1. Strengths Insight Report
SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 06-07-2016
Linda Hill
Your Top 5 Themes
Strategic
Positivity
Maximizer
Adaptability
Connectedness
Strategic
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Strategic theme create alternative ways to proceed. Faced
with any given scenario, they can quickly spot the relevant patterns and issues.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Because of your strengths, you have a knack for identifying problems. You spontaneously generate
alternatives for solving them. You probably consider the pros and cons of each option. You often
factor into your thinking prevailing circumstances and available resources. You feel life is good when
you sense you are choosing the best course of action. It’s very likely that you select the right
combination of words to convey your ideas or feelings. In the middle of discussions, your vocabulary
provides you with precise phrases and terminology. You probably express yourself with ease and
grace. Instinctively, you might easily detect unusual configurations or spot new trends in data or
factual information. Devising options appeals to you. You have little interest in simply repeating what
worked in the past. Chances are good that 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. By nature, you likely are quite adept — that is, talented, skilled, and
knowledgeable — with language. You can express your ideas and feelings with ease. You typically
rely on words or phrases your teammates readily understand.
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2. Positivity
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Positivity theme have an enthusiasm that is contagious.
They are upbeat and can get others excited about what they are going to do.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Driven by your talents, you mix and match people’s unique styles of working, thinking, problem
solving, or relationship building. You probably help people see how their special talents, knowledge,
or skills benefit others on the job or in the classroom. When individuals and groups cooperate, you
automatically commend them for reaching a goal, making progress, or succeeding. Chances are good
that you intentionally set aside time to reflect on your unique abilities. You ponder the things you do
quite well. Looking at what is right about yourself and your life energizes you. Dwelling on your
shortcomings strikes you as an utter waste of time. Because of your strengths, you might tend to get
to know certain people on an up-close and personal basis. You are quite willing to share your ideas
and resources with these individuals. This usually occurs when topics of immediate concern demand
the attention of you and your friends. By nature, you commonly feel good about life when you give
yourself credit for reducing difficult-to-understand ideas, mechanisms, programs, or processes to their
basic parts. You undoubtedly grasp the concept of “less is more” better than many people do.
Instinctively, you often declare life is very good. This feeling usually envelops you after you have given
an individual your support and approval. Your affirming words are likely to boost the person’s
confidence. Your derive much satisfaction from seeing someone make a decision, practice a skill,
sharpen a talent, or begin a task.
Maximizer
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Maximizer theme focus on strengths as a way to stimulate
personal and group excellence. They seek to transform something strong into something superb.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Driven by your talents, you have a reputation as a hard worker. You probably help people understand
your talents and areas of excellence. They frequently observe you practicing the use of your talents,
skills, and knowledge. You sense you can do various things much better tomorrow as long as you
refuse to take your abilities for granted today. It’s very likely that you routinely choose to spend time
with people who recognize, applaud, or value your accomplishments. You probably prefer the
company of those who see what you have to offer. You thrive when surrounded by supportive
individuals. You tend to distance yourself from people who repeatedly ignore, downplay, or feel
threatened by what you do so naturally and so well. Because of your strengths, you intentionally build
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3. your vocabulary to include theoretical, intricate, technical, or difficult-to-understand words. For you,
this is an ongoing process. Understandably, you prefer to spend time with people who recognize and
appreciate your mastery of language. These individuals value the sophisticated terminology you use
with ease. They are likely to ask you what a word or phrase means. These inquiries spotlight your
specialized or extensive vocabulary. Instinctively, you concentrate most of your energy on what you
know you do well. You ask, “Why waste time trying to fix myself?” You contend it is wiser and more
sensible to build on what you naturally do best. By nature, you gravitate to groups that make
assignments based on an individual’s unique talents. You intentionally avoid teams whose members
think anyone can do anything as long as the person devotes enough effort and time to the task. You
realize you do better work and progress more quickly when you are allowed to use your natural
abilities.
Adaptability
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Adaptability theme prefer to “go with the flow.” They tend to
be “now” people who take things as they come and discover the future one day at a time.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
By nature, you are apt to be the unflappable — that is, not easily excited — member of your group.
Your teammates often rely on you to remain calm in the face of unexpected changes, obstacles, or
challenges. They appreciate how you deal with whatever occurs as it occurs. You probably have little
difficulty altering your original plan. Instinctively, you attribute your upbeat outlook on life to an ability
to take things as they come. This flexibility probably enables you to embrace change rather than resist
it. Because of your strengths, you realize the quality of your life dramatically improves when you are
surrounded by the loveliness of nature and enthralled — that is, held spellbound — by the artistry of
human beings. Driven by your talents, you feel much more upbeat about life when you can simply
deal with situations as they arise. You have little interest in engineering exactly how you want a plan
to unfold. You probably are responsive by nature. It’s very likely that you perform quite well in
situations where shifting priorities and changing plans are the norm. You have a gift for reacting in the
moment rather than delaying action.
Connectedness
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Connectedness theme have faith in the links between all
things. They believe there are few coincidences and that almost every event has a reason.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
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4. Driven by your talents, you consider people more important than things. The value you place on
humankind guides your decision-making. It also influences what you say and do as well as what you
choose not to say and do. Chances are good that you customarily search for pertinent facts and
relevant data to reconstruct the chain of events that produced a problem or an opportunity. You prefer
reasonable explanations. Typically you reject the notion that fate, chance, or luck rules your life.
Because of your strengths, you sense every event is somehow the consequence of a series of
actions, reactions, or lack of actions. You can accept that which cannot be fully explained using logic.
You say there are no accidents. You are confident that things are linked together for a purpose that
may or may not be revealed to you. Instinctively, you argue that hard work influences the course of
your life more than anything else. You make your own good fortune by preparing yourself to take
advantage of opportunities as they arise. Each time you are successful, you can outline exactly what
you did to reach a goal. You link together facts, incidents, conversations, or available resources to
understand your accomplishments. You resist the notion that life is nothing more than a game of
chance. By nature, you conclude that your life is more meaningful and you are happier when you can
dedicate yourself to something of importance to humankind. It can be something simple rather than
something grand. You sense your acts of kindness influence individuals to perform good deeds. You
are likely to inspire generosity in many people.
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