Strengths-Based Leadership Report

(with your personalized Strengths Insights)

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Strengths-Based Leadership Report

SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 12-28-2010

Leader: David McKinney

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 Connectedness Empathy Developer Adaptability Strategic Thinking Ideation

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

Connectedness
Because of your strengths, you continually seek wisdom from people with whom you have intelligent conversations. You not only listen but also share your thoughts. In the process, you are likely to move beyond concrete facts. Your curiosity draws you to speculate that is, reflect or wonder about theories, ideas, or concepts. To keep your mind fresh, you frequently quiz individuals who are equally fascinated with the intangible and abstract aspects of life. Driven by your talents, you rely on your

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awareness of others feelings, thoughts, and needs to guide you into and through partnerships. You consider various ways to initiate, nurture, and sustain the linkages between individuals and groups. You bring people together. You help them discover reasons to cooperate and support one another. Instinctively, you sense that everything in life is somehow interrelated and interdependent. This idea steels that is, fortifies you to calmly face most of lifes challenges and difficulties. Its very likely that you sense you are linked to all humanity. You contend that harming another human being eventually harms you. Misusing the environment has personal consequences, you argue. This perspective on life influences your thoughts, actions, decisions, or choices. Chances are good that you might be determined to do good for people and/or the environment. Perhaps you are puzzled by people who cause harm without realizing they are hurting themselves.

Empathy
Because of your strengths, you are keenly aware of others moods. Your insights can be especially valuable when you are helping someone develop strength by acquiring a skill, gaining knowledge, or using a talent. Instinctively, you are pleased when people entrust you with their deepest feelings, thoughts, or needs. Often you anticipate what they will say before they find the exact words to express themselves. Driven by your talents, you bring an emotional awareness to conversations. Many times, you ease the stress of individuals when they are about to make an important decision. You can also calm those who are struggling with the uncertainty of change. You are likely to pose probing questions to direct the thinking of others. However, you refrain from telling people what they should and should not do. Its very likely that you trust your intuition. Often it allows you to resolve difficult issues and unravel perplexing puzzles. It probably enables you to overcome obstacles that block others. Chances are good that you may sense the good qualities certain people possess. Perhaps you find something to like in many individuals you meet. Sometimes you remind others of the reasons why you think a person is special. In the process, you might boost the self-esteem or confidence of a newcomer.

Developer
Because of your strengths, you support the people around you by acknowledging their outstanding accomplishments and stellar performances. By nature, you seek opportunities to tell others about facts you know or experiences you have had. You allow people to broaden your understanding with their original ideas. You have discovered that the life of the mind is a joint effort. You receive from other thinkers as many and sometimes even more insights as you provide them. Thinking with individuals or groups stimulates your creativity. You realize it makes each day worth living. Its very likely that you are determined to discover each persons uniqueness. A compassionate individual, you tune in to the emotions of your coworkers, teammates, classmates, friends, or family members. You probably dare to name peoples feelings. This is one way you help them talk through their disappointment, anger, sadness, joy, success, or satisfaction. Driven by your talents, 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. Chances are good that you may be a bit happier with your own life when you can convince certain individuals they are valuable. Perhaps you express appreciation for their upbeat attitudes or their special talents. When you realize someone feels glum, you might make an effort to boost that persons spirits.

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Ideation
Driven by your talents, you may like to work on things by yourself. When you can concentrate on your own tasks, assignments, or projects, you might conceive some original ways to approach your work or studies. Its very likely that you recharge your mind by creating ideas for new projects. This occurs even before you have completed your current assignment. You are happiest when you can hand off your unfinished work to others. You are like a surgeon who performs the operation but asks a competent assistant close the patients incision. You have ways of freeing yourself to think about your next project. Chances are good that you might search for new and fresh ways to make upgrades or enhancements. When you suspect there is a better way to do something, you might make certain revisions or test specific innovations. By nature, you may be delighted when you can generate new and innovative ideas for doing certain tasks or projects. Perhaps you lose enthusiasm or become bored when you are forced to follow standard operating procedures. Periodically you wonder if you are in the right job or course of study when your creativity is stifled. Maybe you are frustrated by people who conclude that your inventive suggestions are forms of criticism or insubordination that is, refusal to submit to authority. Instinctively, you might generate certain types of ideas quickly. Occasionally you draw links between facts, events, people, problems, or solutions. You may present numerous options for consideration. Perhaps your innovative thinking fosters ongoing dialogue between and among associates, committee members, teammates, or classmates.

Adaptability
Driven by your talents, you now and then set aside time to appreciate the loveliness and splendor of your surroundings. Its very likely that you avoid individuals who work non-stop, never taking a break. You refuse to rush headlong from one activity to the next. You are quite comfortable dealing with change, surprises, and unexpected problems. Why? While you appreciate schedules and plans, you recognize when it is wise to deviate that is, turn away from them. Chances are good that you now and then picture events or situations you might find yourself facing in the coming months, years, or decades. Sometimes you consider ways you might react when these circumstances materialize. Because of your strengths, you think about the present and enjoy the moment. You know it is impermanent that is, it does not last forever. You struggle to deal with people who are rooted in the past, those who can see only the future, or those who are caught up in the stresses of the day. For you, it is tiring to spend much time with individuals who are constantly busy or moving so fast they fail to enjoy their lives minute by wondrous minute. By nature, 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.

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