CliftonStrengths Leadership Workshop - Adobe Systems Legal Team, Singapore (Session 1)

"This CliftonStrengths Leadership workshop was conducted for the Legal Team for Adobe Systems in APAC. The session used Gallup's CliftonStrengths profiling tool to help team members identify their dominant talent themes and explore how to apply them in their day-to-day roles. Participants left with deeper self-awareness and a shared strengths language for stronger partnerships and collaboration.

The Engagement:

Victor delivered the first of two customised CliftonStrengths Leadership Workshops for the Adobe Systems Legal Team in Asia Pacific, held in Singapore as part of a wider leadership retreat for the team. Seventeen legal counsels and leaders participated - all reporting directly to Wong Rin Rin, whose own CliftonStrengths coaching journey initiated this team investment. The first workshop took place on 7th July 2015.

The Context:

This engagement began with individual leadership coaching. After completing a CliftonStrengths leadership coaching series with Wong Rin Rin, Legal Director & Associate General Counsel for Adobe Systems Asia Pacific, she recognised the transformative potential of the methodology and invested in bringing it to her entire APAC legal team. The result was a two-session CliftonStrengths workshop series designed to help the team understand each other's working styles and strengthen collaboration across legal and stakeholder relationships.

The Challenge:

This engagement began with individual leadership coaching. After completing a CliftonStrengths leadership coaching series with the team's Legal Director, she recognised the transformative potential of the methodology and invested in bringing it to her entire APAC legal team. The result was a two-session CliftonStrengths workshop series designed to help the team understand each other's working styles and strengthen collaboration across legal and stakeholder relationships.

The Approach:

Session 1 focused on CliftonStrengths fundamentals and building the strengths language across the team. Victor designed the session with interactive activities and facilitated discussions tailored to the team's retreat objectives - going deep into each participant's top 5 talent themes and creating genuine understanding of how individual themes shape working styles, communication patterns, and professional relationships.

The strengths language that emerged from the session became immediately useful, enabling the team to be more directed and intentional in the strategic discussions that followed during their leadership retreat.

The Outcomes:

Participants left with greater self-awareness, a shared strengths language, and practical insights for strengthening collaboration within the legal team and with key stakeholders across Adobe's Asia Pacific operations.

What the Legal Director Said:

“The workshop done by Victor and his team was very balanced, well-paced and well-organized, with sufficient time for quiet introspection, active sharing and engaging interactions through hands-on activities. The number of presentation slides used were spot-on and appropriate: not too much to bore the audience and not too few to be insubstantial. The slides were clear, well thought-out and artistically pleasing – they captured the attention that they deserved. Most importantly, what really shone through was Victor’s mastery of and deep passion for the subject matter: clearly seasoned and experienced facilitator who had thought through the subject matter from many different perspectives, many times over. In fact, he looked like he lived and breathed Strengths every minute of his life: the session was peppered with personal (and often hilarious) anecdotes that the team found to be very helpful and relevant. Their conviction that CliftonStrengths is a very useful tool that impacts individual lives has been very infectious. Personally, understanding my own strengths and those of my team has allowed me to see myself and my team in a new light. It has helped me to make sense of some of the behaviours from my team members and myself and caused me to make adjustments to some of the ways I interact with my team. I felt that Victor and his team have done a lot of work to make the course come alive. My team and I are so impressed, we have committed to doing the remainder of the 2-day course!  ." — Wong Rin Rin, Legal Director & Associate General Counsel, Asia Pacific, Adobe Systems

Adobe Session 2:

This session was followed by a second CliftonStrengths workshop for the Adobe Legal Team, going deeper into team dynamics and application.

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