StrengthsFinder™
The most effective leaders are those who are aware of their unique, natural talents, and leverage strengths for maximum success and powerful outcomes. StrengthsFinder™ is a revolutionary tool for understanding and developing human potential. Based on a 40-year study of human strengths, Gallup created a language of the 34 most common talents and developed the Clifton StrengthsFinder™ assessment to help people discover and describe these talents.

The StrengthsFinder™ talent assessment tool measures a person’s talent in each of these 34 themes, and then reveals his or her 5 most dominant themes, or “Signature Themes”. It also provides that person’s entire sequence of 34 themes in order of dominance. Individuals who focus on their Signature Themes – their areas of greatest talent – have the best opportunity to build strengths and become more successful.

Over the past several years, millions of people have used StrengthsFinder™ to discover their greatest talents. The assessment has been translated into more than 20 languages and is used by businesses, schools, community groups and individuals in more than 50 nations around the world.

Strengths-Based Development
Gallup research has proven that the best way to develop people -- and net the greatest return on investment -- is to identify the ways in which they most naturally think, feel, and behave as unique individuals, then build upon those talents to create strength, the ability to provide consistent, near-perfect performance in a specific task. Laurie Baedke is a Gallup certified Strengths Performance Coach, a leading-edge specialist dedicated to closely partnering with organizations to align vital human resource functions with crucial business and organization needs.

What impact do strengths development programs have on organizational performance? Gallup research shows that strengths development initiatives can produce increases in employee engagement that in turn lead to improved business outcomes in areas including retention, productivity, profitability, customer engagement and safety.

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