Insights for my top 5 strength themes

1. Strengths Insight Report
SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 02-17-2012
Heather Coffman
Your Top 5 Themes
Strategic
Maximizer
Adaptability
Futuristic
Input
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?
Because of your strengths, you generate innovative ideas. You offer unique perspectives on events,
people, and proposals. You probably inspire people to start projects and launch initiatives. You tend to
identify a goal, devise numerous ways of reaching it, then choose the best alternative. This explains
why you see opportunities, trends, and solutions before your teammates, classmates, or peers see
them. By nature, 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 long to know more so you remain on the cutting edge of your field
or areas of interest. Your inventive mind usually generates more possibilities than you can handle or
fund. Nonetheless, you are committed to acquiring knowledge and/or skills. You study everything
involved in a situation and conceive entirely new ways of seeing or doing things. What you already
know prompts you to ask questions and delve even deeper into a subject or problem. It’s very likely
that you trust your ability to be an innovative thinker. You routinely invent many ways you can reach a
single goal. Only then do you start narrowing down your options to the best one. You probably take
into consideration prevailing circumstances, available resources, budgetary constraints, or pressing
deadlines. 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
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2. is happening and why it is happening. You frequently identify ways to transform an obstacle into an
opportunity.
Maximizer
Shared Theme Description
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?
Driven by your talents, you have a reputation as a hard worker. You probably help people understand
your talents and areas of excellence. They frequently observe you practicing the use of your talents,
skills, and knowledge. You sense you can do various things much better tomorrow as long as you
refuse to take your abilities for granted today. Chances are good that you might spend more time
thinking about your talents than about your shortcomings. Sometimes you give a lot of thought to your
limitations when you meet with failure or defeat. Rather than try to be someone you are not, you
sometimes partner with individuals who possess talents you lack, and return the favor by sharing your
own talents. It’s very likely that you can help people realize you truly comprehend what they are
saying. This does not mean you automatically agree with every idea they share. Nonetheless, many
individuals appreciate your taking time to hear what they are thinking and feeling. Because of your
strengths, you sense you have an ability to create word pictures that describe the future. You can
inspire people with your images of what can be. The individuals who most appreciate your forward
thinking probably want and need to hear from you often. Instinctively, you customarily figure out what
makes each person special. You talk to, observe, or study individuals who produce nothing less than
excellence to identify what inspires them. Unquestionably, you prefer to associate with those who
share your passion for taking something good and making it better. Once you understand what drives
a person, you can motivate him or her to transform whatever was made better into something utterly
superb.
Adaptability
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Adaptability theme prefer to “go with the flow.” They tend to
be “now” people who take things as they come and discover the future one day at a time.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Driven by your talents, you may enjoy reading. To some degree, it allows you to gather certain kinds
of information to expand your storehouse of knowledge. If surrounded by individuals who cannot sit
still, perhaps giving your full attention to the printed word is difficult. You might avoid the company of
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3. restless people when you want to give your undivided attention to a particular book, magazine article,
newspaper account, personal correspondence, or official document. Chances are good that you
sometimes pause to admire details that others do not notice. You might exhibit an appreciation for
whatever is happening right now. You might fully grasp each moment, see its wonder, and cherish its
loveliness. To some degree, living in the present allows you to adjust to changing circumstances,
environments, or people. Because of your strengths, you allow your life to unfold naturally. You trust
you will find your path as it evolves. You resist being tied to predetermined plans and standardized
systems. You prefer to experience life in the moment. You are eager to see where it takes you. By
nature, you may appreciate people who are not worrywarts. You might work better with individuals
who avoid fretting over unimportant details. These people might approach everyday situations or
crises with an inner calmness that frees you to modify plans, rules, processes, or assignments. It’s
very likely that you now and then set aside time to appreciate the loveliness and splendor of your
surroundings.
Futuristic
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Futuristic theme are inspired by the future and what could
be. They inspire others with their visions of the future.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Driven by your talents, you are energized by your plans for the coming months, years, or decades.
Bringing your ideas to life is an exciting proposition for you. You sense you have the power to
transform whatever you think is possible into tangible outcomes. By nature, you intentionally take
steps to be the mastermind of your own future. You refuse to leave your destiny to chance. You
probably resist placing it in someone else’s hands. You trust your own intelligence and imagination
when setting a direction for your life. Chances are good that you are a visionary thinker. Your vivid
mental images of the coming months, years, or decades often impel you to move into action. It’s very
likely that you are eager to get started on a project once you realize what you can accomplish in the
coming weeks, months, or years. You work very hard to breathe life into your big dreams. These often
push and pull you into the future. Instinctively, you invest considerable time creating the future of your
own choosing. You frequently share your ideas about what will be possible in the coming months,
years, and decades. You probably capture people’s attention whenever you describe in vivid detail
what you imagine.
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.
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4. Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Driven by your talents, you might be well-read in particular subjects. Some people whom you have
befriended may turn to you for guidance. By referring to something you have read, occasionally you
can help a person see a specific situation or a particular problem from a different perspective. For
you, reading might be a key that opens the door to a world of fresh ideas. Maybe you collect them,
never knowing whether something you read will benefit someone else. By nature, you may interpret
and straightforwardly outline ideas, processes, or projects that some people have difficulty
understanding. Instinctively, you fill your mind with new ideas by asking questions, reading, studying,
observing, or listening. Normally, you accumulate facts, data, stories, examples, or background
information from the people you meet. Determining what they want to accomplish in the coming
weeks, months, or years generally satisfies your curiosity. These insights also allow you to
understand why individuals behave they way they do in different situations. Because of your
strengths, you favor conversations where information, facts, or data are considered objectively — that
is, emotions do not distort the truth. You pose questions, evaluate answers, and figure out how things
work. Reducing an idea, theory, or process to its most basic parts provides you with many insights.
You are likely to archive — that is, preserve — your discoveries so you can use them later. It’s very
likely that 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.
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