CliftonStrengths in a New Role

Your Achiever starts strong, setting the performance bar high; remember to pace yourself to prevent burnout in your new position.

• Remember to keep your checklist in check. Maintain control of your time spent on tasks, allowing time to build relationships with your new colleagues.

Your Adaptability may unintentionally reflect a passive nature. Make an effort to show others you can accomplish tasks. Offer to help where you can and show off your “jack of all trades” abilities.

• Remember to speak up when the opportunity presents itself and your opinions are requested.

Your Arranger will allow you to plan your day to use every opportunity to meet your new colleagues while doing your job well.

• Remember to use this to your advantage to have small informational exchanges to discover your best partners or allies within the organization.

Your Command may be received as a bull in a China shop. Harness your need to lead in the beginning. Find a mentor with a similar personality who can offer advice about when you can let your strength shine.

• Remember that you are new to this team and your turn to lead will come soon enough. In the meantime, learn as much as you can about the organizational culture and mission of your company/organization.

Your Competition may be a threat to those who have been winning all of the company contests, or those who are not motivated by the same competitive spirit.

• Remember to take a back seat when appropriate to allow other members of your team to do their best as well. Make an effort to form connections with your colleagues so the atmosphere is more of friendly competition instead of rivalry.

Your Consistency will allow you to understand the history and culture of an organization quickly. Use this to understand your fit in the future of the company.

• Remember to stay open to new possibilities within the company. Do not let your consistency keep you from adapting to changes in the workplace or looking for ways to revise rules if necessary.

Your Deliberative nature will need to be encouraged to make decisions in a timely manner. Show your colleagues your planning and research skills so they can give you tasks that require them.

• Remember to meet your deadlines and complete tasks as you plan how to most effectively finish them. Do not spend all of your time in the thinking and planning

Your Discipline may be challenged by abstract thinking challenges and an influx of unexpected assignments. Do your best to apply your orderly approach to these so you still feel in control.

• Remember to give yourself some time to make a plan and then begin to execute it to avoid becoming overwhelmed.

Your Focus will shine as you begin to accomplish new tasks; however, be careful to work as a team or delegate tasks when applicable.

• Remember to not stay so focused on one task that you alienate your co-workers. Take breaks and socialize every once in a while, even if this sometimes takes away from your valuable productivity time. It is worth it so you get to know your work environment and colleagues better.

Your Harmony will help you easily fit in with your new co-workers. You immediately take an interest in them so you can learn where you match the best.

• Remember to initiate tasks and ideas rather than just following along with others.

Your Includer will enable you to make your co-workers always feel part of things, which boosts morale, teamwork, and productivity.

• Remember to spend enough energy focusing on your own individual tasks. Do not spend so much of your time trying to make others feel a part of the team that you sacrifice your own productivity.

Your Input will allow you to catalog and remember information gathered in meetings and conversations that may be helpful as you begin projects and assignments.

• Remember to use the information you amass instead of just collecting it. It may be helpful to create a list, spreadsheet, or some other catalog so you can easily access and use it later.

Your Learner enables you to negotiate the ins and outs of your new position quickly and efficiently. You dive right in and don’t mind both asking questions and doing your own training through reading and information gathering.

• Remember to form relationships with your co-workers instead of only cramming for the position. Point your talent in the direction of finding out about your colleagues as well as the job itself.

Your Positivity will help you adapt to your new job position and make connections with your co-workers and superiors. People will be drawn to your personality.

• Remember to focus your energy on the tasks at hand. Visualize the best possible outcome for a project and work toward that goal. Let your positivity keep you adaptable to any problems you may encounter.

Your Responsibility drives you to accomplish tasks as efficiently as possible and develop new ways for yourself and your co-workers to do successful work.

• Remember to hold yourself and your peers accountable to completing tasks without alienating them or losing sight of the big picture of your goals at the company.

Your Self-Assurance helps you easily adapt to a new office situation because you are confident that you can handle the tasks and responsibilities that are thrown your way.

• Remember not to take more than you can handle efficiently and responsibly at one time. Do not be over-confident. Be sure not to alienate your new co-workers by making yourself seem like an all-star.

Your Strategic enables you to make a plan to accomplish tasks and find your place in your new company.

• Remember to be adaptable when things take you by surprise in your new position. Allow yourself to make a new plan when your current strategy no longer seems to be the best.

