Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths Workshops for Teams
Turn CliftonStrengths assessment results into measurable team performance. Diversity Builder’s Gallup-certified trainers have coached teams and individuals on strengths since 1999, with customized tools your team keeps using long after the workshop.
Our StrengthsFinder Training courses are designed to help organizations identify core capabilities, build stronger teams, and foster leadership development. Perfect for managers, leaders, and HR professionals eager to transform workplace performance.
- Coaching teams since 1999
- Gallup-certified trainers and coaches
- Women-owned business, founded in 2003
- NGLCC LGBTBE certified since 2005
- Nationwide onsite and virtual delivery
What is StrengthsFinder training?
StrengthsFinder training provides employees and teams with a clear understanding and self-awareness of their strengths identified in the CliftonStrengths assessment.
Training includes Gallup exercises and coursework as well as Diversity Builder’s customized case studies, learning exercises, and handouts.
These classes focus in on each employee’s top strengths and how to use them within their job role to maximize their individual and group performance.
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Gallup-certified Trainers and Coaches
Diversity Builder’s strengths trainers have provided coaching to teams and individuals since 1999. These Gallup-certified trainers have developed strengths team grid tools and handouts which highlight how differing combinations of team strengths work best together and how to pair team members to capitalize on complementary strengths.
During the workshop, trainers will share how to best harness the strengths within your teams and identify gaps for employee development. Diversity Builder’s trainers have diverse identities and backgrounds to bring unique perspectives to the classroom.
During Clifton Strengths training workshops, trainers share how to best leverage strengths within teams and identify gaps for employee development. Diversity Builder’s trainers have diverse backgrounds and lived experiences to bring additional insights and perspectives to the workshop or coaching series.
Download the StrengthsFinder Evaluation Spreadsheet Template
Why Know Your Top 5 Strengths
Using this invaluable assessment tool has the competency to improve individual and team leadership skills to enhance contributor development and group performance. Even across global work locations, team cohesion, bonding, work productivity, and performance can be elevated using the proven StrengthsFinder coaching methods and incorporating test results.
Our trainers have also assimilated the following into our coaching program:
- Three Keys to Improving Leadership Results
- Maximizing the Top Five Strengths of Leaders
Benefits of CliftonStrengths Assessment & Coaching
Clifton’s StrengthsFinder 2.0 has the ability to enhance team performance, raise self-awareness, and make work more meaningful.
- Benefits of StrengthsFinders Testing
- Self-Awareness of Employee’s or Leader’s Top Five Strengths
- Enhanced Team Building Opportunities
- Improve Engagement by Maximizing Individual and Combined Team Strengths
- Elevated Meaning in Work Performed
- Increased Appreciation of Diverse Viewpoints
- Strengthened Workplace Culture
- Workplace Culture that Focuses on Community
- How do you become a certified coach at Gallup?
To become certified, the trainer must successfully complete the Gallup Global Strengths Coaching Program.
Diversity Builder trainers and coaches have already gone through the training and are certified by Gallup. Becoming a coach or trainer requires significant training from Gallup, with current requirements consisting of completing an accelerated 4.5-day CliftonStrengths course called Gallup’s Global Strengths Coach Program.
The program is offered virtually or in-person at a price of $7700.
Having an experienced trainer evaluate the strengths report is essential for optimal team and individual results.
Diversity Builder Leads in Strengths Coaching
Diversity Builder is considered one of the best facilitators of the CliftonStrengths program in the USA. The training team has developed specialized tools for improved partnership and pairings of team members. Using tools in combination with Gallop’s Team Grid helps team members clearly see the strengths within their teams and how to start integrating effective strategies into their work plans. Other team building tools are incorporated into the training based on test results.
