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Unlock the Power of Cloverleaf: A "How-To" Guide for Better Team Performance

A resource to help you get started on Cloverleaf.

Written by Jason Miller
Updated this week

Introduction

This webinar is designed for users who are new to Cloverleaf or returning after a long absence. The goal is to give a practical overview of the platform — pointing out key features and best practices you can apply day-to-day.

Account Settings

The first stop is always Account Settings, accessible via the profile icon in the top right. A few tabs here are especially important for getting the best coaching experience.

General & Role

The most important field on the General tab is the Role dropdown. Cloverleaf uses this to tailor coaching to what's most relevant to you — individual contributors receive more coaching on communication and collaboration, for example. Update this any time your role changes.

The profile URL can be customized here as well. This is largely cosmetic, but the underlying unique user ID remains the same for support purposes regardless of what you set.

Visibility

  • Restricted — only your manager and Cloverleaf admins can see your coaching data.

    • Visibility list — you manually add specific people. Both sides must approve; it's a two-way opt-in.

  • Organization — anyone in your Cloverleaf org can get coaching about you. This is the default setting.

  • Public — anyone with a Cloverleaf account can see your profile. Also enables the external visibility list for calendar integration with people outside your org.

Notifications & Integrations

This tab is where you manage how and when you receive your daily coaching. Options include:

  • Email — choose the frequency (daily, weekdays, specific days) and delivery time.

  • Slack or MS Teams — if your org has these enabled, you can route coaching tips there instead of (or in addition to) email.

  • Calendar integration — connect Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook. Cloverleaf will look at who you're meeting with and surface a coaching tip about that person ahead of the meeting. It only looks at attendees, not agendas or titles.

Note: This tab is being migrated to a new Coaching Settings page. Expect the layout to change soon.

Dashboard Visibility

Cloverleaf admins can hide certain assessments from view without fully disabling them. If you can't find an assessment you've seen a colleague take, check this dashboard tab — you may need to toggle it on manually before it appears on your assessments page.

Coaching Network

This is where you tell Cloverleaf which teammates you want to receive coaching about. Your daily coaching email includes a tip about yourself and a tip about someone from your coaching network. An update to simplify this feature is coming soon.

Assessments

The Assessments page is the engine behind all of Cloverleaf's coaching. Without assessment data, coaching can't be personalized. A few things to know:

  • Each assessment is interactive — click into it to explore your results, see definitions, and learn more about what each dimension means.

  • A tooltip link on each assessment leads to the Help Center for deeper context (e.g., 16 Types cognitive function pairs).

  • The ellipsis menu on certain assessments offers options to download a report, edit your scores, or retake the assessment. Availability varies by assessment — some partner assessments don't allow retakes based on the assessment provider's guidelines.

  • If you need to reset an assessment like Energy Rhythm, contact support — it takes about 30 seconds.

Discover

Discover is the main AI coaching interface. It launched in late last year and is updated frequently. You can get coaching on yourself, on a relationship between you and a teammate, or on an entire team.

You don't need to be a prompt engineer — just talk naturally. If you're dealing with a challenge, looking to recognize someone, or trying to understand a colleague better, describe it in plain language.

Smart prompts at the bottom of the page give you pre-built examples to get started. When a prompt references specific people, Cloverleaf identifies them and personalizes the response using their assessment data. Citations in the response show which assessments are being referenced.

After receiving coaching, you can:

  • Dive deeper — ask a follow-up question (curated options or your own).

  • Suggested actions — get concrete next steps based on the coaching.

  • Notes — jot down thoughts that are saved under the Grow section in the left nav.

Discover can also be used simply to learn about assessments. Asking "What is DISC?" will return a clear breakdown of what the assessment measures, how it works, and how to use the results.

Tip: Your daily coaching tips also appear on this page, so you can revisit them and add notes directly in the platform.

Team Features

Reporting Teams

A team dashboard is automatically created based on your org's reporting structure. You can update your manager, indicate you don't have one, or add direct reports via the Reporting Teams page. Changes to the team here automatically update the corresponding team dashboard.

My Teams

In addition to reporting teams, you can belong to custom teams created by admins. From the My Teams page, you can switch between teams and set a default team that loads each time you visit. Discover is embedded directly in the team dashboard — prompts about the team will take you to Discover with the team context pre-loaded.

Activities

Activities are facilitated team exercises available to managers and non-IC roles (not individual contributors). Each activity includes a description, a short video, directions, group reflection prompts, and a downloadable guide. They're designed as ice breakers or focus-setters at the start of team meetings. The facilitator starts the activity; everyone else just needs Cloverleaf open.

Behavioral Assessments

The left column of the team dashboard shows each person's results for the behavioral assessments (DISC, Enneagram, 16 Types, etc.). Clicking a teammate's result opens a "baseball card" view with a deeper breakdown. For Enneagram specifically, results are grouped into triads (Gut, Heart, Head), and the dashboard highlights the dominant triad for the team along with communication guidance for each.

Cultural Assessments

The right column contains cultural assessments and the Team Thinking Styles tool. Culture Pulse and Motivating Values are highlighted here. Culture Pulse measures what drives people professionally — including a Management Philosophy dimension that shows whether someone prefers to work independently or with close support. This is useful context when delegating tasks or assigning projects.

The Team Thinking Styles tool lets you compare two people across four assessments (16 Types, DISC, Enneagram, Instinctive Drives), generating a summary of communication style, work preferences, and conflict responses — useful for onboarding onto a new team or preparing for a challenging conversation.

Strengths Assessments

Cloverleaf supports three strengths assessments: CliftonStrengths®, StrengthScope®, and VIA. The team dashboard shows each person's top five strengths on an interactive chart.

Use this to find the right person for a specific task — for example, finding someone with "Learner" in their top five to review educational content.

Note: An absent strength doesn't mean it's missing from the team — it just means it isn't in anyone's top five. A person could have it ranked 6th or 8th.

Energy Rhythm

Energy Rhythm is a short assessment that identifies whether someone is a morning person, afternoon person, or night owl. On the team dashboard, the Best Time of Day feature uses this data to recommend optimal meeting windows:

  • Peak time — best for intense, focused work requiring analytical thinking (e.g., data analysis). Defined as the best time for 75% of the team.

  • Recovery time — best for collaborative tasks, creating task lists, brainstorming, or lighter coordination work.

Team Roles

Team Roles aggregates data from five assessments (DISC, Enneagram, 16 Types, VIA, Clifton Strengths) and assigns each person a preferred role across eight types — from Innovator and Resourcer at the start of a project, through Coordinator, Driver, Monitor, and Teammate in the middle, to Implementer and Finisher at the end.

The grid uses a three-circle indicator for each role:

  • Three circles — this person can do this all day without getting drained.

  • Two circles — situational; depends on context and topic.

  • One circle — good in a pinch, but likely to get drained quickly.

Use this grid alongside the energy rhythm data to assign the right people to the right phases of a project at the right times of day.

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