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CliftonStrengths® Team Grid

Discover how your team's strengths align to improve collaboration, address gaps and maximize productivity.

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What Is the CliftonStrengths Team Grid?

The CliftonStrengths Team Grid is a visual tool that maps out your team's strengths, allowing you to better understand how individual talents contribute to your collective success. By organizing your team's CliftonStrengths results into one clear, comprehensive view, you can uncover patterns and make more informed decisions for your team.

Graphic depicting the CliftonStrengths Team Grid with the 34 strengths as columns and employee names as rows. Numbers in rows indicate strength placement.

The grid helps teams understand their collective talents, team dynamics, opportunities for collaboration, blind spots and more.

Visual Strengths Mapping

See how your team's CliftonStrengths themes align across four talent domains: Executing, Influencing, Relationship Building and Strategic Thinking.

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Team Pattern Identification

Make the invisible visible by uncovering collective strengths, individual strengths, potential talent gaps and collaboration opportunities.

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Embed Strengths in Your Culture

Use the grid to help embed strengths into the heart of your organization by improving communication, collaboration and strategic planning.

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Solve Common Team Challenges

Use the CliftonStrengths Team Grid to prevent or address problems that can hamper a team's performance, including the following.

Improve Team Trust Create opportunities for employees to share successes related to their strengths. Discuss the motivations and internal habits of the entire team.

Promote Information Sharing Identify clusters of talent themes that could inadvertently create silos, preventing the free flow of information. Put people or systems in place that promote communication.

Resolve Team Conflict Conflict is often the result of differing perspectives shaped by individuals' strengths. Use the grid to identify these patterns and guide your team members in leveraging their strengths to understand and resolve differences.

Form New Teams That Succeed Use the CliftonStrengths Team Grid to introduce employees to the team's unique identity and most dominant strengths. By highlighting individual talents, you can accelerate understanding and collaboration, helping team members quickly learn how to work effectively together from day one.

Integrate a New Manager Onto an Existing Team Get to know the team in its entirety, and lead with their overall motivations, desires and natural talents in mind.

How It Works

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Get started with CliftonStrengths. Each team member completes the assessment to discover their top strengths.
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Create your CliftonStrengths Team Grid. Ready? Get started here. New to the grid? Get step-by-step instructions here.
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Understand your team as a whole. View your team's top five strengths, top 10 strengths or all 34 strengths to understand where your team is exceptionally strong.

The Grid in Action: How to Have a Team Discussion

Understand unique talents.
Use the grid to identify where team members shine.
Have one-on-one conversations.
Ensure everyone understands their unique contribution to the team.
Have productive team conversations.
In a team meeting, ask team members to share their understanding of the team's strengths. Use our guide for having an insightful team strengths discussion.
Collaborate and plan.
Apply the insights you've learned to connect with team members, position work and celebrate your collective strengths.

Anchoring discussions with the CliftonStrengths Team Grid leads to in-depth understanding and improved collaboration. Try these simple ideas for leading a productive team discussion.

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Help team members name, claim and aim their strengths.

  • Name your strengths by identifying them and discussing their role in your life.
  • Claim your strengths by embracing them as an essential part of who you are.
  • Aim your strengths by exploring ways to direct them at tangible outcomes related to your work and life.

Prompt employees to think about their team brand.

  • How would people describe this team?
  • How do other people's perceptions of our team relate to our strengths as a whole?
  • What themes should we leverage to create our ideal team brand?
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Get more insights and best practices for having a CliftonStrengths Team Grid discussion by downloading our conversation guide.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The CliftonStrengths Team Grid is available at no cost for those who have completed the CliftonStrengths assessment. If your team hasn't taken the assessment yet, you can purchase CliftonStrengths codes to get started.

To create your team grid, follow these instructions:

  • Ensure all team members have completed the CliftonStrengths assessment.
  • Create an account on Gallup Access or sign in with an existing account.
  • Click the CliftonStrengths section from the main menu.
  • Click Connections > Create Team Grids > Create New Team.
  • Name your team. Select your team members and click Continue.
  • Click Create Grid.

Equip team members with common strategies for intentionally using the themes they do have to compensate for the ones they do not. Ask questions like:

  • What outcome does this domain produce that is necessary for our team's success?
  • What other domain can we leverage to achieve that same outcome?

Yes, the team grid is a great way to introduce new employees or managers to the team's unique strengths. It accelerates understanding, improves collaboration and helps new members integrate quickly by showcasing the team's dominant strengths and working styles.

Yes, the team grid is useful for cross-functional or temporary teams. It helps teams quickly identify collaboration opportunities, potential gaps and strategies for working efficiently.

Leaders and managers can use the team grid to understand team strengths, delegate tasks based on natural talents and proactively address potential blind spots. It also helps create a strengths-based leadership approach tailored to their team's unique dynamics.

Yes, you can download our team grid activity guide, which includes best practices and conversation starters to help teams have productive discussions about their strengths, team identity and collaboration strategies.

The team grid can be incorporated into team meetings, performance reviews and strategic planning sessions. Regular discussions using the grid ensure that strengths remain central to the team's culture, improving engagement, communication and effectiveness over time.

More Team Resources

 

Team Grid Activity: How to Succeed With Our Strengths

 

The Science of Teams - Gallup

 

How to Build Better Teams in the Workplace

 

CliftonStrengths for Teams and Managers

Download the App to Create Team Grids

Access your CliftonStrengths Team Grid anytime, anywhere with the Gallup Access app. Easily view and analyze your team's strengths on the go, so you can make smarter team decisions in real time.

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