This guidebook:

• helps you understand how your success as a coach relies on your ability to help managers and teams achieve their performance goals
• introduces you to the most important factors for creating a strengths-based team and the critical role and responsibilities of the manager
• explains the characteristics and actions of highly productive teams and high-performing managers

This comprehensive conversation guide:

• helps you work with managers to understand their organizational and team goals
• includes a framework and conversation outlines you can use to coach managers to understand and appreciate their own strengths as well as their teams’ individual and collective strengths
• gives you the tools to help managers maximize their talents to improve individual and team performance

The material in this guide focuses on three coaching conversations:

• encouraging managers to appreciate their unique talents in the context of their roles
• helping managers understand and appreciate each team member’s distinct and powerful talents
• educating managers about their team’s collective strengths and helping them recognize potential talent gaps and vulnerabilities on the team

This in-depth guide helps you position team members for success by teaching them how to become a strengths-based team. The tools in the guide prepare you to effectively lead four team coaching conversations:

• introducing CliftonStrengths and the fundamentals of strengths-based development
• educating team members on the power of strengths-based partnerships
• helping team members value the team’s collective talents to improve teamwork
• providing team members with strategies for using their talents to improve engagement, productivity and performance