Team Strengths Workshops
Targeted strengths-based team workshops benefit your individual team members as much as your team as a whole. When you and your team use the CliftonStrengths® Assessment to discover what you do best, you'll have stronger team dynamics, better conversations and increased collaboration.
What to expect
Strengths workshops are tailored to your goals, expectations and needs. You can use them to answer questions like: How can I improve teamwork, team dynamics or team collaboration?
Based on the individual Strengths Assessments of your team members, we’ll explore why they do what they do, what motivates them or when they're at their best, creating transparency and appreciation for each other while finding out how the others “tick”.
While doing so, we’ll give everyone a common language and vocabulary to better describe, communicate with and understand each other.
Get a full strengths grid for your team, showing where your team is strong and where they might have some strengths gaps as a team, and explore how to navigate those for greater performance.
And since having people in roles that fit their talents, can fuel their energy, passion and therefore greater performance while inspiring the same from others, we can dive deeper into how your current team responsibilities and roles fit the team's individual strengths and where changes might be beneficial.
How it works
Contact me to explore how we can design a team strengths workshop tailored to your goals and needs. We’ll jointly decide on the scope, focus, timing and set-up of your strengths workshop or workshop-series.
We’ll start by having all your team members take the CliftonStrengths® Assessment. Depending on the agreed upon engagement, each team member ideally gets a 1:1 strengths coaching session on their individual strengths report before the joint workshop.
I’ll prepare all materials, exercises, and documents needed and will be facilitating the workshop on the agreed date.
After the workshop, you’ll receive suggestions on how to make the insights and learnings stick beyond the workshop.
And if you want to implement a strengths-based culture in your team or organization more comprehensively, we can explore a consulting engagement to support you in your endeavour.
This is for you if you…
want to improve your team's collaboration and dynamics, create more transparency and appreciation among your team members.
see untapped potential in your team members and wonder how you can create roles and responsibilities that fit your team members best, while improving their job satisfaction and performance.
just put a new team together or just took over the leadership of an existing team and want to make sure you are all off to a good start as a team, while accelerating the “getting used to each other” phase and hit the ground running right away.
are thinking about introducing a more strengths-based culture across your organization, but first want to “test” the impact and mindset shift a strengths-based approach can have.
just want a fun, yet impactful team building workshop for your next team offsite or retreat.
“What an empowering journey we had!
The beauty of the strengths approach is that it's so positive to focus on our strengths instead of our weaknesses and discover how we can maximize impact that way.
— Workshop participant, Advance - gender equality in business
FAQs
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The strengths approach is insightful for each individual attending a workshop. A small team of three can go incredibly deep on a workshop like this. But also workshops with 20-30 people are feasible. Depending on your team size we’d work with less or more breakout groups and adapt the exercises accordingly. The idea though is that the team members get a feel for each other's strengths, that is why I don’t recommend more than 30 participants.
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Yes. It is important to create a common language and vocabulary, be able to share one’s own and recognize strengths in others to get the full impact of a workshop like this. Team members who might already have done the CliftonStrengths® Assessment can use whose results even if it was a couple of years ago and don’t need to do the assessment again.
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The workshop is bookable as a one-off engagement. But there are common situations where clients decide to engage longer or repeatedly: 1) they use the strengths-approach as an onboarding tool for new employees and do a strengths workshop at least every year with their old and new team members; 2) they want to anchor the strengths approach deeper into their teams by providing a workshop-series of 3-4 workshops a year, allowing to dive a bit deeper every time; 3) they set out to implement a strengths-based culture in the organization and the relationship evolves into a consulting engagement: 4) they provide their team members with the opportunity to book 1:1 coaching sessions with me as part of their personal development activities.
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Once you get in contact with me, we’ll schedule a joint scoping call to discuss your current situation and goals, and how to best structure and conduct the workshop. Based on that call, I’ll provide you with a proposal including the workshop scope, focus, potential agenda, and associated pricing.
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I am more than happy to support you on your decision making process with providing insights on the strengths approach itself, what it needs to transform to a strengths-based culture and how this transformation could look like. Contact me discuss in more detail how an advisory engagement like this could look like.