IGNITE YOUR STRENGTHS TENETS

In developing the Ignite Your Strengths initiative it was important to establish guiding principles for using and implementing CliftonStrengths within Villanova's values and community. When taking the assessment, you should keep these in mind. 

 

VILLANOVA'S IGNITE YOUR STRENGTHS TENETS

 

• We use our CliftonStrengths results to help us understand ourselves. My signature themes do not define me or limit me. 
• All strengths, or themes, have value. No one strength is better than another.
• I possess all 34 of the CliftonStrengths to varying degrees and my top five strengths, or signature themes, provide language for talents that may come more naturally to me and that I may seek to cultivate and nurture.
• My strengths are a platform from which I may engage in self-reflection and discovery.  
• We choose to develop our strengths and to use them to help thrive and overcome challenges. We choose a growth mindset where we seek to grow and develop throughout our experiences at Villanova and beyond.
• We are mindful that strengths can also present challenges or become obstacles, depending on context and circumstance.   
• My insights into strengths can help me recognize how I might best manage a variety of interests and circumstances.  
• We affirm the strengths of others and value the strengths each of us brings to the Villanova community. 
• We appreciate that an effective team may be at its best when a variety of strengths and domains are represented in that team.   
• We are dynamic, changing and capable. I seek to become the best version of myself, to become who I am not yet.