We offer 60-minute CliftonStrengths workshops designed to help participants discover their top five natural talents and validate and reflect on their unique strengths. Students participating in a CliftonStrengths workshop are provided free access codes to take the CliftonStrengths assessment through our private portal. 

The ILC also offers CliftonStrengths workshops for faculty & staff groups upon request for a small fee. 

Please contact the Illinois Leadership Center at leadership@illinois.edu with questions.

About CliftonStrengths for Students

The global strengths movement started many decades ago when Dr. Don Clifton posed a simple question: “What would happen if we studied what was right with people versus what's wrong with people?" Dr. Clifton spent the rest of his life researching and inventing ways to help people maximize their infinite potential; to understand not only who they are, but who they can become.

With the assistance from Gallup Inc., his work led him to invent the CliftonStrengths assessment (formerly StrengthsFinder & StrengthsQuest), used by millions of people to discover their natural talents – what they do best. Dr. Clifton's research led to discovering 430+ talents which were condensed into 34 themes and 4 domains.

Everyone may embody all 34 themes, but 5 rise to the top. Gallup's studies indicate that people who focus on their natural talents are six times more likely to be engaged and three times more likely to thrive on campus and beyond.

Self-awareness is at the heart of leadership development, and CliftonStrengths is a great way to deepen that skill and better understand your leadership potential! 

Learn more at https://www.strengthsquest.com/home.aspx.

CliftonStrengths: Self Discovery Workshop Overview

The 60-minute CliftonStrengths: Self Discovery workshop helps participants become aware of their natural talents and how to turn them into Strengths. The workshop curriculum focuses on validating participants’ personal talents/strengths through self-reflection exercises and discussions with other participants.

The CliftonStrengths: Self Discovery workshop is available through our Weekly Workshop series and by request for classes, student employee teams, and student groups for free.

Participants will need to complete the assessment prior to attending the training session. 

CliftonStrengths Workshop for Faculty and Staff Participants

  • For faculty or staff members with an Illinois email address, the cost is $20/person to have access to the assessment on the ILC's portal. For any faculty or staff groups interested in this training, there is an additional $100 per hour fee for a group size of 20 people or fewer. 
  • One must have an Illinois email address (@illinois.edu) to be granted access to the ILC's private portal. All users are only allowed to complete the assessment one time on this portal.
  • Instructions to access and complete the assessment will be emailed to participants once a workshop is confirmed. We ask that requests are made at least three weeks prior to your preferred workshop date.
  • For individuals without a UIUC email address or who wish to retake the assessment, please visit https://store.gallup.com/c/en-us/assessments to purchase an access code from Gallup to complete the assessment on their public portal.
  • As part of having access to, and completing the assessment on, the ILC portal, you, Gallup, Inc., and the ILC staff have access to your results. If you have any concerns about this, you may take the assessment (for a monetary fee) on Gallup's public portal so that your information is not affiliated with the ILC or the University. See above for the link to purchase an access code. If you choose to take the assessment through the ILC portal, please note your results can be shared with the person who requested that you have access to the assessment (i.e., your supervisor, advisor, professor, or group leader) should you or they ask for it. This person is instructed to notify you if they are requesting to see your results. 

CliftonStrengths Assessment Terms and Conditions

  • Each user must have a University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign campus email address (@illinois.edu) to be granted access to the ILC's private portal.
  • All users are only allowed to complete the assessment one time on this portal.
  • Instructions to access and complete the assessment will be emailed to participants once a workshop is confirmed. We ask that requests are made at least three weeks prior to your preferred workshop date.
  • For Illinois students, there is no fee to complete the assessment while supplies last for the year. However, for student users to have access to the assessment at no cost, they must participate in a CliftonStrengths training conducted by the ILC or an alternative workshop/discussion being conducted by another campus unit. 
  • For individuals without an Illinois email address or who wish to retake the assessment, please visit https://store.gallup.com/c/en-us/assessments to purchase an access code from Gallup to complete the assessment on their public portal.
  • As part of having access to and completing the assessment on the ILC portal, you, Gallup, Inc., and the ILC staff have access to your results. If you have any concerns about this, you may take the assessment (for a monetary fee) on Gallup's public portal, so your information is not affiliated with the ILC or the University. See above for the link to purchase an access code. If you choose to take the assessment through the ILC portal, please note your results can be shared with the person who requested that you have access to the assessment (i.e., your supervisor, advisor, professor, or group leader) should you or they ask for it. This person is instructed to notify you if they are requesting to see your results.