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Satyendra (Saty) Kumar is the founder and CEO of SATYSSPARKS, a strengths coaching business in India. Saty’s business develops strengths and career guidance tools to make it easier to introduce and apply strengths for students and professor. He has seen many students thrive after receiving coaching around their strengths. He says students who learn their Top 5 start to understand how to prepare for the career they have chosen, or even how to choose their coursework and major to better suit their strengths.
Saty is a retired Indian army officer who began working as a part-time faculty member at Christ University, Bangalore and running his own strengths coaching company after he retired. He read the book Strengths-Based Leadership, discovered his CliftonStrengths, and realized he’s been using his strengths throughout his childhood and whole life, but didn’t have words for it. He went through Gallup’s strengths coaching certification course and started coaching his university students and other professors around strengths.
Here are the notes from the webcast:
What are some of your coaching innovations?
Saty has developed 4 modules:
Individualized coaching; one-on-one or in a group
Team coaching – use Smart City background; team comes together based on their strengths
Leadership coaching – how do you achieve the 4 needs
Personality development – highlight goal setting and goal actualization; set, plan and achieve SMART goals; emotional intelligence
Other innovative tools that are under development:
“10 sentences that will describe you best” - given to individuals, useful in interviews
Career planning guide – given to students
Small pouch that contains highlighter, pen, Gallup photos (spiral bound), theme insight cards, theme dynamics cards, value cards, and a ruler
Small laminated card with Top 5 on one side, values on the other; can fit in pocket
Also cover Communications – students get a poster showing how can you deliver your strengths using your 5 senses
EQ diagram
What’s next for Saty?
Saty is expanding his business to other universities to run programs that start students with strengths at the beginning of their studies.
He also plans to focus on millennials and strengths-based project management
How do you see your personal coaching scaling?
Currently, Saty has a team of four people. He is the only certified coach; he plans to develop more coaches that will coach with his methodology and tools.
Learn 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. |