Strength-Based Living Advantages

Join 26,213,008 People Using Their Clifton Strengths to Thrive at Work and Everywhere Else

The foundation of our organization is built on starting with what is RIGHT with you! In order to live a strength-based life personally and professionally, we need to invest in learning our strengths. Once we learn our strengths we can focus on those and also share those strengths with others.

We want to help you discover who you are and own it!

How do I use my strengths in the community, and does the community benefit from my strengths?

Knowing your strengths and transitioning to a strength-based life will give you clarity and confidence. It also helps us all better communicate using words that resonate based on the strengths we see in the member we are communicating with.For those who might not be the best at breaking the ice to start a conversation, it is a great ice breaker. “Hey… wow, I see we share the same strategic strength!” There are many situations in our professional lives where we try and try to get something done only to be faced with a blank stare from our teammates or employees. When you learn your strengths and theirs you can see gaps in the skills needed to advance a project or accomplish a goal. Maybe you are trying to close a big deal, but not getting any traction relating to the client because they keep asking analytical questions and you are more of an ideation person.

In the community, we do strength borrowing all the time. If one person’s #1 strength is futuristic, they may be having trouble getting things done today. They can get matched with a person whose skills are more strategic, activator, or maybe an achiever. Or maybe you need to bring in someone who has competition as their top strength to ignite a fire under people’s feet!

How can knowing my strengths help me personally?

We’ve all wondered who we are and what makes us unique. The Clifton Strengths assessment answers those questions. This online assessment measures the intensity of your talents. They categorize all that’s right with humankind — distilled down to 34 different theme. Immediately after completing the Clifton Strengths assessment, you’ll receive your results in a report featuring customized descriptions of your rank-ordered dominant strengths. When you purchase Clifton Strengths 34 over Top 5, you’ll receive additional reports. Check out the differences here.

How do I improve my Weakness?

Most people are taught to work on their weaknesses — to fix them. But instead, they should be learning how their strengths can overshadow their weaker areas. Being well-rounded doesn’t necessarily lead to higher performance. You can achieve the highest levels of success only when you stop trying to be a little bit good at everything and instead hone what you are naturally best at. In other words: Focus less on being well-rounded and more on becoming better at what you’re already great at. But discovering your strengths is just the start — applying and investing in them sparks real change

How Can this help me professionally?

When attempting to improve or find fulfillment in a career, individuals often focus on the wrong things. Things like trying to mimic the success of others by doing things the exact same way, or pouring all of your energy into strengthening your weaknesses (without giving your strengths a second thought). While neither of these seems wrong at face value, they aren’t what’s going to improve your career or help you find the richest fulfillment.

Let’s focus on the best day at work for a moment.

What did that day look like? What made it great? Now think about what talents you were tapping into on that very best day. Maybe you:

closed a huge sale, putting you in line to be the highest-selling sales rep of the year
started working on a project with your best friend at work
checked every task off your extensive to-do list before noon
spent part of your day reading new materials from leading experts in your field.

Consider this: There are ways to replicate and strengthen those same talents that went into making that day such a memorable one — ways to help you feel more motivated, inspired, ambitious, or capable of doing the job you’re already doing.

Clifton Strengths identifies what you are naturally best at. This research-based talent assessment can help you identify and pinpoint your natural patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving, which are then categorized into the 34 Clifton Strengths themes.

It explains the unique ways you accomplish your goals by building relationships, thinking strategically, executing plans and influencing others — and every career or job consists of these elements. This is why it’s necessary to know and deeply understand the things you’re good at — your strengths. In fact, the more hours each day that Americans are able to use their strengths to do what they do best, the less likely they are to report experiencing worry, stress, anger, sadness or physical pain.

Regard your individual development as a top priority for improving your career. Think about development as more than just attending conferences or achieving certifications and talking to your manager about what you see in your future as a part of your development.

Set time for quick connections and check-ins with your manager. Quick connections, or ongoing daily and weekly conversations with your manager, are great for making quick business decisions and asking questions as events are unfolding. In check-in conversations, managers and employees review successes and barriers and align and reset priorities. This is the perfect setting to discuss expectations, workload, goals, and needs. Look for the areas of your work that give you the most and least energy. Determine why those energizing tasks, conversations, etc., come so naturally and fill you with energy. Try to replicate those moments. For the areas of work that are the most draining, learn how you can lean into your strengths to cover for the areas that bring you less energy or satisfaction. More importantly, find partners who may show strengths where you don’t and capitalize on their expertise.

Here are some interesting facts:

People who live a strength-based life are 6X more likely to be engaged at work.

They are 6X more likely to strongly agree that they have the opportunity to do what they do best.

They are 3X more likely to report an excellent quality of life .

Invest in yourself by taking your strength assessment which can be found on their website. All members are required to take the assessment before they can join the community.

After you take this awesome easy to do assessment, come back to us so we can help you live a more fulfilling, exciting life both personally and professionally! All members are required to take the assessment before they can join the community.