CliftonStrengths®
Your strengths are already in the game.
Everyone brings natural ways of thinking, feeling, and getting things done. Most of the time they run in the background. CliftonStrengths gives them names, so you and your team can stop guessing and start using them on purpose.
The basics
What CliftonStrengths measures.
CliftonStrengths is an online assessment developed by Gallup. It looks at your recurring patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior, and ranks 34 talent themes in the order they show up most naturally for you.
The goal isn't to put you in a box. It's to give you language for what you already do well, so you can invest in it, and to help you see how other people's talents can cover the places where yours run thin.
A talent is a natural pattern. A strength is what happens when you put time and practice behind it.
- 34talent themes, ranked from most to least natural for you
- 4domains that group the themes by how they help a team get work done
- 5Signature Themes at the top of your report, where most people start
- 1online assessment, taken once. Your top themes tend to stay steady over time.
The four domains
Four ways people help a team win.
The 34 themes fall into four domains. Most people lead with one or two. A strong team doesn't need every person to cover every domain. It needs people who know where they contribute and trust each other with the rest.
Select any theme to see it in play.
Executing
Making things happen
People who lead with these themes turn ideas into finished work. They bring follow-through, order, and a drive to get it done right.
Influencing
Moving people to act
These themes help a team take charge, speak up, and win people over to an idea, inside the organization and beyond it.
Relationship Building
Holding the team together
These themes create trust and connection. They help a group become more than a set of individuals working side by side.
Strategic Thinking
Seeing what could be
These themes absorb and analyze information, spot patterns, and help a team make better decisions about where to go next.
No domain is better than another. Each one is a different position on the field. The question for a team isn't who has the "best" strengths. It's whether everyone's strengths are actually in play.
From the bench to in play
Knowing your strengths is the warm‑up.
A report on its own changes very little. The value comes from moving talent off the bench and into the game, for you and for the people you work with every day.
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On the bench
Talent you have but don't notice. It shows up by accident, gets mistaken for a quirk, or sits unused because nobody has named it.
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Warming up
You know your themes and how they show up. You start catching yourself at your best, and noticing what gets in the way.
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In play
You aim your strengths at real work on purpose, and you know how to lean on teammates whose talents are different from yours.
Put your strengths in play
Ways to work together.
Whether you're starting with one leader or a whole organization, the aim is the same: get from knowing your themes to using them, together.
Team workshop
Strengths in Play
For intact teams and leadership groups. Map the team's talents, see where friction starts, and leave with partnership commitments.
See the workshopOne-on-one
Strengths coaching
For leaders who want to go deeper on their own results, including the full 34-theme report, with focused coaching sessions between real work.
Ask about coachingLeaders and cohorts
Strengths-based leadership
For leadership teams and manager cohorts. Build strengths into how leaders run one-on-ones, give feedback, and develop their people.
See Leadership in PlayAlready taken it? Great. Bring your existing results. If you haven't, we'll set up the assessment as part of the engagement, and the cost of assessment codes is listed separately in your proposal.
Next step
Let's get your strengths in play.
Tell us who you're hoping to develop, a single leader, a team, or a whole group, and we'll suggest the best place to start.
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