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A digital asset trading firm

Keeping a shared strengths language as the organisation grows

How a digital asset trading firm used repeat strengths workshops and onboarding to support teams as the organisation grew from Singapore into Kuala Lumpur and Vietnam.

Programme
Growth and regional onboarding
Sector
Financial services, Singapore and the region
Engagement
Partnership since 2022

Programme at a glance

  • 2022Start of the partnership, continuing since
  • 16Completed and documented workshops
  • 240Rostered places across the partnership
  • 3Markets: Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Vietnam
  • 9.15 / 10Mean overall rating across 15 reports
  • 9.3 / 10Latest cohort, August 2026

The organisational need

Growth changes how people work together. New employees join, teams expand and colleagues across locations need a practical way to build understanding early.

The firm began working with Strengths School in 2022. What started with leadership-focused strengths work developed into a multi-year relationship supporting repeat cohorts in Singapore and regional onboarding in Kuala Lumpur and Vietnam.

How the journey developed

The first three documented workshops in 2022 established a leadership and strengths foundation in Singapore. The firm returned for another cohort in 2023 and two more in 2024.

The partnership grew faster in 2025, with six workshops serving 92 rostered places, including the first Kuala Lumpur and Vietnam cohorts. Four further workshops in 2026 served 60 rostered places, including a return to Kuala Lumpur and a Singapore cohort in August.

  • Personal strengths and value-add
  • Colleagues' working styles
  • Possible blind spots
  • Collaboration and candid conversations
  • Workplace application

The growth journey

  1. Singapore foundation

    Leadership and strengths, from 2022

  2. Return workshops

    Repeat cohorts, 2023 to 2024

  3. Regional delivery

    KL and Vietnam, from 2025

  4. Ongoing onboarding

    Return to KL and a new Singapore cohort, 2026

Over time the work became more than an individual assessment debrief. Feedback repeatedly pointed to candid conversations, team connection, workplace application and the facilitator's ability to involve the room.

The evidence

11 reports with pre and post measures, 15 with an overall rating

  • 9.15 / 10Mean overall workshop rating, 15 reports
  • 9.3 / 10Latest cohort, 14 August 2026, 14 feedback responses
  • 9.18 / 10Kuala Lumpur mean rating, 32 feedback entries, 2025 to 2026

Across the journey, 2022 to May 2026

  • Awareness of personal value-add5.40 → 8.76 / 10
  • Awareness of colleagues' working styles4.37 → 7.78 / 10

Latest cohort, August 2026

  • Awareness of greatest value-add6.30 → 8.90 / 10
  • Awareness of colleagues' working styles4.50 → 7.60 / 10

Report-level movements of about 3.4 points sustained across several years, and the latest cohort reporting a 68% rise in awareness of colleagues' working styles.

Source: 10 reports with comparable pre and post measures through May 2026, shown alongside the August 2026 cohort rather than merged into it, and 15 reports with an overall rating. Rostered places are programme records, not a count of unique people. These show sustained immediate learning, not proof of long-term behaviour change or business performance. Vietnam delivery is confirmed at one cohort and 8 places, but the reviewed feedback held no valid responses, so no Vietnam rating or testimonial is shown.

A clear focus on practicable takeaways.
Participant, Singapore cohort, August 2026

Why this matters

A growing business needs more than process onboarding. People need a way to understand how colleagues communicate, decide and contribute, and a shared language gives new and existing employees a better starting point. It scales without pretending every cohort is identical, revisited as the organisation changes rather than treated as a finished event.

This could be relevant if you are

  • Integrating new employees after a period of growth
  • Reconnecting teams after roles or structures have changed
  • Expanding across locations or regional offices
  • Looking for a shared language that continues beyond one workshop

Has your team changed since your last strengths session?

If you have new people, new teams or new locations, we can explore how strengths could support the next stage of growth.

Participant comments are anonymised and lightly edited for grammar and clarity. Client names are withheld at the clients' request.