During the term you will read the book, complete the assessment, and write a final paper about your strengths.
This paper will allow you to examine your strengths and develop a plan for moving forward.
I. What Do You Do Best?
· Of all the things you do well, which two do you do best and why?
· Which activities do you seem to pick up quickly and why?
· Which activities bring you the greatest satisfaction and why?
II. STRENGTHSFINDER Results
· What are your top five Signature Themes as identified by the Clifton STRENGTHSFINDER? Which theme resonates with you the most and why?
· Based on your Signature Themes, what should a manager/supervisor know about working with you and why?
· Based on your Signature Themes, what should a co-worker know about working with you and why?
· How can a manager/supervisor help you with your strengths more within your current role and why?
III. Celebrating Successes
· What was your most significant accomplishment in the past 12 months?
· When do you feel the most pride about your work?
· How do you like to be supported in your work?
IV. Applying Talents to the Role
· What things distract you from being positive, productive, or accurate?
· Which talents do you have that could benefit the team if you had better opportunities to use them?
· What steps could be taken to ensure you have an opportunity to apply your natural talents to your role?
· Submit a 5-page paper double spaced
· Include a cover page and a reference page (not to be included in the 5 pages of paper content)
· Use the questions and bullets above as the framework and outline of your paper.
· Please provide at least four (4) scholarly references to support your paper in addition to the STRENGTHSFINDER text.
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Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people are
those who understand their strengths and behaviors. These people are best able to develop strategies to
meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families.
A review of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilities, but an
awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core reasons behind
your consistent successes.
Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant themes of talent, in the rank order
revealed by your responses to StrengthsFinder. Of the
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themes measured, these are your “top five.”
Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the talents that lead to your successes. By
focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in combination, you can identify your talents, build
them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career success through consistent, near-perfect performance.
Arranger
You are a conductor. When faced with a complex situation involving many factors, you enjoy managing all
of the variables, aligning and realigning them until you are sure you have arranged them in the most
productive configuration possible. In your mind there is nothing special about what you are doing. You are
simply trying to figure out the best way to get things done. But others, lacking this theme, will be in awe of
your ability. “How can you keep so many things in your head at once?” they will ask. “How can you stay so
flexible, so willing to shelve well-laid plans in favor of some brand-new configuration that has just occurred
to you?” But you cannot imagine behaving in any other way. You are a shining example of effective
flexibility, whether you are changing travel schedules at the last minute because a better fare has popped
up or mulling over just the right combination of people and resources to accomplish a new project. From
the mundane to the complex, you are always looking for the perfect configuration. Of course, you are at
your best in dynamic situations. Confronted with the unexpected, some complain that plans devised with
such care cannot be changed, while others take refuge in the existing rules or procedures. You don’t do
either. Instead, you jump into the confusion, devising new options, hunting for new paths of least
resistance, and figuring out new partnerships—because, after all, there might just be a better way.
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Relator
Relator describes your attitude toward your relationships. In simple terms, the Relator theme pulls you
toward people you already know. You do not necessarily shy away from meeting new people—in fact, you
may have other themes that cause you to enjoy the thrill of turning strangers into friends—but you do
derive a great deal of pleasure and strength from being around your close friends. You are comfortable
with intimacy. Once the initial connection has been made, you deliberately encourage a deepening of the
relationship. You want to understand their feelings, their goals, their fears, and their dreams; and you want
them to understand yours. You know that this kind of closeness implies a certain amount of risk—you might
be taken advantage of—but you are willing to accept that risk. For you a relationship has value only if it is
genuine. And the only way to know that is to entrust yourself to the other person. The more you share with
each other, the more you risk together. The more you risk together, the more each of you proves your
caring is genuine. These are your steps toward real friendship, and you take them willingly.
Learner
You love to learn. The subject matter that interests you most will be determined by your other themes and
experiences, but whatever the subject, you will always be drawn to the process of learning. The process,
more than the content or the result, is especially exciting for you. You are energized by the steady and
deliberate journey from ignorance to competence. The thrill of the first few facts, the early efforts to recite
or practice what you have learned, the growing confidence of a skill mastered—this is the process that
entices you. Your excitement leads you to engage in adult learning experiences—yoga or piano lessons or
graduate classes. It enables you to thrive in dynamic work environments where you are asked to take on
short project assignments and are expected to learn a lot about the new subject matter in a short period of
time and then move on to the next one. This Learner theme does not necessarily mean that you seek to
become the subject matter expert, or that you are striving for the respect that accompanies a professional
or academic credential. The outcome of the learning is less significant than the “getting there.”
Woo
Woo stands for winning others over. You enjoy the challenge of meeting new people and getting them to
like you. Strangers are rarely intimidating to you. On the contrary, strangers can be energizing. You are
drawn to them. You want to learn their names, ask them questions, and find some area of common interest
so that you can strike up a conversation and build rapport. Some people shy away from starting up
conversations because they worry about running out of things to say. You don’t. Not only are you rarely at
a loss for words; you actually enjoy initiating with strangers because you derive satisfaction from breaking
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the ice and making a connection. Once that connection is made, you are quite happy to wrap it up and
move on. There are new people to meet, new rooms to work, new crowds to mingle in. In your world there
are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet—lots of them.
Communication
You like to explain, to describe, to host, to speak in public, and to write. This is your Communication theme
at work. Ideas are a dry beginning. Events are static. You feel a need to bring them to life, to energize
them, to make them exciting and vivid. And so you turn events into stories and practice telling them. You
take the dry idea and enliven it with images and examples and metaphors. You believe that most people
have a very short attention span. They are bombarded by information, but very little of it survives. You want
your information—whether an idea, an event, a product’s features and benefits, a discovery, or a
lesson—to survive. You want to divert their attention toward you and then capture it, lock it in. This is what
drives your hunt for the perfect phrase. This is what draws you toward dramatic words and powerful word
combinations. This is why people like to listen to you. Your word pictures pique their interest, sharpen their
world, and inspire them to act.
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