Strength Foundation

We partner with purpose-driven and innovative teams to establish and steward a foundation of strength. Our Strength Foundation is an initial 6-month venture designed to lay the groundwork for cultivating a strengths-centered culture within your organization.

Our Strength Foundation includes three primary layers: Team Grounding Journey, Management Expedition, and Team Strength Cultivation Sessions.

Layer One

Team Grounding

  • All team members to complete our interactive Grounding Journey course at their own pace (within 60 days). This course includes access to CliftonStrengths34, 30-minutes of video lessons to learn about our nature-inspired framework, and three separate 1:1 strength exploration sessions. The primary goal of this course is to build both individual strength awareness and language to share them in connection and collaboration. Every team member will receive a personalized Power & Fuel Grid to support this goal.

  • All team members gather together for a Team Grounding Session. This special team-building event brings opportunity to learn, connect, and cultivate collective strength awareness. At its conclusion, your unique Team Strength Ecosystem will be generated, which is a tool to support ongoing strength connection within your team.

Layer Two

Management Expedition

  • All leaders and managers to complete a Management Expedition. This 8-week management training will equip your leaders to keep strengths alive and connected at work. According to Gallup, 70% of the variance in engagement occurs through the manager — making them critical connections to your mission and outcomes. This program prepares leaders to lead through their strengths while directing and supporting the strength surrounding them. Note that we offer both public and private cohorts (see schedule).

  • Collaboratively determine themes for Strength Cultivation Series. Through identifying unique opportunities and challenges for collective strength, together Canon and the leadership team determine priorities for team coaching series.

Layer Three

Strength Cultivation Series

  • All team members to participate in Strength Cultivation Sessions. This series is co-facilitated by Christine and your leadership team to liberate the unique strength and ingenuity of your team. While the specific focus is determined at the conclusion of the Management Expedition, generally organizational “tensions” are examined through a strengths lens. These tensions include relationship with time, change, complexity, interpersonal dynamics, and more.

  • Sustaining the flow of strengths at work. Once your organization’s Team Strength Ecosystem is created, we are here to support the stewardship of the human strengths in your care. We offer ongoing coaching, strength-onboarding, exit interviews, and special team retreats and events.

Strength Foundation Visual Summary

Team Grounding

Individual

Team

Management Expedition

  • Weekly group learning sessions for 8 consecutive weeks (90-minutes)

  • To be completed prior to Strength Cultivation Series

Strength Cultivation Series

  • All team members and leaders to gather for team coaching series

  • Monthly team coaching sessions for 3+ consecutive months

Sustain Strength Investment

We are your ongoing partner in stewarding a strength-centered culture and empowering the human strength in your care.

We offer ongoing coaching, team retreats and events, and on and offboarding.