Clifton Strengths
Gallup CliftonStrengths is an assessment tool developed by the Gallup Organization to help individuals identify their unique strengths and talents. The assessment reveals a person’s top strengths out of a list of 34 potential talents, which are grouped into four domains: Executing, Influencing, Relationship Building, and Strategic Thinking.
As a Gallup Strengths School, we focus on helping students identify and develop their unique strengths, fostering a strengths-based approach to learning and personal development. By doing so, we aim to enhance student engagement, academic success, and overall well-being. College students who leverage their CliftonStrengths gain heightened self-awareness, which can guide their academic and career choices.
Students have the opportunity to engage with CliftonStrengths at many points in their college journey. Our approach is that each opportunity can build on the prior, helping students focus on their strengths and develop self-awareness and confidence in their skills and abilities.
Building the Foundation
As part of our online “Preparing for Friartown” series, all incoming students take the CliftonStrengths online assessment and receive a personalized “Insights Report” to help them begin to understand what makes them unique. Each report is custom to the individual and helps students learn about their natural talents and how to describe who they are to others while also better understanding themselves.
During their first semester on campus, all first-year students participate in a Strengths Workshop with their residence hall floormates. In small groups, our certified Strengths Coaches bring to life CliftonStrengths concepts and insights. These workshops allow students to explore their unique talents, learn about the talents of others, and identify how to apply their talents toward their educational, career, and personal goals.
Exploring and Applying
With a solid foundational understanding of their Strengths, students are now prepared to learn more about how their Strengths can guide decisions about school, career, leadership, and involvement opportunities. Opportunities to explore and apply CliftonStrengths are embedded into programming across campus.
Classroom Presentations | Student Leader Training Sessions | Career Coaching Appointments | Retreat Reflection Exercises | Student Club/Org Workshops | 1:1 Coaching Sessions
A number of staff members from the Chirico Career Center and the Office of Student Engagement and Leadership are Gallup-Certified Strengths Coaches. Gallup-Certified Strengths Coaches have gone through extensive training and testing to earn their certifications and are passionate about helping students learn more about themselves and their strengths and how this can help them achieve a life of meaning and purpose. To make an appointment with one of our Gallup-Certified Strengths Coaches, please email orientation@providence.edu and ask to be connected with one of our Strengths Coaches.
