My top 5 themes
Based on my Gallup Strengths Finder (2.0) results, here are my Top 5 Themes:
- Strategic
- Achiever
- Learner
- Deliberative
- Maximizer
STRATEGIC
People who are especially talented in the Strategic theme create alternative ways to proceed. Faced with any given scenario, they can quickly spot the relevant patterns and issues.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights – What makes you stand out?
Driven by your talents, you are innovative, inventive, original, and resourceful. Your mind allows you to venture beyond the commonplace, the familiar, or the obvious. You entertain ideas about the best ways to reach a goal, increase productivity, or solve a problem. First, you think of alternatives. Then you choose the best option. By nature, you might notice that the right word enters your mind exactly when you need it. Perhaps your comfort with language makes the oral or written exchange of ideas or feelings almost effortless. It’s very likely that you might appease — that is, calm — some people by using logic to reduce a task, process, program, routine, recipe, or machine to its simplest parts. Perhaps people appreciate your ability to explain why something that confuses them actually is easy to understand. Maybe you enliven your presentations by drawing diagrams, telling stories, or giving examples to illustrate your key points. Chances are good that you customarily pinpoint the core problems and identify the best solutions. You artfully and skillfully eliminate distractions. This helps people gain a clear understanding of what is happening and why it is happening. You frequently identify ways to transform an obstacle into an opportunity. Because of your strengths, you sometimes bring an imaginative game plan to your teammates’ attention. You might enjoy partnering with people who rely on you to identify critical and recurring sequences of events, facts, or data.
ACHIEVER
People who are especially talented in the Achiever theme have a great deal of stamina and work hard. They take great satisfaction from being busy and productive.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights – What makes you stand out?
Because of your strengths, you sometimes do more than just try to live up to your commitments. Perhaps you continue working until you deliver on promises. This may enhance your reputation for being trustworthy, reliable, or dependable. It’s very likely that you sometimes welcome opportunities to methodically examine details in data. Perhaps you notice when a series of numbers repeats itself. Now and then, your hours of mental labor enable you to spot important pieces of information that others overlook. Driven by your talents, you may have labored to broaden your vocabulary. Perhaps your collection features theoretical or complicated words. If you use these to write or speak, some people might conclude you have official authority over them. Perhaps certain individuals assume that your elaborate language somehow confirms that you are in a position of dominance. Instinctively, you concentrate for extended periods of time. This is one reason why you ultimately master skills and grasp concepts. By nature, you now and then expend extra energy to keep materials or workspaces neat, orderly, and shipshape. Perhaps you deplore — that is, regard as unfortunate or wretched — the messes other people leave. This partially explains why you might scurry about to clean up things left in disarray.
LEARNER
People who are especially talented in the Learner theme have a great desire to learn and want to continuously improve. In particular, the process of learning, rather than the outcome, excites them.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights – What makes you stand out?
Instinctively, you might prefer to enroll in a difficult class rather than register for the easiest one. Perhaps comparing how well you are doing in relation to others has meaning only when you earn the best grades in the hardest courses. To some extent, you crave recognition for your knowledge and winning spirit. It’s very likely that you try to pay attention to what you do naturally and well. Occasionally you set out to broaden your knowledge in certain areas or sharpen specific skills. Maybe you are motivated to strive for excellence by using a particular talent. Perhaps you refuse to waste time, energy, or money correcting or fixing some of your limitations. Now and then, you aim to concentrate on what you do quite well. You may think this is a more challenging way to live. By nature, you may realize you are skilled in particular areas of specialization. Sometimes you take advantage of certain opportunities to broaden your knowledge base. You might try to obtain the latest facts, news, data, or research discoveries in your field. At the time you amass this information, its importance may not be apparent to you. You might be content to pull together bits and pieces of material so you can refer to them later if the need arises. Because of your strengths, you sometimes ask people questions so you can collect background information. Maybe the insights you gather make it a bit easier to pinpoint what makes this person totally different from everyone else. You might be fascinated by the diversity of human beings. You might amass enough facts about specific individuals to prevent others from stereotyping them. Because no two people are the same, you try to decipher who works well with whom. Chances are good that you may enjoy sharing your point of view with certain individuals who ask, “What do you think?” When you are familiar with the topic, problem, or people involved, you might be comfortable expressing yourself. From time to time, you set out to discover specific facts and weigh them with care before speaking your mind — that is, giving advice or openly stating your ideas.
DELIBERATIVE
People who are especially talented in the Deliberative theme are best described by the serious care they take in making decisions or choices. They anticipate the obstacles.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights – What makes you stand out?
Because of your strengths, you might have limited patience for idle or purposeless activity. When you have certain tasks to perform, you mean business — that is, you are determined. Offering few apologies, perhaps you can state your needs, set your boundaries, make demands, and present your theories. Periodically you use sophisticated, complicated, technical, or academic terminology to emphasize key points. By nature, you thoughtfully select your friends. You avoid rushing into relationships. Once you trust and care about someone, the individual probably seeks your counsel. It’s very likely that you may behave in a solemn and dignified manner. This might be apparent when you are performing a task that you have spent much time mastering. Perhaps becoming skilled and knowledgeable about specific topics, procedures, operations, or activities ranks among your top priorities. Maybe this explains in part why you are so earnest about some things. Driven by your talents, you may choose not to reveal too much about yourself, your thoughts, or your feelings. Perhaps you weigh the possible risks of being too forthcoming. Sometimes you refrain from acknowledging the talents, contributions, and accomplishments of people or groups until you have ample evidence they merit special acclaim. Instinctively, you offer compliments, but only in measure equal to the individual’s accomplishment. For that reason, your words may echo in the minds and hearts of certain recipients long after you have uttered them. By acknowledging what people do well, you might convince some of them they truly deserve recognition.
MAXIMIZER
People who are especially talented in the Maximizer theme focus on strengths as a way to stimulate personal and group excellence. They seek to transform something strong into something superb.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights – What makes you stand out?
It’s very likely that you may concentrate on what you do well. You might feel that by using your talents, you enhance your chances of success. Instinctively, you may choose to become well acquainted with only certain people. Periodically you discover someone’s unique qualities, personality traits, interests, or strengths. You might position the person for success when you know what drives him or her to produce outstanding results. Maybe you realize that specific techniques you use with one person are unlikely to inspire everyone. Because of your strengths, you may realize that each individual’s interests, background, motivations, desires, fears, and work style are different. Perhaps you strive to honor everyone’s unique qualities and preferences. Understanding the ambitions of particular people might give you insights into the type of support, training, experiences, partnerships, or nurturing each person needs to thrive. Chances are good that you may be determined to enhance your greatest talents rather than spend time worrying about your limitations. You occasionally experience bursts of growth and rapid learning when you work in your areas of talent. Driven by your talents, you may be able to figure out what makes each person special. You might talk to, observe, or study individuals who produce nothing less than excellence to identify what inspires them. You might prefer to associate with those who insist on taking something good and making it better. When you understand what drives a person, perhaps you can motivate him or her to transform whatever was made better into something superb.
