Personal Strengths: Insights
Nicola Jackson
Supporting Leaders to Develop Their Talent & Teams to Reach Their Potential! | Driven Personal Development for over 100 leaders | ILM Cert Executive Coach | Strengthscope Master | Team&Individual Strengths
Welcome to August's edition of Personal Strengths Insights!
This month, the podcast episode we'll signpost you to will explore Creativity, a personal strength that leads to real transformation! Discover how unleashing your creative power can lead to innovative ideas and solutions that redefine possibilities.
For a lot of us, the culture within our organisations is becoming more of a focus. If positivity, motivation and drive are on your agenda then check out the link below to our 6-stage guide to making strengths a part of your culture!
Plus, don't miss our upcoming workshops, whether you'd like to understand some of your own strengths, understand the power they play on your workforce or on mental health, we have something for you!
The tips and strategies we share this month will help you to start building a language of strengths. We look forward to you joining us on this journey!
Unlocking the Power of Creativity: Stretching Your Strength!
This month's podcast explores the invaluable strength of creativity. When creativity flows, we generate new ideas and original solutions. We think outside the box and spark fresh innovations!
Individuals with creativity as a strength get energised by brainstorming sessions and imagining possibilities. They add huge value when solving problems or improving processes by suggesting novel approaches. Their intuitive hunches often lead to breakthroughs.
To further stretch this strength, look for opportunities to run brainstorming sessions focused on your challenges. Get involved early in projects to apply creative ideas during the problem-solving phase. Reflect on how you use intuition and gut feelings to harness those creative sparks.
However, creativity in overdrive can lead to impractical solutions that ignore realities. Balance wild ideas by collaborating with pragmatic teammates. Avoid reinventing the wheel by building on proven methods that work. And stay focused on end goals so your creativity has a purpose.
Even if creativity isn't your strength, you can boost it when you need it! Remind yourself of creativity's immense value. Schedule time to brainstorm, even if briefly. Collaborate with creative coworkers to build on your ideas.
Want to ignite your inner creator? Tune into this month's creativity-focused podcast as we dive deeper into flexing this strength. Discover how to unlock more imagination, innovation, and inspired problem-solving!
What does it feel like to work at your organisation?
For many of us in HR we are tasked with creating a positive working culture.
A culture with high employee engagement, where line managers know and understand their teams and how they like to work. As a result, opportunities are sought out and teams work proactively to move the organisation forward through change.?
Employers retain their talent and the experience and knowledge that comes from that whilst driving their people forward to reach their potential.
Lots of us are so busy focussing on?what?we need to do each day that we don’t pause to consider?how?we are working to get there.?
This 6-stage guide allows you to start taking action to make strengths a part of your culture!
We have three different workshops running over the next three months. To register click on the links below.
Firstly on the 13th August, I will be running a session on?The Power of Nature, Nurture, Reflection and Planning of Strengths!?Personal Strengths Coaching's Thrive programme has been designed to incorporate the best interactions different organisations have used over the last three years to support their succession. In this session, I will be sharing the step-by-step breakdown of the process to implement my strengths?coaching solution into your business!
Secondly,?after the success of the last session, on the 24th September we are re-running our session on?Strengths, Mental Health and Wellbeing, myself and Anna Harrington (Registered Public Health Nurse Specialist in occupational health) will walk through Mental Health and Wellbeing, discussing the part that understanding and optimising strengths plays in enabling individual and team performance. The last session was fully booked within days so don't delay in booking on!
Lastly, on the 26th September?I will be running our?Relational Strengths workshop, This is the workshop if you want more energised people and focus on relationships not just tasks. If you want to learn more about the strengths that will help you have more productive relationships within your teams at work, book on now.
Top Tips:?Strengths Coaching Questions
One of the roles Line Managers take on with their teams is often one of a coach. Moving from a style of telling employees their opinions on actions they should take to one of asking questions about their team members' thoughts on the actions they could take and walking through the consequences of these actions to work out the right path of action for them.
Expanding on the role of coach to include coaching questions around strengths will bring energy and passion to your one-to-one conversations.
Here are some questions to get you started:
The result of building more of these types of questions into one-to-ones will be opening up conversations to talk about how your team perform at their best. Getting proactive, and making conscious decisions about bringing these things into their role more often will get more from your people. This results in you supporting your team members in reaching their potential and supporting your organisation in making the most of their most valuable asset, their people!
I hope you found these insights on strengths helpful.
Who in your team will you start using your strengths coaching questions with first?
Wishing you an energised month ahead!
Please reach out if you have any other questions about optimising strengths. We look forward to connecting again soon.
Warm regards,
Nic