Episode 139: Activating your strengths to facilitate results in workshops (and in business) with Charlotte Blair
Today, I’m chatting to someone who also shares my love for the Clifton Strengths tool (although in fairness, I think her love for it is 10x mine!).
It’s all well and good to find a tool you love, that echoes back what you think + feel about yourself but more importantly? It’s what you do with it that matters!
Today’s guest, Charlotte Blair from The Strengths Partners shares how we can apply and activate our strengths across various contexts: In the way we facilitate, the way we show up to strengthen our network, how we build our business, and how we apply what we learn.
Charlotte has a passion for helping others maximise their potential. She’s a a highly experienced Gallup-Strengths Certified Coach, consultant and facilitator with over 20 years proven success managing relationships and developing business in highly complex sales environments.
At the end of our conversation, she also shares her favourite workshop activities that you could pretty much design a workshop from, they cover all the key elements!
What I admire about Charlotte is the way she demonstrates her love for connecting, serving and helping others.
About our Guest: Charlotte Blair
Charlotte works with Individuals, Managers and Teams to work to specific outcomes that can be measured. She helps organisations become Strengths based.
Her energy is contagious, her ideas innovative, her spontaneity refreshing and her vision clear, simple and connected to business outcomes. Charlotte’s areas of expertise include Employee Engagement, Speaking up and Leadership with an emphasis on Change. Charlotte has worked with a broad range of clients from Entrepreneurs to Multi Nationals across a wide range of industries including IT, Financial Services, Government, Non for profit and Professional Services.
Some of the companies she has worked with include SEEK, Nab, Mercer, Telstra, NGS Super, TAC, Hologic, Orica, Victoria University. She has been a Gallup Accredited Coach and ICF Coach for over 6 years and is one of Australia's most experienced Coach and Facilitators using Gallup CliftonStrengths Assessment.
She is also a Learning Republic Revolutionary using 'Issues Based' coaching and Leadership development to get a better return on investment for Learning programs to create lasting impact.
In this episode you will learn:
How to use your strengths in your facilitation/workshops
Tips in building your facilitation business by using your strengths to build your network
How to make people take action when the workshop is over
Providing value to people during transition to virtual facilitation
Discovering your intention for your career
Questions Leanne asked Charlotte during the interview:
Let’s talk about your experience with strengths and how that’s played out with your facilitation work and how you deliver? Also can you share what your five strengths are and how you used them in your workshops?
What tips and advice can you offer coaches who just got their accreditation?
How do you bottle up the energy in that workshop and how do you enable people to take action when the workshop is over
How’s your process of transition from face to face workshop to virtual workshop?
What are the ways of discovering or clarifying what our intentions are for our career?
Do you have a favorite activity or energizer that you use to ramp up the energy or connect people during a workshop?
Resources:
Quotes:
“When we discover our skills, we have to be more intentional about using them in building our network.”
“The significance of wanting to make a difference drives me to help others.”
“If I can help other coaches, I’m helping more people discover their strength around the world.”
Watch the video!
About your host: Leanne Hughes
Leanne Hughes is an international facilitator, speaker and coach who loves creating unpredictable workshop experiences, that predictably work.
She combines her experience in Marketing, with her education in Human Resources and Psychology, to help leaders create engaging everyday experiences - that are so contagious they scale across teams, functions and regions.
Leanne has facilitated leadership, onboarding and team-development workshops across Australia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore and believes in a strengths-centred approach to learning and development. She has over 13 years’ of experience across a range of industries including mining, government and tourism sectors.
She’s the host of the First Time Facilitator podcast and was a finalist in the 2018 Australian Learning Impact awards for Learning Professional of the Year.
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