Strengths coaching made practical.
GALLUP® Called to Coach turns strengths-based development into working practice. Episodes move from coach questions to examples from organizations, AI tools, assessment changes, and performance work.
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GALLUP® Called to Coach is a long-running professional series centered on CliftonStrengths and strengths-based development. It is not a quick-tip leadership show. The episodes move at the pace of a working coaching conversation, with careful definitions, repeated takeaways, and a steady effort to make abstract ideas usable. Recent discussions focus on the questions coaches are likely to meet in the field. Should someone retake CliftonStrengths. How should a coach respond when results create an emotional reaction. What happens when AI can build team grids, summarize resources, or provide individualized tactical support faster than a person can. The show does not treat those questions as theoretical. It brings them back to judgment, relationship, context, and the work a human coach still has to do. Organizational examples give the series its practical weight. Episodes discuss strengths culture at IDFC First Bank, L’Oreal Asia, and Mercy Ships, with attention to how adoption starts, spreads, and becomes part of everyday team language. The show also stretches beyond corporate settings. A conversation with Paddy Upton connects mental performance work in chess, other sports, and scaling businesses, arguing from experience that core performance principles can travel across domains. The style is warm and orderly. Jim Collison frequently frames the program, guests are introduced with professional context, and people such as Dean Jones, Purva Hasimol, Dipanjan Deb, and Lauren Seidel guide conversations toward application. It can be repetitive in a useful way. A point is often stated, clarified, and then restated through a workplace example so that the coaching implication lands. The best fit is a listener who already cares about strengths language and wants to use it responsibly with people, teams, managers, or culture programs. The show’s center of gravity is serviceable practice: what to ask, what to notice, what to explain, and how to help an organization make strengths more than a one-time assessment.
Made for: For CliftonStrengths coaches, managers, learning leaders, workplace advisors, and internal champions who need language and examples for real coaching situations. It also suits business listeners interested in culture change through strengths-based development.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by pairing Gallup’s strengths framework with detailed implementation stories from organizations, coaches, and performance settings. It favors patient explanation over punchy commentary, which makes it useful for people carrying the work into teams.
GALLUP® Called to Coach is a webcast resource for those who want to help others discover and use their strengths. We have Gallup experts and independent strengths coaches share tactics, insights and strategies to help coaches maximize the talent of individuals, teams and organizations around the world. Being your best self means playing to your strengths at work and everywhere else. Discover your strengths and learn how to use them to thrive with CliftonStrengths® 34. Visit https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths today!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Practical questioning turns CliftonStrengths from an assessment into a working method for coaching, team development and management.
GALLUP Called to Coach turns strengths coaching into an operating conversation about how managers, coaches and teams actually work. Jim Collison gives guests room to explain their reasoning, then brings the discussion back to practical questions from the chat.
A team map for two people: your strengths work can start smaller than a company-wide rollout.
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A performance coach traces how mental-performance ideas move from elite sport and chess into scaling businesses.
Paddy Upton's conversation on performance coaching finds its hook in a useful mismatch: he works with chess player Gukesh while knowing almost nothing about chess.
A grounded warning for coaches about which tactical parts of the work AI may absorb first.
AI lands here as a test of what coaching actually sells, not as a shiny future-facing add-on. Dean Jones, who leads business strategy for Gallup's CliftonStrengths coach community, tells Jim Collison that AI coaches will likely get much better while human coaches still have a…
A second CliftonStrengths result becomes a coaching prompt shaped by context, timing, and lived experience.
A Gallup Access update turns into a useful coaching question: what should someone and a coach do with a second CliftonStrengths assessment? Jim Collison, Jim Asplen, and Emily Lorenz frame the new ability to keep multiple results in one account as more than a product change.
A service organization shows how strengths coaching can become a shared language for teams.
Mercy Ships works here as a clear case study in strengths-based teamwork, especially in the unusual setting of people serving aboard a ship for a year.
A focused look at how CliftonStrengths can move from individual manager development into shared organizational practice.
CliftonStrengths moves through an organization most convincingly when managers do more than use it for their own development. This review-worthy episode looks at how that shift can become intentional, with Dean Jones discussing manager-led adoption and Jim Collison guiding the…
A practical coaching conversation frames resiliency through burnout, support systems, and more intentional strengths use.
Resiliency receives a grounded coaching treatment in this third installment of Called to Coach's three-part series on challenges. Dr. Jacqueline Robinson and Jim Collison tie the topic to burnout, especially the pattern of spending strengths outwardly without replenishing them…
A grounded case for keeping student strengths visible from freshman year through the next transition.
Campus engagement is framed as a continuity challenge: strengths introduced in freshman year need to remain visible as students move toward work or further education.
Leadership balance before burnout takes over.
A midweek reset for school leaders.
Jim Collison and Hannah Lomax discuss how to have better strengths-based feedback conversations, exploring what makes feedback effective and how to tailor it to individual strengths.
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Jim Collison and Sarah Vander Helm discuss using CliftonStrengths to achieve New Year's goals, with audience interaction on top strengths and 2024 goals.
Jim Collison interviews Janet Gibbon about using CliftonStrengths to boost campus engagement.
Jim Collison and Jacqueline Robinson explore workplace resiliency in the third part of a series on current workforce challenges.
Performance principles travel, but Upton does not treat that as a neat slogan.
Jim Collison treats AI as a coaching tool, not a distant tech story.
Gallup's Call to Coach on May 15, 2025 centers on a June update that lets one Gallup Access account track multiple CliftonStrengths results over time and choose which result to display.
Purva Hasimol introduces Dr.
Gallup's Dipanjan Dev introduces a conversation with Radhika Mehta from IDFC First Bank about implementing a strengths-based culture using a 'pull' approach.
Gallup's Called to Coach (May 13, 2025) features Lisa (leadership development designer) and Robert (COO), both from Mercy Ships, discussing how they've built a CliftonStrengths-based culture across two hospital ships in Sierra Leone and Madagascar, a dental school in Guinea, and 15 national offices spanning 50+ countries.
Gallup's Dean Jones (global talent development architect) joins host Jim Collison on Called to Coach (April 22, 2025) to present six strategies for introducing CliftonStrengths to an organization.
Jim Collison introduces Kaylin Romain, a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, to discuss managing emotional responses to discovering strengths.
Jim Collison and Danny Lee discuss fostering teamwork using CliftonStrengths, with Danny sharing his background and top five strengths.