My StrengthsFinder Results StrengthsFindertakes a look at strengths from a much deeper level than “good at math” or “strong communication skills.” Instead, it comes at strengths from a thematic level which (nerd alert) I LOVE.
What is StrengthsFinder and why do you need it?
Why should you take StrengthsFinder?
- It validates who you are. Rather than berating you for your weaknesses, StrengthsFinder recognizes the things you’re already awesome at, thereby motivating you to improve your strengths even more. ...
- It’s excellent for teams. ...
- It provides tons of suggestions for using your strengths in your life and business. ...
How to apply the StrengthsFinder assessment?
Talents in this grouping include:
- Analytical (consider which factors will affect the outcome of a situation)
- Context (appreciate how prior historical events apply to the current situation)
- Futuristic (inspires people with a vision of how the future could be)
- Ideation (able to generate new ideas; interested in the possibilities)
What are the strengths in StrengthsFinder?
• Once you have completed your assessment, you will receive your “Top 5 Signature Themes of Talent” on your screen. People who are especially talented in the Includer theme are accepting of others. They show awareness of those who feel left out, and make an effort to include them.
How many strengths in StrengthsFinder?
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- Restorative
- Individualization
- Futuristic
- Learner
- Intellection
What does StrengthsFinder assessment actually measure?
What Does the StrengthsFinder Measure? The Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment helps identify the areas where you (or team if being used in that context) have the greatest potential for building strength. It measures recurring patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior.
How accurate is StrengthsFinder?
The internal consistency reliability (Coefficient alpha) ranged from 0.50 to 0.75 across the 34 themes (Asplund et al., 2007). The test-retest reliability with an interval of eight to 12 weeks ranged from 0.52 to 0.81 (Asplund et al., 2007).
What are the best strengths in StrengthsFinder?
StrengthsFinder Resources – Explore Your Top 5 Strengthspositivity.relator.responsibility.restorative.self-assurance.significance.strategic.woo.More items...
What is the most common StrengthsFinder?
The StrengthsFinder Theme of Achiever has remained the most commonly occurring Strength, showing up in more than 31% of 15 million individual's Top 5 Strengths.
Is the CliftonStrengths assessment worth it?
Work better with others: The CliftonStrengths assessment can be incredibly beneficial to teams as well. According to Gallup, employees that receive strengths-based development are up to 23% more engaged at work. The assessment can help build stronger team dynamics and better collaboration among team members.
Can my CliftonStrengths change?
CliftonStrengths coaches and enthusiasts often wonder to what degree, then, an individual's strengths can change over time. The brain's ability to change is called neuroplasticity. Our strengths develop during a period of enhanced neuroplasticity that begins at age three.
What are the least common strengths StrengthsFinder?
Command® is the least common of all StrengthsFinder themes with only 5% of people who have completed the StrengthsFinder assessment having Command in their Top 5. Although we don't see that many people with the Command talent, when it appears, it usually has an impact.
Why is StrengthsFinder important?
Gallup's StrengthsFinder assessment can help you identify the strengths of the people working in your teams. Once you know what strengths are present, you can begin to make the most of your employees' talents, maximizing productivity and increasing morale throughout your organization.
What do you do with CliftonStrengths?
7 Ways to Use CliftonStrengths to Improve Your Employee Experience StrategyA strengths-based approach transcends employee life cycle stages.Boost engagement and other outcomes by focusing on CliftonStrengths.Focusing on what employees do best is critical to performance development.
What are the most rare CliftonStrengths?
CliftonStrengths on Twitter: "The 5 least common #strengths are: command, self-assurance, significance, discipline and context.
What does woo mean in CliftonStrengths?
winning others overWoo stands for winning others over. You enjoy the challenge of meeting new people and getting them to like you. Strangers are rarely intimidating to you. On the contrary, strangers can be energizing.
What is the difference between StrengthsFinder and CliftonStrengths?
