The Gallup CliftonStrengths (StrengthsFinder) is a crucial diagnostic tool that helps assess individuals' unique strengths, enabling them to understand, apply, and optimize their talents for personal and professional growth. Building a strength-based development culture is the primary focus of StrengthsFinder; it empowers leadership development by helping leaders understand their unique potential while providing actionable insights to optimize their strengths. It allows leaders to build self-awareness, discover what they naturally do best, and learn how to start flourishing. The immense benefits of StrengthsFinder include enhanced team performance, improved engagement, productivity, and a greater understanding of team dynamics. Individual benefits include improved self-confidence, work satisfaction, and personal achievement. This approach to leadership development is transformative for organizations. It essentially shifts the focus from investing in weaknesses to maximizing strengths.

Emotional intelligence is the capacity to blend thinking and feeling to make optimal decisions. It’s being more innovative with feelings.
In the Six Seconds Model of Emotional Intelligence, it is broken down into 3 pursuits:

• Self-Awareness: Be more aware by clearly seeing what you feel and do

• Choice: Be more intentional by doing what you mean to do

• Purpose: Be more purposeful by doing it for a reason

These pursuits are made measurable and actionable by 8 unique emotional intelligence skills.

360 feedback, also known as multi-rater feedback, collects anonymous feedback about a person's behavior from those around them, including their manager, peers, direct reports, and external stakeholders. The feedback can be used to plan training and set development goals and is viewed as a tool for improving employee development, organizational productivity, and relationship weaknesses.