Do you believe you have the traits to be an effective leader? Perhaps you are already in a supervisory role, but as has been discussed previously, appointment does not guarantee leaders

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Strategic® THEME DESCRIPTION

The Strategic theme enables you to sort through the clutter and find the best route. It is not a skill that can be taught. It is a distinct way of thinking, a special perspective on the world at large. This perspective allows you to see patterns where others simply see complexity. Mindful of these patterns, you play out alternative scenarios, always asking, “What if this happened? OK, well what if this happened?” This recurring question helps you see around the next corner. There you can evaluate accurately the potential obstacles. Guided by where you see each path leading, you start to make selections. You discard the paths that lead nowhere. You discard the paths that lead straight into resistance. You discard the paths that lead into a fog of confusion. You cull and make selections until you arrive at the chosen path — your strategy. Armed with your strategy, you strike forward. This is your Strategic theme at work: “What if?” Select. Strike.

POWER AND EDGE

People with strong Strategic talents bring creative anticipation, imagination and persistence to the groups and projects they work on. They can quickly weigh alternative paths and determine the one that will work best and most efficiently. They find the best route moving forward.

STRATEGIC IN ACTION

Words that might describe a person with dominant Strategic talents:

creative clear option-aware intuitive future-oriented anticipating selective thoughtful insightful

ACTION ITEMS

F Your greatest contribution to a group may be to discover the best path to success. Because you can do this quickly, it may look as if you are “winging it,” but explaining yourself along the way will help others understand what you see.

F Schedule daily “quiet time” devoted to consideration of your current goals and strategies. This focused time away from the action might be the environment in which you are best able to think through the options to find the right course of action.

F Trust your insights as much as possible. Because you naturally consider options at such a fast pace, even you might not know how you came up with the strategy — but because of your exceptional talents, it will likely be successful.

F Find a group that you think does important work, and contribute your strategic thinking. You can be a leader with your ideas.

F As you seek to achieve your leadership goals, always have your followers in mind.

F Sometimes others may misinterpret your Strategic talents as criticism or naysaying. Realize that you can develop your Strategic talents by taking into consideration what is already working well and what others have already done.

F Learn how to describe what you see “down the road.” Others who do not possess a strong Strategic theme may not anticipate often or well. You will need to be very persuasive if you are to help them avoid future obstacles or exploit the opportunities you have seen.

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Responsibility® THEME DESCRIPTION

Your Responsibility theme forces you to take psychological ownership for anything you commit to, and whether large or small, you feel emotionally bound to follow it through to completion. Your good name depends on it. If for some reason you cannot deliver, you automatically start to look for ways to make it up to the other person. Apologies are not enough. Excuses and rationalizations are totally unacceptable. You will not quite be able to live with yourself until you have made restitution. This conscientiousness, this near obsession for doing things right, and your impeccable ethics combine to create your reputation: utterly dependable. When assigning new responsibilities, people will look to you first because they know it will get done. When people come to you for help — and they soon will — you must be selective. Your willingness to volunteer may sometimes lead you to take on more than you should.

POWER AND EDGE

The genius of those with strong Responsibility talents stems from the deep sense of dedication and ownership they feel toward the things they commit to. They are people of their word, and others know they can rely on and trust them.

RESPONSIBILITY IN ACTION

Words that might describe a person with dominant Responsibility talents:

diligent conscientious judgmental loyal driven dutiful dependable serious committed self-sacrificing responsive independent

ACTION ITEMS

F Always check your schedule and your to-do list before taking on a new request. You will create a realistic opportunity to meet all of your commitments without overworking yourself, and you’ll demonstrate to others your serious approach to your responsibilities.

F Keep volunteering for more duties that your experience seems to warrant. You thrive on new responsibilities and can deal with them very effectively.

F Align yourself with others who share your sense of commitment. You will thrive when surrounded by others who take their responsibilities as seriously as you do.

