Instructure Integrates Gallup's Clifton StrengthsFinder into a New Course on the Bridge Platform

The free 15-minute course aims to positively affect employee engagement by helping managers lead with strengths

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Mar 25, 2015, 10:00 ET

SALT LAKE CITY, March 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Instructure today launched a free online course based on the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment, created by Gallup, and used in the popular book, StrengthsFinder 2.0. The course, titled "Strengths, Spinach and Kryptonite," aims to positively affect employee engagement by identifying and leveraging each employee's unique strengths. The course will be hosted on Bridge, Instructure's new cloud-based corporate learning and engagement platform.

Gallup research has found that building employees' strengths is far more effective than trying to improve weaknesses. It suggests that if every organization in America trained its managers to focus on employees' strengths, the U.S. could double the number of engaged employees — those who are involved in, enthusiastic about, committed to and contributing positively in their workplace. For workers who agreed that their supervisor focused on their strengths, active disengagement fell dramatically.

"Engaged workers are the lifeblood of organizations. Yet, Gallup research has found that 70% of American workers are not engaged or are actively disengaged in their jobs, which costs U.S. businesses up to $550 billion per year," said Paul Allen, Global Strengths Evangelist at Gallup. "We believe the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment is a powerful way to help managers overcome the stumbling blocks inherent in disengagement, and we've seen 'strengths' positively impact thousands of businesses for the better."

According to Gallup research, organizations with an average of 9.3 engaged employees for every actively disengaged employee experienced 147% higher earnings per share over their competition. Instructure, which is known for its K-12 and higher education cloud software, designed Bridge to help organizations increase employee engagement through software that measures and improves employee sentiment, knowledge and alignment to top corporate goals. Among the first foundation partners to pilot the platform are CLEARLINK and OpenTable, as well as University of Nevada Las Vegas and Oregon State University, which both use Bridge to train administrative staff.

"Studies show that a vast majority of U.S. workers are not reaching their full potential, which has major implications for the economy. Bridge can help solve this problem," said Josh Coates, CEO at Instructure. "Bridge is smart software that improves employee engagement by assessing sentiment and alignment, and it makes it easy for managers to deliver quick learning experiences vital to their teams' success."

Gallup's data show that simply learning employees' strengths can make them more productive at work. In fact, teams that focus on strengths every day have 12.5% greater productivity, resulting in higher levels of performance, profitability and greater earnings per share.

The Strengths, Spinach and Kryptonite course is self-paced, can be completed in 15 minutes and is available for free starting today at www.getbridge.com/gallup.

About Instructure
Instructure, Inc. is the software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology company that makes smart software that makes people smarter. Its cloud-based Canvas learning management system (LMS) now connects more than 18 million teachers and learners at over 1,200 higher Ed and K-12 institutions throughout the world. Because learning doesn't end after graduation, Instructure also offers Bridge, the modern learning and engagement platform that enables organizations of every kind to engage with employees by measuring and improving employee sentiment, alignment, and knowledge in real time. Learn more about Instructure at www.instructure.com.

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Devin Knighton, Director of Public Relations at Instructure
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Jessica Hutchison, Method Communications
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