Strengths and the journey toward your best self

In a couple of weeks, I will be working with 2 different groups doing coaching sessions on Clifton Strengths? results. One will be with a college women’s basketball team preparing for their season, and the second is for a company that has a growing group of fitness centers in the Chicago region. Both groups take their training very seriously, and I’m really looking forward to spending that time coaching them on ways to become even better at what they do, who they are, and how their individual strengths can be leveraged to help them excel.

After 18 years working and conducting research with the StrengthsFinder assessment, across a spectrum of people and industries, I’ve never once tired of the experience of seeing hundreds of them, wide-eyed, and excited about what they are learning and realizing about their best selves. You see my top strength is Maximizer (fellow strengths coaches, you understand!) and that means I LOVE to help others elevate a talent to a strength, then to a level that is extraordinary!! Why would I ever get tired of that??

You may have taken the assessment recently or even a few years ago, and simply stored away the results and realizations and never taken it a step further. There is so much more that can be done to elevate your strengths. One of my past clients mentioned that he was a swimmer, so he had hired a professional swim coach to help him get better, refine his technique, and work faster and more efficiently in the water. Then he later realized that he should do that as a CEO, a professional, and a leader so that’s when he called me and we worked together weekly over several months on just that.

That may sound like you. Doing well, doing “enough” but really longing to advance to a level of excellence, where you become your best self. Most of us really benefit from having someone else speak into areas of our lives that we want to refine. That’s why I coach. That’s why I mentor. That’s why I guide others. Coach.Mentor.Guide.