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Facilitator Spotlight Sarah McLaughlin, Executive Leadership Coach Sarah teaches and coaches sustainable organizational development programs of servant leadership utilizing the combined 150 years of research and science from Ken Blanchard’s Situational Leadership® II, Wiley Everything DiSC Workplace and GALLUP – StrengthsFinder. She is a certified facilitator and received her coaching credentials from Gallup's Strengths Coaching Program. Sarah bridges her experiences as a former professional sailor, healthcare business owner, and Executive Coach and Leadership educator to inspire others to think bigger and get results. Sarah conducts leadership training workshops, leads team and manager seminars to develop leaders, leverage individual and team strengths, build partnerships, resolve conflicts, maximize performance and increase engagement levels. She works with executives, entrepreneurs, managers, high potential team members, in all sectors, industries and disciplines. Sarah earned a BS from Central Michigan University and graduate studies in Leadership Development from Saint Louis University. She currently serves as Chief Human Resource Officer, Leadership Development Practice Lead and Executive Leadership Coach for The Audit Group, Inc. Contact Us Sarah McLaughlin www.theaudtigroup.com 1.800.383.7963 [email protected] Strengths-Based Coaching Building a strengths-based workplace is transformational -- and possible. GALLUP – Strengths Based Leadership Coaching helps leaders identify and leverage strengths, understand how strengths work for and against, develop as a leader, manage a team more effectively, build strategic partnerships, develop strategies to overcome challenges and identify new opportunities, be more engaged and achieve goals. In a strengths-based culture, employees have the opportunity to do what they do best every day. Their development is grounded in what they do right, not what they do wrong. As a result, employees look forward to going to work, achieve more while they are there and stay with their company longer. Companies can all but eliminate active disengagement by emphasizing strengths over weaknesses: Managers who predominantly focus on employees' strengths reduce active disengagement to an astoundingly low 1%. Learning Outcomes Learn to Name, Claim and Aim top 5 Signature Themes, Strength Domains and Team Strengths Grid Increase self-awareness of natural talents, blind spots, and opportunities Increase appreciation of unique Strengths and how to leverage them for greater engagement & productivity Understand focused use of natural talents to leverage them into Strengths Create specific performance goals leveraging Strengths Increased trust, collaboration and engagement Workgroups that receive strengths- based development achieve an increase in profit of as much as 29%. EMPLOYEES WHO RECEIVE STRENGTHS-BASED DEVELOPMENT REALIZE AN INCREASE OF AS MUCH AS 23% IN THEIR ENGAGEMENT.
