75 Examples of Employee Strengths

John Spacey, updated on October 26, 2023

Employee strengths are talents, knowledge, skills and character traits that allow an employee to perform in a role. These are often listed as part of performance management evaluations alongside weaknesses, better known as areas for improvement. The following are common employee strengths.

Accuracy	Assertiveness
Attention to Detail	Bias for Action
Budgets	Building Rapport
Business Acumen	Business Analysis
Candor	Coaching
Collaborating	Conflict Resolution
Consensus Building	Consistency
Cost Reduction	Creativity
Customer Service	Data Analysis
Dealing With Criticism	Decision Making
Design	Diligence
Dutiful	Emotional Intelligence
Enthusiasm	Facilitation
Financial Management	Formal Communication
Influencing	Informal Communication
Initiative	Knowledge Management
Languages	Leadership
Learning	Listening
Loyalty	Management
Meeting Management	Mentoring
Metrics & Reporting	Negotiation
Open-minded	Organization
Perseverance	Personal Resilience
Planning	Presentations
Problem Solving	Productivity
Professionalism	Project Management
Project Sponsorship	Public Speaking
Relationship Management	Reliability
Research	Respectful
Revenue Generation	Risk Management
Scheduling	Self-Direction
Self-Discipline	Social Intelligence
Social Skills	Technical Skills
Technical Writing	Time Management
Training	Troubleshooting
Trustworthy	Verbal Communication
Visual Communication	Work Quality
Work-Ethic

Key Strengths

Employee strengths can include anything that an employee brings to your organization such as talent, character strengths, knowledge and relationships. These can also note actual results such as meeting deadlines and closing sales. The following are key employee strengths.

Feedback Examples

Strengths aren't skills but are rather characteristics that allow an employee to deliver real world results. As such, performance feedback can identity specific business results to highlight the strengths of an employee. For example: