Gallupreport
Gallupreport
Gallupreport
DON CLIFTON
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.
Futuristic
Wouldnt it be great if . . . You are the kind of person who loves to peer over the horizon. The future
fascinates you. As if it were projected on the wall, you see in detail what the future might hold, and
this detailed picture keeps pulling you forward, into tomorrow. While the exact content of the picture
will depend on your other strengths and interestsa better product, a better team, a better life, or a
better worldit will always be inspirational to you. You are a dreamer who sees visions of what could
be and who cherishes those visions. When the present proves too frustrating and the people around
you too pragmatic, you conjure up your visions of the future and they energize you. They can energize
others, too. In fact, very often people look to you to describe your visions of the future. They want a
picture that can raise their sights and thereby their spirits. You can paint it for them. Practice. Choose
your words carefully. Make the picture as vivid as possible. People will want to latch on to the hope
you bring.
Restorative
You love to solve problems. Whereas some are dismayed when they encounter yet another
breakdown, you can be energized by it. You enjoy the challenge of analyzing the symptoms,
Harmony
You look for areas of agreement. In your view there is little to be gained from conflict and friction, so
you seek to hold them to a minimum. When you know that the people around you hold differing views,
you try to find the common ground. You try to steer them away from confrontation and toward
harmony. In fact, harmony is one of your guiding values. You cant quite believe how much time is
wasted by people trying to impose their views on others. Wouldnt we all be more productive if we
kept our opinions in check and instead looked for consensus and support? You believe we would, and
you live by that belief. When others are sounding off about their goals, their claims, and their fervently
held opinions, you hold your peace. When others strike out in a direction, you will willingly, in the
service of harmony, modify your own objectives to merge with theirs (as long as their basic values do
not clash with yours). When others start to argue about their pet theory or concept, you steer clear of
the debate, preferring to talk about practical, down-to-earth matters on which you can all agree. In
your view we are all in the same boat, and we need this boat to get where we are going. It is a good
boat. There is no need to rock it just to show that you can.
Consistency
Balance is important to you. You are keenly aware of the need to treat people the same, no matter
what their station in life, so you do not want to see the scales tipped too far in any one persons favor.
In your view this leads to selfishness and individualism. It leads to a world where some people gain an
unfair advantage because of their connections or their background or their greasing of the wheels.
This is truly offensive to you. You see yourself as a guardian against it. In direct contrast to this world
of special favors, you believe that people function best in a consistent environment where the rules
are clear and are applied to everyone equally. This is an environment where people know what is
expected. It is predictable and evenhanded. It is fair. Here each person has an even chance to show
his or her worth.