Focusing on employees’ strengths does more than engage workers and enrich their lives; people who use their strengths every day not only increases their productivity at work but they are more than 3 times more likely to report having an excellent quality of life and 6 times more likely to be engaged at work. The proof is in the studies.

Gallup completed a large study of companies that have implemented strengths-based management practices. The study examined the effects  on workgroup performance. It included close to 50,000 business units with 1.2 million employees across 22 organizations in seven industries and 45 countries. Gallup focused on six outcomes: sales, profit, customer engagement, turnover, employee engagement, and safety.

On average, workgroups that received a strengths intervention improved on all of these measures by a significant amount compared with control groups that received less-intensive interventions or none at all. Ninety percent of the workgroups that implemented a strengths intervention of any magnitude saw performance increases at or above the ranges shown below. Even at the low end, these are impressive gains