F Sometimes you need to remind yourself to say no. Because you are instinctively responsible, it might be very difficult to refuse opportunities. For this reason, you must be selective.

F Be your organization’s ethical watchdog by taking swift action to eliminate and prevent unethical behavior and publicly recognizing displays of strong ethics.

F Take time to enjoy the completion of your commitments. Responsibility is a source of motivation for you.

F Let your manager know that your natural sense of responsibility gives you an exceptional capacity to function independently.

F Partner with someone with a strong Discipline or Focus theme. This person can help you stay on track and prevent you from becoming overloaded.

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Input® THEME DESCRIPTION

You are inquisitive. You collect things. You might collect information — words, facts, books and quotations — or you might collect tangible objects such as butterflies, baseball cards, porcelain dolls or sepia photographs. Whatever you collect, you collect it because it interests you. And yours is the kind of mind that finds so many things interesting. The world is exciting precisely because of its infinite variety and complexity. If you read a great deal, it is not necessarily to refine your theories, but rather to add more information to your archives. If you like to travel, it is because each new location offers novel artifacts and facts. These can be acquired and then stored away. Why are they worth storing? At the time of storing, it is often hard to say exactly when or why you might need them, but who knows when they might become useful? With all those possible uses in mind, you really don’t feel comfortable throwing anything away. So you keep acquiring and compiling and filing stuff away. It’s interesting. It keeps your mind fresh. And perhaps one day, some of it will prove valuable.

POWER AND EDGE

People with strong Input talents bring tools that can facilitate growth and performance. They love to provide relevant and tangible help to others. Their resourcefulness and curiosity lead them to store knowledge that can be culled and shared.

INPUT IN ACTION

Words that might describe a person with dominant Input talents:

resourceful collecting inquisitive utility-aware generous well-read knowledgeable investigative

ACTION ITEMS

F Identify your areas of specialization and actively seek more information about them.

F Make time to read books and articles that stimulate you. Schedule a regular time to do this.

F Deliberately increase your vocabulary. Intentionally collect new words and learn their meanings.

F You likely enjoy reading the dictionary and the encyclopedia. This might seem strange to some people, but for someone like you, it is a good way to strengthen your self-concept.

F Devise a system to store and easily locate information. This can be as simple as a file for all of the articles you have clipped or as sophisticated as a computer database.

F Identify situations in which you can share the information you have collected with other people.

F Accept that you will never feel that you know enough.

F Partner with someone with a strong Focus or Discipline theme. This person will help you stay on track when your inquisitiveness leads you down intriguing but distracting avenues.

F Seek out subject matter experts who would be interested in knowing what you are learning and would find it stimulating to hear about the questions and ideas you are generating through your exploration.

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Significance® THEME DESCRIPTION

You want to be very significant in the eyes of other people. In the truest sense of the word, you want to be recognized. You want to be heard. You want to stand out. You want to be known. In particular, you want to be known and appreciated for the unique strengths you bring. You feel a need to be admired as credible, professional and successful. Likewise, you want to associate with others who are credible, professional and successful. And if they aren’t, you will push them to achieve until they are. Or you will move on. An independent spirit, you want your work to be a way of life rather than a job, and in that work, you want to be given free rein, the leeway to do things your way. Your yearnings feel intense to you, and you honor those yearnings. And so your life is filled with goals, achievements or qualifications that you crave. Whatever your focus — and each person is distinct — your Significance theme will keep pulling you upward, away from the mediocre toward the exceptional. It is the theme that keeps you reaching.

POWER AND EDGE

The genius of people with strong Significance begins and ends with the difference that they are determined to make. They want the world to be a better place because they are in it.

SIGNIFICANCE IN ACTION

Words that might describe a person with dominant Significance talents:

admired credible successful visible influential desirous independent audience-oriented professional exceptional

ACTION ITEMS

F Significant people do important things. Imagine the legacy you want to leave. Picture yourself at retirement, looking back on a life that has made the world a better place. What will you have done to get there?

