gallup strengths based leadership insight report

Leader: Jonathan Driver

Strengths-Based Leadership Insight ReportSURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 05-08-2016

DON CLIFTON

Father of Strengths Psychology andInventor of CliftonStrengths

225364 (Jonathan Driver)Copyright © 2000 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Gallup found that it serves a team well to have a representation of strengths in each of the four domains ofleadership strength: Executing, Influencing, Relationship Building, and Strategic Thinking. Instead of onedominant leader who tries to do everything or individuals who all have similar strengths, contributions fromall four domains lead to a strong and cohesive team. This doesn't mean that each person on a team musthave strengths exclusively in a single category. In most cases, each team member will possess somestrength in multiple domains.

According to our latest research, the 34 Clifton StrengthsFinder themes naturally cluster into these fourdomains of leadership strength. See below for how your top ten themes sort into the four domains. As youthink about how you can contribute to a team and who you need to surround yourself with, this may be agood starting point.

YOUR TOP TEN CLIFTON STRENGTHSFINDER THEMES

EXECUTING INFLUENCINGRELATIONSHIP

BUILDINGSTRATEGIC THINKING

Achiever Communication Positivity Learner

Belief Woo Connectedness Analytical

Responsibility

Focus


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Your Personalized Strengths Insights

ACHIEVER

Instinctively, you are known as a reliable and dependable person. You are motivated to work diligently. Youcannot rest until you have completed what you told someone you would do. It’s very likely that you invest alot 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-depthknowledge you gain allows you to reach your goals and produce quality results. This is apt to be the kind ofhard work you like to do. Because of your strengths, you actively seek out advisers whose judgment andexpertise you trust. Whenever you find yourself in a questionable situation, you likely ask them to help youidentify the proper course of action. Why? You are committed to doing things correctly. Driven by yourtalents, you are an enterprising person. You effortlessly launch new ventures. You are likely to measureyour progress on a regular basis. This information probably inspires you to work even harder. By nature,you probably set goals regarding the amount of recognition you give your coworkers. You aim to lavishthem with compliments. Why? You want each person to feel valued and appreciated. Recipients of yourabundant praise usually are eager to please you again. They often are willing to help whenever you ask.

COMMUNICATION

Instinctively, you have a facility — that is, an ease and readiness — for speaking. Under very fewcircumstances do you struggle to find just the right word to express a thought or feeling. Being able to putfriends or strangers at ease quickly is one of your special gifts. Chances are good that you probably derivefar less satisfaction from your work or studies when you are separated from your friends. Partnering withthem usually motivates you to work very hard to complete tasks and reach goals. By nature, you arenaturally open and honest about who you are, what you have done, what you can do, and what you cannotdo. Your straightforward explanations and stories help listeners see you as you see yourself. You revealyour strengths and limitations. You are forthright and plainspoken. People generally seek your companyand want to work with you. Many are impelled to move into action by your words and examples. It’s verylikely that you likely are quite adept — that is, talented, skilled, and knowledgeable — with language. Youcan express your ideas and feelings with ease. You typically rely on words or phrases your teammatesreadily understand. Driven by your talents, you engage others in conversation about the meaning of life.You discuss subjects beyond the understanding of the average mind. You afford individuals an opportunityto be creative, study, reflect, speculate, or tell stories. These activities stimulate your thinking. Undoubtedly,you prefer to spend time with intelligent people who can understand what you are saying.


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WOO

By nature, you sometimes look forward to the chance to socialize with others. You may be attracted tosituations involving newcomers. Now and then, you enjoy pulling strangers into discussions. Your big smileand friendly disposition might put people at ease. Instinctively, you are genuinely fond of your teammates.You can see the good in them more readily than most people can. This explains why individuals like havingyou in their groups. Because of your strengths, you can live peacefully with different types of people. Youattempt to cooperate with them. Perhaps you welcome newcomers into your life. You sometimes help themfit into the group. Some may permit you to draw them into casual chitchat or serious discussions. Now andthen, talking with strangers energizes you. It’s very likely that you expend a lot of mental, physical, andemotional energy earning the affection of the individuals you meet. You want others to feel the samefondness for you that you naturally feel toward them. Driven by your talents, you enjoy discovering as muchas you can about the people you meet. You are friendly and enjoy socializing. You quickly put at easethose you are meeting for the first time or the tenth time.

POSITIVITY

Chances are good that you may find all sorts of reasons to compliment people. Perhaps you acknowledgetheir big successes, their minor accomplishments, their appearance, their suggestions, or their choices.Maybe you are pleased when you make someone feel important, happy, proud, accepted, or valued. It’svery likely that you may accept individuals just as they are. Maybe this is one reason why you seem to getalong with more people than others can. Sometimes you move beyond tolerating people to enjoying theircompany. Driven by your talents, you support the people around you by acknowledging their outstandingaccomplishments and stellar performances. Because of your strengths, you recognize your upbeat attitudeinspires people. You generate good feelings in others by emphasizing their successes, contributions, andfavorable traits. Eager to bond with people, you are quick to give sincere compliments and sendcongratulatory messages. Instinctively, you are counted on to be the talkative and sociable member of theteam. Your friendly disposition helps most people feel comfortable enough to join in group activities ordiscussions.

