Leadership Evolution Group
Strengths & Assessments

Using Strengths to Design High‑Performing Teams

“This is THE blueprint to people and how they like to operate. Knowing this, you can create high-performing teams with great synergy and exceptional performance.”Amy Riccardi, Founder & CEO

Start with Individual Strengths

Knowing your employees’ innate strengths is a leader’s superpower. By focusing on these unique traits, leaders can gain significant competitive advantage and help reduce turnover and burnout in their organizations.

Employees have more options than ever before. They can easily change careers, locations, employers or hours. Replacing employees is costly and very challenging. Our Strengths-Based Design platform starts with knowing your employees, teams and organization at a deeper level. It helps you create a more engaged workforce by making sure:

  • work is aligned with individual strengths
  • teams are efficient and effective
  • recruiting effectiveness increases by 86%*

When employees and their supervisors know each other’s strengths, people understand each other better, connect on a deeper level, and help build a strong fabric for employee engagement.

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10 Years Kolbe CertifiedGallup-Certified Strengths Coach

Amy Riccardi, MEd
Kolbe Certified™ Consultant & Copper Circle Member
and Gallup‑Certified Strengths Coach

Why we use both

Each assessment answers a different question. Together they show how a person works best and how a team fits together.

Kolbe A Index shows how people naturally take action. CliftonStrengths shows how they naturally think, feel and behave. Together they inform team design. Kolbe A™ Index How you naturally take action CliftonStrengths® How you naturally think, feel and behave Team design

Our Suite of Tools

Each organization can use our suite of tools to gain deep insight into the innate strengths of individuals, teams and even prospective employees.

Based on your unique set of issues, we craft an engagement with the right blend of tools to get fast results. We start with the Kolbe suite of tools and then add others, like CliftonStrengths (formerly StrengthsFinder), to further enhance results. Each assessment measures specific traits, so we help you find the right tools for the results you are looking for.

Individual Assessments

It all begins with understanding individuals at their most innate level. Our proven, EEO-validated assessments take 15 to 20 minutes to complete and give each person a 20+ page customized report with:

  • Their four unique strengths
  • How they innately take action and make decisions when left to their own devices
  • How they like to communicate
  • Coaching tips on how to use their strengths effectively

Team Design

Teams are usually formed with functional expertise in mind. What if you could design teams for maximum synergy and efficiency too, and see the impact of adding or removing members before you do it?

We combine individual assessment results into a profile for the team that shows its synergy and effectiveness. We can also use the results to see how a new team will work before it is formalized.

Recruiting & Hiring

Have you ever hired a great candidate with a fantastic resume and great interviews, only to find that they did not fit the organization? Our recruiting and hiring process and tools can improve your hiring odds by 86%.*

As one of the few EEO-validated assessments that can be used in hiring, we help create the right conative profile for a position and use our assessments with candidates to find the right person for the role.

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* Source: Kolbe Corp. Kolbe™, Kolbe A™ Index, Kolbe RightFit™ and Kolbe Certified™ are trademarks of Kolbe Corp. CliftonStrengths® is a trademark of Gallup, Inc. Videos © Kolbe Corp.