Gallup research across more than 11,000 teams found that strengths awareness has roughly twice the influence on team performance as the team’s mix of strengths. But strengths awareness doesn’t mean you have to know every colleague’s full Clifton Strengths profile from the company’s strength-based development tool.
In today’s expanding workplace team environments, Gallup suggests focusing less on matching the depth of your strengths awareness to working relationships.
Some of a colleague’s strengths will matter more than others in the work you share. Pay attention to the strengths that matter most and how they affect your partnership.”
Source: Gallup, September 17, 2026. Link. Consider three levels of working relationships as a useful lens for determining how deeply strengths awareness needs to extend.
- Periphery: Know enough to interpret.
- Working orbit: Know enough to collaborate.
- Core: Know enough to anticipate.
INSIGHTS: Reassessing strengths every two to three years is a good exercise for teams. Map the top five and share them, taking time for discussion at a team meeting or retreat. Remember that your core strengths can also be a weakness <Link>.
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