Gallup coaching test prep
Name the 4 distinct theme categories - ✅✅-Executing, Influencing, relationship
building, strategic thinking
How are the theme categories used? - ✅✅ -They serve as a framework to help
individuals see their powerful contribution to groups or teams, how they work with
others, and how they get work done.
People with dominant executing themes .... - ✅✅-Know how to make things
happen
People with dominant influencing themes .... - ✅✅-Know how to take charge,
speak up, and make sure the team is heard
People with dominant relationship building themes ... - ✅✅ -Have the ability to build
strong relationships that can hold a team together and make the team greater than
the sum of its parts.
People with dominant strategic thinking talents ... -✅✅ -Help teams consider what
could be. They absorb and analyze information that can inform better decisions.
Talent -✅✅ -A naturally reoccurring pattern of thought, feeling, or behavior that can
be productively applied
Strength -✅✅ -The ability to consistently produce a positive outcome through near
perfect performance in a specific task
Woo - ✅✅-Socially influential
Positivity - ✅✅-Emotionally influential
Activator - ✅✅-Get things done
Conventional approach to personal development - ✅✅-Maintain each person's
strengths and work on fixing weaknesses
Strengths-based approach to personal development - ✅✅-Focus on each person's
strengths and manage around weaknesses
Conventional approach to personal development - ✅✅ -Most behaviors can be
learned. The best in a role display the same behaviors. Weakness fixing leads to
success.
, Strength-based approach to personal development - ✅✅ -Only some behaviors can
be learned. The best in a roll deliver the same outcome is using different behaviors.
Weakness fixing prevents failure; strengths building leads to success
Woo - ✅✅-Want to know more people
Relator - ✅✅-Want to know more about people
Consistency - ✅✅-Organizational efficiency
Discipline - ✅✅-Personal efficiency
Themes - ✅✅-Are neutral. Are not labels. Are positive. Differences are
advantageous. People need each other.
Dominant talents - ✅✅-Always on. Top drawer
Supporting talents - ✅✅-Respond. Middle drawer
Lesser talents - ✅✅-Effort. Bottom drawer
Why just top five? - ✅✅-Because you want to master these first. This is where you
will get your best return on investment.
Four starting strengths-based coaching conversations - ✅✅ -1. Establishing the
coaching relationship
2. Help your client understand their strengths profile
3. Help your client gain awareness and appreciation of their talents
4. Help your client begin to invest in developing their talents
Harmony - ✅✅-Emotional efficiency
Deliberative - ✅✅-Serious about risk
Analytical - ✅✅-Serious about facts
Responsibility - ✅✅-Serious about obligations
Coach - ✅✅-A person who invests in and interacts with an individual, partnership
or team for the primary purpose of stimulating, motivating and facilitating the growth,
development and performance of that individual, partnership or team
Talon appreciation - ✅✅-Understanding their unique power and edge
Name the 4 distinct theme categories - ✅✅-Executing, Influencing, relationship
building, strategic thinking
How are the theme categories used? - ✅✅ -They serve as a framework to help
individuals see their powerful contribution to groups or teams, how they work with
others, and how they get work done.
People with dominant executing themes .... - ✅✅-Know how to make things
happen
People with dominant influencing themes .... - ✅✅-Know how to take charge,
speak up, and make sure the team is heard
People with dominant relationship building themes ... - ✅✅ -Have the ability to build
strong relationships that can hold a team together and make the team greater than
the sum of its parts.
People with dominant strategic thinking talents ... -✅✅ -Help teams consider what
could be. They absorb and analyze information that can inform better decisions.
Talent -✅✅ -A naturally reoccurring pattern of thought, feeling, or behavior that can
be productively applied
Strength -✅✅ -The ability to consistently produce a positive outcome through near
perfect performance in a specific task
Woo - ✅✅-Socially influential
Positivity - ✅✅-Emotionally influential
Activator - ✅✅-Get things done
Conventional approach to personal development - ✅✅-Maintain each person's
strengths and work on fixing weaknesses
Strengths-based approach to personal development - ✅✅-Focus on each person's
strengths and manage around weaknesses
Conventional approach to personal development - ✅✅ -Most behaviors can be
learned. The best in a role display the same behaviors. Weakness fixing leads to
success.
, Strength-based approach to personal development - ✅✅ -Only some behaviors can
be learned. The best in a roll deliver the same outcome is using different behaviors.
Weakness fixing prevents failure; strengths building leads to success
Woo - ✅✅-Want to know more people
Relator - ✅✅-Want to know more about people
Consistency - ✅✅-Organizational efficiency
Discipline - ✅✅-Personal efficiency
Themes - ✅✅-Are neutral. Are not labels. Are positive. Differences are
advantageous. People need each other.
Dominant talents - ✅✅-Always on. Top drawer
Supporting talents - ✅✅-Respond. Middle drawer
Lesser talents - ✅✅-Effort. Bottom drawer
Why just top five? - ✅✅-Because you want to master these first. This is where you
will get your best return on investment.
Four starting strengths-based coaching conversations - ✅✅ -1. Establishing the
coaching relationship
2. Help your client understand their strengths profile
3. Help your client gain awareness and appreciation of their talents
4. Help your client begin to invest in developing their talents
Harmony - ✅✅-Emotional efficiency
Deliberative - ✅✅-Serious about risk
Analytical - ✅✅-Serious about facts
Responsibility - ✅✅-Serious about obligations
Coach - ✅✅-A person who invests in and interacts with an individual, partnership
or team for the primary purpose of stimulating, motivating and facilitating the growth,
development and performance of that individual, partnership or team
Talon appreciation - ✅✅-Understanding their unique power and edge
