1. Strengths Insight Report
SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 03-20-2016
Bryan Balch
Your Top 5 Themes
Futuristic
Strategic
Learner
Achiever
Activator
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?
Chances are good that you intentionally take steps to be the mastermind of your own future. You
refuse to leave your destiny to chance. You probably resist placing it in someone else’s hands. You
trust your own intelligence and imagination when setting a direction for your life. Driven by your
talents, you feel an irresistible urge to introduce yourself to outsiders and start talking with them.
Why? You welcome the chance to tell one more person what you dream of accomplishing in the
coming months, years, or decades. You also want the individual to like you. Instinctively, you may
intentionally take charge of your future. You might be determined to shape it as you wish. This
partially explains why you set aside some time to ponder your goals. You may be impelled to create
the experiences you desire. To some extent, you might agree with the notion “If you can think it, you
can make it happen.” It’s very likely that you generate ideas quickly. You draw clever linkages
between facts, events, people, problems, or solutions. You present others with numerous options at a
pace some find dizzying. Your innovative thinking tends to foster ongoing dialogue between and
among the group’s participants. By nature, you often direct your attention toward what you want to
accomplish in the coming months, years, or decades. Your enthusiasm naturally increases when you
spend time in the company of possibility thinkers.
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2. 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?
By nature, you invent original ideas of your own. Your imagination is typically stimulated when you
collaborate — that is, team up — with future-oriented thinkers. Instinctively, you characteristically find
the right words to express whatever you are thinking. You offer explanations, discuss ideas, give
examples, or share stories. You effectively use the spoken word. Because of your strengths, you may
see solutions before other people know there is a problem. You might start formulating answers
before your teammates, coworkers, or classmates understand the question. Sometimes you generate
numerous ideas before sorting to the one that makes the most sense in a particular situation. Driven
by your talents, you normally find just the right words at the right moment to express whatever you are
thinking and feeling. Many people are likely to appreciate your fine speaking abilities. You can present
your ideas in a reasonable, sequential, and methodical way. Moreover, you generate lots of options
for others to consider. Chances are good that you work diligently to invent alternative courses of
action. You notice new as well as unusual configurations in facts, evidence, or data. Others, however,
can see only separate, unrelated bits of information. You are fascinated by problems that puzzle,
confound, or frustrate most people.
Learner
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Learner theme have a great desire to learn and want to
continuously improve. In particular, the process of learning, rather than the outcome, excites them.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
By nature, you fill your mind with new ideas by asking questions, reading, studying, observing, or
listening. Normally, you accumulate facts, data, stories, examples, or background information from the
people you meet. Determining what they want to accomplish in the coming weeks, months, or years
generally satisfies your curiosity. These insights also allow you to understand why individuals behave
they way they do in different situations. Driven by your talents, you take pains to uncover how and
why things happen as they do. You share your discoveries with partners, teammates, and friends.
You typically streamline your explanations. You cover only the essential facts. Most individuals can
easily grasp what you say. Listeners probably appreciate you giving them less detail so they can
understand the main points. It’s very likely that you probably identify the traits or experiences that
distinguish one person from the next. Once you familiarize yourself with someone, you can often
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3. predict with accuracy how the person will react in different situations. Chances are good that you are
a rational thinker. That is, you exhibit good judgment and exercise sound reasoning. These thought
processes serve you well whenever you set out to acquire true knowledge and/or gain a skill. You
school yourself by reading, investigating, examining, experiencing, or receiving instruction in a
subject. Instinctively, you possess the physical and mental endurance needed to spend hours
studying, reading, or researching. The more you know, the more questions you have to ask. Your
diligence reflects your need to work harder and longer than most people can. You set lofty goals for
yourself and relentlessly pursue them. Once you have reached your objective, you direct much of your
energy toward a second goal. You are self-motivated. You prefer to push yourself rather than relax.
Achiever
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Achiever theme have a great deal of stamina and work
hard. They take great satisfaction from being busy and productive.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
By nature, you normally strive to do things right. Taking shortcuts strikes you as unprincipled,
thoughtless, and careless. You likely refuse to produce sloppy work or engage in unethical practices.
It’s very likely that you often labor long and hard to produce excellent results. Not surprisingly, you
need to have a lot of independence, solitude, and control over your assignments. Driven by your
talents, you are much more industrious when you are working on projects you feel are really
important. Your fervor increases whenever the outcomes directly impact the quality of your life.
Because of your strengths, you are an enterprising person. You effortlessly launch new ventures. You
are likely to measure your progress on a regular basis. This information probably inspires you to work
even harder. Chances are good that you devote your full attention to immediate tasks and challenges.
This explains why you give yourself plenty of time to comprehend what you read on the printed page
or the computer screen. Diligence, persistence, and concentration are three of your distinguishing
traits.
Activator
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Activator theme can make things happen by turning
thoughts into action. They are often impatient.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
It’s very likely that you can introduce a spirit of optimism, energy, and enthusiasm to individuals and
groups. Your outward manner inspires people to swiftly move into action on their own or alongside
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4. you. By nature, you generate enthusiasm so people become as eager as you are to transform an idea
into something tangible. You are energized, not paralyzed, by opportunities and possibilities.
Instinctively, you quiet outspoken people with your quick and clever thinking. You rely on facts and
reason to support your ideas. Many individuals choose to submit to whatever you tell them to do. Few
dare to resist and ignore your orders. Frequently your mental agility overpowers people who
traditionally like to take charge. Because of your strengths, you probably stimulate individuals to be
more enthusiastic about what they are doing. How? You repeatedly remind them that you truly value
their contributions, talents, experience, and expertise. Driven by your talents, you celebrate the
achievements and successes of individuals and groups. You compliment them. Your enthusiasm
energizes people and makes them eager to tackle the task at hand. Time and again you say and do
things that re-invigorate their minds, bodies, and spirits.
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