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This guide provides CliftonStrengths (StrengthFinder) information and includes documents, videos, and other material.

Introduction to the Consistency Strength

People who are especially talented in the Consistency theme are keenly aware of the need to treat people the same. They try to treat everyone in the world with consistency by setting up clear rules and adhering to them.

- Gallup, Inc. 2000, 2018

Find out more about the Consistency strength at the following links:

Description of Consistency Strength by Gallup (includes video)

Leadership Vision provides additional information about the Consistency Strength

Strengths School Consistency Theme

Let's Talk Personality Consistency Theme

The following elaborates on the Yucks, Yays, Blind Spots, Feeding Strengths, Honored, and Insulted for the Consistency strength.

“Ignite Strengthsfinder Talents - Your Top 5 Strengths.” Lead Through Strengths, 4 Nov. 2022, https://leadthroughstrengths.com/talents/.

Yucks: Potential Soul-Sucking Tasks and Situations at Work

Unnecessary customization when standardization would serve your team or customers better; seeing or experiencing unfair treatment

Yays: Find Work You Love

Increasing uniformity and equality; creating repeatable processes or standard operating procedures

Blind Spots: How Your Talents Could be Perceived as Your Weakness Zone if Your Strengths are Overused or Misapplied

Rules over results; tries to standardize art; squashes creativity

Feeding Strengths: How You're Perceived at Work When Feeding Your Strengths

Creates predictability; focused on group needs; brings efficiency

Honored: Situations and Cultures that Feel Aligned with You at Your Natural Best

Standard operating procedures or established processes being followed; people being treated fairly and equally

Insulted: How You Might Get Insulted at a Values Level

Rules being broken, or others shamelessly gloating about how guidelines do not or should not apply to them; changing for change's sake, or changing and allowing it to seem like a "flavor of the month" initiative