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Applying CliftonStrengths in Our Daily Work
During our retreat, we explored how our individual strengths shape the way we lead, collaborate, and move work forward together.This page is designed as a shared resource to help us continue integrating strengths into our day-to-day work. Use these tools to revisit key concepts, strengthen partnerships across departments, and apply strengths intentionally in conversations, decisions, and collaboration.Strengths work isn’t about labeling people.
It’s about understanding how each of us contributes to the team’s success.
A recap of the key concepts, frameworks, and activities from the retreat.
Download Day 1 Slide Deck — PDFDownload Day 2 Slide Deck — PDFExplore how strengths show up across our team and what those patterns mean for collaboration. Understanding these patterns helps us recognize where our team naturally excels, where we may need intentional partnership, and how different departments contribute to the collective work.
Access Team GridShared commitments created during the retreat to support communication, collaboration, and trust. These agreements reflect how we want to work together moving forward.
Access Team Working AgreementsEvery team has natural patterns in how strengths show up. Some domains may be highly represented, while others appear less frequently. Understanding these patterns helps us intentionally partner across strengths.
Help move ideas into action.
Help advocate for ideas and move decisions forward.
Strengthen trust and collaboration.
The most effective teams intentionally leverage all four domains.
Strengths development doesn’t happen in a single workshop. It happens through ongoing conversation and practice. Teams can use the activities below to continue applying strengths in everyday work.
At the end of a meeting, take two minutes to reflect: What strengths did we see in action today? Look for strategic thinking that helped clarify a decision, relationship building that helped navigate tension, or influencing that helped move an idea forward. This helps build a shared language around strengths.
Reconnect with the partner you identified during the cross-strengths activity. Discuss: Where did your strengths show up this week? Where did you feel stuck? How could your partner’s strengths help? Even a 10-minute conversation can strengthen collaboration.
Rotate meeting roles based on strengths domains. Executing: track next steps and commitments. Influencing: help move the group toward decisions. Relationship Building: ensure all voices are heard. Strategic Thinking: surface risks and possibilities. This makes strengths visible in everyday work.
When tackling a complex project, ask: Who on our team has strengths that complement this work? Consider a strategic thinker partnering with an executor, or a relationship builder partnering with an influencer. Intentional partnership strengthens outcomes.
Take five minutes at the end of the week and reflect: Where did I use my strengths well? Where might I have overused them? Every strength has both a contribution and a potential blind spot. Awareness helps us lead more intentionally.
Help anticipate challenges and identify possibilities.
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Listen on SpotifyStrengths is not about putting people in boxes.
It’s about understanding how each person contributes to the team and how we partner more effectively to move our work forward. When we recognize and leverage each other’s strengths, we build stronger collaboration, clearer communication, and better outcomes for the communities we serve.
CCPU — thank you for showing up with vision, vulnerability, and power.
Your commitment to child care providers, families, and community is unmatched, and we are honored to support your continued journey. If you need anything — slides, additional tools, 1:1 coaching, or a team session — Elevated Movements is here.
With purpose,
Shria & Darnell
Elevated Movements
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