
Coaching People to Connect -- S11E13
GALLUP® Called to Coach
Strengths Coaches Help People Form Connections
Sally Kohn: I found an interesting stat the other day, this lunch group that I meet with pulled seven tables together. This was a record. These are people that want to be together. She says it's useful for strengths coaches to ask who are your best friends at work? And when you look at your team members, do you know who their best friends are? Those connections can help us navigate through difficult parts of work and the challenging parts of work.
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I found an interesting stat the other day, this lunch group that I meet with pulled seven tables together, you know, in the atrium. Yes, I saw that. You see that picture? Yes. That's how they measure the engagement is. Yeah. This was a record. We pulled seven tables together to have lunch, right? It's interesting. These are people that want to be together. It's interesting though, we would never, we would never say you would, a manager would never say it's my goal to get seven lunch tables together, right? But the natural outcome of that work that had been done of everyday making an environment that's inviting for people to come and spend time with each other and have lunch and talk about what's going on and talk about strengths, right? Yeah. And that and what they're doing, the outcome of that became a record of, and we took a picture and we put, we posted it to Instagram, I think it's some of those things. But what a great way to celebrate that kind of strengths based culture through an unusual, again, I think some, you know, some people want to pull measurements that may or may not matter. In this case, this matter to us. Yeah.
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Right. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. I also think, you know, there are ways that as strengths coaches, and this is the last piece I'll give you today, but I think that there's, there's ways that strengths coaches, particularly in the work they're doing with individuals, can really be helping people to form these connections. And I think we think about it. I think for a lot of us, and I, I think this may be a little bit of a blind spot, I think a lot of strengths coaches have a lot of relationship things, right? And you kind of see that with strengths coaches and they kind of traffic in relationship. So there's a, it, because of that, I think that that's a little transparent for us. You know what I mean? It's like, hey, this is, this is the oxygen we swim in every day. So we don't think, hey, I need to ask that, or I need to think about this, right? And I need to think about this. We also are working with a lot of managers and leaders who have people on their teams that have difficulty connecting, forming relationships like that. So I came up with four things. I think that would be useful things if I was a strengths coach, you know, and I wanted to really incorporate this into the work that I was doing, right? I came up with four things that I would recommend that strengths coaches incorporate into their work, right? And so I'd love to, I'd love to just share these because I think that, that may be useful. The first one is, as I think it's useful for strengths coaches to be explicitly asking the questions in their coaching session, who are your best friends at work? Who are the people that are your best friends? And when you look at your team members, do you know who their best friends are? So do you know who are the best friends, who are they connected to around that, right? So and you're looking at, okay, who do you, like who do you traffic with? And oftentimes, you know, when you've got new associates, new employees on the team, or you're working with somebody who's relatively new, it's like, well, I really like Jim and Jim and I have started to talk. I don't, I don't know if I called Jim my best friend yet, right? But I'm talking to Jim in a regular basis and I just really appreciate, yeah, that's great. We're forming connections, right? And those, those are the kind of connections that can, that will, that will blossom into best friends at work, those important connections that help us to navigate through the difficult parts of work and the challenging parts of work. So I think part of it is we've got to explicitly be exploring this area. Who are you connected with? Who are your best friends at work? Who are you, who are the people that you're using to talk to, to work things out with? When you've had a bed day, who's the person that you call, right? And so, and it is different. It sounds funny. Sometimes people will say, well, I talked to my wife, right? Or I, you know, or my significant other, right? It's like, yeah, that's good. But you've also got to have somebody in the work environment that you're going to work things out with.
Learn how coaches can encourage individuals and organizations to foster best friendships at work and the benefits of doing so, with Gallup's Dean Jones, Global Talent Development Architect and Senior Learning Expert.
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