what are my top 5 strengths as a professional?

StrengthsFinder 2.0 Report

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Jeannette Browning

Your Top 5 Themes

StrategicMaximizerSelf-AssuranceFuturisticAchiever

Strengths Insight Guide

277085974 (Jeannette Browning) © 2000, 2006-2008 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved.

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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?

It’s very likely that you feel wonderful when people value your innovative and original ideas.You are likely to help them envision what can be accomplished in the coming months, years,or decades. Chances are good that you commonly opt to work by yourself. You trust yourtalents, knowledge, and skills to identify problems. You consider numerous solutions beforeyou pinpoint the most appropriate course of action. Questions and answers materializewithout a lot of effort on your part. Because of your strengths, you trust your ability to be aninnovative thinker. You routinely invent many ways you can reach a single goal. Only thendo you start narrowing down your options to the best one. You probably take intoconsideration prevailing circumstances, available resources, budgetary constraints, orpressing deadlines. Driven by your talents, you have a knack for identifying problems. Youspontaneously generate alternatives for solving them. You probably consider the pros andcons of each option. You often factor into your thinking prevailing circumstances andavailable resources. You feel life is good when you sense you are choosing the best course ofaction. Instinctively, you realize you can identify a variety of problems and respond to a widerange of questions. You probably can pinpoint specific times when you proposed alternativeways of doing things. You probably recall giving answers no one else considered. You areaware that your subconscious mind continuously absorbs information and creates possibleoptions.

Questions

1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines standout to you?

2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most inyou?



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Maximizer


People who are especially talented in the Maximizer theme focus on strengths as a way tostimulate personal and group excellence. They seek to transform something strong intosomething superb.



Chances are good that you can show people from diverse backgrounds or with differentinterests how to cooperate and work productively with one another. By nature, you may beaware that you are more persistent and determined than many people are. Perhaps this is mostevident when you have established a clear goal. You direct most of your attention to the task.You avoid being distracted by irrelevant, time-consuming, and/or nonproductive activities.Because of your strengths, you probably enjoy life more when you can practice using yourdominant talents every day. Not surprisingly, you reach your goals, excel, and gainconfidence when you are permitted to do things you naturally do quite well. It’s very likelythat you have noticed that people count on you to simplify things that are vague and abstract.This ability is most evident when people are struggling to grasp the meaning of intricateideas, systems, problems, solutions, rules, procedures, contracts, or designs. Driven by yourtalents, you may recognize your ability to involve different sorts of individuals in your life.Some people might recall that you were the first person to welcome them with open arms, anopen heart, or an open mind.

Questions





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Self-Assurance


People who are especially talented in the Self-Assurance theme feel confident in their abilityto manage their own lives. They possess an inner compass that gives them confidence thattheir decisions are right.



It’s very likely that you bring an electricity — that is, a keen, contagious excitement — toconversations with old friends, long-time associates, or new acquaintances. You can walk upto a group of people, ease into the conversation, and make them feel glad you are there. Yougravitate to individuals who talk about mind-boggling — that is, mentally exciting —concepts or innovative projects. You probably are bored by idle chitchat and gossip. Becauseof your strengths, you crave positions in which you can channel your energy and creativityinto activities that distinguish you from others. Because you trust your judgment and yourabilities, it is imperative that your work be both invigorating and challenging. You want it tobe a vital expression of who you are. Driven by your talents, you may trust yourself to decidewhen to use intricate, sophisticated, or complicated words. Perhaps you enjoy insertingacademic or professional terminology into your conversations, debates, and correspondence.Sometimes you reinforce your knowledge and build your confidence by using your extensivevocabulary. Maybe difficult-to-understand words give you an advantage that some peoplelack. Chances are good that you channel your energy into your work or studies. You seldomcount the hours you work. Feeling fully engaged in what you do is a major source ofsatisfaction. You believe there is always something more challenging you can pursue. Givenyour ability to withstand hardship, adversity, and stress, it is no surprise you love what youdo. You strive to do more and more of it each day. By nature, you long for employment orassignments that inspire you and pique — that is, arouse — your interest. You are much moreenthusiastic about life when you can look forward to each day with enthusiasm rather thandread.

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Futuristic


People who are especially talented in the Futuristic theme are inspired by the future and whatcould be. They inspire others with their visions of the future.



Driven by your talents, you sense your life has deep meaning. With remarkable vividness,you often imagine where you will be, what you will be doing, and what you have the abilityto accomplish in the coming months, years, or decades. Your dreams of tomorrow are veryalive in your mind today. You intentionally strive to transform these possibilities into reality.Because of your strengths, you have a capacity for envisioning what the coming months,years, or decades could, should, or will be like. Frequently you are prompted to transformyour ideas into things you can touch, taste, see, smell, or hear. Chances are good that you area visionary thinker. Your vivid mental images of the coming months, years, or decades oftenimpel you to move into action. Instinctively, you envision what you can accomplishtomorrow, next week, next month, next year, or in the coming decades. Your goals andaspirations motivate you to keep moving forward. The tension you feel when a deadline isfast approaching forces you to concentrate on the right activities, discard irrelevantinformation, and not waste time on intriguing distractions. Your one aim is to reach yourobjectives. By nature, you are eager to get started on a project once you realize what you canaccomplish in the coming weeks, months, or years. You work very hard to breathe life intoyour big dreams. These often push and pull you into the future.

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Achiever


People who are especially talented in the Achiever theme have a great deal of stamina andwork hard. They take great satisfaction from being busy and productive.



Driven by your talents, you have an undeniably sound work ethic. You probably devote lotsof time and energy to your work or studies. You enjoy producing outstanding results. Youfeel restless until you reach your goals and measure up to your high standards of excellence.By nature, you do much more than just try to live up to your commitments. You persistworking until you can deliver on your promises. This certainly enhances your reputation forbeing trustworthy, reliable, and dependable. It’s very likely that you strive to hear whatindividuals say. Your attentiveness reassures many of them that you comprehend what theyare thinking and feeling. You are delighted to hear, “Finally, someone really understands me.Thank you for taking the time.” Because of your strengths, you exhibit a strong work ethic.Work probably gives your life a sense of purpose it would otherwise lack. Instinctively, youfeel much more favorable about yourself and life in general when you are functioning at anoptimal level. Being “number one” or named the best usually motivates you to do more andbetter work in the coming hours, days, weeks, or months.

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