Strengths-Based Leadership Report

(with your personalized Strengths Insights)

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Strengths-Based Leadership Report

SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 01-14-2014

Leader: Allison Arndt

Gallup found that it serves a team well to have a representation of strengths in each of the four
domains of leadership strength: Executing, Influencing, Relationship Building, and Strategic Thinking.
Instead of one dominant leader who tries to do everything or individuals who all have similar
strengths, contributions from all four domains lead to a strong and cohesive team. This doesn't mean
that each person on a team must have strengths exclusively in a single category. In most cases, each
team member will possess some strength in multiple domains.
According to our latest research, the 34 Clifton StrengthsFinder themes naturally cluster into these
four domains of leadership strength. See below for how your top five themes sort into the four
domains. As you think about how you can contribute to a team and who you need to surround yourself
with, this may be a good starting point.

Your Top Five Clifton StrengthsFinder Themes

Executing

Influencing

Relationship
Building

Strategic Thinking

Empathy

Learner

Achiever
Focus

Input

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

Achiever
Instinctively, you make an effort to be friendly and talkative whenever the situation demands. Even so,
you treasure your work or study time. Why? You yearn to produce tangible results each day.
Socializing, while important, fails to provide outcomes to which you can point and measure. As a
result, you likely resist devoting time to activities that impede progress, compromise productivity, or
waste precious time. Driven by your talents, you are industrious, diligent, and persistent. You naturally

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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. Its very likely that you actively seek out advisers whose judgment
and expertise you trust. Whenever you find yourself in a questionable situation, you likely ask them to
help you identify the proper course of action. Why? You are committed to doing things correctly.
Because of your strengths, you naturally resist being held back, restrained, or controlled by people or
events. You much prefer to be in charge of situations, materials, schedules, budgets, human
resources, processes, or decisions. Waiting for someone else to issue orders or level judgments
certainly is not your forte that is, strength. Chances are good that you ordinarily rely on your
physical and mental abilities to create orderly systems for managing your time, work, or resources.
You sequence the steps of processes or plans before beginning tasks. You carefully position
equipment or tools to enhance your own as well as others efficiency.

Learner
Instinctively, you are comfortable offering suggestions to people who regularly seek your counsel
that is, recommendations about a decision or course of action they are considering. These individuals
usually feel deep affection for you. You are likely to spend time together socializing as well as working
or studying. Driven by your talents, you have little difficulty giving intense effort to projects, problems,
or opportunities that capture and keep your attention. Chances are good that you think intensely
whenever you are working on tasks that match your area of expertise or pique that is, arouse and
excite your natural curiosity. Rarely do you allow distractions to pull your mind away from topics,
issues, questions, or experiments that intrigue you. Intrusions that often distract others are seldom a
problem for you. Its very likely that you exhibit a never-ending need to gather lots of facts, data, or
background information. Frequently you combine your interest in collecting ideas with your ability to
make individuals feel truly valued. For example, when a person enlightens you about something you
did not know, you are apt to tell him or her how much you appreciate that insight. People usually
recognize your sincerity. They enjoy having influenced you. By nature, you enjoy establishing
objectives in the company of others. Using well-placed milestones, you document knowledge and
skills gained since the last reporting period. You probably look forward to reviewing results with
individuals who understand education is a process that continues throughout ones life.

Focus
Because of your strengths, you may intentionally take charge of your future. You might be determined
to shape it as you wish. This partially explains why you set aside some time to ponder your goals. You
may be impelled to create the experiences you desire. To some extent, you might agree with the
notion If you can think it, you can make it happen. Its very likely that you may be exceptionally
motivated when you are pitted against others especially when only one person can be declared the
very best. Your desire to capture the top prize or finish in first place may drive your choices or explain
your behavior. Driven by your talents, you sometimes work hard to reach specific personal or
professional goals. These include, but are not limited to, earning a pay raise, winning a promotion,
receiving a degree, acquiring something you value, or completing a certification program. Perhaps
challenges related to status motivate you more than others do. By nature, you can mentally zero in on
tasks for hours at a time when you have a goal to reach. When the assignment demands extra time,
you would be wise to honor your bodys natural rhythms. In other words, if you are a morning
person, work in the morning. Work in the afternoon if that is when you hit your stride. Work in the

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evening if that is when you think better. Work around midnight after everyone has gone to bed if you
are someone who usually stays up very late. Instinctively, you relish reading about topics that
fascinate you. People are not surprised to find you with your nose in a book that is, reading all the
time. When a subject intrigues you, you review a wide range of printed materials. You glean that is,
collect bits and pieces as much information as you possibly can about your areas of greatest
interest.

Empathy
By nature, you are sympathetic to the feelings of others. Thus you can awaken individuals to their
talents. You usually do more than is required to make people feel good about their accomplishments.
Chances are good that you bring a keen awareness about human behavior to the classroom,
laboratory, seminar, playing field, or tutoring session. You spontaneously tune in to what individuals
are thinking and feeling minute by minute. These insights are likely to make you a better educator.
Driven by your talents, you are comfortable shedding tears at movies, weddings, funerals, or awards
ceremonies. Your eyes can fill with tears when you are reading books, listening to speakers, or
watching poignant that is, emotionally touching and moving news reports. Its very likely that you
experience feelings of regret, failure, disappointment, or loss. Calling upon your talents, you often
discover ways to deal with your negative emotions, difficult people, or troubling experiences.
Instinctively, you spontaneously tune in to the emotions and needs of individuals. Your intuitive
insights tell you when a person needs to be cheered up, offered support, or given approval. This
special gift of yours helps people grow personally and professionally. It also frees them to feel good
about themselves and what they can do.

Input
Its very likely that you absorb the written word like a sponge sops up water. You revel in an
opportunity to lose yourself in a book. Time seems to float by when you are the grateful guest of an
entertaining or informative author. Your only choice is to finish the book as quickly as possible. Driven
by your talents, you enjoy reading as long as you can savor each sentence and consider each idea.
Your goal is to comprehend everything you read. It makes no sense to you to rush through books,
magazine or newspaper articles, Internet sites, or other forms of written material just to say you
finished them. By nature, you gather lots of ideas and information from reading publications that keep
you up to date on current events. What you choose to peruse that is, examine studiously is likely
to reflect your personal or professional interests. Instinctively, you are apt to read books or
publications that contain information and tips you can share with individuals you are training.
Imparting knowledge, talking about your experiences, or passing along your skills provides you with
much personal satisfaction. Chances are good that you have no difficulty diving into books, journals,
files, correspondence, or Internet sites to prepare yourself for new assignments. By nature, you are
driven to gather lots of information, facts, data, or insiders perspectives about an upcoming project.
All this newfound knowledge probably prepares you to tackle first-time projects with gusto that is,
vigor and enthusiasm.

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