Strengths Coaching

“Wasted strengths are like sundials in the shade.”
--Benjamin Franklin

“Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.”
--Carl Jung

Recent research about human behavior related to both maximum productivity and fulfillment reveals two significant conclusions: 1. Each person's talents are enduring and unique; and 2. Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength (not weakness).

So the process of discovering your top strengths and then learning how to leverage them in every area of your life is one of the most effective ways to transform your experience. And one of the tools Greg uses to facilitate this profound learning, is the Gallup organization's StrengthsFinder assessment. The test identifies a person's top five signature themes and strengths. And then coaching helps to unpack the meaning and application of those strengths in real life settings.

Here's the way Marcus Buckingham describes the significance of this process: "By focusing on your top five themes you can learn who you really are. You can learn that you are not making up your life as you go alongl You can learn that your success and achievements are not acidental. Your signature themes are influencing every single choice you make. Your top five themes explain your successes and achievements. This kind of self-awareness leads to self-confidence. You can face up to that intimidating question 'Are you living your life?' by answering that no matter what your choice of profession, no matter what the trajectory of your career, if you are applying and refining and polishing your top five themes, then you are indeed living your life. You are indeed living the life you were supposed to live." (from the book "Now, Discover Your Strengths")

So if you're a leader or event planner in an organization looking for significant themes by a powerful presenter to inspire and train your staff, if you're a departmental manager wanting to maximize your team's productivity and positivity, or if you're an individual looking to become more focused, fulfilled, and effective in your personal and professional life, you need to consider Greg Nelson as a strengths coach and speaker.

SAMPLE TOPICS FOR SPEAKING AND COACHING FOR ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS

Leadership

• The Power of Leading With Your Strengths: why people follow, what you can do about it
• Owning Your Personal Greatness: what you bring that no one else can
• Going From Good to Great: Leveraging Your Leadership Hedgehog (your passion, what you’re best at, your resource engine)
• Using Your Strengths To Run The Daily Rat Race
• Making Your Mark of Significance and Legacy

Team Work

• How To Leverage the Two Most Important Elements of Great Teams
• How Your Strengths Can Impact Your Team
• Maximizing Everyone’s Best On the Team
• Unleashing Individual Greatness To Make Great Teams
• Discovering the Team’s True Purpose and How To Fulfil It
• Going From Good To Great: Finding and Leveraging Your Team’s Hedgehog

Organizational Purpose

• Finding the Soul of Your Organization: How Discovering the Spirituality of Business Impacts Your Bottom Line
• Which Comes First: Employee or Human Being? Clarifying Your Organization’s Priorities and What To do About It
• Who You Have Determines What You Are: How the People In Your Organization Help Define Your Competitive Advantage

Benefits of Working with Greg

For the leaders of the organization:

• To affirm your own leadership style removing the pressure to conform to someone else’s views
• To learn to confidently stand in your own armour, increasing your leadership impact on the people in your organization and on its mission
• To have the satisfaction of knowing how to leave a legacy of transformational leadership

For the participants in the ranks

• To experience increased fulfilment and productivity as an employee from using your strengths in your unique role on the team and in the organization
• To develop a greater understanding and appreciation for the unique strengths-based contributions of the others on your team, including your leader’s, empowering you to work more effectively with each other
• Your intentional utilization of your strengths will bring greater fulfillment and effectiveness to all the areas of your life

For organizational progress

• To discover the steps to developing a strengths-based organization which will result in a higher level of both productivity and positivity in fulfilling your mission and purpose
• To awaken the collective soul of your organization and thereby increase personal and institutional integrity, authenticity, and mission
• To know the strengths profile of your people which informs your organization’s competitive advantage

The Experience Greg Nelson Brings to You

• Thirty years of non-profit leadership, developing strategic visions and effective strengths-based, purpose-driven volunteer mobilization for both start ups and established organizations
• Ten years on a college campus as teacher, participant on committees, and member of the Board of Trustees
• Expertise using Gallup’s StrengthsFinder assessment for radically increasing personal and organizational effectiveness
• Thirty years as a popular speaker at educational institutions, businesses, churches, convocations and conferences, leadership retreats and symposiums
• Published author and writer about topics such as how to discover and live out the soul of individual and institutional mission
• A doctorate in personal and organizational effectiveness
• Coached hundreds of individuals, groups, teams, and organizations to greater purpose & effectiveness

A Sample of Clients

• Golden Gate University, San Francisco, Leadership Retreat for Faculty and Staff
• Congregational Church of San Mateo, Lay Leadership Retreat
• College View Church, Lincoln, Nebraska, Strategic Planning Conference and Retreat
• Acrobat Staffing, San Francisco, CA, Strategic Planning and Leadership Development
• Montgomery’s On the Square Restaurant, Monticello, IL, Strategic Development
• Global Fund For Women, San Francisco, CA, Teambuilding Workshop

TO CONTACT GREG

Available for individual & team coaching, keynote speaking, workshop presentations

If you’re a leader or event planner who is curious about what a speaking or coaching relationship with Dr. Nelson might look like in your circumstances fill out the short form and we can be in touch about the possibilities.

OR CALL: 415.748.0015

EMAIL: Greg@FlyAgainCoaching.com