ABOUT STRENGTHSASIA
StrengthsAsia is a partner of The Gallup Organization ("Gallup") in using Strengths to drive personal and corporate strengths towards excellence through the Gallup StrengthsFinder, StrengthsQuest and StrengthsExplorer tool.
StrengthsAsia comprises top Gallup Certified Strengths coaches in Asia in the advocacy and practice of strengths-based thinking, living and efficiency.
We produce and provide inspirationally transformative experiences in strengths engagement for organizations and people
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Staying in Asia provides us our special edge, experience, point of view and understanding in developing and providing strengths-based engagement in Asian cultures.
As part of the global motion begun by Gallup, we are playing our function in Asia partnering Gallup to reach one billion people in discovering their skills and strengths through StrengthsFinder and releasing the capacity of excellence in individuals.
StrengthsAsia was started by Lim Kim Pong, our principal Strengths coach. The Gallup Singapore recognizes him as one of Asia's foremost Strengths experts in Strengths practices, coaching and training. He is likewise the first coach in Asia to be accorded the Platinum-Certified Strengths Coach title by Gallup Singapore.
GREAT TEAMS BUILD GREAT ORGANIZATIONS.
Engaged workers are the lifeline of organizations. Organizations enjoy these staff members who can relate to and are linked with their goals. Engaged workers work with purpose and enthusiasm, and are the ones who will drive it forward. Check out you in your company. The number of of such engaged staff can you identify?
Worker engagement is vital to driving business success. They care more for their organizations, are more customer-oriented, more team-focused, more productive, more rewarding, and less likely to be absent or leave the organization.
In a Gallup's research study * of offices in more than 142 countries in the world from 2011 through 2012, it exposed that 13 % of workers are engaged, 63 % are not engaged and 24 % are actively disengaged. In Asia, the numbers are not really far behind with East Asia having the uncertain honor of have the most affordable percentage worldwide of engaged workers.
(* State of the Global Workplace: Employee Engagement Insights for Business Leaders Worldwide).
Gallup classifies the 'not engaged' as emotionally disengaged from their companies and are less likely to be productive. The actively disengaged are more damaging as it is a tremendous drain on the resources for the organization. Daily, these workers are busy acting out their frustration and misery and they undermine what their engaged colleagues have actually achieved.
Investing into staff member's strengths develops opportunities for them to do what they love to do and what they do best everyday. Organizations who invest in strengths have employees that are 6x more likely to be engaged in their jobs and 3x more most likely to have an outstanding quality of life.
Organizational engagement starts with leaders and supervisors who can make strengths engagement part of the company's growth method. Our deal with organizations assist supervisors and employees discover the talents in themselves, their teammates, and help them bridge the gaps to reach peak efficiency and become engaged, and in turn, develop interdependent groups. Strengths advancement and engagement drives group goals, bonding, partnership, skill development, leadership development and ultimately, success.
START WITH TALENTS, END WITH STRENGTHS.
Do you have the chances to do exactly what you do best and do exactly what you enjoy every day? It is fairly likely your response is 'sometimes' or perhaps 'no'.
Or have you have been attempting to advance in your life and profession by working on your weak points?
Convention has most of us spending large amounts of time and energy on our weak points to enhance ourselves. In the weakness-obsessed societies that we stay in, we in some way think that by learning what we are weak in then getting to work on them, we can end up being terrific. That if we can fix what is incorrect with us, we can end up being strong. The reality is that we neither become strong nor terrific. We just end up being not so weak.
Exactly what is natural in the diamond is equivalent to the natural skills in us. Talents are our natural and repeating patterns of habits, idea and feeling. The difficulty for us is to expose that diamond in us, our skills, and know how make it shine and thrive in strengths.
When they are able to engage their talents and develop strengths for performance, individuals are at their best. When they purchase strengths, they are happier and experience well being in their health, profession, wealth, neighborhood and social relationships. You are more effective when you concentrate on exactly what you are innately proficient at, and not exactly what you are bad at. Start with your skills and end with strengths. Concentrate on exactly what is strong and not exactly what is wrong.
The Gallup Singapore acknowledges him as one of Asia's foremost Strengths specialists in Strengths practices, coaching and training. Strengths advancement and engagement drives group objectives, bonding, collaboration, talent development, leadership development and eventually, earnings.
The difficulty for us is to reveal that diamond in us, our skills, and know how make it flourish and shine in strengths.
People are at their best when they are able to engage their talents and build strengths for performance. Start with your talents and end with strengths.