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To meet the ever-expanding global demand for Gallup’s strengths science, Gallup is reversing a longtime policy on our Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment.
In the past, to get a code to take the Clifton StrengthsFinder -- our online assessment that uncovers, in rank order, a person’s top talents out of 34 themes -- strengths coaches and enthusiasts had to buy one of our bestselling books, such as StrengthsFinder 2.0 or Strengths Based Leadership.
No more.
Starting today, coaches, leaders, and individuals can buy codes directly from the Web. This means that for $9.99, individuals can take the assessment, get their Top Five talent themes, receive personalized world-class reports with strategies on how to leverage their strengths, and get access to learning resources that have never been available to the public before. Leaders and coaches from any organization can also buy multiple codes to give out for employees and clients to use. Simply go to our new website, Gallup Strengths Center.
Also new, a truly revolutionary breakthrough: Strengths coaches, enthusiasts, clients, and teams can now receive their complete Strengths profile, with all 34 themes in rank order, for $89. Gallup has never before offered individual users the rank order of all 34 themes. As of today, this is available to all, along with new learning materials to help groups around the world make the most of what strengths has to offer. Individuals who already discovered their Top Five talent themes via one of Gallup's strengths books can purchase their full 34 themes in rank order without retaking the StrengthsFinder.
Largely thanks to passionate and committed strengths coaches worldwide, 8 million people have taken the Clifton StrengthsFinder and have built a career and life strategy around their strengths.
Starting with today’s decision, more coaches than ever will reach even more people. We are also going to actively help coaches learn to do even more with strengths, by offering new coaching materials and courses.
The whole world changes a little to a lot every time a coach reaches one more person. This expansion will truly change the world.
In the past, to get a code to take the Clifton StrengthsFinder -- our online assessment that uncovers, in rank order, a person’s top talents out of 34 themes -- strengths coaches and enthusiasts had to buy one of our bestselling books, such as StrengthsFinder 2.0 or Strengths Based Leadership.
No more.
Starting today, coaches, leaders, and individuals can buy codes directly from the Web. This means that for $9.99, individuals can take the assessment, get their Top Five talent themes, receive personalized world-class reports with strategies on how to leverage their strengths, and get access to learning resources that have never been available to the public before. Leaders and coaches from any organization can also buy multiple codes to give out for employees and clients to use. Simply go to our new website, Gallup Strengths Center.
Also new, a truly revolutionary breakthrough: Strengths coaches, enthusiasts, clients, and teams can now receive their complete Strengths profile, with all 34 themes in rank order, for $89. Gallup has never before offered individual users the rank order of all 34 themes. As of today, this is available to all, along with new learning materials to help groups around the world make the most of what strengths has to offer. Individuals who already discovered their Top Five talent themes via one of Gallup's strengths books can purchase their full 34 themes in rank order without retaking the StrengthsFinder.
Largely thanks to passionate and committed strengths coaches worldwide, 8 million people have taken the Clifton StrengthsFinder and have built a career and life strategy around their strengths.
Starting with today’s decision, more coaches than ever will reach even more people. We are also going to actively help coaches learn to do even more with strengths, by offering new coaching materials and courses.
The whole world changes a little to a lot every time a coach reaches one more person. This expansion will truly change the world.
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21 comments:
Good on you. We just ordered and received the Strengths Based Leadership books for all our employees so they could undertake Strengths Finder and now we see that we can go direct without the book! Even though we could have saved some money had we waited until now, its ok - our staff will always have the book as a resource now and your decision today will help us to promote Strengths Finder here in Australia to those with far less resources than us.
Jim:
Congratulations on your courageous leadership! Talent/Strengths [what is good and right about people] is the official language of the human race and there has perhaps never been a time in our history when we have been more desperate for speaking it and hearing it spoken. I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment that this expansion is a 'world changer' and predict it will serve as a pivotal milestone in enabling your vision to drive the use of Strengths Based tools and principles to a global tipping point! Please know that you and the entire Gallup Organization Family have my continued commitment, gratitude and admiration.
Roy J.
Some feedback about: http://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/Purchase
On the website you say:
"If you have taken the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment before and want to use those results, you will need to know the username and password (or access code) from the site where you took the assessment."
Does that mean the "Strengths Development Package" is only available to people who have taken the Clifton StrengthsFinder (version 1, that came with 'Now, Discover Your Strengths,' or is available to people who have taken StrengthsFinder 2.0?
The website doesn't make that clear. An FAQ entry about that (or something) might help out with that.
Thank you for this! It is perfect timing - I am part of a large company and I'm holding a workshop in September on the Strengthsfinder, and over 4,500 people have signed up from around the globe! This new approach will make it so much more easier to manage our efforts. The $89 full profile is DELICIOUS! Thank you again.
@Anonymous, We are very glad to hear that you are excited about Gallup’s expanded strengths offerings and that you are planning a strengths workshop for your company. If you need any information about our strengths subscription option for larger companies, please contact Kelly Aylward at kelly_aylward@gallup.com.
Thank you for making two great decisions! This is fabulous and opens up a number of opportunities as we help others discover their strengths! Keep up the good work.
