How Are You Perceived At Work When You're "Feeding" Your Strengths Zone?
How You're Perceived At Work With Fed Strengths (Mature CliftonStrengths Talents)
Achiever - One of the hardest workers on the team; a pace-setter to show others the outputs that are really possible if they get in their flow; diligent employee and teammate who focuses on accomplishment of goals
Activator - You show people that dreams are merely wishes if you don't get started — you inspire them to take the first step, or you model the courage yourself; a catalytic spark of energy for the team — people will often follow your lead because you confidently get things going
Adaptability - Fully present and in this moment — your attention makes others feel important; great at flowing with the needs of the business; a change agent for the team because you model that there's an upside to supporting the change
Analytical - Dispassionate; the ultimate truth-seeker — even when you don't like the truth, you want to find it through data; objective and clear thinker, especially in trend spotting and decision-making; logical problem solver, even when others are stuck in emotional reactions
Arranger - Organizes moving parts; collaborates; sorts puzzle pieces
Belief - Passionately lives out core values, even at work; has clarity and conviction — people know who you are and what to expect of you; inspired by purpose and lives it out
Command - Clear; decisive; persuasive
Communication - Brings attention to critical messages; expressive; great with words and positioning
Competition - Celebrates everyone's wins; has high aspirations for self and others
Connectedness - Brings inherent unity into clear view; highly present in every conversation; is "right here right now"; shows links among ideas and people
Consistency - Creates predictability; focused on group needs; brings efficiency
Context - Appreciative of predecessors; celebrator of history; connector of past
Deliberative - Risk spotter; conscientious; thorough
Developer - Patient; mentor to newbies; celebrates incremental growth
Discipline - Precise manager of details; maximizer of limited resources
Empathy - Makes the visceral explicit; gives a voice to people; spots hidden derailers
Focus - Intentional; prioritized; concentrated
Futuristic - Creates a picture of tomorrow; shows possibilities; forecasts downstream impact
Harmony - Calm, even-tempered; peacemaking; constructive
Ideation - Navigator of ambiguity; brings fresh perspective; brings ideas to help unstick
Individualization - Talent spotter; customizes to make relevant; potential finder and nurturer
Includer - “Welcome to the neighborhood” teammate; drives performance through diversity; gives quiet people a voice
Input - A go-to for team tools and resources; has a growth mindset; sharer of knowledge
Intellection - Conceptual, smart, deep; demonstrates wisdom and understanding; creates models for thinking
Learner - Relishes learning itself; curious; team’s early adopter and tester
Maximizer - Focused on excellence; tinkers to improve over time; finds efficient improvements
Positivity - Brings hope and optimism to the team; fun-loving; has contagious energy
Relator - Genuine; authentic; mutual relationship builder
Responsibility - Brings accountability to the team; deadline hitter; dependable
Restorative - Turning dysfunction into function; courageously accountable; patient problem solver
Self-Assurance - Confident, even in chaos; self-aware leader; helps people feel calm
Significance - Knowing others value your work; comes through when stakes are high
Strategic - Imaginative strategist; pathfinder; simplifies the complex
Woo - Highly likable teammate; energy-infuser; outgoing
This list of phrases will help you describe your strengths zone. When you feed and nurture raw talents, you can turn natural talents into strengths. That's why we call them fed strengths. It's a weird phrase, but it totally makes sense.
This inventory of words and phrases shows how you might be perceived when you're operating in your zone of genius. These are clues about what you look like when you nurture your natural talents and show up at your best at work.
Which of these have you heard during your career? Which of these phrases finish your sentence, "you're so good at being..." or "you're always..." or "I love how you are..." These are comments to notice because they give you clues about how you're perceived when you're at your best at work.
This is a great personal branding exercise - both individually or as a team if you're doing a CliftonStrengths training together.
A go-to for team tools & resources
Appreciates the wonder in things
Appreciative of predecessors
Authentic
Brings accountability to team
Brings attention to critical messages
Brings efficiency
Brings fresh perspective
Brings hope & optimism to team
Brings ideas to help unstick
Brings inherent unity into clear view
Calm, even tempered
Catalytic
Celebrates everyone’s wins
Celebrates incremental growth
Celebrator of history
Change agent
Clarity & conviction
Clear
Collaborating
Coming through when stakes are high
Concentrated
Conceptual, smart, deep
Confident, even in chaos
Connector of past
Conscientious
Constructive
Courageously accountable
Creates a picture of tomorrow
Creates models for thinking
Creates predictability
Curious
Customizes to make relevant
Deadline hitter
Decisive
Demonstrates wisdom & understanding
Dependable
Diligent
Dispassionate
Drives performance through diversity
Energy-infuser
Expressive
Finds efficient improvements
Flows with needs
Focused on excellence
Focused on group needs
Forecasts downstream impact
Fully present
Fun-loving
Genuine
Gives a voice to people
Gives quiet people a voice
Growth mindset
Hard worker
Has contagious energy
Helps people feel calm
High aspirations for self & others
Highly likable teammate
Imaginative strategist
Inspired by purpose
Intentional
Knowing others value my work
Logical problem solver
Makes the visceral explicit
Maximizer of limited resources
Mentor to newbies
Movement maker
Mutual relationship builder
Navigator of ambiguity
Objective thinking
Organizing moving parts
Outgoing
Pace setter
Passionately living core values
Pathfinder
Patient
Patient problem solver
Peace making
Persuasive
Potential finder & nurturer
Precise manager of details
Prioritized
Relishes learning itself
Risk spotter
Self-aware leader
Sharer of knowledge
Shows links among ideas & people
Shows possibilities
Simplifies the complex
Sorting puzzle pieces
Spark of energy
Spots hidden derailers
Talent spotter
Team’s early adopter & tester
Thorough
Tinkers to improve over time
Turning dysfunction into function
When expectations are high
“Welcome to the neighborhood” teammate
Here's a pdf version of this list if you prefer to work from a downloadable copy.