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Strengths Workshops for Students

See our offering of workshops for students below. Some sessions may have limited dates, but if you'd like to schedule a free workshop with your student organization or team, please reach out to purpose@mail.wvu.edu

Workshops

Strengths 101

Students 60 minutes

Learn some quick history and facts and then dive into some reflection and practical application for your top five strengths. We recommend this workshop ahead of attending others.

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Strengths 102: Theme Dynamics

Students 60 minutes

Explore your top five strengths and how they interact with each other to help you be successful. Look at how your top five strengths interact with strengths both similar and different from your own to help you build stronger partnerships.

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All 34 Strengths Training

Students 90 minutes

This 90-minute training digs deeper into all 34 strengths. Learning more in-depth about all 34 strengths can help you build better partnerships with teammates and understand different communication and conflict-resolution perspectives.

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Authentic Personal Branding for Students

Students 60 minutes

Discover your WHY and values utilizing your CliftonStrengths®. Get a deeper understanding of creating intentional personal branding and a personal statement to use on linked in, networking, or in job/internship interviews.

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Strengths-Based Careers and Goal Setting for the Job/Internship Search

Students 60 minutes

Open with a Strengths refresher to become familiar with your strengths. Receive a personal insight report and reflect on how your personal insights influence your career choices and challenges. Set intentional career-based goals.

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Strengths-Based Communication: Brings/Needs and Barrier Labels

Students 60 minutes

Learn how to talk about what you bring to a team with your strengths, needs based on your strengths and how to put boundaries in place so the barrier labels of your strengths don’t pop up, or when they do, how to manage them for better wellbeing.

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Strengths-Based Feedback

Students 60 minutes

In this session you’ll learn how to more frequently give both positive and constructive feedback and how to incorporate strengths into daily performance and recognition.

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Strengths-Based Interviewing

Students 60 minutes

Learn interviewing tactics and practice answering interview questions. Learn to tailor your answers to the job and how to incorporate your CliftonStrengths® into your interview answers.

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Strengths-Based Job/Internship Search and Resumes

Students 60 minutes

Explore job/internship resources and how to create an effective search plan based on your dominant strengths domain. Learn how to incorporate your Strengths into your resume and have your resume reviewed.

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Strengths-Based Leadership

Students 60 minutes

Review your top five strengths and how they help you be successful as a leader. Adventure WV will facilitate an activity with reflection to identify how your strengths help you and where they maybe got in your way during the activity.

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Strengths-Based Leadership Style and Effectiveness

Students 60 minutes

Learn more about different leadership styles, how your natural talents and abilities might lend themselves to certain leadership styles, and reflect through an activity hosted by Adventure WV on how you can continue to craft your unique leadership style.

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Strengths-Based Salary Negotiation

Students 60 minutes

In the final session, we will talk about how to leverage your strengths in the salary negotiation process and practice to build confidence.

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Strengths to Combat Imposter Syndrome

Students 60 minutes

Dig into how Imposter Syndrome shows up for you and how you can use strengths-based strategies to fight back against those feelings of inadequacy!

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Strengths to Minimize Overwhelm

Students 60 minutes

In this one-hour CliftonStrengths® workshop, we will dig into what motivates us to overcommit while learning techniques for aligning commitments with values and calendars. We will wrap up by learning strategies to set boundaries and say no.

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Strengths and Study Abroad

Students 60 minutes

Help students explore how their strengths contribute to their communication style, how to leverage their strengths to manage conflict, and utilize the team grid to understand others in the group, build partnerships, and find roommates for the trip.

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Understanding the Strengths of Others: Needs of Followers

Students 60 minutes

In this session, we’ll learn about the research behind the four needs of followers, how you can better understand those you lead, and how you can better understand the strengths of those you lead.

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