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Discover your strengths.
IN THE SIX YEARS SINCE the release of Now, Discover Your Strengths, more than two million people have taken the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment, designed to uncover certain key talents-patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior that can be productively applied. These patterns are categorized into 34 broad themessuch as Achiever, Ideation, and Relator-themes indicating and predicting one's innate and unique talents. Those talents-when multiplied by the investment of time spent practicing, developing skills, and building knowledge-can become strengths.
It seems intuitive that your performance will be better if you're doing what you naturally do well. But some of it is counterintuitive: No amount of training will help you excel in your areas of weakness. You can't do anything you want to do-or be anything you want to be-because you're just not going to be good at everything. But if you work with your talents, you can be extraordinary.
Talent Discovery
StrengthsFinder resonates with business because there's a direct link between talent development and performance. There is more to discover about talents: why it's bad to focus on your employees' weaknesses, but simply cruel to ignore them completely.
StrengthsFinder 2.0 is an effort to get the core message and language out to a broader audience. We had no idea how well received the first strengths book would be, since it was oriented more toward managers, or that the energy and excitement would continue to grow. Over two million people have taken the...