34 Strengths Themes

What are yours?

Gallup CliftonStrengths Opportunities

Individual Strengths (What are your 34?)

The CliftonStrengths assessment measures your unique talents -- your natural patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving -- and categorizes them into the 34 CliftonStrengths themes. Strengths-based coaching is not about physical strength, but rather about developing the strengths of the mind and natural talents as defined through the assessment and focusing on what individuals naturally do best rather than fixating on weaknesses. Your strengths, such as communication skills, analytical abilities, attention to detail, and the understanding of others' motivations and emotions are emphasized. A strengths-based approach highlights what is right with people and how to develop strategies to work around weaknesses. Discovering and understanding one's strengths can guide individuals towards living a life aligned with their passions and achieving their goals. By leveraging their strengths, individuals can unleash their , potential and thrive in life.

Individual Sessions Include:

  • One-on-one 60-minute coaching session(s)

  • Access to the StrengthsFinder assessment (which will need to be completed prior to the session.)

  • Discovering how to make a difference by doing more of what you naturally do best

  • Acquiring tools and insights that will help you apply your strengths to achieve greater productivity, engagement, and happiness

  • Understanding how all of your CliftonStrengths themes, separately or together, influence your work and personal life

  • Developing strategies to help you use your strongest CliftonStrengths to accomplish specific targets, goals, and aspirations

  • Explore how you can combine your talents with others’ talents to achieve greater success.

CliftonStrengths for Teams

Teams that use their strengths perform better than teams that don't. You know your team members better than anyone. But do you know why they do what they do, what motivates them, or when they're at their best? CliftonStrengths for teams makes it easy to find out. Remarkable things happen when teams connect what everyone naturally does best with clear performance goals and expectations. Strengths gives teams a common language to talk about how they can collaborate and perform effectively. Awareness is just the beginning. Strengths-based coaching improves constructive communication, development, and collaboration. Strengths-based development fosters exceptional performance by maximizing what each team member does best and helps them purposefully use their individual and collective talents and strengths to get work done.

Employees who receive strengths-based development have:

  • 7%-23% higher employee engagement

  • 8%-18% increased performance

  • 20%-73% lower attrition

CliftonStrengths for Teams is divided into 4 workshops

Workshop 1: Start with Talent, Finish with Strength

Introduces a team to CliftonStrengths and principles of strengths-based development. When you understand your unique talents and develop them into strengths, your whole world can change! Everyone has dynamic talents waiting to be unlocked and developed. This workshop will utilize the Gallup Clifton Strengths assessment to help participants identify their unique talents and unlock their potential. Participants will receive a personalized report with their strengths profile and will learn how to develop their talents into strengths. The ultimate goal of the workshop will be to help them use their strengths to perform at a higher level and lead a more fulfilling life.

Workshop 2: The Power of Strengths-Based Partnerships 

Helping team members form complementary partnerships is the basis of this workshop. The best partnerships happen when you and someone who has strengths that complement yours join forces to focus on a goal. You accomplish together what you could not do separately. CliftonStrengths introduces a language that can help two people explore one another’s talents, strengths, needs, motivations, and contributions. It can foster productive, ongoing conversations about what talents people bring to certain situations, giving individual team members ways to communicate why they're unique and how their individuality benefits the team.

Workshop 3: The DNA of the Team 

Helping the team know and appreciate the team’s collective CliftonStrengths talent themes improves team performance.  Teams are the most effective when they understand what their talents look like, how to purposefully use them, and how to work around areas where they may be lacking.  A person’s strengths develop and multiply when they are a member of a team. Remarkable things happen when team members can apply what everyone naturally does best to the team’s performance expectations. But successfully aligning talents with goals only happens when team members are able to answer the following questions: 1. What are my talents and strengths? 2. What unique contribution do I make to the team? 3. How do we best work together using our strengths?

Workshop 4: The Best of Us 

This session helps your team explore how they use their individual and collective talents to reach their desired outcomes and goals. Helping team members continue to harness their talents is done through continuing to practice connecting with a common language — CliftonStrengths — which gives people a shortcut for getting to know each other and building trusting relationships.  It fosters productive, ongoing conversations about what talents people bring to teams and situations. It is a language that bridges cultural and organizational demographics, giving team members ways to communicate why they are unique and how their differences benefit the team.

CliftonStrengths for Managers

The most important factor in building a successful team is the quality of the manager. Peter Drucker wrote, “The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.” Managers are responsible for their own performance, each team member’s performance, the team’s collective performance, and for carrying out the company’s strategy, financial targets, mission, and values. Gallup’s research shows that managers — through their strengths, their own engagement, and how they work with their team every day — account for at least 70% of the variance in team engagement. For managers to create strategies for their team to learn, grow, develop, and succeed, they must first understand how to use their own talents and understand how their talents affect their ability to build, motivate, and develop a high-performing team.

CliftonStrengths for Managers is divided into 2 workshops

Workshop 1: Helping Managers Individualize

Decades of Gallup research has proven that when employees are given the opportunity to do what they do best every day, the effects on individual, team, and organizational performance are powerful.  Talents are the driving force behind an individual’s performance. These talents influence a person’s agility, vitality, confidence, attitude, speed, and effectiveness. The most effective managers Gallup has studied can describe their team members’ unique talents — what drives them, how they naturally think, feel, and behave, and how they build relationships. Effective managers use this information to set their employees up for success.

These managers have learned that people operating from their strengths:

  • learn their role faster and adapt more quickly to variances

  • produce significantly more at a higher quality

  • build stronger, more engaging relationships with their customers

  • are more collaborative and have more positive, creative, and innovative moments

  • look forward to going to work, stay longer, miss less work, and tell their friends they work for a great company

Workshop 2: Building a Strengths-Based Team

CliftonStrengths gives managers and teams a common language to identify, discuss, develop, and empower each team member’s strengths and helps managers make the most of their team’s innate talents and direct them toward accomplishing their performance goals and desired outcomes. When managers and teams know what they naturally do best — and share a vocabulary to discuss their natural talents — they are able to talk about themselves and their work in a way that’s empowering and enlightening.

Gallup’s research shows that workgroups that have received strengths-based development were found to have up to 19% increased sales and 29% increased profit

A strengths-based team is a group of imperfect but talented contributors who are valued for their strengths and who need one another to realize individual and team excellence.  This session helps managers understand their team’s collective strengths and learn how to more intentionally use them to respond to situations and achieve performance objectives.