My Gallup StrengthsFinder Results

I took Gallup's StrengthsFinder assessment a few months before I left Accenture. I started this blog post a year ago but never published it. It's just a copy/paste of my results. I'm always skeptical about these type of assessments but I found the results to be startling accurate and eye opening. Enjoy.

The assessment

• A brief Shared Theme Description for each of your top ten themes

• Your Personalized Strengths Insights, which describe what makes you stand out from others with the same theme in their top ten

Relator:

Shared Theme Description:
People who are especially talented in the Relator theme enjoy close relationships with others. They find deep satisfaction in working hard with friends to achieve a goal.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights: What makes you stand out?
Driven by your talents, you may have friends who come to you for guidance, suggestions, or recommendations. Topics might include situations in their personal or professional lives. It’s very likely that you may be particularly able to deconstruct tangled situations. Perhaps you sort through facts to discover the inner workings of intricate processes, regulations, programs, or action plans. Some people rely on you to reduce complexities to their basic parts. This partially explains why they trust you to present information in a manner they find easy to understand. Because of your strengths, you may sense people depend on you to clarify abstract ideas. Perhaps your ability is appreciated when someone or a group needs to understand an intricate system, problem, rule, procedure, contract, or design.

Instinctively, you might identify the most basic and important parts of elaborate ideas, processes, or technologies. Maybe you avoid confusing people because you do not want to overwhelm them with too many details. By nature, you may cause certain people to feel worthwhile and appreciated. How? Maybe you invite them to share some of their aims for the future. When you know a bit more about a person, you might begin nurturing a meaningful partnership.

Deliberative:

Shared Theme Description:
People who are especially talented in the Deliberative theme are best described by the serious care they take in making decisions or choices. They anticipate the obstacles.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights: What makes you stand out?
Chances are good that you may produce the right outcomes when you withdraw from people to think.

You might consider what you need to do better or more perfectly in the future. By nature, you might be choosy about the people you call “friend.” Sometimes you want to know what makes an individual singular, distinct, or special. Perhaps you detect subtle differences or nuances — that is, slight or delicate variations — in the personality of each person you meet. It’s very likely that you may prefer to have a small circle of close friends with whom you feel safe sharing just about anything. Driven by your talents, you occasionally divulge your innermost thoughts and feelings to a small, carefully chosen, and close-knit circle of confidantes. You might cautiously expose snippets of your beliefs, fears, hopes, desires, failures, worries, dreams, or history. This partially explains why you carefully consider who is listening and weigh the potential consequences of revealing this information.

Because of your strengths, you now and then conduct yourself with restraint or speak with caution. Sometimes the situation or the people present dictate what you say or do. You may opt to keep personal matters to yourself. Perhaps you prefer to launch certain types of projects rather than talk about your experiences.

Futuristic:

Shared Theme Description:
People who are especially talented in the Futuristic theme are inspired by the future and what could be. They inspire others with their visions of the future.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights: What makes you stand out?
Instinctively, you occasionally put great effort into conjuring mental images of the future. Perhaps some people lack your ability to envision what will be possible in the coming months, years, or decades. As a result, they may rely on you to do this visioning for them. It’s very likely that you might be eager to get started on a project once you realize what can be accomplished in the coming weeks, months, or years. Perhaps you work hard to turn your big dreams into reality. To some degree, they both push and pull you into the future. Because of your strengths, you periodically envision what you can accomplish tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, or in the coming decades. Your goals and aspirations might motivate you to keep moving forward. Perhaps the tension you feel if a deadline is fast approaching forces you to concentrate on the right activities, discard irrelevant information, or not waste time on intriguing distractions.

Your one aim might be reaching your objectives. By nature, you sometimes share your vision about the coming years or decades with other forward-looking thinkers. Maybe you cannot refrain from talking about some of the things people can create or accomplish in the future. Driven by your talents, you may design forward-looking plans for a specific aspect of your life, such as investments, entrepreneurial ventures, education, vacations, or retirement.

Focus:

Shared Theme Description:
People who are especially talented in the Focus theme can take a direction, follow through, and make the corrections necessary to stay on track. They prioritize, then act.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights: What makes you stand out?
Driven by your talents, you may be exceptionally motivated when you are pitted against others —
especially when only one person can be declared the very best.

Your desire to capture the top prize or finish in first place may drive your choices or explain your behavior. Chances are good that you may work diligently to govern situations, decisions, or plans. Perhaps you refuse to let anyone take charge of aspects of your life. Because of your strengths, you might have strong powers of concentration. When necessary, you might reduce plans, processes, or mechanisms into their fundamental parts. Perhaps your methodical approach frees you to understand how and why certain things do or do not operate properly. Instinctively, you may like to participate in discussions where decisions are made about what an individual or group needs to accomplish in the near-term or the long-term.

By nature, you might prefer to be fully in charge of things that directly affect you. As a result, you may yearn to know as much as you can about people. The more you understand individuals, the easier it might be for you to govern them or what happens in your life.

Competition:

Shared Theme Description:
People who are especially talented in the Competition theme measure their progress against the performance of others. They strive to win first place and revel in contests.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights: What makes you stand out?
Instinctively, you sometimes want others to follow you, and/or to regard you as the person in charge.

Perhaps you hope that after your results are compared to the outcomes of others, they will
understand that you are the very best and/or the most successful person. To some extent, you may feel this is reason enough for them to give you their allegiance. Driven by your talents, you are sometimes driven to be “number one” or the best. This partially explains why you continue to forge ahead in the face of difficulties or exhaustion. When comparisons are being made, you may yearn to be the winner. Perhaps your motivation to excel matches your need to be declared trustworthy,
talented, knowledgeable, skillful, or accomplished. Because of your strengths, you might be known for outmaneuvering or outthinking other individuals.

How do you do it? Perhaps you are a bit more persistent, unyielding, or energetic than they are. Chances are good that you might concentrate a bit harder on your work or studies when a deadline looms over you. Knowing that the clock is ticking may force you to ignore fascinating distractions. To some extent, time restrictions help you think of capturing the top prize. Perhaps your need to be the first person to finish increases during the final week, day, hour, or minutes of projects and contests. It’s very likely that you may have identified your strengths. You might know the things you do well. Perhaps you waste little time mulling over your limitations, shortcomings, or failures. Sometimes your strengths allow you to capture first-page honors. You might refuse to concentrate much energy on areas outside of your strengths.