In 2007, StrengthsFinder 2.0 was released and became the upgraded version of the assessment used today. Rather than measure a person's behavior as DiSC assessments are designed to do, CliftonStrengths gives teams and individuals an opportunity to discover their natural patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.
What are your strengths?
The StrengthsFinder assessment is a personal development tool developed by Gallup Education, which provides an individual with their “Top 5” strengths. 34 different strength themes are divided into four domains of Strategic Thinking, Relationship Building, Influencing and Executing.
You will feel the flow!
When you know what you do best and you put yourself in situations to express your innate talents on a daily basis, you will feel extremely engaged. Another way to describe engagement is by “ being in the flow ”.
You will make better career decisions
So many students choose majors based on what their parents want or based on what society is telling them is a “good” or “stable” career. Sure, you might make buckets of cash, but if you are spending 35% of your waking life doing a job you hate, how much money is really worth that type of misery?
You will have a better internship experience
The most important factor in an international internship success is your relationship with your supervisor. For a short period of time, this individual is not just your task master, but also your mentor, your professional network connector and perhaps your gateway to future career opportunities.
You will have better professional relationships
Similar to helping your supervisor know you better, sharing your strengths with your teammates and developing an understanding of theirs as well, can have innumerous positive effects on your internship and ultimate career success.
You will experience happiness and career well-being
Because knowing and using your strengths leads to engagement and better relationships at work, you will feel more satisfied and a sense of well-being doing something you love each day with people who truly get you.
What is StrengthsFinder used for?
It is important to first note that StrengthsFinder is always positioned as a developmental tool and used by managers and coaches in a variety of ways. Similar to each of the StrengthsFinder assessment results, the way to interpret and understand a person's domain is uniquely individualized.
What does it mean when you have strengths?
When your strengths are largely relationship building in nature, it means you are someone who often wants to show care and concern to others, often through an emotional connection. People see you as someone who cares. You send the message that human relationships triumph over everything.
What are the strengths of talent themes?
These four domains were named by Gallup based on the type of activities that the talent theme will most likely thrive in , although the themes are by no means limited to those activities .
Why are domains important in leadership?
Domains help us to understand strengths from another angle. According to the Strengths-based leadership philosophy, individuals need not be well-rounded, but teams should be. In fact, a well-rounded team with a representation of talent themes from all four domains often have valuable contributions that lead to high levels of performance.
What happens if you don't engage your strengths?
Any job that does not engage the strengths in that domain can lead to low motivation and disillusionment. Secondly, it means you will need to form good partnerships with others who are strong in the other domains. Let me elaborate on the first point of engaging the strengths in that dominant domain.
Why do we seek partners?
We can seek partners to leverage and strengthen the domains we are not so dominant in, thus creating effective collaborations. On a team level, understanding domains also gives us an idea of how we usually impose ourselves on others (often without being aware of it) - through the lenses of the domain filters.
What is Strengthsfinder tool?
Strengthsfinder is a tool for growing yourself and your team. However, don't think that any one tool is the only solution for growing yourself and your team. Let it be a resource but don't rely on it to answer all your questions.
What are the strengths of Gallup?
Gallup strengths are made up of three aspects: Talent, Knowledge & Experience. Experience: Experience is the amount of time invested in developing a certain talent. As previously mentioned, there are 34 strengths in the StrengthsFinder test (aka CliftonStrengths test).
Is it better to be at # 1 or # 5?
You may be better at # 1 than # 5; however, you don't know if that is because you are a novice at five or you are simply underdeveloped in general. You might not have reached competence in any of them. you still want to work on gaining base level competency in other areas as opposed to ignoring weaknesses.
Why is StrengthsFinder important?
One of the benefits of using StrengthsFinder is that it will raise your self-awareness. The more you know what makes you tick, the more chance you have for success in life. Have you ever been around people who have no idea how they are impacting others? Those people don’t seem to be racing ahead in life.
How many hours a week does StrengthsFinder work?
