Bringing Strengths-Based Development to Millennials

On a recent Called to Coach, we spoke with Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach Bryant Ramirez.

Intro from host Saurav Atri

• Bryant's Top 5: Ideation, Woo, Communication, Strategic, Activator
• He has coached in North America, Asia, Europe and Africa
• Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach currently based in the Philippines
• Founded YourQuestCoach.com (now Millennial Strengths), a coaching practice focused on millennials
• He is also a millennial himself

Bryant Ramirez

• Coaching has been an integral part of my own development
• I always asked my own coached -- How can I bring my true self to the workplace?
• CliftonStrengths has help me do this
• I see all of my Top 5 working together especially when I travel
• My secret sauce is Communication
• As a coach I can now help individuals the way I've been helping businesses
• CS gave me a new language and I want to bring it to millennials
• Have you heard of Quarter-life crisis -- it's a challenge that millennials are facing, what do they want to do with their life after school?
• We are in an age where information is much easier to get, you can get answers immediately, but are these answers solutions?
• I faced my QLC recently; what is the next step for me -- continue as a consultant or get a new job or start my own company or go to grad school? I went to grad school
• My business school experience gave me the opportunity to learn more about myself
• My call to action is to convert what I've learned in the consulting world into coaching
• I am a millennial and identify closely with them; I want to dig into the science about millennials
• Gallup's report on millennials gave me a lot of insight
• 87% rate that professional development/career growth opportunities as important to their job
• There is the image that they "hop around" -- this isn't really from lack of commitment but from wanting to learn more
• 55% are not engaged at work
• I want to coach not just millennials but people who work with millennials so they can understand each other better
• Reframe the way millennials look at work; they want a coach to guide them; but they want to do their own thing; they want to be held accountable more frequently and focus on strengths rather than improvement areas/weaknesses
• How can strengths-based development be geared and framed for millennials?
• I do it in 3 ways: use trends from Gallup; strengths innovation; and our own strengths as coaches and how to integrate them.

Bryant Ramirez's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are Ideation, Woo, Communication, Strategic and Activator.

Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach Cheryl S. Pace contributed to this post.