StrengthsBuilders LLC

Leading with your strengths is simple. It is about discovering what is most remarkable about you and developing new strategies to leverage your remarkable talent every day to increase your effectiveness, impact, and performance as a leader. It is not about ignoring your weaknesses, but rather lea…

Leading with your strengths is simple. It is about discovering what is most remarkable about you and developing new strategies to leverage your remarkable talent every day to increase your effectiveness, impact, and performance as a leader. It is not about ignoring your weaknesses, but rather learning how to lead with your strengths and manage around your weaknesses.

At StrengthsBUILDERS, we understand the positive impact of a strengths-based approach to performance management. Our team training and coaching programs are designed to enhance awareness of self and others which leads to improved conversations, engagement, and trust within the team. Not only will your organization benefit from a positive impact on performance and culture, but a strengths-based approach to diversity provides a platform for individual differences to be honored and respected — to be viewed as a strength, not a weakness.

When your leaders and teams play to their strengths, everyone wins! Your organization benefits from remarkable leadership, remarkable performance and, ultimately, remarkable results!

Valerie Plis is a Remarkable Leadership Coach, Strengths Coach, Facilitator, Public Speaker, and President of StrengthsBUILDERS – a coaching and training practice dedicated to helping leaders and teams achieve their highest levels of performance and productivity.

With over 22 years’ experience…

Valerie Plis is a Remarkable Leadership Coach, Strengths Coach, Facilitator, Public Speaker, and President of StrengthsBUILDERS – a coaching and training practice dedicated to helping leaders and teams achieve their highest levels of performance and productivity.

With over 22 years’ experience in Learning & Development and Career Management, she has worked with a diverse group of leaders and teams in the educational, government, corporate, non-profit, and private sectors. Sample clients include the Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation, Franklin University, Emerson Industrial Automation, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, and more. In 2011, Valerie became a Certified Trainer and Remarkable Leadership Coach for the Kevin Eikenberry Group, founder of the highly-popular Bud to Boss Training Camp. As a facilitator of this high-impact, high-participation learning experience, Valerie actively engages in developing strong leaders throughout the United States.

Credentials:

• Remarkable Leadership Coach™ (Kevin Eikenberry Group)
• Strengths Coach (VIA Character Institute, Gallup University, Engaged Solutions)
• Certified Facilitator for Bud to Boss Leadership Training Camp
• Master Certified Career & Executive Coach (Career Coach Institute)
• Former Vice President of Career Development firm based in Cincinnati, OH
• Senior Instructor & Mentor Coach for Coaches in Training (Career Coach Institute)

Specialties:

• Leadership Development
• StrongTEAMS Facilitation
• Strengths Performance Management
• Small and Large-Group Training
• Career Management & Transition

Signature Themes:
Achiever | Relator | Competition | Activator | Maximizer

Once upon a time the animals decided they must do something heroic to meet the problems of a “new world” so they organized a school. They had adopted an activity curriculum consisting of running, climbing, swimming and flying. To make it easier to administer the curriculum, all the animals took a…

Once upon a time the animals decided they must do something heroic to meet the problems of a “new world” so they organized a school. They had adopted an activity curriculum consisting of running, climbing, swimming and flying. To make it easier to administer the curriculum, all the animals took all the subjects.

The duck was excellent in swimming. In fact, better than his instructor. But he made only passing grades in flying and was very poor in running. Since he was slow in running, he had to stay after school and also drop swimming in order to practice running. This was kept up until his webbed feet were badly worn and he was only average in swimming. But average was acceptable in school so nobody worried about that, except the duck.

The rabbit started at the top of the class in running but had a nervous breakdown because of so much makeup work in swimming.

The squirrel was excellent in climbing until he developed frustration in the flying class where his teacher made him start from the ground up instead of the treetop down. He also developed a “charlie horse” from overexertion and then got a C in climbing and D in running.

The eagle was a problem child and was disciplined severely. In the climbing class, he beat all the others to the top of the tree but insisted on using his own way to get there.

At the end of the year, an abnormal eel that could swim exceeding well and also run, climb and fly a little had the highest average and was valedictorian.

The prairie dogs stayed out of school and fought the tax levy because the administration would not add digging and burrowing to the curriculum. They apprenticed their children to a badger and later joined the groundhogs and gophers to start a successful private school.

Does this fable have a moral?