Meet Our Strengths Coaches
Do you excel at inspiring and empowering others? Are you great at conversation and seeing the strengths of others? Do you desire to be part of a groundbreaking approach to impact student success? Apply to be a Student Strengths Coach and work with first-year business students in Investing in Strengths (BSAD 111) for the first eight weeks of the fall 2026 semester. You will be trained and certified as a student strengths coach and will work with a team of equally talented peers to help students understand and apply their strengths to be more engaged in school and have higher life well-being. Any UNL student who is enrolled in at least 6 credit hours may apply.
Applications for fall 2025 are closed. Fall 2026 applications will open in August 2025.
On students’ Top 5 CliftonStrengths®
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On their Top 5 CliftonStrengths®
You’ll be trained and certified as a student strengths coach and work with a team of equally talented peers to help students understand and apply their strengths to be more engaged in school and have higher life well-being.
• Lead a 50-minute recitation of 8-10 students once a week for eight weeks • Lead two 30-minute, one-on-one strengths coaching sessions with each member of your team • Attend a one-hour coach meeting per week for continued training • Monitor your students’ progress through your gradebook in Canvas • Successfully complete the Students Strengths Coach Training Course in the spring semester (MNGT 451, 3 credit hours, Tuesdays 3:30-6:20 p.m.)
• Open to ALL majors and colleges • Engaged and energized by helping students understand and apply their strengths to be successful • Commit to the semester-long Strengths Coach Training Course (MNGT 451) • Available to work up to six hours a week during the first eight weeks of the fall semester • Must be at least a part-time student at UNL • Must maintain a 2.5 grade point average or above to be eligible for MNGT 451 and coaching • Cannot be on academic probation during MNGT 451 or coaching
• Learn about a student development approach grounded in positive psychology used on 900 campuses • Leverage your own CliftonStrengths themes to create a positive environment for students to grow • Develop leadership skills • Be trained and certified as a student strengths coach on the CliftonStrengths Assessment • Undergraduates are paid hourly for their work in the eight weeks
August 1: Application Opens September 29: Application Closes Mid-October: Finalists Notified End of October: Interviews
Clifton Strengths Institute cliftonstrengths@unl.edu HLH 115 P.O. Box 880405 Lincoln, NE 68588-0405 402-472-2035
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