1. Strengths-Based Leadership Report
(with your personalized Strengths Insights)
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Leader: Tuan Vu
Gallup found that it serves a team well to have a representation of strengths in each of the
four domains 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 similar strengths, contributions from all four domains lead to a strong and
cohesive team. This doesn't mean that each person on a team must have strengths exclusively
in a single category. In most cases, each team member will possess some strength in multiple
domains.
According to our latest research, the 34 Clifton StrengthsFinder themes naturally cluster into
these four domains of leadership strength. See below for how your top five themes sort into
the four domains. As you think about how you can contribute to a team and who you need to
surround yourself with, this may be a good starting point.
Your Top Five Clifton StrengthsFinder Themes
Relationship
Executing Influencing Strategic Thinking
Building
Belief Maximizer Connectedness Learner
Ideation
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
Learner
Chances are good that you try to pay attention to what you do naturally and well.
Occasionally you set out to broaden your knowledge in certain areas or sharpen specific
skills. Maybe you are motivated to strive for excellence by using a particular talent. Perhaps
you refuse to waste time, energy, or money correcting or fixing some of your limitations.
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Now and then, you aim to concentrate on what you do quite well. You may think this is a
more challenging way to live. Instinctively, you sometimes devote your entire attention to
specific tasks you desire to complete. From time to time, you study what needs to be done
and how you can tackle particular assignments. To some extent, your curiosity draws you to
interesting sources of information: people, printed materials, the Internet, formal classes,
casual conversations, or personal experiences. You might be happier when you know a few
more things today than you knew yesterday. By nature, you might search for the factors that
produced a certain outcome or started a particular chain of events. Sometimes you are
frustrated until you figure out why things happened the way they did. It’s very likely that you
are motivated to continually acquire knowledge and skills. Discovering new ways to use your
talents energizes you. You are likely to escape from situations and avoid people who want
you to keep doing what you already know how to do well. Maintaining an intellectual status
quo is unacceptable to you. Driven by your talents, you sometimes yearn to know more about
the thoughts of certain visionaries. Perhaps in their presence you begin to see how some of
the inventions and ideas they propose might affect your life.
Ideation
Because of your strengths, you may enjoy occasional opportunities to understand individuals.
Once in a while, you carefully examine each person’s behavior, character, choice of friends,
interests, talents, shortcomings, skills, knowledge, future goals, or history. In the process, you
might draw conclusions or make judgments about certain individuals. Chances are good that
you periodically engage innovators in small talk or serious discussions. Perhaps you ask for
examples or illustrations to better understand their inventive ideas. You might keep these
creative people talking so you collect an abundance of information. Afterward, you may
replay these verbal exchanges in your mind. You attempt to identify innovators’ key points,
and sometimes assess whether their ideas for the coming years or decades make sense. By
nature, you marvel whenever you create a link between one thought or object and another.
You develop entirely new concepts, theories, innovations, designs, plots, conclusions,
proposals, and more. With each mental leap, you experience feelings of happiness, pleasure,
and success. Instinctively, you may be delighted when you can generate new and innovative
ideas for doing certain tasks or projects. Perhaps you lose enthusiasm or become bored when
you are forced to follow standard operating procedures. Periodically you wonder if you are in
the right job or course of study when your creativity is stifled. Maybe you are frustrated by
people who conclude that your inventive suggestions are forms of criticism or
insubordination — that is, refusal to submit to authority. Driven by your talents, you
sometimes are aware of the views specific people have of you. This partially explains why
you keep expanding your vocabulary to include elaborate terminology and complicated
words. You might argue that your use of language causes certain individuals to think well of
you.
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Maximizer
Because of your strengths, you sometimes engage newcomers or strangers in conversation.
You may seek out these individuals. Making the acquaintance of certain types of people
delights you. Perhaps your outgoing and personable style causes a few of them to want to
spend more time with you. Chances are good that you are much happier with your life when
you routinely pause to savor your accomplishments at the precise moment they occur.
Immediately celebrating a success means a lot more to you than waiting days, weeks, or even
months for a formal awards celebration. It’s very likely that you periodically inspire people
by finding out what motivates them. You may give individuals lots of recognition. Once in a
while, you celebrate each person’s uniqueness. Perhaps your acknowledgments or
compliments energize particular people. Instinctively, you might often acknowledge the
importance of ideas that people share with you. Perhaps you give your attention to others to
boost their self-confidence. By nature, you occasionally credit yourself with unraveling
tangled issues, dilemmas, or puzzles. Perhaps you instinctively find the right solutions or
correct answers.
Connectedness
Chances are good that you sense you are linked to all humanity. You contend that harming
another human being eventually harms you. Misusing the environment has personal
consequences, you argue. This perspective on life influences your thoughts, actions,
decisions, or choices. By nature, you occasionally sense you are part of something bigger or
more important than yourself. Maybe this conviction influences choices you make in life.
Driven by your talents, you may assert — that is, declare or affirm — that every person
comes into your life for a purpose. This partially explains why you launch into discussions or
engage in small talk with people you are meeting for the first time. Perhaps you want to
figure out why your paths in life have crossed. It’s very likely that you occasionally help
people realize they are part of the human family. With your guidance, perhaps they
understand that their lives are intertwined with people they will never meet. Because of your
strengths, you are attracted to news that promises to improve the quality of life for the entire
human family. This information makes you feel much more optimistic about the world’s
future.
Belief
Because of your strengths, you feel much better about yourself and life in general when you
have a worthwhile cause or project to which you can dedicate your mind, body, and spirit.
Driven by your talents, you may concede that monetary rewards, though important, are not a
substitute for feeling content with your life. It’s very likely that you periodically think about
ways you can provide for the basic needs of your entire family as well as the desires of
particular individuals. Perhaps caring for your loved ones is one of your top priorities. By
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nature, you refuse to live a meaningless existence. You seek a vocation that allows you to
express your deepest values every day. Work or school provides you with the opportunity to
enrich and deepen the quality of your life. You really want to do what you love doing. Your
job or studies need to be much more than a means to an end — that is, a paycheck or a
diploma. Chances are good that you tend to be zealous — that is, fervent and enthusiastic —
about solving problems that affect the quality of your life. You have been known to devote all
your time and energy to a worthy cause. Your core values explain why you participate in
various social, political, educational, religious, judicial, or environmental activities.
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