BELIEF

Driven by your talents, you might understand there is more to life than the acquisition of certain kinds ofmaterial possessions. Perhaps you find purpose or meaning in the simple things money cannot buy.Chances are good that you may concede that monetary rewards, though important, are not a substitute forfeeling content with your life. Instinctively, you may be delighted when certain people welcome you intotheir circle or encourage you to join in their activities. Financial security might mean little to you when youhave no one with whom to share your fortune. You may treasure being embraced for who you are and asyou are. Why? Perhaps you realize no amount of money can take the place of belonging to a group, team,class, or family. By nature, you can sometimes place the needs of others ahead of your own. Because of


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your strengths, you want only the very best for your family. This is a top priority for you. Your desire toprovide for loved ones is evident in what you say and do every day.

RESPONSIBILITY

Chances are good that you are impelled to deliver on all of your commitments. You are determined to meetall of your obligations. Doing so is your badge of honor. It is one reason why people describe you astrustworthy and dependable. By nature, you prefer to work with teammates who share your concern aboutdoing everything correctly and ethically. Driven by your talents, you place a premium on doing everythingcorrectly. Whatever you are involved in or associated with must typify — that is, symbolize — accuracy andprecision. Your high standards demand exactness. Because of your strengths, you are quite comfortablebeing honest about yourself with others. You harbor very few illusions about who you really are.Furthermore, you can openly acknowledge your mistakes and shortcomings. This is apt to distinguish youfrom most people. It’s very likely that you have a strong sense of commitment. It motivates you to makesure that things are carried through to completion even when difficulties arise.

FOCUS

Driven by your talents, you may devote yourself to things that intrigue you. Sometimes your attentionintensifies if you are encouraged to immerse yourself in a specific activity or topic. Because of yourstrengths, you devote your full attention to immediate tasks and challenges. This explains why you giveyourself plenty of time to comprehend what you read on the printed page or the computer screen.Diligence, persistence, and concentration are three of your distinguishing traits. It’s very likely that youprobably have a reputation for applying yourself to your work for many hours at a time. Your teammateslikely realize you are capable of working all day or through the night when you must complete job-relatedtasks, household chores, or academic assignments. Instinctively, you attempt to regulate what happens inyour life. Perhaps you sense you have the power to determine what you will and will not do. Maybe youbecome annoyed when others meddle in your work, studies, or personal activities. Chances are good thatyou completely dedicate yourself to tasks more than most people do. You generally divide yourassignments into very small and very manageable parts. Even though this mental processing takes time,you know it ensures your efficiency and effectiveness. You probably have worked for hours to reach animportant goal. You are likely to feel good about yourself when you refuse to rest until the job is completed.

CONNECTEDNESS

It’s very likely that you consider people more important than things. The value you place on humankindguides your decision-making. It also influences what you say and do as well as what you choose not to sayand do. Chances are good that you might be fascinated with certain ideas, policies, or philosophies thataffect human beings around the world. Driven by your talents, you sense that you are inextricably linked toyour teammates. You understand your success depends on each one of them just as their individualsuccess hinges on you. Instinctively, you may be guided by the notion that no one can live life without


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some help from others. Perhaps this idea compels you to consider how what you do and say affects peopleyou know and individuals you will never meet. By nature, you argue that hard work influences the course ofyour life more than anything else. You make your own good fortune by preparing yourself to takeadvantage of opportunities as they arise. Each time you are successful, you can outline exactly what youdid to reach a goal. You link together facts, incidents, conversations, or available resources to understandyour accomplishments. You resist the notion that life is nothing more than a game of chance.

LEARNER

Because of your strengths, you capitalize on your ability to ask questions and listen to people’s answers,especially when meeting strangers or newcomers. You might even be tempted to eavesdrop on what theyare telling someone else. Not wanting anyone to feel like an outsider, you are apt to draw individuals intothe conversation. Unquestionably, you search for reasons to involve them in your own or the group’sactivities. By nature, you may ignore distractions to concentrate on your assignments. Sometimes you keepreading, researching, experimenting, or writing until you know all you need to know about a particularsubject. You might not rest until you have mastered certain concepts, committed important information tomemory, or completed specific course requirements. Instinctively, you might search for the factors thatproduced a certain outcome or started a particular chain of events. Sometimes you are frustrated until youfigure out why things happened the way they did. Driven by your talents, you yearn to know a lot. It makeslittle sense to you to skim through a book and read only the highlights. You delve more deeply intointriguing subjects than most people do. You love to gather all kinds of information. This explains why youtake time to grasp ideas that appear in print. Chances are good that you occasionally center your efforts onmaking improvements you decide are intriguing or relevant to your life. Maybe you need to feel passionateabout these opportunities. Why? You might want to devote time and energy to acquiring the knowledgeand/or skills you sense you lack. To some degree, this explains why you periodically force yourself toaddress specific shortcomings.

ANALYTICAL

Instinctively, you likely are the team member who has fun discovering recurring sequences of numbers indata. You detect subtle numerical configurations others cannot see. Once you find these hidden or missingpieces of the puzzle, you figure out why a project, theory, or mechanism works or fails to work. You oftenuse numerical data to justify action plans, proposed solutions, budget requests, or responses to emergingtrends. Driven by your talents, you carefully think through things prior to making important decisions ortaking action. Usually you know exactly where you are headed and how you plan to get there. You need toknow why a goal is important. You seldom act in haste. By nature, you may be earnest, solemn, orbusinesslike when circumstances require socially correct behavior. Perhaps you thoroughly study certainthings before making decisions, designing plans, or taking action. Chances are good that you areenergized each time you isolate a recurring set of numbers in data. You realize these sets have meaning.They contains questions, answers, trends, opportunities, and mysteries. Because of your strengths, you try


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to collect pertinent and precise data. You may refuse to stop searching until you find accurate facts. Youmight collect information that is relevant to your life, your work, or your studies.


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