1. Strengths Insight Report
SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 01-24-2014
Matthew Sharp
Your Top 5 Themes
Learner
Achiever
Context
Analytical
Discipline
Learner
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Learner theme have a great desire to learn and want to
continuously improve. In particular, the process of learning, rather than the outcome, excites them.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Because of your strengths, you yearn to increase your knowledge by being kept in the information
loop. This explains why you gravitate to people who converse about ideas at a deeper and more
thoughtful level than most individuals are capable of doing. “Making small talk” — that is, engaging in
idle conversation — probably seems like a waste of time to you. It’s very likely that you are a rational
thinker. That is, you exhibit good judgment and exercise sound reasoning. These thought processes
serve you well whenever you set out to acquire true knowledge and/or gain a skill. You school
yourself by reading, investigating, examining, experiencing, or receiving instruction in a subject. By
nature, you fill your mind with new ideas by asking questions, reading, studying, observing, or
listening. Normally, you accumulate facts, data, stories, examples, or background information from the
people you meet. Determining what they want to accomplish in the coming weeks, months, or years
generally satisfies your curiosity. These insights also allow you to understand why individuals behave
they way they do in different situations. Driven by your talents, you acquire knowledge more easily
when you can talk with others about ideas, concepts, or theories. Thoughts come alive for you when
questions are posed and answers are proposed. You have a delightful time thinking out loud and
listening to intelligent people express themselves. You naturally document or store in your mind bits
and pieces of discussions. You want to refer back to these insights or facts whenever the opportunity
presents itself. Instinctively, you constantly investigate the “hows” and “whys” of a given situation. You
find relationships between the final result and the events preceding it. These links enable you to
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2. understand how things come into being. You draw logical conclusions. These often broaden your
knowledge base.
Achiever
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Achiever theme have a great deal of stamina and work
hard. They take great satisfaction from being busy and productive.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
It’s very likely that you are an enterprising person. You effortlessly launch new ventures. You are likely
to measure your progress on a regular basis. This information probably inspires you to work even
harder. By nature, you are motivated when your results are compared to those of others. To a large
degree, this explains why you are so determined to continue working until your outcomes are
recognized as the very best. Driven by your talents, you notice that your ability to use common sense
and reason gives you an edge — that is, an advantage — over many people. You are driven from
within — that is, you motivate yourself — to accomplish more and do better work than you ever have.
This is your path to success. Chances are good that you might put forth a lot of effort to design step-
by-step procedures for handling repetitious tasks. Maybe you expect everyone to follow these rules
once they are put in place. When you make a habit of using these processes, you may reach some
goals a bit more quickly, reduce certain kinds of errors, or avoid missing particular deadlines. Because
of your strengths, you invest a lot of time, energy, and effort figuring out how things operate. You
undoubtedly dismantle mechanisms, programs, processes, or plans to identify their key components.
Then you reassemble them. The in-depth knowledge you gain allows you to reach your goals and
produce quality results. This is apt to be the kind of hard work you like to do.
Context
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Context theme enjoy thinking about the past. They
understand the present by researching its history.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Because of your strengths, you carefully examine circumstances, opportunities, or problems. You sift
through the past to understand the present. You probably listen to experts discuss current events. No
fact, object, or document is too minor. You figure out how bits and pieces of history explain what is
happening today. You grasp the complexity of most situations. Your time-consuming investigations
are likely to puzzle those who notice and deal with only what is most obvious. By nature, you have an
expertise for investigating historical records and other sources of information about the past. Based
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3. on your findings, you are in a position to speculate — that is, assume or wonder — about what is apt
to occur in the future. Simply put: By looking back, you can look ahead. Chances are good that you
are a history buff — that is, someone ardently devoted to studying the past. You are especially drawn
to firsthand accounts of global conflicts. You link people to events and trace timelines. You are likely
to examine major battles from the perspective of foes and allies as well as neutral parties. The sum of
your findings probably allows you to determine what started and eventually ended each war. It’s very
likely that you ingratiate yourself — that is, gain favorable acceptance — with people who think about
bygone events and the people who played a major or minor role in them. Reading historians’ writings
or listening to their conversations probably fills your mind with many questions. You enjoy filing away
their answers, sensing one day all this information will prove to be useful. Whether it actually does
become useful makes no difference to you. Knowledge is its own reward, in your opinion. Driven by
your talents, you prefer to think about the past with historians rather than daydream about the future.
You examine the historic record with their assistance. In the process, you probably gain a clearer
understanding of present circumstances.
Analytical
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Analytical theme search for reasons and causes. They have
the ability to think about all the factors that might affect a situation.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
It’s very likely that you may like to talk about grand ideas with your coworkers, classmates, or
teammates. Perhaps you force them to ask hard questions. How much will this cost? Can we raise the
funds? How many people will need to be involved? How do we break down the project into
manageable tasks? How much time will this job require? What has to be eliminated from the plan?
What has to be changed? Chances are good that you characteristically are a dependable person. You
often know the right thing to do in a variety of situations. Your methodical thinking and thoughtful
nature usually influence your words and deeds. By nature, you often are described as earnest and
businesslike. Many individuals appreciate your methodical and unhurried way of processing facts or
numerical data. Driven by your talents, you customarily rely on your skills, knowledge, and expertise
to exhaustively investigate interesting topics and troublesome issues. You require a high level of detail
from yourself before you declare your research is thorough and complete. You aim to surpass the
results others produce. Because of your strengths, you normally rely on logic and reason when you
must make important judgments. Your thoughtful approach is most apparent when you must consider
the short-term and long-term effects of your choices on yourself and others.
Discipline
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Discipline theme enjoy routine and structure. Their world is
best described by the order they create.
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4. Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
By nature, you might prefer working in an environment where things are outlined or structured.
Perhaps a certain degree of familiarity is comforting to you. Because of your strengths, you favor
establishing standard operating procedures for performing tasks that occur on a regular basis. Rather
than inventing a new way to do an assignment every single time, you choose to pinpoint a series of
steps that enable people to handle it efficiently. Investigating how something works, then and
streamlining it to function even better is your forte — that is, your strong point. Once you have laid out
a series of steps and a timeline, you usually are eager to see your new and improved system
implemented across the board — that is, used equally by everyone. It’s very likely that you are
methodical about preparing for events where your strengths are going to be tested against those of
others. You are apt to establish a practice schedule and follow it faithfully. Day after day, you build
your knowledge, skills, or endurance. You have the stick-to-itiveness — that is, the dogged
perseverance — to do everything you planned to win top honors. Your training is likely to be more
rigorous than that of others. Driven by your talents, you put much effort into keeping various areas
neat and shipshape. When others notice and appreciate this ability, you are quite motivated to
maintain a high level of tidiness. Chances are good that you are highly talented at identifying your
most critical tasks. You rank each one according to its urgency, importance, deadlines, and the
availability of resources. Other considerations include who is making the request and who needs your
completed work to start their part of the project. Once you have established what comes first, second,
third, and so on, you methodically execute your action plan.
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