CliftonStrengths coaching · Singapore
Your talents are your natural ways of thinking, feeling and behaving. When you don’t know what they are, it drives you and everyone around you crazy. Now imagine a whole room of that.
It’s what many teams put themselves through every day. We assume we’re paid to get the work done, and that how we’re naturally wired doesn’t matter. It does, more than almost anything else.
Great teams start with talent. Then they claim what they’re best at, and invest in developing it. That’s how talent becomes strength.
A strengths-based team is often the best-performing, most locked-in and most enjoyable team you’ll ever work in. That’s what I want for you.
What people say
Reviews from participants and clients, shared on Google.
Coach Eugene helped our company with a very in-depth strengths finder workshop. It’s rare to find a strength finder coach with deep subject matters expertise, knowledge and passion on the subject!
Loved having Eugene coach our company! Our team loved his approachability and clear coaching style.
Thanks Eugene for the eye opening sharing. Having someone experienced interpret/relate the results is a world of difference from trying to figure it out myself lol.
Eugene was exceptional in identifying the relevant strengths in the coaching sessions through StrengthsFinder and really…
Eugene has a great ability in giving words to experiences, making it understandable to all through the lens of…
Trainer Eugene was very detailed in explaining all my talents using CliftonStrength framework and how they complement…
Huge shoutout to Eugene at Aptly Strengths! His coaching style makes session time feel dynamic and interactive while…
About
My Strengths journey started because I struggled to work with people. These were people I genuinely liked as friends, people with good hearts who wanted to contribute to something bigger than themselves. Yet, there was a recurring pattern: whenever we started working together on something more seriously, things would eventually fall apart.
Maybe I was the problem.
After attending a StrengthsFinder evening workshop, I went down the rabbit hole of Gallup’s fantastic YouTube series, Theme Thursday. And then, I GOT IT.
I began seeing people and situations through a lens I could understand. I learnt to recognise different quirks, make sense of people’s behaviours and, more importantly, manage how I responded to them. I became a much easier person to work and live with.
That’s the difference I hope to make for you, too.
I grew up in Singapore and have worked across non-profits, social enterprises, tech start-ups, SMEs and global, cross-cultural organisations, in teams that span generations and cultures. I’ve seen firsthand how much the flavour of a team can influence its output, performance, employee engagement and retention. The right mix of people, working in ways that bring out their best, can make all the difference.
I’m currently a tech founder as well, so I understand tech teams better than most.
If you’re here, perhaps there’s still untapped potential waiting to be unlocked. Let’s see if we can start on that, when your strengths are aptly applied.
Coaching formats
Over 10 years I've coached individuals, small groups and whole organisations. Most engagements combine formats.
For departments, offsites and company events
Interactive sessions that scale from a dozen to a few hundred, designed to be energetic and immediately useful, not a lecture.
For intact teams and peer cohorts
A series of sessions where the team builds a shared language for how they work, decide, disagree and hand off work.
For new and growing leaders
Decode your CliftonStrengths results and apply them to the decisions in front of you: your team, your boss, your next role.
What a team workshop produces
Everyone's top five themes, mapped by domain, so the team can see where it is deep, where it is thin, and who to ask. This is a fictional sample.
How we read it: only two of six lead with Influencing, so who carries the team's story to stakeholders, and is that fair on them? In a session we turn that into a working agreement.
Built for the teams you actually lead
You may be leading people older and younger than you, from several countries, while answering to a boss who expects something different from what your team needs. Strengths give everyone a common language, so you don't have to rely on stereotypes.
Talent isn't an age bracket. When people can say "here's how I do my best work" in their own words, generational assumptions lose their grip, and feedback, autonomy and pace become conversations instead of friction.
Directness, hierarchy and silence in meetings read differently depending on where you grew up. A shared strengths vocabulary gives a mixed team a neutral way to ask for what they need and to read each other more generously.
You lead up, across and down at the same time. Coaching helps you see your own strengths clearly, then translate between what leadership wants, what peers expect, and what your team needs from you.
Questions leaders ask
Yes. Gallup's assessment was originally called StrengthsFinder and is now called CliftonStrengths. If you took StrengthsFinder years ago, your results are still a good starting point, and I can work with them or help you retake the current assessment.
No. CliftonStrengths measures talent: the patterns of thinking and behaving that come naturally to you. It isn't a label, it's a starting point. The value comes from the coaching: turning results into specific habits, conversations and decisions at work.
It helps a lot. Strengths only change behaviour when they're connected to real situations. Because I've worked in tech projects, I can talk about sprints, roadmaps and incidents without needing a primer, so session time goes to the insight, not the explanation.
That's where it often helps most. Strengths give a team a shared, non-judgemental language for how each person works best, which tends to be more useful than assumptions about age, culture or seniority.
A short intro call. From there I'll recommend a format (1:1, team program or workshop) based on your goals and group size. Participants complete the CliftonStrengths assessment before we begin.
Let's talk
A 20-minute intro call, no pressure. We'll talk about what's happening in your team and whether strengths coaching is the right tool.
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