Choosing Emergenetics or Clifton Strengths

By comparing these tools, you can make an informed decision on which assessment will most
effectively support your team's growth and success. Use this chart to explore the strengths of each
option and find the right fit for your department鈥檚 objectives.

Still need assistance determining which tool is right for your team?

Contact your HR Business Partner for further assistance.

Emergenetics VS. CliftonStrengths

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  • Emergenetics
    Combines research and rigorous statistical analysis in the areas of personality, psychology, and neuroscience. Focuses on the connection between human behavior and thinking styles to empower appreciation of self and others.
    CliftonStrengths
    Positive psychology and strength-based psychology. Focuses on what is right with people instead of what is wrong with them. Over 31M people assessed. Research based on successful, effective leaders.
  • Emergenetics
    Explains seven characteristics universally applicable to all humankind. These thinking and behavior preferences provide insights into how individuals process thoughts, evaluate information, and interact with others.
    CliftonStrengths
    Identifies an individual's natural talents and strengths, highlighting areas of exceptional performance and potential.
  • Emergenetics
    Fosters understanding of thinking and behavior patterns for both individuals and the collective team to enhance collaboration, communication, relationships, and productivity.
    CliftonStrengths
    Uncovering and leveraging individual strengths to enhance performance, productivity, and personal fulfillment. Employee Engagement.
  • Emergenetics
    Explores individual approach to work and life relative to team dynamics and communication. Facilitates effectively working together by understanding diverse thinking and behavioral preferences to develop an engaged workforce, strengthen staff cohesion, enable growth, and maximize group potential.
    CliftonStrengths
    Personal development, career planning, leadership development, and team building. It focuses on leveraging individual and team strengths to accomplish goals, maximize performance, and engagement.
  • Emergenetics
    With the knowledge of an entire team's preferences combined as one approach to productivity, planning, and problem solving, managers can quickly uncover inherent strengths of the group, determine where gaps may exist, and identify a plan to create alignment.
    CliftonStrengths
    Identifies an individual's top strengths from a list of 34 talent themes, offering a language to articulate and develop these strengths further.
  • Emergenetics
    When employees and leaders understand how team members prefer to think and behave, those insights facilitate development of an inclusive, inspiring workplace that attracts, engages, and retains top talent through leadership, culture, collaboration, and by understanding communication and cognitive contrast.
    CliftonStrengths
    Focuses on developing and maximizing an individual's strengths rather than fixing weaknesses.  It empowers individuals to leverage their talents for enhanced performance and fulfillment.
  • Emergenetics
    $89 per assessment; includes accessibility to the app which provides job aids, additional learning tools, and resources to help participants learn to stretch their skills in their least preferred attribute(s).
    CliftonStrengths
    Clifton Strengths 34 Report - $59.99 (plus $10 coach discount) = $49.99 + tax. or Top 5 Report - $19.99 (plus $10 coach discount) = $9.99 + tax.
  • Emergenetics
    Amy Phillips, Deputy CHRO, is certified in Emergenetics facilitation.
    CliftonStrengths
    Melissa Hernandez, Employee Relations Manager, is a Gallup Certified Coach.