Your Leadership Profile
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, the appointment does not guarantee leadership skills.
How can you evaluate your own leadership skills and behaviors? You can start by analyzing your performance in specific areas of leadership. In this Discussion, you will complete Gallups StrengthsFinder assessment. This assessment will identify your personal strengths, which have been shown to improve motivation, engagement, and academic self-conference. Through this assessment, you will discover your top five themeswhich you can reflect upon and use to leverage your talents for optimal success and examine how the results relate to your leadership traits.
Posta brief description of your results from the StrengthsFinder assessment. Then, briefly describe two core values, two strengths, and two characteristics that you would like to strengthen based on the results of your StrengthsFinder assessment. Be specific.
Making recommendations on how you might strengthen the leadership behaviors profiled in your StrengthsFinder assessment, or by commenting on the lessons learned from the results that can be applied to personal leadership philosophies and behaviors.
Strengths Insight Guide
S U R V E Y C O M P L E T I O N D A T E : 0 9 – 2 9 – 2 0 2 0
DON CLIFTON
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. Arranger
3. Positivity
4. Achiever
5. Developer
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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?
Chances are good 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. Driven by your talents, you may easily find the right words to express what you are thinking.
Sometimes you offer explanations. Occasionally you discuss ideas. Once in a while, you rely on examples,
stories, or jokes to illustrate your main points. By nature, you might appreciate straightforward, candid and
concise conversations. Sometimes you engage in dialogue with people who are willing to listen to the
alternatives you present. Instinctively, you can reconfigure factual information or data in ways that reveal
trends, raise issues, identify opportunities, or offer solutions. You bring an added dimension to discussions.
You make sense out of seemingly unrelated information. You are likely to generate multiple action plans
before you choose the best one. Because of your strengths, you occasionally demonstrate an ease with
language. Sometimes you effortlessly verbalize your thoughts. You might delight in the opportunity to share
your insights. Maybe you derive exceptional pleasure from actively participating in conversations as long as
group members propose ideas, seek solutions, or debate issues.
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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Arranger
SHARED THEME DESCRIPTION
People who are especially talented in the Arranger theme can organize, but they also have a flexibility that
complements this ability. They like to figure out how all of the pieces and resources can be arranged for
maximum productivity.
YOUR PERSONALIZED STRENGTHS INSIGHTS
What makes you stand out?
Its very likely that you intentionally choose to join work or study groups. Partnering with others usually
contributes to your overall sense of well-being and efficiency. Because of your strengths, you might recruit
certain people to work on projects or teams. You might outline some reasons for their participation.
Occasionally you emphasize the benefits of signing up to do something. Chances are good that you are apt
to be the person who takes chances when most of your teammates are reluctant to do anything. You
generally inspire individuals to be more daring. How? They observe you trusting yourself enough to try
something new, different, or difficult. When you act boldly, they probably decide they can be brave, too.
Instinctively, you realize you benefit from having possibility thinkers on your team. You enjoy working with
people whose minds conceive processes, products, or inventions that will be part of everyday life years or
decades from today. By nature, you are likely to be the member of the team who launches projects, starts
meetings, or begins processes. You often reach a point where you tire of planning. This is apt to be when
you need to get busy and make something happen.
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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Positivity
SHARED THEME DESCRIPTION
People who are especially talented in the Positivity theme have an enthusiasm that is contagious. They are
upbeat and can get others excited about what they are going to do.
YOUR PERSONALIZED STRENGTHS INSIGHTS
What makes you stand out?
By nature, you may feel life is best when people understand, value, and accommodate your need to
expend physical energy. Maybe you are more content when you are busy and least content when you must
sit in one place for extended periods of time. Driven by your talents, you freely give of yourself. You are
eager to share what you possess and know. This includes, but is not limited to, tangible objects, money,
ideas, skills, knowledge, food, shelter, and time. Chances are good that you probably have a reputation for
being a big-hearted person. One reason is your capacity for welcoming a wide array of people into your life,
especially those whom others describe as different. Its very likely that you may decide that life is grand
when you have more ideas to offer a group than anyone else. When you are excited about the details of an
original thought, you might insist people give you their undivided attention. Sometimes your assertiveness
surprises you as well as others. Because of your strengths, you might be more fascinated with future
possibilities than with past events. Keeping the two time frames separate may allow you to invent entirely
new ways of finding personal happiness or professional fulfillment.
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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Achiever
SHARED THEME DESCRIPTION
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?
Chances are good that you approach your work-related or academic assignments with a great deal of
intensity. You are known for putting in long hours and working hard. Instinctively, you might devote some of
your attention to immediate tasks or challenges. This partially explains why you give yourself time to
comprehend what you read on the printed page or the computer screen. Diligence, persistence, and
concentration might be three of your distinguishing traits. By nature, you work for hours, days, weeks, or
even months to produce outstanding results. You impose demanding standards for excellence and
productivity on yourself. You probably cannot rest until each requirement is met. Driven by your talents, you
likely have a reputation for being a hard worker. This explains why you tell individuals they can accomplish
a lot more than they think they can. You press people to excel rather than settle for mediocre results. You
probably have a difficult time associating with people who do only what is expected and who complain
when they are challenged to do much more. Its very likely that you may ignore distractions to concentrate
on your assignments. Sometimes you keep reading, researching, experimenting, or writing until you know
all you need to know about a particular subject. You might not rest until you have mastered certain
concepts, committed important information to memory, or completed specific course requirements.
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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Developer
SHARED THEME DESCRIPTION
People who are especially talented in the Developer theme recognize and cultivate the potential in others.
They spot the signs of each small improvement and derive satisfaction from these improvements.
YOUR PERSONALIZED STRENGTHS INSIGHTS
What makes you stand out?
Instinctively, you commonly acknowledge the talents, knowledge, and skills of others. In the process, those
people begin to grasp the high opinion you have of them. Driven by your talents, you place more
importance on the purpose and value of what you do than on the monetary rewards that accompany
success. Chances are good that you support the people around you by acknowledging their outstanding
accomplishments and stellar performances. Its very likely that you impart confidence to people by
reinforcing the high regard you have for them as individuals. By nature, you sometimes engage people in
group conversations. You may choose to be an active participant, too. Your upbeat attitude and willingness
to acknowledge the ideas of others might enliven and enrich the dialogue. Perhaps you reinforce the value
of what they say, helping them feel less vulnerable when they reveal their thoughts or feelings.
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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Strengths Insight Guide
Olubunmi Karimi
Your Top 5 Themes
Strategic
Shared Theme Description
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Arranger
Shared Theme Description
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Positivity
Shared Theme Description
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Achiever
Shared Theme Description
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
Developer
Shared Theme Description
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