Strengths based schools with Linda Lenord

09/11/20 • 32 min

Join Teacher Coach Josh Vine and Gallup Strengths Coach Linda Lenord as they unpack how schools can begin and embed a strengths based culture in staff and students. There is great power in the Clifton Strengths finder and when the language of strength is embedded in a school this power is even greater. In a world where students are so regularly told what is wrong with them the Clifton Strengths Finder is a tool that changes this arrive for teachers and students towards what is right with them. In this Episode Josh and Linda discuss how a strengths culture has changed the culture of their schools for the positive.

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