity and the other with hard data. But together, Laura and John are a management juggernaut. They can encourage any person to work harder, smarter and faster -- and stay engaged. In this way, studying theme dynamics through Expanding Your Strengths can have a dramatic impact on teams as well as individuals. When you purchase Expanding Your Strengths you also receive access to an interactive Web app that allows you to explore theme dynamics. Use it to examine your own theme pairings as well as those of others. Expanding Your Strengths is sold exclusively through Amazon and, at this time, is only available in the U.S.

Gallup's Called to Coach: Australia Edition with Richard Burton

Gallup's Called to Coach With Brandon Busteed

On this Theme Thursday webcast, we discussed the Achiever theme with Scot Caldwell, a Gallup Learning Design Consultant. Theme Thursday is a Gallup Webcast series that dives deep into the CliftonStrengths Themes, one at a time. https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/home/en-us?utm_source=youtube

On a recent Called to Coach: Singapore Edition we spoke with Gallup-certified Strengths Coach, Zai Miztiq. Called to Coach is a resource for those who want to help others discover and use their strengths. https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/home/en-us?utm_source=youtube We have Gallup experts and independent strengths coaches share tactics, insights and strategies to help coaches maximize the talent of individuals, teams and organizations around the world.

Theme Thursday: Achiever - LIVE

Gallup's Called to Coach: Singapore Edition with Zai Mistiq

On a recent Called to Coach we spoke with Gallup-certified Strengths Coach, Rajendra Dhandhukia. Called to Coach is a resource for those who want to help others discover and use their strengths. https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/home/en-us?utm_source=youtube We have Gallup experts and independent strengths coaches share tactics, insights and strategies to help coaches maximize the talent of individuals, teams and organizations around the world.

On a recent Called to Coach we spoke with Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, Becky Hammond. Called to Coach is a resource for those who want to help others discover and use their strengths. https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/home/en-us?utm_source=youtube We have Gallup experts and independent strengths coaches share tactics, insights and strategies to help coaches maximize the talent of individuals, teams and organizations around the world.

On a recent Called to Coach we spoke with Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, Oscar Trimboli. To learn more about becoming a Certified Strengths Coach at the Gallup Strengths Center: http://on.gallup.com/1i5OXhq. Gallup's Called to Coach is a live Webcast that targets current and prospective coaches to interact with Gallup experts and independent strengths coaches who have found success in strengths-based development. Oscar built a successful career as a developer at Microsoft. One of his proudest achievements was the creation of Microsoft Protégé -- an experiential learning environment for students to gain insights and skills while working on real world projects. While at Microsoft, Oscar was promoted to a managerial position where he tailored development plans to each of his team members. A significant part of his new role involved discussing his team members’ potential and opportunities for growth. He was so successful at improving his team's productivity and engagement that his boss recommended that Oscar consider personal coaching as a business opportunity. After extensively researching the possibility of starting his own consulting business focused on personal coaching, Oscar decided to make the transition and leave the corporate offices of Microsoft. It was at this time that he discovered the Clifton StrengthsFinder and the strengths movement -- and he was hooked. Oscar explained that he finally had a comprehensive language for the coaching and development he had done at Microsoft. He immediately incorporated strengths into the heart of his new consulting business. Since beginning his coaching business, Oscar has had the opportunity to work with fascinating people all over the world. One of his favorite strengths success stories was working with ultramarathon swimmer, James Pittar. Over the course of his lifetime, James has swam more than 24,000 miles -- nearly the circumference of the earth at its equator! But what’s most remarkable is that James is blind. James contacted Oscar to coach him on his strengths and to help him write a book about his life. Oscar guided James through the booking writing process – he held him accountable to strict deadlines and worked with him on editing content. Oscar and James agreed that James’s blindness would never be used as an excuse to not write or improve the book. Oscar explained that he would never have met an extraordinary person like James without becoming a strengths coach. To hear more about Oscar and his coaching experiences and expertise, watch the video above. Visit Gallup Strengths Center to browse our myriad of products and learning opportunities for strengths-based development. Continue the coaching conversation on Facebook and Twitter. It’s a great way to network with others who share a passion for strengths!

Gallup's Called to Coach: India Edition with Rajendra Dhandhukia

Called to Coach With Becky Hammond

Strengths Spotlight: Singapore with Sritonyachote Suwannee, MD

On a recent Called to Coach we spoke with Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, Oscar Trimboli. Called to Coach is a resource for those who want to help others discover and use their strengths. https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/home/en-us?utm_source=youtube We have Gallup experts and independent strengths coaches share tactics, insights and strategies to help coaches maximize the talent of individuals, teams and organizations around the world.