Strengths Coaching with Val Baguios III
with Val Baguios III
Show notes
A coaching podcast with Val Baguios III and Tobias Weghorn where you get a front-row seat to a live coaching demo using CliftonStrengths. Val coaches MetaFox COO Trisha through a Gallup CliftonStrengths report debrief, exploring how Consistency shows up as realism and how Harmony can slide into conflict avoidance. Along the way, you’ll hear strengths spotting in action and how strengths-based leadership coaching can focus less on “fixing weaknesses” and more on owning your leadership style. If you want to learn coaching by observing real moves in a session, this coaching podcast breaks down what the coach is listening for and how to turn insights into next steps.Key Learnings:Run a simple coaching demo homework: ask clients to track one real conflict moment and note their response to spot Harmony strength conflict avoidance patterns (and when it’s actually working).Use strengths spotting during storytelling: reflect back specific behaviors (e.g., setting one goal per month) and name the strength/theme you hear to build a strengths-based language clients can reuse in coaching.In strengths-based leadership coaching, “delegate the gap”: if innovation isn’t the client’s lane, design a step-by-step way to pull ideas from the team while still making decisions with their coaching demo strengths (e.g., Consistency + Focus).Resources:Val Baguios III's Website: https://solacademy.phVal Baguios III's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valbaguiosd3rdCliftonStrengths Assessment (Gallup): https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/252137/home.aspxFind your Coaching Tool: https://metaFox.euTry the metaFox Strengths Discovery: https://strengths-discovery.comConnect with Tobi on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tobiasweghornEpisode Chapters:00:00 Noticing Conflict Responses (Harmony & Consistency)01:33 Coaching Demo Setup: CliftonStrengths + Harmony as Conflict Avoidance03:17 Val’s Strengths Coaching Background (From Engineering to People Development)05:03 Strengths-Based Leadership Coaching for Managers and SME Owners11:00 Gallup CliftonStrengths Report Debrief: Achiever, Consistency, Harmony, Focus, Responsibility26:00 Strengths Spotting in Action (Naming Focus and Achiever)31:00 Overuse: When Harmony Turns Into Conflict Avoidance42:00 Delegating Weaknesses: Getting Innovation From the Team50:00 Naming, Claiming, Aiming: A Simple Strengths Coaching Flow59:10 Advice to Coaches: Take the Assessment and Find a Strengths Community
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Val Baguios III: If there's a specific opportunity or situation where there's a conflict, why don't you take note of how you are responding? That would allow Trisha to really understand: do I like how I'm responding to conflicts? Because that could go both ways. I'm perfectly fine with how I respond to conflicts, and then she comes back to the coaching session and says, I've had two conflicts and I was perfectly fine with it, my week went normal, it was all good. Or the point of coaching again would be, you know what, I had these two conflict situations and I really didn't like what happened. And then we could explore that, and maybe use her strengths again to see where this challenge would be coming from. But more than anything, it's about making Trisha more mindful again Val Baguios III: of the kinds of situations that cause her to feel that way. Maybe it's about the harmony, or maybe even about the consistency. Tobi: Welcome to another episode of The Impactful Coach. As I am recording this introduction to the episode, I am just back from the metaFox Inner Journey, our coach training program, which I facilitated in Singapore. And having been in Southeast Asia, and having had a few Filipino participants there, I again realized that a huge methodology over there is strengths coaching. CliftonStrengths seems to be the default tool for many coaches. And for me personally, strengths has been one of the most impactful methodologies, as a client, as a coach, as a human being. So today we bring all of this together. We are running a live coaching demo using CliftonStrengths with Val Baguios III, a Filipino coach. And as a client today you'll not hear from me, but from Trisha, the COO of metaFox. She has taken CliftonStrengths and she also brings a personal topic to the session: her need for harmony that sometimes shows up as conflict avoidance. After the demo I debriefed the session a bit with Val and Trisha. And as I was in the pure observer seat this time, I'm also trying a new format. When listening to the recording I hopped in here and there, to underline and
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