Program description of Gallup's CliftonStrengths assessment application to physician wellness and burnout.

1. Physician
Strengths
Coaching
Laura Grimmer MD
General Surgeon
SSM Health St Mary’s Hospital
Certified Gallup Strengths Coach

2. Strengths are like Handedness
• Non-dominant hand
• Exhausting to do
• Poor quality
• Constant attention
• Dominant hand
• Hard wired
• Easy to do
• Good quality
• Intuitive

3. Raise Your Hand If You Always
• Generally have less than 10 emails in your inbox
• Make small talk with people in the elevator
• Write yourself a to-do list most days
• Wanted to know what score your friends got on
MCAT, USMLE, etc to compare yourself
• Enjoy assembling IKEA furniture

4. What are Strengths?
• Innate talents that have been intentionally
cultivated and grown
• Natural forms of thinking and natural
behaviors that bring you ease, excellence,
enjoyment, energy

5. Gallup Strengths Assessment
• 20 minutes online test
• Identifies your natural patterns of thought and
behavior
• Creates a ranked list of your top Strengths

6. The 34 Clifton Strengths
Achiever
Activator
Adaptability
Analytical
Arranger
Belief
Command
Communication
Competition
Connectedness
Consistency
Context
Deliberative
Developer
Discipline
Empathy
Focus
Futuristic
Harmony
Ideation
Includer
Individualization
Input
Intellection
Learner
Maximizer
Positivity
Relator
Responsibility
Restorative
Self-Assurance
Significance
Strategic
Woo

7. The 34 Clifton Strengths
Achiever
Activator
Adaptability
Analytical
Arranger
Belief
Command
Communication
Competition
Connectedness
Consistency
Context
Deliberative
Developer
Discipline
Empathy
Focus
Futuristic
Harmony
Ideation
Includer
Individualization
Input
Intellection
Learner
Maximizer
Positivity
Relator
Responsibility
Restorative
Self-Assurance
Significance
Strategic
Woo

8. The Process
• Email me for access code
• Take Strengths assessment
• One hour coaching session to review results
– What do you do well naturally?
– How can we get you doing more of that?
– What is tough for you?
– How can we leverage your strengths to help?

9. Contrasting Approaches to Personal Development
Conventional Approach
– Most, if not all, behavior can
be learned
– The “bests” in a role will all
display the same behaviors
– Fixing weakness leads to
success
Strengths-Based Approach
– Only some behaviors can be
learned (skills and knowledge)
– The “bests” in a role deliver same
outcomes using different
behaviors
– Fixing weakness prevents failure;
strength building leads to success

10. Interested?
Laura.Grimmer@ssmhealth.com

12. “Focus on what’s RIGHT with you”
• Invest the money that you already have
• Don’t worry about all the money in the world
that you don’t have
• Re-invest all the time you have been spending
on your weakness in building your strengths
• Lean in

13. Role of a Coach
Talent
Potential
Being
Soul
Strength
Performance
Doing
Role

14. Fundamentals of Strengths Coaching
• You don’t have to become a different person
to be successful
• You don’t have to be all things to all people
• You can’t be anything you want to be, but you
can be more of who you are
• You can learn how to be a better version of
who you already are

15. There is a strong connection between who
people are, and what they do best.
There is a strong connection between what they
do best, and how people feel
There is a strong connection between how
people feel and how people perform

16. Is this legit?
• 90% of Fortune 500 companies use it
• One third of all college freshman have taken it
• Over 20 millions people have used it
• Fantastic reliability, statisically blah blah blah

19. Name It
• Learn what they are
• Read your report
• What surprises you?
• What is missing that you expected to see?

20. Claim it
• How did these Strengths show up in childhood?
• How did they lead you towards medicine?
• How did they lead you towards your specialty?
• How did they play out during training?
• How do they play out in all of your roles
currently?
• Describe a recent success story

21. So many roles to consider Strengths
– In OR doing procedure
– Leading OR team
– Teaching in OR
– In the office meeting patients
– Managing office staff
– On hospital committees
– Teaching resident in clinic/on
rounds
– Prepared lectures
-Spouse
– Parent
– Inner life
– Hobbies
– How you manage your money

22. Aim It
• Where do you feel lack of “ease, enjoyment,
excellence and energy”? How can you dial up
your Strengths there?
• How you can change your workflow to fit your
Strengths?
• What hobbies could you add to engage your
Strength?
• What committees feed your Strengths? How?
Which ones don’t?