Pog Gallup2
Pog Gallup2
DON CLIFTON
Depending on the order of your themes and how you responded to the assessment, some of your themes
may share identical insight statements. If this occurs, the lower ranked theme will not display insight
statements to avoid duplication on your report.
2. Strategic
3. Maximizer
4. Responsibility
5. Ideation
Driven by your talents, you are known for making unintelligible or complex ideas, plans, procedures, or
regulations easy to understand. By nature, you might notice that people regularly ask you, "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 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 . . .?” Instinctively, you revel
in the opportunity to impart your wisdom and experience to people. Being a hands-on trainer means you
provide your players, friends, associates, or students with practical experiences. These directly relate to a
specific activity or skill. Because of your strengths, you deconstruct tangled situations. You sort through
facts to discover the inner workings of intricate processes, regulations, programs, or action plans. People
rely on you to break complicated things into their basic parts. They trust you to present the information they
need in an easy-to-understand manner.
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?
Driven by your talents, you are much more innovative when you have ample time to process ideas. As long
as you are not pressured to think fast, you can generate many original proposals, alternatives, or tactics for
the coming months, years, or decades. Chances are good that you are innovative, inventive, original, and
resourceful. Your mind allows you to venture beyond the commonplace, the familiar, or the obvious. You
entertain ideas about the best ways to reach a goal, increase productivity, or solve a problem. First, you
think of alternatives. Then you choose the best option. It’s very likely that you can reconfigure factual
information or data in ways that reveal trends, raise issues, identify opportunities, or offer solutions. You
bring an added dimension to discussions. You make sense out of seemingly unrelated information. You are
likely to generate multiple action plans before you choose the best one. Instinctively, you invent original
ideas of your own. Your imagination is typically stimulated when you collaborate — that is, team up — with
future-oriented thinkers. By nature, you customarily pinpoint the core problems and identify the best
solutions. You artfully and skillfully eliminate distractions. This helps people gain a clear understanding of
what is happening and why it is happening. You frequently identify ways to transform an obstacle into an
opportunity.
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?
Instinctively, you take full advantage of your talents. This is how you move toward your goals. By nature,
you inspire others by finding out what motivates them. You give individuals lots of recognition. You
celebrate each person’s uniqueness. Your acknowledgments and compliments typically energize people.
Because of your strengths, you reject using a one-size-fits-all approach when attempting to influence
people to take action. Instead, you discover each person’s special talents, skills, knowledge, mission, likes,
and dislikes. This information helps you personalize your words and deeds. It’s very likely that you are
likely to do your best work when someone truly recognizes your strengths. You want to be appreciated for
the talents you own, the skills you possess, and the knowledge you have acquired. Chances are good that
you are aware of what you do naturally and well. You prefer to leverage your talents rather than spend time
trying to overcome your shortcomings. You expect excellence from yourself and others. Being average at
best and mediocre at worst is unacceptable to you.
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?
By nature, you have a strong sense of commitment. It motivates you to make sure that things are carried
through to completion even when difficulties arise. Instinctively, you strive to be a dependable person. You
willingly assume accountability for tasks, projects, assignments, or commitments. You please people by
being reliable. You accept additional obligations and perform these duties in a friendly and pleasant
manner. It’s 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. Because of your strengths, you often
argue that people should be held to the highest moral standards. You insist that those who break the law
be required to accept the consequences of their deeds. You have little sympathy for people who are caught
in the act of taking things that do not belong to them. Driven by your talents, you do what you said you
would do even if it means being inconvenienced. You typically work long hours. Frequently you put off what
you planned to do to deliver on your promises. Even when you must accomplish more than you anticipated
to finish the job, you proceed at a predictable, measured, and even pace. No one needs to prod and push
you. You are known for finishing assignments just as you said you would.
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?
It’s very likely that you favor conversations where information, facts, or data are considered objectively —
that is, emotions do not distort the truth. You pose questions, evaluate answers, and figure out how things
work. Reducing an idea, theory, or process to its most basic parts provides you with many insights. You are
likely to archive — that is, preserve — your discoveries so you can use them later. By nature, you ask
questions. You ponder answers. You find the underlying causes of a situation, problem, system,
mechanism, plan, regulation, or prohibition. Logical and ordered in your thinking, you study every detail,
however small. You are determined to examine the facts. Instinctively, you regard yourself as logical and
reasonable. You spontaneously reduce mechanisms, processes, proposals, ideas, or formulas to their
basic parts. You figure out how the pieces interrelate. Your discoveries tell you why something does or
does not function the way it should. Because of your strengths, you naturally dream up new tasks to do.
You realize the inventive process cannot be rushed. You often are frustrated by individuals who appreciate
your originality but fail to give you enough time to generate truly novel ideas. Driven by your talents, you
tune in to people and figure out what they are saying and thinking about you. You are acutely aware of how
individuals regard you. You probably curry — that is, try to win — the favor of some and seek to impress
others.
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?