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 the foundations 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.