Today I came across some new research that reinforces my strong advocacy for strengths based coaching. Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham “compared how often parents and teens discussed strengths and weaknesses alongside how well the two communicate, how much the teen discloses to the parent, and how close the parent and teen […]
I’m a huge proponent of Strengths Based Parenting, a parenting approach championed by Gallup through their StrengthsFinder program. The basic idea in Strengths Based Parenting is that children are at their best when you empower them to do what they’re best at, and that’s using their strengths. In addition, a child’s strengths are found in […]
Parents are typically very aware of their child’s weaknesses. This is typically the result of 1 of 3 cases: their child shares the same weaknesses as the parent, the parent is strong in an area that their child is weak, or the child’s weaknesses are preventing them from reaching one or more goals. In case […]