GALLUP® Called to Coach

Gerard Glennon, Manager of Leadership and Industry at Victoria University Polytechnic in Melbourne, Australia, was our guest on a recent Called to Coach. Gerard discussed the challenges of maintaining student and university employee engagement during a pandemic, as well as the role CliftonStrengths can play in the current situation. His insights included: •How CliftonStrengths can empower people t...

Faith Gaines, Executive Director for Consulting at Gallup and a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, was our guest on a recent Called to Coach. In this conclusion to our series on the 5 Elements of Wellbeing, Faith discussed the importance of career wellbeing and the impact it has on people's lives, including: •What it means and how it interfaces with your CliftonStrengths •How you can give back in y...

Dr. Jim Harter, Chief Scientist for Gallup's Workplace Management and Wellbeing Practices, was our guest on a recent Called to Coach. Jim continued our discussion on Resiliency Through CliftonStrengths, this time covering the social and community elements of wellbeing. He discussed ways that individuals, teams and organizations -- even during the disruptions we are currently experiencing -- can th...

Austin Suellentrop, CliftonStrengths Portfolio Manager at Gallup, was our guest on a recent Called to Coach. In his November Community Update, Austin spoke of some exciting developments in the CliftonStrengths world, including: •A milestone in global completions of the CliftonStrengths assessment •A new Panel, which will give Certified Coaches an opportunity to participate and give feedback •What...

Dean Jones, Gallup's Global Talent Architect and Senior Learning Expert, was our guest on a recent Called to Coach. Dean discussed the importance of discovering and staying true to your own life values, including: •What values are and their usefulness to us •How your personal values and your organization's values intersect •How investing in the little things in your life can bring stability View t...

Renny Arensberg, Executive Vice President of the nonprofit Kansas-based KVC Health Systems, was our guest on a recent Called to Coach. Renny shared her vision for moving her organization's performance forward, including: •How the Q12 employee engagement survey and CliftonStrengths assessment are the engine that is propelling change •What KVC is learning from its collaboration with Gallup •The diff...

Mayor Elizabeth Alcantar, Vice Mayor Jose Gonzalez and City Manager Santor Nishizaki of the city of Cudahy, California -- a suburb of Los Angeles -- along with other city officials were our guests on a recent Called to Coach. Elizabeth, Jose and Santor discussed how Cudahy is seeking to become a CliftonStrengths-based city and how city officials are using their strengths in their roles to move the...

Peter Wolfe, Tribe Performance Lead at the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ), was our guest on a recent Called to Coach. Peter talked about how a CliftonStrengths-based approach has aided cultural transformation and team agility efforts at his firm, as well as his work as a coach. His insights included: •The importance of seeing your Top 10, not just your Top 5, as allies in your life...

Austin Suellentrop, CliftonStrengths Portfolio Manager at Gallup, was our guest on a recent Called to Coach. In this September Community Update, Austin and Jim Collison talked about what Gallup has learned from recent conversations with the coaching community. In addition, he provided a window into how those conversations are informing what Gallup will be doing in the year ahead, including: •An up...

Ronny Miller, Director of the Gallup Federal Credit Union, and Maria Flores, Member Services Representative for the GFCU, were our guests on a recent Called to Coach. Ronny and Maria focused on the topic of how to be resilient and how to thrive in your financial wellbeing. Their insights included: •How to use your CliftonStrengths to help you thrive in this area •The importance of establishing an...

Ryan Wolf, Gallup's Physical Wellbeing Lead, was our guest on a recent Called to Coach. Ryan spoke about practical ways in which you can improve your physical wellbeing, including: •What physical wellbeing means •What leaders, coaches and managers can do to encourage people in this area •Some ways for you to enhance your exercise program, in person and virtually View the complete transcript for th...

Chris Miller, CliftonStrengths Leadership and Business Coach, was our guest on a recent Called to Coach. Chris has had, in addition to the disruptions of COVID-19, some unique personal challenges to confront in 2020. In the midst of these, he has found resilience, purpose and hope. His insights included: •How to foster hope in your organization, as well as your personal and professional life •The...

