Shift From "What's Broken" to "What's Brilliant"
Strengths-based leadership isn't optimism without accountability. It's a smarter allocation of developmental energy — building on what people already do well rather than endlessly correcting what they don't.
Core Workshop Modules
Each workshop is custom-assembled from these modules based on your team's needs and available time.
Strengths Spotting
Learn to observe and name what colleagues are doing well — with the specificity that actually produces change. Move beyond vague compliments to evidence-based, behaviorally precise recognition.
Appreciative 1:1s
Redesign your regular 1:1 conversations to include strengths-based inquiry. Build the question vocabulary and conversational habits that shift 1:1s from status updates to genuine developmental exchanges.
Feedback That Lands
Understand why strengths-based feedback outperforms deficit-focused feedback — and practice the four-element structure that makes developmental conversations both honest and motivating.
Team Strengths Mapping
Build a shared picture of the team's collective capabilities — who brings what, where strengths cluster, and how to design collaboration and role assignments around actual strength profiles.
Recognition Rituals
Design the practices and habits that make appreciation sustainable — not an annual event, but a daily rhythm. Build recognition into the culture of how the team operates, not as an add-on.
The Neuroscience of Appreciation
Why does this approach work? Understand the cognitive and social mechanisms that make appreciative leadership effective — and get the science vocabulary to make the business case internally.
Built for Working Leaders
These workshops are designed for leaders who are already competent and want to become distinctly excellent. They work for:
- Mid-level and senior managers seeking to shift their leadership default
- HR and L&D teams building an appreciation-first culture
- High-potential leaders in development programs
- Leadership teams that want shared language and shared practice
- Organizations navigating rapid growth or post-merger integration
- Any team where retention and engagement are pressing concerns
Leadership Outcomes
- A practical understanding of the business case for strengths-based leadership
- The vocabulary to name strengths with precision and credibility
- A set of tools for appreciative 1:1s, feedback conversations, and team recognition
- One concrete practice to begin immediately after the workshop
- Shared language with peers for ongoing application and accountability
- A personal plan for applying strengths-based leadership in your specific context
Workshop Formats
Half-Day Workshop
3.5 hours · 10–30 people
Two to three modules. Focus on one shift — typically Strengths Spotting + Appreciative 1:1s. Includes practice time and a personal commitment structure. Ideal for leadership team offsites.
Full-Day Workshop
7 hours · 10–40 people
Four to five modules. Comprehensive strengths-based leadership curriculum with team mapping, practice, and personalized action planning. The most common format for leadership development programs.
Series (3–6 Sessions)
Monthly or quarterly · Any size
For sustained culture change. Each session builds on the previous, with between-session practice and accountability. Includes coaching integration for leaders doing the deepest development work.
"You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses. You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can only build on strengths."
Bring Strengths-Based Leadership to Your Team
Every workshop begins with a discovery conversation. We'll design the session around your team's specific context, culture, and goals — not a generic curriculum.