This report provides me insights into where my Top-10 strengths fit across the four domains of leadership.

1. Leader: Michael Snyder
Strengths-Based Leadership Insight Report
SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 03-04-2016
DON CLIFTON
Father of Strengths Psychology and
Inventor of CliftonStrengths
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2. Gallup found that it serves a team well to have a representation of strengths in each of the four domains of
leadership strength: Executing, Influencing, Relationship Building, and Strategic Thinking. Instead of one
dominant leader who tries to do everything or individuals who all have similar strengths, contributions from
all four domains lead to a strong and cohesive team. This doesn't mean that each person on a team must
have strengths exclusively in a single category. In most cases, each team member will possess some
strength in multiple domains.
According to our latest research, the 34 Clifton StrengthsFinder themes naturally cluster into these four
domains of leadership strength. See below for how your top ten themes sort into the four domains. As you
think about how you can contribute to a team and who you need to surround yourself with, this may be a
good starting point.
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.
YOUR TOP TEN CLIFTONSTRENGTHS THEMES
EXECUTING INFLUENCING
RELATIONSHIP
BUILDING
STRATEGIC THINKING
Arranger Activator Individualization Learner
Focus Command Strategic
Input
Ideation
Intellection
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3. Your Personalized Strengths Insights
LEARNER
By nature, you probably started asking people questions as a child and continue to do so today. Others
quickly notice you are genuinely interested in what they say. Your inquiries turn tense frowns into relaxed
smiles. The warmth of your presence can transform a timid person into a talkative one. You intentionally
offer compliments. Few things delight you as much as hearing a stranger say, “I really like you — and I’ve
just met you!” Driven by your talents, you value education and scholarship at any level and at any age.
Your thirst for knowledge causes you to explore many topics of study or specialize in one particular subject.
You thoroughly enjoy opportunities to acquire additional information, skills, and experiences. Because of
your strengths, you earnestly direct your attention toward the ideas, issues, situations, or possibilities that
stir your curiosity. In fact, you devote more time than most people do to exploring topics, problems,
prospects, opportunities, or techniques that pique — that is, arouse or excite — your interest. When
something has to be completed, you are eager to acquire the necessary knowledge or skills to meet the
challenge. Chances are good that you treasure opportunities to absorb knowledge and gather ideas from
forward-looking thinkers. You usually read their writings, listen to their presentations, or ask them questions
about the future they envision. Whenever you can conduct experiments or participate in hands-on
activities, you have a much better grasp of their innovative ideas. Instinctively, you occasionally find the
reasons why certain things occur again and again. Perhaps you investigate numerous details to
understand the overall operation of a machine, program, regulation, or tool. Maybe examining the
interaction between various parts is as important to you as knowing what each part is designed to do.
ACTIVATOR
Instinctively, you repeatedly galvanize — that is, spark or excite — people’s enthusiasm by pointing out
things they have done well. You often encourage individuals to revel in their accomplishments. Driven by
your talents, you derive much joy from starting new projects, jobs, or courses of study. Before moving
ahead, you automatically think about the things you need to upgrade, perfect, or do better. It’s very likely
that you urge people to attain their goals by pressing ahead without stopping. Some people feel threatened
by your forceful messages. You probably use this technique with individuals who are slow to start or who
are inclined to quit before the work is finished. Because of your strengths, you are comfortable telling
others stories about your personal habits, qualities, experiences, or background. Your forthcoming nature
probably enables others to share their thoughts and feelings with you. By nature, you probably stimulate
individuals to be more enthusiastic about what they are doing. How? You repeatedly remind them that you
truly value their contributions, talents, experience, and expertise.
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4. ARRANGER
Instinctively, you yearn to be given additional duties. You expect to be held accountable for your
productivity, profit, behavior, comments, and actions. By nature, you might be described by your
teammates as someone who keeps promises. Maybe certain people trust you so much they do not keep
checking on your progress. Perhaps they have discovered over time that you honor your commitments.
Because of your strengths, you volunteer for additional duties. You really enjoy being given authority over
projects, individuals, or groups. You expect to be held accountable for the results you produce as well as
your words and deeds. It’s very likely that you might like to partner with the same people over and over
again. When you spend more time with certain teammates, maybe it is easier to pinpoint the unique
strengths, interests, work styles, preferred forms of praise, or changing moods of each one. Chances are
good that you occasionally like to be part of a team. Perhaps certain kinds of groups provide you with
opportunities to voice your ideas or express your feelings.
INDIVIDUALIZATION
Because of your strengths, you easily identify with what others are thinking and feeling. You intuitively
understand their hopes, fears, joys, and sorrows. This helps you consider things from each individual’s
perspective. Driven by your talents, you may have an ability to watch people or determine with some
degree of accuracy what makes one unique, distinct, or special. Perhaps certain talents, weaknesses,
likes, dislikes, moods, or motivations attract your attention when you observe others’ actions or listen to
their words. Instinctively, you enjoy working and studying with people whose backgrounds, cultures,
talents, or experiences are quite different from one another. You usually are the one who determines how
each individual can contribute to the group. Chances are good that you are quite sensitive to the trials,
tribulations, and loneliness forward-looking thinkers experience. When people callously — that is,
insensitively — discard their inventive ideas, futurists sense you appreciate their vision of what can be
accomplished in the coming months, years, or decades. By nature, you sometimes toil without much rest.
Maybe you want to pinpoint useful and intriguing facts. To some extent, you may need to explain why
particular events unfolded as they did. Perhaps this information permits you to do more or better work.
STRATEGIC
Because of your strengths, you long to know more so you remain on the cutting edge of your field or areas
of interest. Your inventive mind usually generates more possibilities than you can handle or fund.
