'How strengths psychology positively impacts everything' with Aman Zaidi

Organisations have always longed for self-motivated employees who will demonstrate ownership and deliver consistent, excellent performance. Sadly, such employees have remained unicorns.

On the other hand, human beings in the workforce also dream of delivering outstanding performance and being seen as stars. Again, very few of them do.

This happens to be true in the education system as well - the desire to see motivated students excelling yet teachers, parents and students dragging horses to the water to make them drink.

Archaic models of human development are to blame for this chasm between desire and reality. The obsession with fixing "gaps" and creating well-rounded employees is the reason why performance is inconsistent and unmotivated. Done consistently, this obsession also delivers burnout, a lack of wellbeing and mental illness.

What if we looked at human development through a radically new lens?

What if this new lens yielded more self-directed, consistent and nearer to excellent performance?

What if this lens also had the power to improve collaboration and innovation?

What if it could also make our institutions and society more inclusive and appreciative of diversity?

These are a few of the what-ifs we will examine..

Aman Zaidi
Partner - OD Alternatives | Strengths Coach | Facilitator | Performance Optimiser

Aman is a former Head of Operations who likes to move his cheese. He moved into Learning & Development, motivated by a strong desire to utilise his Strength of “Developing People”.

He has headed business units that employed over 600 people and netted an annual turnover of £ 5 Million. In his workshops, not only do participants experience exceptional facilitation, they get to draw on his practical experience as well.

Aman is keenly interested in meta-learning and he constantly looks for ways to enhance the experience of his learners and the transfer of learning to them. He is a graduate of the prestigious Diploma in Experiential Education and he has an MBA in Marketing. He is an accredited Strengthscope® user, its foremost champion in India and has advocated a strengths-based development approach in his talk at TEDx.

In addition to Strengths Coaching, Aman specialises in Leadership Development and Employee Engagement.

In his personal life, Aman is an archaeology and history buff and spends some of his spare time contributing to Wikipedia. He has developed and runs an online course on dinosaurs for children.
He likes to write articles and posts on LinkedIn around leadership, culture and facilitation and has been doing so for the last many years.
He is the co-creator of the DEI focused webcast Inclusion Circles.