Diversity Builder facilitators specialize in
- Executive Coaching
- Employee Development
- Improved Team and Workplace Collaboration
- Elevated Team Performance
- Better Team Communication using Strengths
Benefits of CliftonStrengths Training With Diversity Builder
CliftonStrengths training raises self-awareness, strengthens team cohesion, and makes work more meaningful. Diversity Builder adds trainer-developed tools, including the Strengths Partnership Tool and the Opposites Strengths Tool, so teams see exactly which members pair best together and why.
- Self-Awareness of Top Strengths: each employee and leader gains a clear, validated picture of their five most dominant talent themes and how those themes show up at work.
- Smarter Team Pairings: our trainer-developed Strengths Partnership Tool identifies which partners work best together based on strengths, with an explanation of why.
- Higher Engagement: teams maximize individual and combined strengths, which Gallup research ties directly to engagement and retention gains.[1]
- Elevated Meaning in Work: employees who use their strengths daily report more meaning and a higher quality of life, which strengthens workplace culture.
- Appreciation of Diverse Viewpoints: strengths language gives teams a positive vocabulary for differences in how colleagues think, plan, relate, and execute.
- Blind Spot Navigation: trainers show teams how to identify blind spots of top strengths and avoid over-reliance on any single dominant theme.
- Onsite and Virtual Training Options
- One-on-One and Group Sessions
- Action-Driven Programs Focused on Lasting Results
Group Workshops
Diversity Builder trainers customize StrengthsFinder workshops to best meet the needs of the organization or corporation. The facilitators offer 3-hour workshops that include a review of the top five strengths of each employee and what these strengths mean for individual and team performance.
The 4-hour workshop allows more time to discuss strengths, exchange ideas, and often includes the top ten strengths of each employee. The trainer will share how to identify and avoid blind spots of the top strengths. The team will learn to navigate being overly reliant on key strengths and how to build talent into strengths.
Workshop Reviews From Participants
“I wanted to thank you for bringing us the Clifton Strengths & Conflict Assessment Training.”
“The workshops were great. The exercises we did were fun & very informative.”
“I personally learned a little more about myself in the workshop. I am familiar with many of my strengths and weaknesses & what makes me tick. However, it’s different when you see it on paper.”
“Things in life happen for a reason & purpose & you brought that to fruition. As a department great things happened in the training.”
“I found it valuable to learn about the strengths of co-workers and how they use them.“
“The training was very engaging. I enjoyed participating in the group and learning other employees’ strengths.”
“I learned how to better apply my strengths in my job.”
Why StrengthsFinder Coaching
Having a coach to administer the assessment and evaluate the strengths report is essential for optimal team and individual results. Having an experienced coach onboard allows each team member to best understand what the results mean, how to maximize them in the workplace, and to answer questions. StrengthsFinder training and coaching can be used for individual employee or group facilitation sessions.
Experienced coaches make all the difference. They have seen what works over the years of facilitating classes and tracking ensuing team performance.
StrengthsFinder Test Facilitation
Looking to assess your team’s or employee strengths? Diversity Builder’s facilitator has vast experience in training on interpreting assessment results and teaching teams to use their strengths to achieve the best performance results and raise employee engagement.
StrengthsFinder 2.0 is an assessment used to determine which of 34 identified strengths each team member possesses. The assessment has a positive spin to it as it focuses on where the employee excels. Accurate and insightful evaluations of the tests are critical to improving team performance, reducing disruptive conflict, and elevating innovation.
How many questions are on the test?
There are 177 questions on the assessment, and the system allows up to 20 seconds to answer each.
How long is the StrengthsFinder Assessment?
On average, most employees complete the test in 10 minutes.
What is the next step after the team takes the test?
Facilitator-led training from an experienced StrengthsFinder trainer guides employees and leadership use the valuable reports to best position their teams and themselves as individuals for success.
Diversity Builder’s StrengthsFinder 2.0 trainer is one of the top facilitators in the nation. She can assess the strengths of a team and recommend strategies for partnering within a team and building on strengths and areas of improvement.
Taking Strengths Assessments
How do you get started taking the 2.0 assessment? There are two options for StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessments.
