Strengths-Based Leadership Report(with your personalized Strengths Insights)

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Strengths-Based Leadership ReportSURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 06-04-2015

Leader: Josh Gehring

Gallup found that it serves a team well to have a representation of strengths in each of the fourdomains 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 similarstrengths, contributions from all four domains lead to a strong and cohesive team. This doesn't meanthat each person on a team must have strengths exclusively in a single category. In most cases, eachteam member will possess some strength in multiple domains.

According to our latest research, the 34 Clifton StrengthsFinder themes naturally cluster into thesefour domains of leadership strength. See below for how your top five themes sort into the fourdomains. As you think about how you can contribute to a team and who you need to surround yourselfwith, this may be a good starting point.

Your Top Five Clifton StrengthsFinder Themes

Executing Influencing Relationship Building Strategic Thinking

Deliberative Self-Assurance Relator Futuristic

Activator

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

Futuristic

Because of your strengths, you envision what you can accomplish tomorrow, next week, next month,next year, or in the coming decades. Your goals and aspirations motivate you to keep moving forward.The tension you feel when a deadline is fast approaching forces you to concentrate on the rightactivities, discard irrelevant information, and not waste time on intriguing distractions. Your one aim isto reach your objectives. It’s very likely that you channel your mental and physical energies toward

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what you can accomplish in the months, years, or decades ahead. The question you must answer isthis: “How far into the future can I think before my ideas start becoming vague or uninspiring?”Instinctively, you look to the future rather than review what has already occurred in your life. You seelittle reason to cling to the past. The future is full of potential. You set your sights on beingaccomplished and successful. Chances are good that you think intensely to conceive vivid mentalimages of the future. Many individuals lack your ability to envision what will be possible in the comingmonths, years, or decades. As a result, they regularly rely on you to do this visioning for them. Bynature, you take charge of your future. You are determined to shape it as you wish. You probablyspend a lot of time thinking about your goals. You are driven to create the experiences you desire.You tend to agree with the notion “If you can think it, you can make it happen.”

Relator

Instinctively, you enjoy counseling friends when they turn to you for help, suggestions, opinions, orfresh perspectives. Usually you make discoveries and gain new insights each time you freely shareyour ideas, experiences, or feelings with your companions. Because of your strengths, you offerguidance to friends who seek your assistance. While you enjoy being helpful, you probably avoidimposing your ideas on someone unless the person makes a special point of asking you to do so. It’svery likely that you enjoy being busy, especially when you can assist someone in need. You are likelyto be a good partner at home, in the workplace, at school, or in the community. You tend to do morethan is expected of you. Why? You probably worry about wasting time. This explains your habits ofvolunteering for projects and asking for extra duties. Driven by your talents, you build partnershipsand friendships one by one. You want to know each individual’s hopes and ambitions. You recognizethat everyone has a unique style of working, thinking, learning, or problem solving. From the start, youstrive to identify someone’s personal and professional objectives. When you are successful, thequality of your interactions with this person is enhanced. Chances are good that you have closecompanions who frequently seek your guidance. You help them find answers to their personal andprofessional problems. This makes you a valuable friend.

Self-Assurance

Driven by your talents, you seem willing to take chances. You frequently venture into unknownterritory when that can make the difference between capturing first place and finishing in second orthird place. Instinctively, you might arouse people’s interest with your stories or presentations. Maybeyour tone, your physical stature, or the forcefulness of your ideas cause others to heed what you say.By nature, you find it difficult to extinguish your impulse to work hard. Your feelings of personalaccountability mean you set few limits for yourself. Instead of watching the clock, you can completelylose track of time when immersed in simple or complex projects. Disregarding your official workschedule, you probably have stayed late or arrived early to finish your assignments. You always knowyou will somehow accomplish what you said you would do. Because of your strengths, youcharacteristically are unsentimental and realistic, especially when you must plan how to do somethingefficiently, reliably, or predictably time after time. Undoubtedly, you search for ways to streamline yourdaily, weekly, monthly, or annual chores. You identify the steps needed to complete the task. Youstudy the requirements, overlooking no details. You concentrate on facts. You avoid letting bias orfavoritism cloud your judgment. Chances are good that you habitually put in very long hours. Somecall you a workaholic. You disregard this label and declare, “I love my job. I really enjoy what I’mdoing. I know I’m good at this. It gives me great pleasure.”

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Activator

Because of your strengths, you typically take the lead. You seldom wait for orders or directions frompeople in positions of authority. You probably operate on the premise that it is better to ask forforgiveness than to ask for permission. Using this approach, you have delivered impressive resultsand reached important goals. Chances are good that you are comfortable telling others stories aboutyour personal habits, qualities, experiences, or background. Your forthcoming nature probablyenables others to share their thoughts and feelings with you. By nature, you want to be in charge. Assoon as you have made up your mind, you are eager to get started. People who interfere with yourprogress probably irritate you. Instinctively, you traditionally determine for yourself and others whatshould be done. After you have made up your mind, you typically waste little time moving forward withprojects or assignments. It’s very likely that you motivate your friends with your passion for movingideas from the talking stage to the action stage. Your dedication to various projects rallies numerousindividuals to work alongside you.

Deliberative

Chances are good that you often are described as an industrious, no-nonsense person. When youhave a goal, you aim to reach it. When you have a problem to solve, you first break it into parts. Whenyou have a major decision to make, you study all the facts from a variety of angles. Because of yourstrengths, you select your friends with great care. You are comfortable nurturing up-close andpersonal relationships with these chosen individuals. The quality of your relationships is much moreimportant to you than the number of people who say you are their friend. It’s very likely that youapproach each day with a matter-of-fact and practical attitude. You expect to do your work flawlessly.You consistently strive to reach the high standards you have established for yourself. These usuallyare more stringent and detailed than those set for you by others. Driven by your talents, you arechoosy about the people you call “friend.” You make sure you know what makes an individualsingular, distinct, or special. You regularly detect subtle differences and nuances — that is, slight ordelicate variations — in the personality of each individual you meet. By nature, you rarely think aboutwinning the affection of people. Perhaps being your own person is more important to you than beingpopular with lots of individuals

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