F Make a list of the goals, achievements and qualifications you crave, and post them where you will see them every day. Use this list to inspire yourself.

F If you perform best when given independence, share that insight with your manager. Be ready to give examples of how you have succeeded with that kind of freedom. After recognizing the value of this insight, your manager likely will give you the space you need to create exceptional results.

F Share your dreams and goals with your colleagues to keep you reaching and accountable for your mission.

F Your ambitions may motivate your colleagues to reach for outcomes they had never before considered.

F Stay focused on performance. Your strong Significance theme will drive you to claim outstanding goals.

F Write down your strengths and refer to them frequently. Heightened awareness of your strengths will give you the confidence you need to rebound when, for whatever reason, your “audiences” are not giving you the feedback you need.

F You value appreciation and affirmation. Tell the significant people in your life how important their feedback and support are to you. Their words can be very motivational.

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“Where am I headed?” you ask yourself. You ask this question every day. Guided by this theme of Focus, you need a clear destination. Lacking one, your life and your work can quickly become frustrating. And so each year, each month and even each week, you set goals. These goals then serve as your compass, helping you determine priorities and make the necessary corrections to get back on course. Your Focus is powerful because it forces you to filter; you instinctively evaluate whether or not a particular action will help you move toward your goal. Those that don’t are ignored. In the end, then, your Focus forces you to be efficient. Naturally, the flip side of this is that it causes you to become impatient with delays, obstacles and even tangents, no matter how intriguing they appear to be. This makes you an extremely valuable team member. When others start to wander down other avenues, you bring them back to the main road. Your Focus reminds everyone that if something is not helping you move toward your destination, then it is not important. And if it is not important, then it is not worth your time. You keep everyone on point.

POWER AND EDGE

While others start to wander down divergent avenues, people with strong Focus talents stay on the main road. They help others avoid time-consuming distractions and keep everyone on point.

FOCUS IN ACTION

Words that might describe a person with dominant Focus talents:

goal-oriented persevering driven efficient single-minded progress-aware selective distraction-averse

ACTION ITEMS

F When you set goals, discipline yourself to attach timelines and measurements. These will provide regular proof that you are indeed making progress.

F Take the time to write down your goals and refer to them often. You will feel more in control of your life this way.

F Seek roles in which you are asked to function independently. With your strong Focus theme, you will be able to stay on track with little supervision.

F Be sure to tell your manager your midterm and short-term goals. This might well give your manager the confidence to give you the room you need.

F At the end of each meeting, take responsibility for summarizing what was decided, for defining when these decisions will be acted on, and for setting a date when the group will reconvene.

F Identify your role models. Write down in detail why you want to focus your career toward similar kinds of achievement.

F Allow others to think, act and talk less efficiently than you do. Sometimes their “detours” will lead to discoveries and delights.

F Stretch your goal-setting beyond work. If you find yourself becoming too focused on work goals, set goals regarding your personal life as well. These goals will give weight to your personal priorities and thereby help restore balance in your life.

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Father of Strengths Psychology and Inventor of CliftonStrengths

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Depending on the order of your themes and how you responded to the assessment, some of your themes may share identical insight statements. If this occurs, the lower ranked theme will not display insight statements to avoid duplication on your report.

Your Top 5 Themes

1. Strategic

2. Responsibility

3. Input

4. Significance

5. Focus

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Strategic

SHARED THEME DESCRIPTION

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 invent original ideas of your own. Your imagination is typically stimulated when you collaborate — that is, team up — with future-oriented thinkers. Instinctively, 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. Chances are good that you pay close attention to what is going on around you. You listen. You quiz people. You read. You probably take notes on key points. As you accumulate lots of information, you disregard what is unrelated, and pay heed to what is really important. The more you reflect on what you know, the more problems begin to reveal themselves, and eventually solutions start taking shape in your mind. Finally, given the situation, you select the best plan from your list of options. It’s very likely that 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. Because of your strengths, you have no difficulty finding the right words to express your ideas. You are quite comfortable talking about ways to make people or things more complete, perfect, or excellent.

