Your clients understand their strengths. But are they using them to make better decisions and change how they work?
Self-awareness is an important starting point. The real value of strengths coaching comes from helping clients turn that understanding into meaningful action, whether they’re navigating a career transition, developing as a leader, overcoming barriers, or improving performance.
Created by James Brook FCIPD, business psychologist, executive coach, and founder of TalentPredix™, this free 44-page Strengths Coaching Guide & Toolkit brings together a practical coaching framework, 30 coaching questions, and 10 structured exercises to help you deliver more effective coaching conversations.
What’s Inside the Strengths Coaching Guide?
- 10 practical coaching exercises. Ready-to-use activities including Best Self DNA, Career Sweet Spot, Career Crossroads, Magnify & Reduce, and the HERO Resource Builder, with structured steps, coaching questions, and suggested timings.
- The five-stage PEAKS Coaching™ framework. A structured approach covering Purpose, Enablers, Alternatives, Kick-Off, and Sustain, helping you move from a client’s goal to practical action and lasting progress.
- 30 practical coaching questions. Questions across the PEAKS stages to help clients clarify goals, identify strengths, explore alternatives, overcome barriers, and commit to meaningful action.
- Guidance for challenging coaching moments. Practical approaches for situations where clients struggle to identify goals, lack confidence, disagree with assessment results, or find it difficult to maintain momentum.
- Tools for different coaching contexts. Guidance for career, leadership, team, and performance coaching, supported by relevant psychological principles and a practical before, during, and after session checklist.
Practical Tools for Your Next Coaching Conversation
This isn’t just a guide to understanding strengths. It’s a resource you can return to when planning a session, exploring a client’s challenges, or helping someone move from reflection to action.
Use the exercises individually or alongside the PEAKS Coaching™ framework. Each provides a structured way to explore strengths, identify opportunities, and support meaningful progress.
Some exercises use TalentPredix™ assessment profiles, while the wider coaching principles and techniques can also be adapted to other strengths-based coaching contexts.
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Looking to take your strengths-based coaching practice further? Explore TalentPredix™ Practitioner Certification to learn how to use TalentPredix™ strengths assessments professionally with your clients.
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.
