I find the Strength Finder by Clifton fairly useful, especially when it’s being actively used within the company. Whenever you assemble a team to work on a project, you can check their “strengths” to adjust the ways of working, and get the general sense of team dynamics. It usually helps, never heard of a case when using SF would actually hurt.

The “strengths” sometimes have weird names, that’s true, but they’re explained quite well in the materials provided by Clifton.

Having said all that - I have no idea how well is it based on science.