StrengthsFinder can Help Your Work be more Meaningful. We spend a ton of our lives working. Sometimes 50-60 hours per week. Most of the workforce in the United States would say the majority of their day is not spent using their strengths.
If You Had An Account At One Point But You Have No Idea What Site To Log Into Or What Your Credentials Are
My recommendation is to first go into the Gallup Strengths Center , click Sign In at the top right (or if you’re on mobile, tap the main menu in the top left to get the sign in). Then do a test with your old email addresses. Check your old work and personal email addresses you might have used with the forgot password function.
You Think You May Have CliftonStrengths Results But Your Book Or Assessment Had A Different Name
There are also a bunch of books from Gallup Press that have a code for StrengthsFinder. Of course, StrengthsFinder 2.0 is the most popular. Over the years, you may have used a code from these books and now you want to import it in for your team StrengthsFinder training.
It Has Been A Long Time, So Should You Retake StrengthsFinder Anyway?
There’s a whole episode-worth of conversation on that topic, but the short answer is we recommend using your original results. Here are a couple of links from Gallup on whether your strengths change over time and how retaking the assessment can change your results (or even decrease the accuracy of the results).
Want Help Implementing CliftonStrengths (StrengthsFinder) On Your Team?
If you’re thinking about virtual or in-person training to boost your team culture, head on over to our training page to see if our current offerings are a good fit for you.
Frequently Asked Question: Is It Officially Called StrengthsFinder, CliftonStrengths, or StrengthsFinder 2.0?
The assessment is officially known as CliftonStrengths to honor Donald Clifton, the psychologist who originally created the tool. We often still say "StrengthsFinder" because it's what our clients know and use. The book StrengthsFinder 2.0 is where many people get their codes, which is still the correct name of the book.
Want To Apply StrengthsFinder, But You Don't Have The Budget For It Right Now?
Take the 12 Week Strengths Challenge. It's free. You'll get one "Challenge Question" per week for the next 12 weeks. They help you uncover your hidden potential and maximize your strengths at work. Want to get more out of it? Invite your whole team to sign up. By the way, these questions will work for you, even if you haven't taken the assessment.
Relationships
- How do your Talent themes affect how you relate to the people around you? Yes, this could mean bosses and co-workers which is why CliftonStrengths is heavily used in team development. But what about your personal relationships, like family, your partner, your parents, your children, your friends, even your neighbors? 1. What kind of people are you ...
Activities
- What kinds of things do you do? Not, what do you do for work? What do you do… when no one’s looking? What are you drawn to? Your Talent Themes can reveal WHY you’re drawn to certain activities and indifferent to others. 1. Do you like adventure, going out an exploring? 2. Do you enjoy mysteries, collecting details to get to the bottom of a question? 3. Do you like learning, list…
Blind Spots
- What don’t you see? You can’t tell me because you don’t see it. Even when you know your blind spots, you keep forgetting because they’re not natural to you. Our Talent Themes give us insight to what our thoughts and feelings naturally gravitate towards. My themes tend to be in CliftonStrengths’ Relationship-Building and ExecutingDomains, so I’ve observed that my brain im…
Problem-Solving
- I’m curious what kinds of problems are you trying to solve in your life? 1. Is it trying to create a new habit – maybe breaking an old one? 2. Are you trying to increase your income? 3. Have more free time? 4. Are you trying to connect with others? What are you doing to address your problems? Chances are you’re trying to do more of the same things, maybe even turning up the volume on …
Decision-Making
- Why do you gravitate towards certain options? Is it the safe thing to do? Is it pushing towards your goals? Again, we’re thinking more than just school or work. 1. Where do you want to live? 2. What do you want to do? 3. Who do you want to spend time with? 4. Do you want to be in a relationship? 5. Do you even want a family? 6. What do you want to believe? 7. How do you want to live your lif…
Conclusion
- Your CliftonStrengths results aren’t professional. They’re personal. Take whatever you’re learning about yourself and apply it to all aspects of your life. These were just a few examples of other arenas (beyond work) where you can apply your results. I’m sure you can think of others