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Using Strengths in Hennepin County, Minnesota - Called to Coach S5E36
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Publish Date: 2017-11-27 10:27:25
Description: Steve Sweere is the Senior Communications Specialist for the Resident and Real Estate Services Department at Hennepin County. His responsibilities include internal communications and employee engagement for the Resident and Real Estate Services Department. He is also 1 of 5 Gallup-Certified Strengths Coaches for Hennepin County. For twenty plus years, Steve made a living as a professional actor. With the birth of his daughter, however, he realized that his theater schedule didn’t allow him to spend as much time with her as he wanted and he decided to make a change. He joined Hennepin County in 2013 and was shortly thereafter given a copy of StrengthsFinder 2.0 and told to take his assessment. “I took the assessment, received my top 5, read the report, then stuffed it in a drawer and forgot about it. No one spoke to me about it, no one showed me how to utilize it – it was a mildly amusing one-off – a corporate horoscope.” It was a couple years later that Hennepin County started to consider becoming a Strengths Based Organization when Steve’s boss asked him to become a certified SF Coach, despite his initial skepticism, he agreed. He attended the Accelerated Strengths Coaching Course under the tutelage of Rod Karr and Jen Thibault and walked out four and a half days later a fervent Strengths proponent. “I am a perfect example of why everyone needs a coach, it was if I had been given a gym membership, but no-one taught me how to use the machines, Rod and Jen stepped in as my personal trainers and gave me the knowledge to not only confidently build my own strengths, but to train others.” Steve, in partnership with four other Gallup-Certified Strengths Coaches and a small army of trained facilitators, have been driving the efforts to turn Hennepin County into a strengths-based organization. Steve's top five strengths are: Intellection, Strategic, Ideation, Input and LearnerLearn more about becoming a Certified Strengths Coach at the Gallup Strengths Center: http://on.gallup.com/1i5OXhq. Gallup's Called to Coach is a live Webcast that targets current and prospective coaches to interact with Gallup experts and independent strengths coaches who have found success in strengths-based development.
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