Nonetheless, you are committed to acquiring knowledge and/or skills. You study everything involved in a
situation and conceive entirely new ways of seeing or doing things. What you already know prompts you to
ask questions and delve even deeper into a subject or problem. Driven by your talents, you automatically
generate numerous ways to enhance, upgrade, revise, correct, or revamp a process, action plan, or
itinerary. Your suggestions often influence how a project will unfold in the coming months, years, or
decades. You tend to find fault with your own and even other people’s talents, skills, and/or knowledge.
Fixing people or things ranks high on your favorite activities. Instinctively, you may see solutions before
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5. other people know there is a problem. You might start formulating answers before your teammates,
coworkers, or classmates understand the question. Sometimes you generate numerous ideas before
sorting to the one that makes the most sense in a particular situation. By nature, you generate innovative
ideas. You offer unique perspectives on events, people, and proposals. You probably inspire people to
start projects and launch initiatives. You tend to identify a goal, devise numerous ways of reaching it, then
choose the best alternative. This explains why you see opportunities, trends, and solutions before your
teammates, classmates, or peers see them. Chances are good that you generate ideas quickly. You draw
clever linkages between facts, events, people, problems, or solutions. You present others with numerous
options at a pace some find dizzying. Your innovative thinking tends to foster ongoing dialogue between
and among the group’s participants.
COMMAND
By nature, you are more comfortable talking about ideas than issuing orders or dealing with conflict. You
gravitate to conversations with intelligent people. You intentionally cast aside emotions and concentrate on
the facts. You continually search for evidence to make your points and wish others would do the same.
Driven by your talents, you contribute many innovative ideas to the group during brainstorming sessions.
You tend to be highly imaginative when proposals are fully heard and any criticism is reserved for a later
time. Chances are good that you may have vied for the top ranking in certain types of activities as a child.
Reflecting on your youth, you probably remember being self-sufficient, assertive, and bold. Instinctively,
you probably have exhibited the traits of boldness, assertiveness, and/or self-reliance since childhood.
INPUT
Instinctively, you are quite comfortable having time to yourself to enjoy a favorite pastime: reading.
Whether you are sitting on a quiet beach or in a crowded airport terminal, you create your own space with a
book, magazine, newspaper, document, or correspondence. Gleaning information, inspiration, or insights
from these sources can make your relaxation more pleasurable or your delays more tolerable. Driven by
your talents, you describe reading as a pleasure, not a chore. Generally you gain insights and acquire
information whether you prefer fiction or nonfiction writing. You are likely to pull together ideas from printed
materials or Internet sites. Typically you can talk about complicated topics or situations by highlighting only
the basic points. Usually people can grasp what you are saying the first time because you refrain from
burdening them with every detail you know. It’s very likely that you find it easier to befriend people when
they tell you what they want to accomplish. Knowing that much, you probably read books, journals,
newspapers, correspondence, or Internet sites to broaden your knowledge about their interests. When you
can share information that helps people move closer to their goals, you understand each other better.
Because of your strengths, you link your passion for reading to your work. Characteristically the printed
materials and Internet sites you scan for information expand your knowledge base as a professional. Your
definition of “recreational reading” probably differs from that of many people. By nature, you are more
interested in gathering ideas, theories, or concepts during conversations with intelligent people than you
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6. are in being well known or famous. You tend to be most satisfied when your mind is absorbing thoughts
you have never before considered. In addition, you enjoy broadening the thinking of others.
FOCUS
Instinctively, you usually feel in sync with life once you have helped clarify either your own or someone
else’s performance objectives. You enjoy talking with people who are keenly aware of their personal and
professional goals. By nature, you establish specific and measurable performance targets for yourself each
week. Because of your strengths, you keep your assignments and projects on track by setting weekly
objectives. You concentrate on these goals until they are attained. It’s very likely that you occasionally work
seriously at something when you have defined the specific objective you want to reach in the near term or
the long term. Remember, your other talents might influence how far into the future you can push certain
goals and still give them your undivided attention.
IDEATION
Because of your strengths, you automatically search for new or fresh ways to make upgrades or
enhancements. When you suspect there is a better way to do something, you implement your revisions
and test your innovations. Driven by your talents, you may select unusual words to describe your ideas or
feelings. Perhaps your extensive vocabulary allows you to capture people’s interest. Instinctively, you
intentionally seek out what is new and different. Unexplored territory appeals to your adventurous spirit.
You like to test your limits as a human being in travel, work, sports, or thinking. Even when others worry
about your well-being, you trust you can take care of yourself. Chances are good that you think creatively.
You see possibilities. You are inclined to reject traditional approaches to problem solving. You trust your
feelings to lead you to the proper solution. By nature, you may toil diligently to separate things into pieces
so you can examine them one by one. Perhaps this is how you unravel the logic embedded in specific
mechanisms, processes, plans, formulas, ideas, or tactics.
INTELLECTION
Because of your strengths, you probably enjoy reading books, magazines, newspapers, or Internet sites
that feature news about sports or athletes. Driven by your talents, you usually give good advice. Often
people’s questions dictate your choice of reading materials. Whether you are studying something for the
first time or revisiting a topic to refresh your memory, you enjoy reading. Making discoveries that can help
others brings you much joy. Instinctively, you tend to gravitate to reading groups that converse about an
author, a book, or printed materials on a given topic. Prior to the session, you are likely to gather as many
facts as possible from the assigned reading. By storing this information in your mind, you increase your
chances of recalling an insight you want to share with the other participants. By nature, you tend to be
earnest, businesslike, and dignified in what you say and do. Understandably, the books and publications
you read are apt to reflect your no-nonsense approach to life. You aim to accumulate knowledge whenever
you peruse — that is, studiously examine — the printed word.
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