Your Signature Themes

SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 09-10-2014

Sarah Aday
Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people
are those who understand their strengths and behaviors. These people are best able to develop
strategies to meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families.
A review of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilities,
but an awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core
reasons behind your consistent successes.
Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant themes of talent, in the rank order
revealed by your responses to StrengthsFinder. Of the 34 themes measured, these are your "top
five."
Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the talents that lead to your successes. By
focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in combination, you can identify your talents,
build them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career success through consistent, near-perfect
performance.

Analytical
Your Analytical theme challenges other people: Prove it. Show me why what you are claiming is
true. In the face of this kind of questioning some will find that their brilliant theories wither and die. For
you, this is precisely the point. You do not necessarily want to destroy other peoples ideas, but you
do insist that their theories be sound. You see yourself as objective and dispassionate. You like data
because they are value free. They have no agenda. Armed with these data, you search for patterns
and connections. You want to understand how certain patterns affect one another. How do they
combine? What is their outcome? Does this outcome fit with the theory being offered or the situation
being confronted? These are your questions. You peel the layers back until, gradually, the root cause
or causes are revealed. Others see you as logical and rigorous. Over time they will come to you in
order to expose someones wishful thinking or clumsy thinking to your refining mind. It is hoped
that your analysis is never delivered too harshly. Otherwise, others may avoid you when that wishful
thinking is their own.

Responsibility
Your Responsibility theme forces you to take psychological ownership for anything you commit to, and
whether large or small, you feel emotionally bound to follow it through to completion. Your good name
depends on it. If for some reason you cannot deliver, you automatically start to look for ways to make
it up to the other person. Apologies are not enough. Excuses and rationalizations are totally

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unacceptable. You will not quite be able to live with yourself until you have made restitution. This
conscientiousness, this near obsession for doing things right, and your impeccable ethics, combine to
create your reputation: utterly dependable. When assigning new responsibilities, people will look to
you first because they know it will get done. When people come to you for helpand they soon
willyou must be selective. Your willingness to volunteer may sometimes lead you to take on more
than you should.

Deliberative
You are careful. You are vigilant. You are a private person. You know that the world is an
unpredictable place. Everything may seem in order, but beneath the surface you sense the many
risks. Rather than denying these risks, you draw each one out into the open. Then each risk can be
identified, assessed, and ultimately reduced. Thus, you are a fairly serious person who approaches
life with a certain reserve. For example, you like to plan ahead so as to anticipate what might go
wrong. You select your friends cautiously and keep your own counsel when the conversation turns to
personal matters. You are careful not to give too much praise and recognition, lest it be misconstrued.
If some people dont like you because you are not as effusive as others, then so be it. For you, life is
not a popularity contest. Life is something of a minefield. Others can run through it recklessly if they
so choose, but you take a different approach. You identify the dangers, weigh their relative impact,
and then place your feet deliberately. You walk with care.

Individualization
Your Individualization theme leads you to be intrigued by the unique qualities of each person. You are
impatient with generalizations or types because you dont want to obscure what is special and
distinct about each person. Instead, you focus on the differences between individuals. You
instinctively observe each persons style, each persons motivation, how each thinks, and how each
builds relationships. You hear the one-of-a-kind stories in each persons life. This theme explains why
you pick your friends just the right birthday gift, why you know that one person prefers praise in public
and another detests it, and why you tailor your teaching style to accommodate one persons need to
be shown and anothers desire to figure it out as I go. Because you are such a keen observer of
other peoples strengths, you can draw out the best in each person. This Individualization theme also
helps you build productive teams. While some search around for the perfect team structure or
process, you know instinctively that the secret to great teams is casting by individual strengths so
that everyone can do a lot of what they do well.

Relator
Relator describes your attitude toward your relationships. In simple terms, the Relator theme pulls you
toward people you already know. You do not necessarily shy away from meeting new peoplein fact,
you may have other themes that cause you to enjoy the thrill of turning strangers into friendsbut you
do derive a great deal of pleasure and strength from being around your close friends. You are
comfortable with intimacy. Once the initial connection has been made, you deliberately encourage a
deepening of the relationship. You want to understand their feelings, their goals, their fears, and their
dreams; and you want them to understand yours. You know that this kind of closeness implies a
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certain amount of riskyou might be taken advantage ofbut you are willing to accept that risk. For
you a relationship has value only if it is genuine. And the only way to know that is to entrust yourself to
the other person. The more you share with each other, the more you risk together. The more you risk
together, the more each of you proves your caring is genuine. These are your steps toward real
friendship, and you take them willingly.

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