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206 Examples of Strengths

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Strengths are character traits, abilities, skills, knowledge and capacities that allow an individual to thrive in a particular context. This can include positive elements of your personality and your education, experience, achievements and reputation. The following is a broad list of common strengths.
Ability to Execute
Accountability
Accuracy
Action Oriented
Adaptable
Agent of Change
Ambition
Analysis
Art
Athletic Ability
Attention Span
Attention to Detail
Big-Picture Thinking
Bravery
Budget Control
Budget Planning
Building Rapport
Building Relationships
Business Acumen
Business Knowledge
Business Planning
Calculated Risk Taking
Calm
Candor
Challenging Assumptions
Challenging the Status Quo
Change Management
Civility
Clearing Issues
Closing Sales
Coding
Collaboration
Commitment
Communication
Compassion
Competence
Competitive
Confidence
Conflict Management
Consensus Building
Constructive Criticism
Continuous Improvement
Cooperation
Coordination
Cost Control
Cost Reduction
Creativity
Credibility
Critical Thinking
Cross-Cultural Communication
Cultural Capital
Cultural Competence
Curiosity
Customer Service
Data Analysis
Data Science
Dealing With Ambiguity
Dealing With Difficult People
Debate
Decision Making
Delivering to Commitments
Delivery to Budget
Delivery to Schedule
Dependable
Design
Design Sense
Design Thinking
Determination
Difficult Conversations
Digital Literacy
Diligence
Domain Knowledge
Emotional Intelligence
Empathy
Energy
Engagement
Enthusiasm
Entrepreneurship
Experience
Experiments
Facilitation
Fast Learner
Financial Management
First Principles
Flexibility
Forecasting
Friendliness
Goal Planning
Grit
Handling Criticism
Handling Stress
Helpful
Humor
Imagination
Independent
Industrious
Industry Knowledge
Influencing
Influencing Upward
Influential
Information Technology
Integrity
Interest
Introspection
Intuition
Inventive
Languages
Leadership
Learning From Mistakes
Listening
Loyal
Magnetic Personality
Maintenance
Management
Managing Expectations
Marketing
Mathematics
Meeting Management
Mentorship
Message Framing
Metrics
Moving on Opportunities
Negotiation
Networking
Objection Handling
Objective View of Self
Objectivity
Optimistic
Optimization
Originality
Passionate
Patience
Performance
Persistent
Personal Presence
Personal Resilience
Persuasion
Physical Strength
Plain Language
Planning
Play
Politeness
Positive Attitude
Pragmatic
Problem Solving
Process Improvement
Product Development
Productivity
Professionalism
Project Management
Project Planning
Prototyping
Public Relations
Public Speaking
Punctual
Qualifications
Quality Control
Rational
Realistic
Reasonable
Relational Capital
Relationship Management
Reliable
Reporting
Reputation
Research
Resourceful
Respectful
Responsible
Revenue Generation
Risk Management
Science
Self-Control
Self-Direction
Self-Improvement
Setting Expectations
Social Skills
Software Architecture
Stable
Stakeholder Management
Storytelling
Strategy
Stylish
Supervision
Systems Thinking
Tactical Execution
Taking Initiative
Teaching / Training
Team Building
Teamwork
Technical Proficiency
Thinking Ahead
Time Management
Tolerance for Disagreement
Tough
Troubleshooting
Trustworthy
Unbiased
Understanding
User Experience Design
Visual Communication
Willingness to Learn
Win-win Thinking
Work Ethic
Work Quality
Written Communication
Cultural capital
is immersion in a culture. For example, a filmmaker who is immersed in the culture of film such that they know how to influence people in the industry.
Relational capital is the value of your relationships to a role. For example, a commodity trader who knows many other commodity traders, analysts, clients and domain experts.
Some commonly listed skills such as "delegating" or "prioritization" sound weak or cliche. Consider original wordage that communicates a stronger message such as "ability to execute."
Many of the strengths above are general strengths that can be expanded to better illustrate your talents. For example, optimization is a general term that translates to many specific strengths such as price optimization.

Strengths

This is the complete list of articles we have written about strengths.
Abilities
Accountability
Agent Of Change
Ambition
Analysis
Art
Attention Span
Budget Control
Budget Planning
Business Acumen
Candor
Change Management
Civility
Cliche
Closing Sales
Coding
Collaboration
Communication
Competence
Confidence
Consensus Building
Cooperation
Cost Control
Cost Reduction
Creativity
Credibility
Critical Thinking
Cultural Capital
Customer Service
Data Analysis
Data Science
Decision Making
Design
Design Thinking
Digital Literacy
Diligence
Domain Knowledge
Empathy
Experiments
Facilitation
First Principles
Forecasting
Goal Planning
Grit
Humor
Imagination
Influencing
Integrity
Introspection
Intuition
Leadership
Listening
Management
Marketing
Meeting Management
Message Framing
Metrics
Negotiation
Networking
Objection Handling
Objectivity
Originality
Personal Presence
Plain Language
Planning
Play
Pragmatic
Problem Solving
Productivity
Project Management
Project Planning
Prototyping
Public Relations
Public Speaking
Quality Control
Relational Capital
Reliable
Research
Responsible
Risk Management
Science
Self-Control
Self-Direction
Social Skills
Storytelling
Strategy
Strengths
Systems Thinking
Talent
Teamwork
Time Management
Win-Win Thinking
Work Ethic
Work Quality
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