Thank you !!! From Brazil!
This can be very important to so many people.
Decades ago, as a part of a national search process for a college presidency, I got to take advantage of your earlier, I assume very similar service via what then was called SRI Gallup. At that time the method was through a series of personal interviews. The institution's governing board used your service to help identify the strengths of its best candidate. In fact, as the successful appointee, I was invited to go several steps further with SRI in personal review with a talented professional evaluator.
I have used the results of those experiences throughout my career, applying your service to my top administrative colleagues in those days. What you are offering here and now is such a value at such a bargain price that I assume you will be flooded with clients. Each of them will be happy to have made that decision. Knowing one's strengths provides a powerful advantage.
You may want to re-consider the pricing. The price of the book is about the same, and having a book handy would always be a better choice. That probably dissuades online-only test takers.
Also, it may help offering a group discount for companies buying in bulk - say 20 licenses for their employees. Would you consider this?
50% of our 50+ staff have taken the test.
For your interest, we're actually mapping strengths required for each role in our (software services) company and mapping that to strengths of our people -- thus (hopefully) helping us getting the right people on the right job.
We're doing this with our training company - www.ciam.in which has introduced Strenghts Finder as a key tool in our Organisation Design exercise.
Best wishes from India!
Regards,
Rahul
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Srijan, India
www.srijan.in/drupalgive
This is a great move. This will enable Strengths to truly come into the mainstream and be transformational for individuals and organizations across the world who did not have full access to Strengths in the past. Thank you for this bold leadership move.
You'd get a lot more upsell on that $89 package if you had an affiliate program that gave coaches an incentive to spend the extra time explaining its benefits over the 5-theme report.
This is fantastic! The StrengthsFinder has become the first step in just about everything I do with executives. I'm happy to know there's now a simpler path than directing career coaching clients to another website to buy the ebook and then having them return to StrengthsFinder.com, etc. I'm also interested in trying out the enhanced report myself.
Cameron Powell
CEO
Feroce Coaching
Hoorah!!! I am in the UK and have been giving out books to dozens of people over the last 10 years. I always loved that you had broken the time-honoured licensing models of diagnostics and made your work so accessible.
Now you have taken that direction one step further and I am so happy to read this bulletin - I know a lot of people who will subscribe and I know how much easier it will be to access your work and extract the true power and impact of it.
Most of all I love that Gallup apply a deeper intelligence to their approach rather than shallow, short term 'make money' models - this intelligent, common sense approach surely makes for a greater, sustainable success over the medium and long term - truly refreshing thinking and a great depth to your approach that I have yet to find elsewhere. Thankyou.
Thank you! I've been using the StrengthsFinder in my work with entrepreneurs for 10 years after discovering it myself and building my own consulting practice around my strengths. It is an incredible tool for leadership, positioning, and calendar control not to mention helping the leader "own" their secret sauce. Again, thank you!
Jim, thank you for your leadership. As a pastor and a passionate coach of people, the language of strengths is absolutely key in helpIng people understand the way they have been knit together.
This forward move will make it simpler and easier to help more people understand what they arête way they are and what God might be asking them to do about fully embracing their talents and strengths.
May God bless you this year,
Daniel
daniel@ourevergreen.org
Jim, thank you for your leadership. As a pastor and a passionate coach of people, the language of strengths is absolutely key in helpIng people understand the way they have been knit together.
This forward move will make it simpler and easier to help more people understand what they arête way they are and what God might be asking them to do about fully embracing their talents and strengths.
May God bless you this year,
Daniel
daniel@ourevergreen.org
I've been unofficially coaching people on their strengths since 2002 but have never had certification to do so. I've worked in higher education since 2000 and would like to spend more professional time helping people affirm, develop, and apply their strengths.
What should be my next step?
This is really great news as I have been a long time Strengths enthusiast!
Could you provide more information on how to become a certified Strength Coach? This has been a long tern goal of mine. Is it possible to be a certified Coach if your organization does not have a contract with Gallup?
Hello from "Old Europe" ;-)
will this fantastic new offer also be available in Europe, or to be more precise, in Germany?
Thanks for your answer.
Can you give me information on how to become a Certified Strength Coach?
@ Anonymous, thank you for your interest in becoming a coach! We are still developing the final criteria for certification, however the first step will definitely be completing our coach training courses.
The Courses
Online registration for our 2013 coach training courses is now open at https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/Purchase/Courses. We are offering 3 courses that are 2-days each priced at $2900 per class. We have also created an “accelerated” $7500 4 ½ -day course. All classes will take place in Omaha, Nebraska.
The three 2-day classes are:
• Successful Strengths Coaching
• Coaching for Individual Performance (Must complete “Successful Strengths Coaching” before attending)
• Coaching Managers & Teams (Must complete “Successful Strengths Coaching” before attending)
The “Accelerated” 4 ½ day course combines the materials from all three courses.
Criteria for becoming a certified, accredited Gallup Strengths coach is still under review. It has not yet been determined whether two or three of the 2-day courses will be required for certification. Other steps will include passing a test, evaluations by your clients, and other such components.
Please contact Jamie Librot at Jamie_Librot@gallup.com for more information.
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