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Hi, I'm Maria and I run Quirky Bird Strengths.
We specialise in strengths-based development and coaching that helps you, your teams and your organisation find your strengths, energy & purpose.
Our energy and purpose comes from using our strengths (those brilliant things that energise us and help us to be at our best), to fire up a new conversation, one that allows you to see yourself from a new and powerful perspective that can positively drive you and your business forward.
Our mission is to help you be at your best by uncovering your strengths and getting new insight into what truly energises you.
HERE'S WHAT WE DO
We use the principles & tools from positive psychology and strengths to develop and coach leaders, teams and organisations to flourish. Get in touch to arrange a FREE 30 minute exploratory chat that gives you time to learn more without commitment.
**COVID-19 - All our services can be delivered virtually over the phone and through tools like Zoom and Skype, fully complying with the governments social distancing rules.**
1:1 Strengths Coaching
We use Strengthscope™, Stengthscope360™ and StrengthscopeLeader™ to help you discover your unique energising strengths. We’ll then work with you to develop techniques and habits that allow you to consciously use your strengths to achieve the success you want. However, we won’t ignore your weaknesses. We’ll pinpoint the ones that might impact your performance, and then look for ways to manage and develop them. We’ll spend our time together understanding, developing and applying your strengths to your goals, leveraging these to help you achieve peak performance.
These can be experienced either as a single session, or as part of a tailored development programme.
DON'T JUST TAKE IT FROM US
Here's what our clients have to say.
"Maria is a positive, creative, energetic facilitator that I’ve loved working with, she brings her delivery content to life, engaging her audience and always creating a positive impact with clients."
Head of Training
(Business Consultancy)
"Maria is truly an expert in her field and has become famous in our organisation for the culture shift she instigated around a strengths-based approach to self-awareness, development, performance and career conversations. As well as being an experienced and impactful coach, Maria is positive, creative, hugely energetic and genuinely an awesome human"
L&D Manager
(Health & Beauty Retailer)
"For me Maria exudes attentiveness, ease and equality in everything she does. She has a tremendous combination of warmth, depth and commercial expertise. She creates a thinking environment for me, ensures I play to my strengths and never hesitates to challenge me with one of her powerful and incisive questions. Always an effective coaching session.”
Managing Director
(Coaching Business)
"Strengths are underlying qualities that energise us, and we are great at (or have the potential to be great at)."
Brewerton & Brook, 2014
Why Strengths?
For us, focusing on strengths is a no-brainer. Did you know that people who focus on mastering their strengths every day...
are 6x more engaged than those that don’t
improve their overall performance by 48% vs 6% for those that focus on improving their weaknesses
report the highest energy, productivity and overall success
Added to that, when organisations leverage the power of individual and team strengths, they see...
Profit increase by 29%
Productivity increase by 36%
Engagement increase by 73%
Sales increase by 15%
Absenteeism reduce by 11%
Want to know more? Check out the video above.
Stats from www.strengthscope.com
Heard enough? Let’s talk about how we can help you make some of these numbers a reality.