CliftonStrengths Themes

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CliftonStrengths

Each person has a unique ranking of natural talents — how we organically think, feel, and behave. Decades of research led by Don Clifton, classify these natural talents into 34 CliftonStrengths themes, focusing on what’s right with people. When you put effort into developing these natural talents, they become your strengths.

You can uncover your unique combination of natural talents by taking the CliftonStrengths assessment.

Explore the 34 Strengths

Achiever

Activator

Adaptibility

Analytical

Arranger

Belief

Command

Communication

Competition

Connectedness

Consistency

Context

Deliberative

Developer

Discipline

Empathy

Focus

Futuristic

Harmony

Ideation

Includer

Individualization

Input

Intellection

Learner

Maximizer

Positivity

Relator

Responsibility

Restorative

Self-Assurance

Significance

Strategic

Woo

Each person has a unique ranking of natural talents — how we organically think, feel, and behave. Decades of research led by Don Clifton, classify these natural talents into 34 CliftonStrengths themes, focusing on what’s right with people. When you put effort into developing these natural talents, they become your strengths.

You can uncover your unique combination of natural talents by taking the CliftonStrengths assessment.

CliftonStrengths Domains

Each of the 34 CliftonStrengths are grouped into four domains based on similar contributions and needs. These domains can be used to better understand your partners and how to work with them more effectively.

The four domains include:

  • Executing 
  • Influencing
  • Relationship Building 
  • Strategic Thinking 

Executing

Leaders with dominant strength in the executing domain know how to make things happen. When you need someone to implement a solution, these are the people who will work tirelessly to get it done. Leaders with a strength to execute have the ability to “catch” an idea and make it a reality. 

Contributions:

  • Concrete reality
  • Details
  • Goals
  • Processes

Needs:

  • Task orientation
  • Practical steps & application
  • Need to see where we’re going
  • Systems and Rules 

Achiever

Arranger

Belief

Consistency

Deliberative

Discipline

Focus

Responsibility

Restorative

Influencing

Influencing leaders help their team reach a much broader audience. Leaders with strength in this domain sell the team’s ideas inside and outside the organization. When you need someone to take charge, speak up, and make sure your group is heard, look to someone with the strength to influence.

Contributions:

  • Convincing
  • Igniting
  • Enrolling
  • Energizing

Needs:

  • Verbal processing
  • Connect to a cause
  • Validation
  • Energy
  • Leadership

Activator

Command

Communication

Competition

Maximizer

Self-
Assurance

Significance

WOO

Relationship Building

Those who lead through relationship building are the essential glue that holds a team together. Without these strengths on a team, in many cases, the team is simply a composite of individuals. Leaders with Relationship Building strength have the ability to create teams that are much greater than the sum of their parts.

Contributions:

  • Connecting
  • Inviting
  • Listening
  • Accepting

Needs:

  • Authentic relationships
  • Encouragement
  • Listening back
  • Non-judgmental
  • Connection to team

Adaptability

Connectedness

Developer

Empathy

Harmony

Includer

Individualization

Positivity

Relator

Strategic Thinking

Leaders with great strategic thinking strengths are the ones who keep us all focused on what could be. They are constantly absorbing and analyzing information and helping the team make better decisions. People with strength in this domain continually stretch our thinking for the future.

Contributions:

  • Creating possibilities
  • Direction
  • Information
  • Ideas

Needs:

  • Room to Imagine
  • High level why/what
  • Explore ideas for
  • Meaning
  • Giving/Sharing ideas

Analytical

Context

Futuristic

Ideation

Input

Intellection

Learner

Strategic

Explore the 34 Strengths

Achiever

Activator

Adaptibility

Analytical

Arranger

Belief

Command

Communication

Competition

Connectedness

Consistency

Context

Deliberative

Developer

Discipline

Empathy

Focus

Futuristic

Harmony

Ideation

Includer

Individualization

Input

Intellection

Learner

Maximizer

Positivity

Relator

Responsibility

Restorative

Self-Assurance

Significance

Strategic

Woo

Each person has a unique ranking of natural talents — how we organically think, feel, and behave. Decades of research led by Don Clifton, classify these natural talents into 34 CliftonStrengths themes, focusing on what’s right with people. When you put effort into developing these natural talents, they become your strengths.

You can uncover your unique combination of natural talents by taking the CliftonStrengths assessment.

Explore the 34 Strengths

Achiever

Activator

Adaptibility

Analytical

Arranger

Belief

Command

Communication

Competition

Connectedness

Consistency

Context

Deliberative

Developer

Discipline

Empathy

Focus

Futuristic

Harmony

Ideation

Includer

Individualization

Input

Intellection

Learner

Maximizer

Positivity

Relator

Responsibility

Restorative

Self-Assurance

Significance

Strategic

Woo

Each person has a unique ranking of natural talents — how we organically think, feel, and behave. Decades of research led by Don Clifton, classify these natural talents into 34 CliftonStrengths themes, focusing on what’s right with people. When you put effort into developing these natural talents, they become your strengths.

You can uncover your unique combination of natural talents by taking the CliftonStrengths assessment.

What is a Strengths-Based Organization?

A strengths-based organization shifts away from simply managing people to more effective, forward-thinking ways of developing them by leveraging their strengths.

The CliftonStrengths assessment gives people a common language and vocabulary to better describe, communicate with and understand each other.

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