StrengthsFinder 2.

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Strengths Insight Guide

SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 07-11-2013

Jaime Cantu Your Top 5 Themes

Restorative Intellection Input Responsibility Relator

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Restorative
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Restorative theme are adept at dealing with problems. They are good at figuring out what is wrong and resolving it.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out? Chances are good that you identity past errors to avoid repeating them. These mistakes often call attention to knowledge you need to acquire and skills you need to sharpen. Its very likely that you participate in conferences, seminars, or classes when ideas are exchanged about how to make things better. A natural talker, you enjoy telling others about the upgrades you have made. You probably emphasize different ways you increased efficiency. Because of your strengths, you are hardwired to check and double check what you do and what you are accountable for doing. You probably want to make sure everything is done right. You automatically identify areas where you need to upgrade your skills for creating structure or putting things in order. Driven by your talents, you typically put forth much effort and energy to reach your goals. You aim to overcome your limitations and fix your mistakes. You attempt to compensate for your lack of knowledge, skills, and/or talent in various areas. You feel successful when you routinely meet the minimum requirements and regularly produce average results. Instinctively, you usually consider what you need to do better as a person or as a professional. You are surprised when you realize how much time you have spent thinking about an important problem, issue, or question.
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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Intellection
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Intellection theme are characterized by their intellectual activity. They are introspective and appreciate intellectual discussions.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out? Instinctively, you tend to read several books or publications at the same time. Without confusing yourself, you can peruse that is, studiously examine one for a while, then put it down, pick up another, and continue reading where you left off the last time. Your need to gather lots of information probably explains your capacity for juggling a variety of topics, plots, and authors in the same time span. Chances are good that you derive much pleasure from conversing with people who value history. You are intrigued by the varied philosophical views these experts have concerning the causes of events and the behavior of historic figures. Its very likely that you are quite comfortable having time to yourself to enjoy a favorite pastime: reading. Whether you are sitting on a quiet beach or in a crowded airport terminal, you create your own space with a book, magazine, newspaper, document, or correspondence. Gleaning information, inspiration, or insights from these sources can make your relaxation more pleasurable or your delays more tolerable. By nature, you are delighted to read more about topics with which you are already familiar. Accumulating additional information about these issues and subjects makes more sense to you than venturing off into areas about which you know very little. Driven by your talents, you are the type of person who maps out trips, projects, or agendas well ahead of time. Your detailed preparation usually involves a lot of reading. Fortunately, you devour the printed word with the same passion that someone heartily interested in food savors a delicious meal.
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? Its very likely that you link your passion for reading to your work. Characteristically the printed materials and Internet sites you scan for information expand your knowledge base as a professional. Your definition of recreational reading probably differs from that of many people. Instinctively, you revel in the sensation of having done something at a high level of excellence, such as public speaking, writing, designing, sailing, gardening, investing, selling, hunting, or yoga. Your hunger for more knowledge about a skill or a subject is customarily satisfied through reading. Undoubtedly, you integrate what you already understand with the fresh insights you glean from books, journals, correspondence, or the Internet. Chances are good that you have a strong, no-nonsense, sober side to your personality. It explains why you often engage in conversations that delve into weighty or philosophical matters. You like to think deeply and carefully about various issues. Then you want to talk with serious-minded people who can help you explore, expand upon, question, or modify your thinking. By nature, you probably enjoy reading self-improvement books. Tips, exercises, suggestions, questions, or resource lists tend to capture your interest when the topic aligns with your needs. Using the information you collect, you frequently concentrate your mental and physical energy on performing a task or using a skill better than you ever have in the past. Because of your strengths, you pay close attention to current events. Numerous people merely recount what they heard, saw, or read. Typically you dive deeper into the topic. You are likely to generate theories, concepts, or philosophies to explain the reasoning behind newsmakers decisions. You routinely gather information about events, policy statements, people, or crises. Your fresh insights are likely to draw equally engaged thinkers into the conversation.
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? Its very likely that you periodically derive satisfaction from pulling newcomers or outsiders into discussions or friendly chitchat. Over time, you may have become more aware of your abilities or more accountable for your words and deeds. Maybe you claim to be more grown up than some of your coworkers, teammates, family members, classmates, or friends. Driven by your talents, you place a premium on doing everything correctly. Whatever you are involved in or associated with must typify that is, symbolize accuracy and precision. Your high standards demand exactness. By nature, you may enjoy hearing people describe you as more serious than some of your colleagues, classmates, teammates, friends, or coworkers. Instinctively, you sometimes are viewed as the most adult-like, upstanding, or reliable person on the team. Why? You might orchestrate the groups activities better than some of your teammates. As a result, they may count on you to lay out the steps of an action plan. Maybe they expect you to acquire materials, raise funds, coordinate schedules, or distribute supplies at the right time. Maybe they allow you to redirect their energies when distractions pull them off course. Because of your strengths, you find it difficult to extinguish your impulse to work hard. Your feelings of personal accountability mean you set few limits for yourself. Instead of watching the clock, you can completely lose track of time when immersed in simple or complex projects. Disregarding your official work schedule, you probably have stayed late or arrived early to finish your assignments. You always know you will somehow accomplish what you said you would do.
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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Relator
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Relator theme enjoy close relationships with others. They find deep satisfaction in working hard with friends to achieve a goal.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out? By nature, you feel most fulfilled when you are busy and simply performing routine tasks. When you have nothing to do, typically you find something to do. Sitting around and wasting time does not suit you at all. Because of your strengths, you occasionally initiate small talk with newcomers and outsiders. On one level, you might make people comfortable in an unfamiliar setting with unfamiliar people. On another level, you might notice that strangers solicit your views on particular issues. Perhaps they reveal who referred them to you. Your knowledge and your personal interest in others may cause some individuals to return again and again with the same basic question: What do you think about . . .? Driven by your talents, you are comfortable being open and honest about who you are. Often you intentionally avoid people who are less than truthful. You prefer to spend time with individuals who speak as candidly as you do about their strengths, shortcomings, hopes, disappointments, failures, or successes. Its very likely that you might notice that people regularly ask you the question What do you think? This might be because they value your views about particular people, situations, rules, news events, or decisions. Chances are good that you consistently measure up to your high expectations when working, studying, or playing.
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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