The assessment
What is the Gallup CliftonStrengths 34 assessment?
Gallup CliftonStrengths 34 is an online talent assessment that reveals your natural patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Your full report ranks all 34 talent themes — not just your Top 5 — so you can understand what's best in you and where to invest for growth.
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How the Gallup CliftonStrengths 34 assessment works
The Gallup CliftonStrengths 34 assessment is Gallup's online talent assessment. It measures 34 research-validated talent themes — the most common ways people naturally think, feel, and act when they're at their best. You answer paired statements (about 30 minutes total), and the assessment ranks all 34 themes in the order they most strongly show up in you.
The result is a profile of you — not a score, not a pass/fail, and nothing to study for. There are no right answers, and no best theme. Your ranking is uniquely yours, and so is the plan we build on it.
What your Gallup CliftonStrengths 34 report includes
Your Top 5 highlights your most dominant talent themes. The full Gallup CliftonStrengths 34 report puts those talents in context with your complete ranking, helping you understand how you contribute and where to focus your development:
- All 34 of your themes, ranked in your unique order
- Personalized insights into your Top 5 talents
- Detailed guidance for investing in your Top 10
- Blind spots to watch for — and how to manage them
- Ideas for setting goals with each of your top themes
- Your four domains, and which ones you lead with
The four domains
Gallup groups the 34 themes into four domains — four different ways people naturally contribute.
Executing
How you make things happen — the people who work hard and get results.
Influencing
How you win others over and move people to act.
Relationship Building
How you create the trust and connection that hold a team together.
Strategic Thinking
How you process information and make sense of what's ahead.
Already have your results? Read: What does the Gallup CliftonStrengths 34 report mean?
Why we coach with Gallup CliftonStrengths 34
A talent is a natural pattern; a strength is the ability to use it consistently and productively. Our coaching follows Gallup's certified methodology to help you name your talents, understand how they show up, and practice using them toward a specific goal. This is assessment-based talent development, not general career or life coaching.
It reveals what is best in you
Most tools start with what's wrong and try to fix it. Gallup CliftonStrengths starts with the opposite: it shows the natural patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior that are already strongest in you — and gives you language to name them. When you can name what's best in you, you can stop guessing who you are and start building on it.
It turns insight into an action plan
Knowing your strengths is a good start — knowing what to do with them changes your life. Because the assessment ranks all 34 of your themes, it gives us a precise map: where your greatest potential sits, where your blind spots hide, and exactly which talents to invest in. That's what makes it the most effective foundation we know of for creating real action plans for growth and change.
It works whether you lead or not
If you're an individual contributor, your results show how you work best — the conditions and tasks that let you do your finest work. If you're a leader of people, they show how you naturally motivate, decide, and build teams — and how to surround yourself with people who think differently than you do. Same assessment, tailored to wherever you are.
It's research-backed, not a fad
The 34 themes are grounded in decades of Gallup research on human talents and success. Your results aren't a horoscope or a one-time novelty — they're a foundation you can return to for the rest of your life, and Gallup keeps the resources and content available to you permanently.
Questions about Gallup CliftonStrengths 34
+How does the assessment actually work?
You'll answer a series of paired statements — two descriptions of how you might think, feel, or act — and choose the one that's most like you, with a few seconds to respond to each. Your first, honest instinct is exactly what the assessment is designed to capture. It takes about 30 minutes, and you can pause and pick up where you left off if you need to.
+What do I get when I finish?
With the full 34, you get your complete talent profile: all 34 themes ranked in the order they show up for you, personalized insight into your Top 5, detailed guidance for investing in your Top 10, and notes on managing the themes that are lowest in your ranking. Everything lives in your own Gallup account, so your results are yours to keep for life.
+What are the four domains?
Gallup groups the 34 themes into four domains that describe different ways people contribute. Everyone leads with some domains more than others — and a great team needs all four.
+Can I take it more than once?
Your core talents are remarkably stable — that's what makes them talents. Gallup's guidance is that you don't need to retake it; the growth comes from investing in the results you already have, which is exactly what coaching is for.
+Do I have to take it before we talk?
No. If you've taken it before — even years ago — your results are still in your Gallup account, and we start there. If you've never taken it, the assessment is included with your first session or the 3-month package, and we'll build your coaching around your results.
See what's best in you
Your $150 first session includes the full Gallup CliftonStrengths 34 assessment and a 60-minute debrief with Jeff Holmes. Together, we'll connect your talents to a goal and choose practical next steps. You have worth as you are, and you have room to grow.