CliftonStrengths Assessment

Why CliftonStrengths?

Build the competencies and talents you have while at school to help you increase your success later in life. Student will take their CliftonStrengths and understand how to harness their Top Five Talents throughout their time at school. Students will learn how to leverage them to complete specific goals, to strengthen their ability to collaborate with others and develop their natural talents and leadership skills.

Strengths is an accelerant for conversations, creating simple ways to convey what you offer, what you need and how you can show up for others. It’s a way to eliminate pretense and get to the heart of what’s really important. (How to Have Strengths Conversations (gallup.com))

  • It gives people a shortcut for getting to know each other and building trusting relationships. Strengths fosters productive ongoing conversations about what talents people bring to certain situations and is a language that bridges culture and organizational demographics — giving team members ways to communicate why they are unique and how their differences benefit the team.
  • Communication breaks down most often when we fail to understand each other or lack the self-awareness to understand how we fit in. CliftonStrengths enhances our self-awareness, gives us the language to easily articulate our commonalities and differences, and highlights how we and others contribute to the bigger picture.
  • Strengths acts as an accelerant for conversations, creating simple ways to convey what you offer, what you need and how you can show up for others. It’s a way to eliminate pretense and get to the heart of what’s really important.
  • When we infuse strengths into our conversations, we’re creating conditions for successful communication.

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