The StrengthsFinder (CliftonStrengths) results came back. For a week, everything made sense — why the Achiever can't leave at five, why the Deliberative goes quiet when the timeline moves, why the Woo and the Analytical sat in the same meeting and heard two different meetings. Then the Top 5s went where Top 5s go: a poster, an email signature, a slide nobody reopens.
The assessment worked. Nobody put the results to work. Here are three things you can do this week that cost nothing — and the one thing that makes them stick.
Nobody runs on one Strength. The person you're picturing runs on two of theirs working together — Strategic with Activator, Responsibility with Arranger. Have each person name the pair they lean on most, in one sentence, out loud. That sentence is worth more than the whole report.
When the next project ends, go around the room: one Strength you saw in a colleague, one thing you'll try differently next time. Five minutes. It's the fastest way a team starts seeing each other's Strengths instead of only their own.
A short read on each person: the pair to lean on, what drains them, how they want to be led. Not which work to hand them — how to lead them in the work they already have. A manager who walks in knowing this has a different conversation.
Those three moves work — until the meeting ends and memory fades. So give the map to something that never forgets — meet it —
A facilitated session that turns individual Top 5s into a team map: each person's Five read as the pair they actually run on, every person saying out loud what they're best at, and the team's collisions traced back to the map.
Most workshops end at five words per person. This one ends at operating: the map lives on in GrayMatter, a coach that briefs your managers before real conversations — so Strengths show up in how people lead, not on a poster.
Then this page is the wrong door, and we'd rather tell you than sell you. The team debrief needs a team; if you want to put your own Five to work, start at the individuals page — that's where a coach for one person lives.
Yes. Bring your team's existing Top 5s — $7,500 for a full day, $4,000 for a half day, including three months of GrayMatter for the whole team plus two coaching sessions with the team's manager; teams up to 16, onsite Twin Cities or virtual.
Something has to hold the map after the meeting ends. That's GrayMatter's job — it knows what every person is best at and briefs the manager before conversations that matter — and the coach who ran your debrief stays in the rhythm.