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September 2025: Helping Teams Navigate Change with Confidence: Leveraging Cloverleaf & StrengthScope® to Build Resilient Teams

How to leverage strengths, team dynamics, and practical tools to build resilience in times of transition.

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Written by Jason Miller
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Change is constant. Whether driven by technology, restructuring, or external forces, leaders and teams must not only adapt but also thrive. This webinar explores how to leverage strengths, team dynamics, and practical tools to build resilience in times of transition.

What do Strengths Tell Us?

With 24 intrinsic qualities as its foundation, StrengthScope® helps you discover where your natural performance energy comes from, and where it gets depleted. That makes it uniquely useful for building more sustainable performance, reducing burnout, and unlocking greater engagement across your team.

Here’s what sets StrengthScope® apart:

  • It’s not a personality test. You’re not placed in a box or given a label. Instead, you see the full range of qualities that energize you—and how to apply them across different roles or situations.

  • It’s not a competency test.This isn’t about what you can do. It’s about what energizes you while you do it. Two people may be equally capable at leading a project—but one might feel drained by it, while the other comes alive.

  • There are no categories or types. StrengthScope® profiles are uniquely individual. With 24 distinct strengths that combine in countless ways, the odds of someone else sharing your exact profile are 1 in 1.3 billion.

  • The focus is on energy, not output. Because energy is a leading indicator of sustainable performance. And when teams know how to design work around people’s energizers, motivation becomes a built-in part of culture—not a management challenge.

StrengthScope®: Scientifically Validated, Performance-Focused

  • Only strengths assessment with the British Psychological Society’s Registered Test Status – a global benchmark for psychometric rigor.

  • High test-retest reliability – consistently measures strengths over time, even as roles and environments shift.

  • High validity – accurately identifies the performance-related strengths that drive real outcomes at work.

  • Built for the workplace – focuses on what energizes people to perform at their best, not just how they behave.

  • Scientifically credible – meets strict standards for fairness, accuracy, and construct validity.

  • Trusted data for coaching and development – enables measurable, sustainable growth with insights you can act on.

  • The mission- To reveal the unique strengths of people across the world, enabling them to bring their most authentic and inspired selves to work, and to live, every day.

Individual Reactions to Change

  • Fight, Flight, Freeze: Survival instincts may limit innovation and problem-solving.

  • Risks: Disconnection, decreased performance, increased stress.

  • When under stress, do you tend to withdraw, confront, or try to over-control?

Enneagram Conflict Approaches

  • Reactives: Feel deeply and respond emotionally.

  • Positives: Seek silver linings, may minimize challenges.

  • Competencies: Cut to logical problem-solving, but may overlook emotions.

  • Team Insight: Recognizing these patterns prevents misunderstandings and enables balanced responses.

Peggy’s Wheel: Decision-Making Under Stress

  • Lower scores → reduced systemic thinking.

  • Leaders may feel overwhelmed and resort to compensatory strategies.

  • Tip: Pause for perspective — invite diverse viewpoints before finalizing decisions.

Team Strengths & Change

  • Cloverleaf Team Wheel: Reveals where your team leans — (i.eheavy in Critical Thinking vs. Execution.)

  • In transitions, redistribute responsibilities to cover potential blind spots.

  • Practice: Identify one strength you can lean on, and one you may need to borrow from a teammate.

Tuckman’s Team Lifecycle & Change

  • Teams cycle through Forming → Storming → Norming → Performing.

  • Change often pushes teams backwards before progress resumes.

  • Leadership opportunity: Normalize productive conflict as part of resilience.

Leveraging Strengths in Change

  • Encourage a “change-ready” mindset.

  • Example questions to keep teams aligned:

    • How are you doing this week?

    • What strength are you actively using?

    • Where do you need help?

Discover Prompts for Change Readiness

  • Use Cloverleaf’s Discover feature for reflective prompts.

  • Sample prompts:

    • “How do I handle conflict?”

    • “How do I influence others?”

    • “How do I adapt to uncertainty?”

Practical Tools & Activities

  • Walk the Circle Exercise

    • Acknowledge the problem.

    • Identify opportunities.

    • Explore possible solutions.

    • Commit to action.

  • Weekly Strength Check-In

    • Kick off meetings by naming one strength you’ll intentionally apply.

    • Ask teammates: Which of my strengths could support you this week?

  • From the Start – Share the Why

    • Clear communication of why change is happening reduces resistance.
      Share both the “what” and “why” early and often.

Reflection Questions

  • How do I typically respond when faced with change?

  • Which strengths do I underuse when I feel stressed?

  • How can my team create space for open, honest conversations during transition

  • What can we do to celebrate small wins while adapting?

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