VIA Character Strengths: Leverage the best in your people
VIA Strengths highlights the 24 character strengths that make your team unique: how people think, relate, persist, and lead. In minutes, you’ll see individual and team strengths mapped across six universal virtues, then apply them to collaboration, performance, and growth.
THE CLOVERLEAF DIFFERENCE
Why use VIA Strengths with Cloverleaf
VIA is a science-based model for what’s strong with people—not what’s wrong. Cloverleaf turns these strengths into daily behaviors teams can feel.
24 strengths, 6 virtues
A common language for what people naturally do well
Team-level insight
Spot shared strengths and gaps that shape culture and delivery
In-the-flow coaching
Strengths-based nudges inside Slack, Teams, Gmail, and Outlook
Manager ready
Templates for 1:1s, recognition, and role design tied to strengths
It's incredible how this platform understands my work style and motivates me to strive for better collaboration and personal growth."
- LIEW Sookmun,
Employer Branding Manager, APAC, BASF
What the VIA Strengths assessment measures
VIA identifies 24 character strengths—capacities for thinking, feeling, and acting that help people and teams flourish. Each strength rolls up into six universal virtues.
How we think & solve problems
Wisdom
Creativity • Curiosity • Judgment (Critical Thinking) • Love of Learning • Perspective
How we take action despite obstacles
Courage
Creativity • Curiosity • Judgment (Critical Thinking) • Love of Learning • Perspective
How we connect & care
Humanity
Kindness • Love • Social Intelligence
How we operate together
Justice
Fairness • Leadership • Teamwork
How we regulate & restore
Temperance
Forgiveness • Humility • Prudence • Self-Regulation
How we find meaning & keep going
Transcendence
Appreciation of Beauty & Excellence • Gratitude • Hope • Humor • Spirituality
Team effect
When many members share the same top strengths, those strengths tend to shape the team’s “strengths culture” (e.g., high Curiosity → more exploration; high Self-Regulation/Perseverance → stronger delivery discipline).
How to start using VIA Strengths with Cloverleaf
1
Set up your team
Invite employees and choose their assessments.
2
Take the assessment
See each person’s top strengths and virtues in one team view.
3
Get personalized coaching
Coaching on how specific teammates work together, based on their strengths.
Why strengths like VIA matter for teams
VIA flips the script from fixing weaknesses to amplifying what works—and makes it easy to apply at scale. Evidence-based model, shared vocabulary, and in-the-flow reinforcement → stronger habits, better outcomes.
Assign work that fits
Match tasks to top strengths (e.g., Analysis to Judgment; Brainstorming to Creativity).
Improve collaboration
Pair complementary strengths (e.g., Hope + Prudence) for balanced decisions.
Boost engagement
Recognize people in the language of their strengths (e.g., Gratitude, Perseverance).
Speed change
Use shared strengths to frame initiatives and reduce resistance.
Cloverleaf allows our leaders, our directors, our vice presidents… to truly know what drives and motivates our people."
- Kevin Mills,
Vice President, Organizational Development
The research behind VIA Strengths
VIA is grounded in work led by Dr. Christopher Peterson and Dr. Martin Seligman that cataloged universal character strengths and virtues across cultures. The model organizes 24 strengths into six broad virtues and has become a core framework within positive psychology for personal and team flourishing.
How to apply Instinctive Drives® with Cloverleaf
Onboarding & role clarity
Use top strengths to plan ramp-up tasks, shadowing, and early wins.
Team norms & ceremonies
Open meetings by naming which strengths today’s work will rely on; rotate roles based on strengths (e.g., Humor for energy, Prudence for risk).
Performance & growth
Set goals that use signature strengths more often; coach “under-used” strengths into stretch projects.
Recognition & wellbeing
Praise in strengths language; balance intense delivery periods (Perseverance) with restoration (Self-Regulation, Humor).
Frequently asked questions
Go further with VIA Character Strengths
Your VIA results are just the beginning. Cloverleaf helps you put those insights to work—every day, with the people who matter most.