First, your employees can use the free assessment included with the purchase of a Gallup book. These books contain access codes that can be used with Gallup online. The benefit of taking the test with the access code is twofold. It is a free assessment and you have a hard copy of one of the strengths books. Gallup has authored books for teachers, salespeople, and leaders. The free access codes offered in with a book purchase offer only your top 5 strengths.
Second, you can purchase the assessment online. The online test ranks all 34 strengths. Currently the price is $50 per employee.
Books with free tests include the following Gallup titles:
- How Full Is Your Bucket? Authors are Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton (Gallup)
- Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow (Gallop) by authors Tom Rath and Barry Conchie (Gallup)
- Now, Discover Your Strengths: How to Develop Your Talents and Those of the People You Manage by authors
- Discover Your Sales Strengths: How the World’s Greatest Salespeople Develop Winning Careers by authors Benson Smith and Tony Rutigliano (Gallup)
- StrengthsFinder 2.0 from Gallup (CliftonStrengths)
- Teach With Your Strengths: How Great Teachers Inspire Their Students by authors
- Living Your Strengths by authors
If purchasing these books online, be sure to ask the access code is available or has expired or been used. Sometimes codes can be expired. Be cautious when purchasing used books.
Meet Your Gallup-Certified Strengths Trainers
Every Diversity Builder strengths trainer has completed the Gallup Global Strengths Coach certification program. Our trainers have coached teams and individuals since 1999 and bring diverse identities and lived experiences that add perspective to every workshop and coaching series.
Certification matters. Gallup’s Global Strengths Coach program is an intensive multi-day course followed by certification requirements, and certified coaches are listed in Gallup’s public coach directory, where you can verify any coach’s credentials.
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Why Organizations Choose Diversity Builder for Strengths Coaching
- Strengths trainers, coaching teams, and individuals since 1999
- Every strengths trainer is certified through the Gallup Global Strengths Coach program
- Women-owned small business founded in 2003, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee
- NGLCC Certified LGBT Business Enterprise since 2005
- Nationwide trainer network delivering onsite and live virtual workshops
- Trainer-developed tools: Strengths Partnership Tool, Opposites Strengths Tool, team grid handouts
- Programs delivered for organizations, including a Fortune 500+ technology company
Frequently Asked Questions
What is StrengthsFinder training?
StrengthsFinder training is facilitated coaching built on CliftonStrengths assessment results. A Gallup-certified trainer helps employees understand their top talent themes, apply them to their job roles, and pair complementary strengths across the team. Workshops combine Gallup coursework with customized case studies and exercises.
Is StrengthsFinder the same as CliftonStrengths?
Yes. Gallup renamed the StrengthsFinder assessment to CliftonStrengths in 2018 to honor its creator, psychologist Donald O. Clifton. The assessment, the 34 talent themes, and the reports are the same product. Many organizations still use the StrengthsFinder name.
Is StrengthsFinder training available online?
Yes, we offer both in-person workshops and virtual sessions to accommodate all teams, regardless of location.
Do strengths results expire or change over time?
Gallup research shows dominant themes stay relatively stable in adulthood, so results do not expire. Themes ranked lower in a profile shift more than the top themes. A coach helps employees revisit results as roles change, which keeps reports useful for years.
Why hire a certified coach instead of reading the reports alone?
Gallup studies link strengths interventions to measurably higher productivity, lower turnover, and greater profitability. Those gains come from applying results, not reading them. A certified coach interprets theme combinations, maps team pairings, flags blind spots, and converts reports into work plans.
What is StrengthsFinder Training designed for?
It’s perfect for individual leaders, managers, and teams looking to identify their strengths and explore how to apply them for personal growth and organizational success.
Can this training be customized for our organization?
Absolutely! Our StrengthsFinder training courses are tailored to address your team’s unique challenges and goals.
Do we need to take the CliftonStrengths assessment before training?
Yes, participants complete the assessment prior to the training session. This helps customize the workshop content for maximum impact.
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