Strengths for Students
The CliftonStrengths for Students report gives students the confidence, clarity, empowerment and self-awareness they need to succeed in school and in life.
LSU began incorporating CliftonStrengths into the first-year student experience in Fall 2024. During Welcome Week, incoming students are offered the CliftonStrengths assessment as part of the small-group curriculum, giving Tigers an early opportunity to discover and begin exploring their Top 5 themes.
But taking the assessment is only the beginning.
As LSU continues building a strengths-based campus, students have opportunities to move from discovering their strengths to understanding, developing, and applying them throughout their college experience.
For LSU students who have not yet completed CliftonStrengths.
Already completed the assessment? Sign in to Gallup Access to view your CliftonStrengths results and resources.
Academics
Understand how you naturally learn, organize information, solve problems, and communicate ideas. Use that awareness to approach coursework, challenging assignments, and new learning experiences with greater intention.
Leadership
Recognize your natural leadership style and understand how you contribute to groups and organizations. Apply your strengths through student organizations, campus programs, service, and other leadership experiences.
Career Preparation
Build language for communicating what you do best and how your strengths show up in your experiences. Carry that self-awareness into internships, interviews, and careers with organizations that use strengths to support leadership, teamwork, and performance.
Teams & Relationships
Understand how your talents influence the way you communicate, collaborate, and connect with others. Use your strengths to navigate teamwork, build relationships, and recognize what others bring to a group.
Student Strengths Resources
Knowing your Top 5 is the starting point. LSU’s student workshops help you better understand your talents and learn how to intentionally apply them.
Unlocking Your Strengths
- Go beyond the names of your CliftonStrengths themes and explore how your talents show up in the way you think, connect, make decisions, and get things done.
- In this interactive workshop, you’ll unpack your Top 5, identify the ways your strengths work together, and begin developing strategies to use what you naturally do best to succeed at LSU.
Strengths in Action
- Take the next step by applying your CliftonStrengths to real-life situations. This interactive workshop explores how your strengths can influence academics, relationships, leadership, teamwork, decision-making, and future goals.
- You’ll leave with practical strategies for intentionally using your strengths throughout your LSU experience and beyond.
Start with Strengths
- An introductory CliftonStrengths experience designed to help participants understand what CliftonStrengths is, explore their Top 5 themes, and begin identifying how their strengths show up in their everyday lives.
- This session provides a foundation for continued strengths development and application.
Applying Strengths to Academics
- Explore how your CliftonStrengths can support your academic success.
- Participants will identify ways to apply their strengths to studying, time management, goal setting, problem-solving, and navigating challenges.
Strengths in Leadership
- Explore how your CliftonStrengths influence the way you lead and impact others.
- Participants will identify their natural leadership contributions and consider how to intentionally use their strengths in leadership roles and experiences.
Team Dynamics/Group Strengths
- Discover how individual strengths come together to shape a team.
- Participants will explore the strengths represented within their group, better understand how others work, and identify ways to strengthen communication, collaboration, and team effectiveness.
Make Your Strengths Personal
- After completing Unlocking Your Strengths and Strengths in Action workshops, students can continue their development through an individual Strengths coaching conversation.
- Meet one-on-one with a gallup Certified Strengths Coach for a 30-minute conversation focused on you. Coaching can help you explore how your strengths show up in your experiences, work through a challenge or goal, better understand your Top 5, and identify ways to intentionally apply your talents.
- Your coaching conversation can focus on topics such as:
- leadership and involvement
- teamwork and relationships
- decision-making
- career preparation
- personal or professional goals
- understanding how your Top 5 work together
Take Your Strengths On the Geaux
With the Gallup Access app, you can take your CliftonStrengths with you anywhere and explore your Top 5, personalized insights, and key development resources on the go. The app also gives you access to articles, videos, and tools that help you apply your strengths in academics, relationships, leadership, and career preparation. Students can revisit their results anytime and continue learning how to use their talents in real life. Sign in using your LSU single-sign-on credentials to get started.
Keep your CliftonStrengths themes readily available and revisit personalized insights about how they show up for you.
Read your available CliftonStrengths reports and return to them as your understanding of your talents develops.
Access articles, videos, learning content, and other resources that can help you continue developing your strengths.
Share your CliftonStrengths with friends, classmates, colleagues, mentors, and others through Gallup Access and explore how your talents work together.
Gallup Access uses AI-powered tools to help you better understand and apply your CliftonStrengths. These features translate your results into personalized insights, reflection prompts, and practical suggestions for using your strengths in real situations—whether you are working on a project, leading a team, or navigating a new challenge.