A practical strengths coaching guide should do more than explain the theory. It should help you ask better questions, structure more effective coaching conversations, and turn insight into meaningful action.
The TalentPredix™ Strengths Coaching Guide & Toolkit is a free, 44-page resource for coaches and consultants who want to bring strengths-based approaches into their practice. Grounded in positive psychology, it combines the five-stage PEAKS Coaching™ framework, practical coaching questions, and ready-to-use exercises for career, leadership, team, and performance coaching.
What’s Inside the Guide?
- The psychology behind strengths coaching, including positive psychology, psychological capital, mindset, flow, and positive stretch.
- The complete PEAKS Coaching™ framework: Purpose, Enablers, Alternatives, Kick-Off, and Sustain.
- Practical coaching questions and guidance for each stage of the PEAKS framework.
- Applications across career, leadership, team, and performance coaching, with guidance for different coaching contexts.
- 10 ready-to-use coaching exercises, including Best Self DNA, the PERMA Wellbeing & Performance Check-In, the Career Sweet Spot, Career Crossroads, and Magnify & Reduce.
- A practical coach’s checklist to support preparation, effective sessions, follow-up, and progress measurement.
Put Strengths-Based Coaching Into Practice
Effective strengths coaching builds on what is already working while helping clients recognise barriers, manage overused strengths, explore alternatives, and make better choices.
Whether you’re coaching an executive, supporting someone through a career transition, or helping a team improve performance, this guide offers a practical framework and tools you can adapt to your clients’ goals.
Download the Free Guide
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Author: James Brook
James Brook FCIPD is the Founder and Managing Director of TalentPredix™, a business psychologist, executive coach and talent and strengths assessment expert with more than 30 years’ international experience. He previously founded Strengthscope® and held senior HR and talent leadership roles at Yahoo!, NatWest and Novo Nordisk.
