6 Most Common Mistakes People Make about CliftonStrengths / Gallup StrengthsFinder

Great video!

I appreciate the explanation, but it makes it seem like this is only valuable to people who are not introspective in any way at all. I guess if your employer has your and others results that could be valuable to a company. Otherwise, this seems like this just makes you pay to hear something you already know.

What kind of coaching should one look for to guide through this? This is my first time hearing about a strength finder.

Great and infornative video... Thanks😊

I love your explanation of the misconceptions. I truly had no idea how to apply the Clifton Strengths results until I took your course. I’ve applied and continue to apply what you taught and I feel much more self aware, not just in my talent themes as strengths, but also as weaknesses.

Hi Elvira,

This book has been so important in my life. And I just bought it for my employees on my small business. I was wondering if you have any advice about using the Strength Finder in a workgroup environment? I am not sure about how to tackle it as a team.

Thanks for such a thoughtful discernment based on your own lived experience. Gallup might gain a lot by adopting your generous approach. What I appreciate the most is that you are revealing the 'operational gap'. That is, that gap where a person's results go from abstract, to directly engaged with - thereby rendering the person using this approach the seat of scientist in their own life and expression of talents and resulting strengths.
Jargon can be challenging, and in a lot of systems unnecessarily adds confusion through over nominalization...you know, like listening to C-SPAN. Nonetheless, it asks us to reprogram our vocabulary, and if we are willing to adopt it, and more importantly apply it - new awareness follows like you've shared.
I'll go as far as to offer for consideration that CSF is not a personality test. Personality is highly changeable, it's more an expression of our identity - the predominant ideas or feelings we identify with - these can change dramatically in a lifespan. A coach I worked with called the top 5 more of an operating system. And when I add that to your approach, it's to evovle and develop that operating system to become optimal. In our over pathologized and allopathic world, CFS is a rare gem.
The map is not the territory, but the better the map and system of reference, the better navigation of that territory.

Fantastic!! I loved the difference between talents and strengths… thank you for the reminder!

Apple and pineapple--great example!

Great video - thank you! Going to re-read Gallup's definitions of my themes.

Love your point that turning a talent into strength invests time.