Jessica Tietjen, Manager of Experitec's Shared Services Group and Top 10 Manager of the Year nominee, was our guest on a recent Called to Coach. Jessica charted the incremental journey Experitec, an employee-owned company, has followed in adopting Gallup's Q12 employee engagement and CliftonStrengths tools and embedding them in the corporate culture. Her insights included: •The importance of a lon...

Edward Kayton, Senior Director of Human Resources at Spirit Airlines, and David Klein, Director of Human Resources and Organizational Development at Spirit Airlines, were our guests on a recent Called to Coach. Edward and David spoke of the challenges facing the airline industry because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how Spirit Airlines has confronted these challenges head-on through: •Paying atten...

Lydia Saad, Gallup's Director of U.S. Social Research, was our guest on a recent Called to Coach. Lydia -- along with Gallup Content Manager Adam Hickman -- explored some of the avenues of Gallup's social research and how these can move your coaching skills forward, including: •Where to access these Gallup resources •How these tools can uniquely enhance your coaching preparation •Ways to maximize...

Dean Jones, Senior Learning Expert at Gallup, was our guest on a recent Called to Coach. Dean discussed the challenges that people around the world are facing with the advent of the coronavirus pandemic, including how coaches should approach their lives and their work. This included: •Acknowledging that many of the pandemic-related changes have been hard •Moving to a more realistic mindset about t...

Danny Lee, Learning Development Consultant at Gallup, was our guest on a recent Called to Coach. In Part 11 -- the final episode in the series -- of a webcast focusing on Creating a Culture That Inspires, Danny shared about corporate culture and developing an effective organizational onboarding process. Key insights from the webcast included: •What "corporate culture" really means, and how it rela...

Becoming a strengths based organization requires vision, time and effort from all people involved. In this Called to Coach session Raoul Schildmeijer and Claudia van Wissen from Leeuwendaal share their stories on how coaches and consultants of Leeuwendaal successfully work with their clients to develop and grow overtime. Their ultimate goal is helping to create organizations that people are proud...

Dr. Rachel Maglinger, Psychologist and Senior Analyst at Gallup, was our guest on a recent Called to Coach. In Part 10 of a webcast series focusing on Creating a Culture That Inspires, Rachel discussed the importance of communication in the workplace, including: •How your strengths -- and others' -- should inform good communication •How effective communication can come from a variety of CliftonStr...

Dr. Rachel Maglinger, Psychologist and Senior Analyst at Gallup, was our guest on a recent Called to Coach. In Part 9 of a webcast series focusing on Creating a Culture That Inspires, Rachel discussed the importance of collaboration in the workplace, including: •What collaboration means and its tie-in with CliftonStrengths •How collaboration addresses the limitations of one person •The workplace b...

April Rimpley, Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Ameritas, and Larry Keiter, Second Vice President of Talent Development at Ameritas, were our guests on a recent Called to Coach. April and Larry talked about the success Ameritas has had in creating a corporate culture that centers on CliftonStrengths for every employee and employee engagement. Their discussion included: •How strengths ca...

Austin Suellentrop, CliftonStrengths Portfolio Manager at Gallup, was our guest on a recent Called to Coach for the July community update. Austin shared some major developments regarding updates to learning offerings, including: •how Gallup is shifting its learning curriculum to virtual •the new gallup.com/learning site and the revisions and enhancements to the (former) Accelerated Strengths Coach...

Bob Easton, Chairman and Managing Director of Accenture Australia, and Claire McCaffery, Talent and Leadership Lead at Accenture, were our guests on a recent Called to Coach. Bob and Claire shared how their large, 500,000-employee organization is seeking to sustain high performance through: •Thinking about and treating their employees holistically, as individuals •Helping employees discover their...

Dana Williams of Southwest Airlines was our guest on a recent Called to Coach. Dana shared about Southwest's journey to embed CliftonStrengths within its corporate culture, including: •A movement toward a strengths-based culture starts with building your tribe •How applying your strengths in your work and at home is not a "one and done" experience •What it looks like to lean into your strengths du...

Paul Walters, Workplace Consultant at Gallup, was our guest on a recent Called to Coach. In Part 8 of a webcast series focusing on Creating a Culture That Inspires, Paul focused on generational differences in the workplace and Gallup's research on this topic, including CliftonStrengths. His insights included: •The unique characteristics of the Gen Z and millennial generations •How the generations...