What Your Strengths Assessment Results Reveal About What You Struggle With At Work
A leader I was coaching said that working with her CliftonStrengths results led her to understand something unexpected: her biggest challenges came from her greatest strengths.
Strengths Overuse
A strengths-based assesment like CliftonStrengths® identifies your top patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. The ways your mind naturally moves. The things that energize you. And the actions that feel effortless.
Here is what most people don't realize until they're sitting across from a coach: these results also give you clues as to what you struggle with the most. When you are energized by something, you might tend to overuse it in ways you might not recognize. For instance, overusing Empathy may lead you to wrestle with setting boundaries, or with taking any action that you feel may compromise their relationships at work. Overusing Ideation may lead you to reject structure or routines that make you feel limited.
Identifying Blind Spots and Taking Action
A blind spot is when you are not aware of how you overuse your strengths.The CliftonStrengths® 34 Report and Gallup’s new CliftonStrengths® Leadership Report provide a focused section on blind spots based on your top 10 talents, as well as specific actions that you can take based on these blind spots.
Beyond the report: working with a coach
A certified CliftonStrengths® coach can help you create a leadership development path from your assessment results, and supporting you creating tangible behavioral change. If you are considering investing in coaching, strengths-based coaching is one of the highest-return investments you can make. Not because it gives you a new framework, but because it gives you a practical starting point to do deep work. Interested in learning more?
