Understanding your strengths unlocks your potential and leads you to greater performance.

Discover your strengths by completing a CliftonStrengths assessment to gain insight into your top 5 personal strengths. Learn about new areas of development and use your strengths to your advantage inside and outside of the classroom.

Gallup’s CliftonStrengths is a tool used to help you uncover your talents. When you know your strengths, it becomes easier to identify the classes and craft the careers that allow you to do what you do best.



  • Take the CliftonStrengths Assessment

    During this 30 minute assessment, you'll see 177 paired statements and choose which ones best describe you. The assessment measures your talents - your natural patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving - and categorizes them into the 34 CliftonStrengths themes. The top 5 themes are available to you for free.

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  • Get Your Personalized CliftonStrengths Results

    Finishing the assessment is just the start of fulfilling your purpose. Your customized CliftonStrengths reports and guides help you chart your course to accomplish great things using the true north of what you naturally do best.

  • Use Your CliftonStrengths to Succeed

    Now it's time to aim your CliftonStrengths at anything that comes your way. Use your customized dashboard on the Gallup Access platform to find resources and tools that will help you learn how to do more of what you naturally do best.

Reflect on your Strengths

  • Find a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coaching workshop at Toronto Metropolitan University to help unlock your potential and succeed in every facet of life. Upcoming workshops will be posted on ExploreTMU.
  • Join the Peer Leadership Coaching program to be paired up with a Peer Coach who will walk you through a workbook with thought-provoking questions.
  • Use your strengths to intentionally get involved on campus or attend workshops through the Level Up program.



Hear what our students have to say!

"One piece of learning I took away from attending a CliftonStrengths workshop is that it is very important to identify what we need to be at our best in a relationship and work environment. Identifying our needs will help us connect and work better with those around us."



Give it a Try

Sometimes the best way to learn about yourself is to try something new and see what you think. Whether you enjoy it or decide it's not for you, you will find out more about yourself and the people in your community in the process. Here are some links to ways to try new things

Go to an Event  Volunteer Land A Job



ThriveTMU

Did you know that 40% of your level of happiness set point is fully under your control? The other 60% is based on genetics (50%) and life circumstances (10%). You can take charge of your life satisfaction by changing what you do and what you think.

Each week of the academic year comes with its own unique challenges. This workbook was designed to provide you with at least one exercise that has proven to be effective in increasing life satisfaction, happiness and resilience. Questions designed to help you reflect on the impact of the exercise are included on the subsequent page to each exercise.

Learn more about ThriveTMU.