CliftonStrengths for Conversation Guides for Managers
StrengthsFinder (CliftonStrengths) Conversation Guides, Handouts, and Worksheets
Feel free to share and chat about these resources with your team. These are particularly good for people managers or coaches to use in a 1:1 conversation.
Conversation Guides
1:1 Guide – This conversation guide is especially good for a new manager/team member relationship. You can also use it right after your StrengthsFinder kick off training.
1:1 Guide #2 – This conversation is awesome for goal setting and anticipating challenges. It also compares the manager’s themes with the team member’s themes so that you can anticipate ways they’ll impact your partnerships.
4 Domains – This conversation guide takes you through the Relationship-Influencing-Thinking-Executing domains and how they show up on your team.
Hidden Talents – Using the classic Johari Window to uncover hidden talents.
Mining For Strengths – Remembering moments of flow so that you can apply them to current situations.
Need And Bring – This highlights the typical needs of each talent theme and contributions they bring to the organization. Review and chat about what resonates most with the person and their role.
Questions By Talent – This could help managers, coaches, or colleagues. It’s a way to ask questions that might be exciting to the person with that talent theme.
Theme Overview Map – This can be used with or without the CliftonStrengths assessment. If you use it with the assessment, try it right after reading the report as a way to tie strengths to the current role.
Talent Theme Worksheets and Handouts
Assumptions – Look at the preferences and needs of your talent themes to consider which assumptions and expectations might follow along. This also aligns with conflict conversations because conflict comes from misaligned expectations.
Combine Your Talents – Explore how your talent themes can pair up with each other to: a) double down on a quality, b) allow one theme to mitigate some rough edges of another, or c) change the angle or application toward a work situation.
Conflict – Comparing your personal preferences with the business priorities and teammates’ preferences.
Needs of Each Talent – with blanks to fill in the assumptions and expectations that come along with those needs
Conflicting Preferences Worksheet
StrengthsFinder Recognition Cards
Strengths Reading
Books that are strengths-aligned. Some are by Gallup Press (the owners of the CliftonStrengths assessment), and some are from other authors.
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