Strengths-Based Coaching and Employee Development

Welcome to Leading StandOut Teams: Valuing Excellence! In this course we’ll discuss how team culture and environment make a big difference to individual and organizational success; help you define success for and with your team; and explore how you can create the conditions that make your team feel comfortable sharing ideas. By the end of the course, you will be able to: - Analyze how team culture affects both individual and organization success. - Define what success looks like for and with your team. - Identify what strengths build success. - Design the conditions to make your team feel comfortable sharing ideas that boost the team's overall productivity, performance, engagement, and more. Modules Include: One: Working Together. Focus on the importance of teams and discuss how team culture and environment make a big difference to individual and organizational success. Two: Aligning on Team Success. Help define success for and with your team. Three: Speaking Up. The environment you create for your team impacts the team's overall productivity, performance, engagement, and so much more. Learn how you can create the conditions that make your team feel comfortable sharing ideas. This is a beginner's course, intended for team leaders with an interest in Leading StandOut Teams. It includes lecture videos by StandOut Strengths Coaches, practice quizzes, graded quizzes, peer-reviewed assignments, discussion prompts, and activity guides to facilitate ongoing learning and provide a structure to make sense of learning so that it can be embedded into real change. To succeed in this course, you should be willing to self-reflect and open to shifting perspectives. Making the effort will result in a positive and fulfilling response.

Welcome to Leading StandOut Teams: Putting Strengths to Work! This course will explore and deepen your capacity to identify and communicate where your team members do their best work. We will look at how being aware of and drawing attention to strengths -- more than weaknesses -- will work wonders for your team members' performance and engagement. And we’ll discuss how helping your team members work well with each other will go a long way toward making that their story about work a positive one. By the end of the course, you will be able to: - Collaborate with your team members to communicate where they're doing their best work. - Relate your team members' performance and engagement to their individual strengths. - Design ways your team members can work together more effectively based on where they are at their best. Modules Include: One: What They Do Best. Explore and deepen your capacity to identify and communicate where your team members do their best work. Two: Focus on Strengths. Explore how being aware of and drawing attention to strengths -- more than weaknesses -- will work wonders for your team members' performance and engagement. Three: Working with Others. Learn how to help your team members work well with each other toward making your company story a positive one. This is a beginner's course, intended for team leaders with an interest in Leading StandOut Teams. It includes lecture videos by StandOut Strengths Coaches, practice quizzes, graded quizzes, peer-reviewed assignments, discussion prompts, and activity guides to facilitate ongoing learning and provide a structure to make sense of learning so that it can be embedded into real change. To succeed in this course, you should be willing to self-reflect and open to shifting perspectives. Making the effort will result in a positive and fulfilling response. The final project in this course is a required peer review, where you are expected to review, explain in detail, and assess the learning you have obtained.

Welcome to Leading StandOut Teams: Growing Team Members! This course explores how to get more skilled at inviting, allowing, and supporting team members to stretch beyond their current responsibilities. By the end of the course, you will be able to guide your team members to step out of their comfort zones and grow in using their strengths. By the end of the course, you will be able to: - Explore how to get your team members to step out of their comfort zones. - Learn how to intentionally match your team members with projects that enable them to use their strengths. - Expand the definition of what career growth actually involves and help team members know what's next on their career journeys. Modules Include: One: Trying New Things. Become more skilled at inviting, allowing, and supporting team members to stretch beyond their current responsibilities and step out of the comfort zone. Two: Strengths-Based Projects. Explore how to intentionally match your team members up with projects that enable them to use their strengths. Three: Growing Team Members’ Careers. Expand your interpretation of what "career growth" actually involves and provide you with a simple approach to ensure that your team members feel they are moving and shaking and know what's next on their career journey. This is a beginner's course, intended for team leaders with an interest in Leading StandOut Teams. It includes lecture videos by StandOut Strengths Coaches, practice quizzes, graded quizzes, peer-reviewed assignments, discussion prompts, and activity guides to facilitate ongoing learning and provide a structure to make sense of learning so that it can be embedded into real change. To succeed in this course, you should be willing to self-reflect and open to shifting perspectives. Making the effort will result in a positive and fulfilling response. The final project in this course is a required peer review, where you are expected to review, explain in detail, and assess the learning you have obtained.