Your Activator tends to stand out quickly to new employers as you complete complex tasks efficiently.

• Remember to share the work and compromise with your new team to accomplish tasks.

Your Analytical may tend to be perceived as somewhat aggressive. Instead, offer to use your talents to help others with a final edit before a big project is submitted, or to be a sounding board before decisions are put into action.

• Remember to think through the best delivery of a message for your new team. You want to be engaging as well as detailed. Point out the positive as well as the details of concern.

Your Belief or commitment to an organization’s mission should not overshadow the actual work you have been hired to do.

• Remember to maintain balance when sharing opinions or reactions to a particular topic of conversation.

Your Communication will allow you to exchange information with ease to your new colleagues. You will be viewed as an excellent collaborator and will make friends easily.

• Remember to allow the communicator in you to listen or read as much as you speak or write.

Your Connectedness will search for the thread that brings your life together with this job or position. This will help you evaluate what parts of the job you will excel in and get the most out of the experience.

• Remember not to over-analyze and grasp for or force connections that are not real.

Your Context will allow you to quickly understand the history and culture of your new organization. You will ask lots of questions, so find a mentor willing to talk about how things have run from past to present.

• Remember to use your knowledge of the past to understand how you fit in the future of the company.

Your Developer may need to take a back seat for spotting potential in others. Critiquing performances early on in a team may not be received well. Be positive about what they have already accomplished.

• Remember to build relationships by asking questions about their career trajectory and time with the company. Ask their advice about ways you can develop professionally so they know this is important to you.

Your Empathy will help you make quick connections with your co-workers. You help make a workplace friendly, so others will accept you as part of the team in less time than others may experience.

• Remember to balance interpersonal skills with accomplishing the tasks you have been hired to do.

Your Futuristic will help you inspire others to think ways to be innovative and not be complacent. Try to find out from seasoned employees as much as you can about the company’s past tactics so you can best craft approaches that haven’t already been tried.

• Remember to follow through with your strategy or plan that will make your imagined future achievable.

Your Ideation will enable you to think of many different ways to execute a plan, achieve a goal, or present an idea.

• Remember to conscientiously choose a means by which to accomplish these tasks, and then follow through. Don’t just spend all of your time in the imagining and planning stages.

Your Individualization helps you build relationships with your co-workers as you take note of the things that are important about each of them. You remember to check in about their roles and projects, as well as get to know them on a personal level.

• Remember to use this information to your advantage so you know who to go to for assistance with tasks or, if you are in a managerial position, who will most efficiently complete a task.

Your Intellection will lead you to ask thought-provoking questions of yourself, your colleagues, and your superiors, which can lead to higher efficiency and productivity.

• Remember to eventually come out of the deliberating and questioning stage and begin accomplishing tasks. Make sure co-workers know you need time to think so it is not misconstrued as inactivity.

Your Maximizer allows you to see the best in yourself, your co-workers, and your new company. This vision will drive you to do your best and inspire your teammates to rise to their potential.

• Remember to inspire rather than command. Help your co-workers see their potential and ways they can work toward it, rather than just telling them to do better.

Your Relator allows you to quickly forge professional associations, which creates a more productive team. Find a strong mentor you can build a deep bond with to learn about organizational culture and the position.

• Remember to focus your attention on making progress in the company. Spend time cultivating relationships, but remember to use those relationships to achieve goals for yourself, your team, and your company.

Your Restorative enables you to adapt to the new office atmosphere because you love the challenge of new people, situations, and environments.

• Remember to accomplish the tasks for which you were hired. Do not spend all your time seeking solutions to problems that are not in your area of responsibility.

Your Significance enables you to stand apart from the crowd, and it gives you the motivation to do your best work so that your employers and co-workers will be able to appreciate the skills you bring to the job.

• Remember not to overstep your boundaries. Be careful when presenting new ideas when they may not be asked for. Do not alienate your co-workers by trying to be the center of attention. Give praise to others as well.

Your Woo allows you to easily make your new co-workers feel comfortable around you, which can create a team atmosphere.

• Remember to spend time maintaining your new relationships in a professional way. Be sure not to overstep your bounds by becoming too familiar with your co-workers and superiors. Maintain a professional demeanor even as you have fun meeting new people.