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Our medical staff team was challenged to create a supportive culture and helpful communication styles. We were looking for ways to enhance team work and collaboration as staff. In the past, we had tried holding team building events, crucial conversations with certain groups, and corrective action plans to address behavior issues. When we started working with Becky, things started to turn around. Staff were able to identify their strengths, and they all learned more about the strengths of their peers and co-workers. We also had some huge a-ha moments in the way these different personality types could work better together or how to communicate in a more effective manner. Becky is very professional, kind, and engaging. Her workshop experience is incredibly informative and insightful. It provides a prospective that can be applied to personal and professional relationships equally, and our team is so much better off because of it.

I was pleasantly surprised with the results when Becky Hammond of Isogo came in to work with our staff. In the time that Becky worked with us, we identified our individual strengths, our members' strengths, what we looked like as a whole, and how as a manager I could help my team "shine". The best part of Mrs. Hammond's workshop is the emphasis on strengths and how to develop them. This was one of the best workshops I have ever attended. Mrs. Hammond is extremely professional, educated and prepared. I would highly recommend Isogo for your team, family, or business.

As the Director of a medical practice, my work with Isogo has been invaluable! After truly understanding the Strengths of each of my team members, I restructured the entire front office—which has led to a happier, more efficient and less stressful environment for them and for me. Personally, the negative labels that have always been associated with my Positivity Strength — “little miss sunshine” and the like! — have been substituted with a sincere understanding by my family and friends. Now, they have begun to to listen to my silver lining refrain, and they actually hear what I have to say. They see that Positivity coupled with my other Strengths produces a no quit attitude — and a TRUE smile all the way!

I have seen & read my StrengthsFinder report several times, but it was like reading it for the first time after first considering how others see me, and then using Becky's jumpstart terms as a clarifying lens. As in, not just "right, right, I need to approach it step by step and be friends with people at work"--eye roll--but "oh, no wonder people tell me they love it when I'm the charge nurse. I look organized even when I'm not feeling it, because I have a predictable way of approaching things and make sure everyone is feeling the importance of their own contribution, getting what they need to meet the expectation!” I had an a-ha moment that developing Strengths is not so much about "getting better at" my Talents--which, really, felt pointless to me (how does it help to get better at Empathy? I'm already good at it! Should I work on harmony by starting a kum-ba-ya session at our staff meetings? Ugh!) Rather, it's about creating or seeking out the environment in which my strengths are valuable to others and thus, appreciated by those around me. 

When I first sought out Becky's mavenly wisdom, I felt like I was at an impasse. I loved my career, but my role within it was draining the life out of me. I never expected work to be easy, but I wanted it to feel more life-giving. Engaging with Isogo and seeing my strengths tangibly before me helped me realize why this was happening and solidified in my mind the need for change. Engaging my strengths in my work has given me insight to make decisions that bring more energy and less frustration within my career. I see more clearly how my Strengths can be a blessing.