Introduction to Your CliftonStrengths Profile
Week 1 – Name It Understand and identify your strength themes

The five clues to talent

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Lesson 5 The five clues to talent

How can we spot strengths in ourselves and others if we have not completed a CliftonStrengths profile? There are 5 clues that can help us spot a talent, see Page 7 of your Blue Workbook. They are…

  • Yearning The pull or attraction to one activity rather than another. "What do you know you can do well, but haven't yet done?"

  • Rapid Learning Patterns so ingrained in our DNA that they open pathways of understanding "What have you done well that you didn't need explained?"

  • Glimpses of Excellence Others may offer clues to our own talent in the ways they recognize us "What have other people told you you're great at doing?"

  • Satisfaction Activities or opportunities that we genuinely enjoy "What sorts of activities do you finish and think, 'I can't wait to do that again'?"

  • Flow Total performance excellence "What are you doing when time seems to disappear?"

Optional Activity Ever struggled to identify areas of development or what you would want to do next in your role?  Complete the clues to talent questionnaire on Page 9 of your Blue Workbook and share these outputs with your team leader, manager, or colleague.

Team Leader Debrief

That’s the end of this week’s online learning.  Do you have a 15 minute debrief booked with your team leader/sponsor?  Aim to answer the questions

  1. What is one discovery you have made?

  2. What is one thing you will do differently?

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