Questions

1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand out to you?

2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in you?

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Responsibility

SHARED THEME DESCRIPTION

People who are especially talented in the Responsibility theme take psychological ownership of what they say they will do. They are committed to stable values such as honesty and loyalty.

YOUR PERSONALIZED STRENGTHS INSIGHTS

What makes you stand out?

It’s very likely that you have a strong sense of commitment. It motivates you to make sure that things are carried through to completion even when difficulties arise. Instinctively, you are impelled to deliver on all of your commitments. You are determined to meet all of your obligations. Doing so is your badge of honor. It is one reason why people describe you as trustworthy and dependable. By nature, you have a reputation for being the team member who does whatever it takes — within the bounds of propriety and ethics, of course — to live up to your commitments. Chances are good that you are known as a reliable and dependable person. You are motivated to work diligently. You cannot rest until you have completed what you told someone you would do. Driven by your talents, you usually are viewed as the most experienced, upstanding, and reliable person on the team. Why? You probably orchestrate the group's activities better than many of your teammates can. As a result, they count on you to lay out the steps of an action plan. They expect you to acquire materials, raise funds, coordinate schedules, or distribute supplies at the right time. They allow you to redirect their energies when distractions pull them off course.

Questions

1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand out to you?

2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in you?

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Input

SHARED THEME DESCRIPTION

People who are especially talented in the Input theme have a craving to know more. Often they like to collect and archive all kinds of information.

YOUR PERSONALIZED STRENGTHS INSIGHTS

What makes you stand out?

Driven by your talents, you generally work your way onto teams whose members exchange intelligent ideas or discuss sophisticated philosophies. You probably enjoy the companionship of individuals who constantly collect information from a wide array of sources. Because of your strengths, you probably enjoy the company of forward-looking individuals. They think about what the world will be like in the coming years, decades, or centuries. Undoubtedly, you read as much as you can about these people. In addition, you are likely to have studied in detail the books and articles they have authored. It’s very likely that you can simplify the most complex, convoluted, or intricate procedure. People usually rely on you to offer clear and easy-to-comprehend explanations. By nature, you derive much pleasure from reading one book or publication from start to finish before beginning another. You prefer to concentrate on one topic, plot, or author at a time. Chances are good that you are determined to stay up to date on the news. You probably satisfy your hunger for current information by habitually reading newspapers, magazines, correspondence or websites.

Questions

1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand out to you?

2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in you?

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Significance

SHARED THEME DESCRIPTION

People who are especially talented in the Significance theme want to be very important in the eyes of others. They are independent and want to be recognized.

YOUR PERSONALIZED STRENGTHS INSIGHTS

What makes you stand out?

Chances are good that you are industrious, diligent, and persistent. You naturally set difficult-to-reach goals. These normally demand a great amount of your time. While your work ethic is evident, you question whether the promotions, titles, opportunities, or status symbols you desire could exact too high a price. Instinctively, you exhibit a strong work ethic. Work probably gives your life a sense of purpose it would otherwise lack. By nature, you prefer to identify the most appropriate course of action or solution before you do anything. You are determined to do things correctly, ethically, and right. Why? You probably aim to make important contributions, influence key people, or rise to high-level positions. Settling for the status quo is not an option for you. You aspire to much more in life. Driven by your talents, you seek jobs and assignments that allow you to influence people to do whatever needs to be done. You are eager to be in a position of authority. Because of your strengths, you work diligently to govern all kinds of situations, decisions, or plans. You ordinarily refuse to let anyone take charge of any aspect of your life.

Questions

1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand out to you?

2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in you?

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Focus

SHARED THEME DESCRIPTION

People who are especially talented in the Focus theme can take a direction, follow through, and make the corrections necessary to stay on track. They prioritize, then act.

