Live Your Best Life Using Your Strengths

The global strengths movement started six decades ago when Don Clifton posed a simple question:

“What would happen if we studied what was right with people versus what’s wrong with people?”

He went on to invent the CliftonStrengths assessment, formerly known as Clifton StrengthsFinder. It has since been completed by over 31 million people to discover their natural talents.

Completing the online talent assessment is your way to:

• Discover what you naturally do best
• Learn how to develop your greatest talents into strengths
• Use your personalized results and reports to maximize your potential

The assessment measures your unique talents – your natural patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving — and categorizes them into the 34 CliftonStrengths themes. The themes are a culmination of decades of research to study and categorize the talents of the world’s most successful people.

The 34 themes are divided in four leadership domains: Strategic Thinking, Relationship Building, Influencing, and Executing. For organizations and large businesses utilizing CliftonStrengths, this is a way for the entire team to see how each strength contributes to overall success.

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CliftonStrengths helps you aim your purpose at greater performance.

Because CliftonStrengths focuses on your greatest opportunities for development and success (rather than on your weaknesses), you can use your reports to tackle things like your career, working on teams and your personal relationships. Core benefits include:

1. Get the Right People in the Right Positions: Identify and leverage employees’ strengths to place them in roles that align with their talents, fostering increased productivity, innovation, and overall job satisfaction. Utilize Gallup’s CliftonStrengths assessment during recruitment to match candidates with roles and adapt organizational structures by using insights from the tool.
   
2. Positive Coaching for Performance: Foster a positive work environment by focusing on employees’ strengths rather than weaknesses. Provide feedback that highlights how strengths contribute to performance, addressing areas that don’t align with their strengths. Use strengths as a common language to understand reasons behind high and low performance, guiding individuals towards tasks that align with their strengths for continued success.
   
3. Tailored Management Approach: Move away from the “one size fits all” management approach by understanding and tailoring leadership styles to individual strengths. Recognize that different team members respond differently to various management styles, allowing for more effective and personalized leadership techniques.
   
4. Enhance Collaboration with Diverse Strengths: Build effective teams by considering a diverse range of strengths when assigning roles and responsibilities for projects. Foster awareness among team members about each other’s strengths, facilitating a deeper understanding of behaviors and contributing to smoother collaboration toward shared goals.
   
5. Promote Self-Awareness for Success: Encourage individual self-awareness by utilizing tools like the Gallup CliftonStrengths assessment. Empower employees to understand and leverage their strengths for success in both personal and professional life. Organizations can leverage CliftonStrengths as a valuable tool to enhance overall team performance.

Absolutely. Teams need great managers, and managers need opportunities to develop. CliftonStrengths is a leadership and management tool that inspires higher organizational and team performance.

It helps you leverage the strengths of your entire team and understand how your team fits together like pieces of a puzzle, improving teamwork, team dynamics and team collaboration.

Tim Murrill, Director of the Solano-Napa SBDC, is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach. He has decades of leadership experience to help businesses improve and thrive.

Meet your CliftonStrengths Coach, Tim Murrill