YOUR PERSONALIZED STRENGTHS INSIGHTS

What makes you stand out?

Driven by your talents, you intend to govern events and manage activities. You want to be in charge of your life. You frequently pause to think about what you need to upgrade or perfect. You consistently generate good ideas for doing things better. By nature, you prefer to work in groups. You are attracted to teams whose activities and challenges intrigue you. You usually give these matters your undivided attention. Because of your strengths, you use your mental and physical energy for hours when the situation demands such effort. You generally persevere and push yourself to keep working on assignments until you finish them. You refuse to quit until you reach your goal. Chances are good that you enjoy reading about topics that fascinate you. People are not surprised to find you with your nose in a book and reading all the time. When a subject intrigues you, you review a wide range of materials. You gather as much information as you possibly can about your areas of greatest interest. It’s very likely that you keep a tight rein on your emotions. You are cautious and reserved. Rather than add to the drama of a situation, you simply study the facts. You waste little time discussing your own and others’ feelings. Instead, you consider the evidence. You weigh the consequences of whatever is said and done. People realize you need time to think. They know your judgment is rarely clouded by personal feelings or opinions.

Questions

1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand out to you?

2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in you?

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DON CLIFTON

Father of Strengths Psychology and Inventor of CliftonStrengths

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Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people are those who understand their strengths and behaviors. These people are best able to develop strategies to meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families.

A review of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilities, but an awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core reasons behind your consistent successes.

Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant themes of talent, in the rank order revealed by your responses to StrengthsFinder. Of the 34 themes measured, these are your "top five."

Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the talents that lead to your successes. By focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in combination, you can identify your talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career success through consistent, near-perfect performance.

Strategic The Strategic theme enables you to sort through the clutter and find the best route. It is not a skill that can be taught. It is a distinct way of thinking, a special perspective on the world at large. This perspective allows you to see patterns where others simply see complexity. Mindful of these patterns, you play out alternative scenarios, always asking, “What if this happened? Okay, well what if this happened?” This recurring question helps you see around the next corner. There you can evaluate accurately the potential obstacles. Guided by where you see each path leading, you start to make selections. You discard the paths that lead nowhere. You discard the paths that lead straight into resistance. You discard the paths that lead into a fog of confusion. You cull and make selections until you arrive at the chosen path—your strategy. Armed with your strategy, you strike forward. This is your Strategic theme at work: “What if?” Select. Strike.

Responsibility Your Responsibility theme forces you to take psychological ownership for anything you commit to, and whether large or small, you feel emotionally bound to follow it through to completion. Your good name depends on it. If for some reason you cannot deliver, you automatically start to look for ways to make it up

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to the other person. Apologies are not enough. Excuses and rationalizations are totally unacceptable. You will not quite be able to live with yourself until you have made restitution. This conscientiousness, this near obsession for doing things right, and your impeccable ethics, combine to create your reputation: utterly dependable. When assigning new responsibilities, people will look to you first because they know it will get done. When people come to you for help—and they soon will—you must be selective. Your willingness to volunteer may sometimes lead you to take on more than you should.

Input You are inquisitive. You collect things. You might collect information—words, facts, books, and quotations—or you might collect tangible objects such as butterflies, baseball cards, porcelain dolls, or sepia photographs. Whatever you collect, you collect it because it interests you. And yours is the kind of mind that finds so many things interesting. The world is exciting precisely because of its infinite variety and complexity. If you read a great deal, it is not necessarily to refine your theories but, rather, to add more information to your archives. If you like to travel, it is because each new location offers novel artifacts and facts. These can be acquired and then stored away. Why are they worth storing? At the time of storing it is often hard to say exactly when or why you might need them, but who knows when they might become useful? With all those possible uses in mind, you really don’t feel comfortable throwing anything away. So you keep acquiring and compiling and filing stuff away. It’s interesting. It keeps your m

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