1. Strengths-Based Leadership Report
(with your personalized Strengths Insights)
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2. Strengths-Based Leadership Report
SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 10-04-2013
Leader: Simon Jenkinson
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
Executing Influencing
Relationship
Building
Strategic Thinking
Achiever Maximizer Strategic
Learner
Intellection
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
Strategic
By nature, you have acquired valuable skills and knowledge. You spend time considering numerous
courses of action before choosing one. You invent original and innovative techniques for dealing with
expected and unexpected challenges. You use the same approach to take advantage of promising
opportunities. Chances are good that you notice that the right word usually pops into your mind
exactly when you need it. Your comfort with language makes the oral or written expression of your
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3. ideas or feelings appear almost effortless. Others benefit from your ability to transmit information,
thoughts, or emotions by using a vocabulary they can easily understand. Instinctively, you customarily
pinpoint the core problems and identify the best solutions. You artfully and skillfully eliminate
distractions. This helps people gain a clear understanding of what is happening and why it is
happening. You frequently identify ways to transform an obstacle into an opportunity. Driven by your
talents, you long to know more so you remain on the cutting edge of your field or areas of interest.
Your inventive mind usually generates more possibilities than you can handle or fund. Nonetheless,
you are committed to acquiring knowledge and/or skills. You study everything involved in a situation
and conceive entirely new ways of seeing or doing things. What you already know prompts you to ask
questions and delve even deeper into a subject or problem. It’s very likely that you comprehend what
has gone wrong. Eagerly, you uncover facts. Sorting through lots of information rarely intimidates you.
You welcome the abundance of information. Like a detective, you sort through it and identify key
pieces of evidence. Following these leads, you bring the big picture into view. Next, you generate
schemes for solving the problem. Finally, you choose the best option after considering prevailing
circumstances, available resources, and desired outcomes.
Achiever
By nature, you normally toil for hours to produce topnotch results. Being the very best at something is
quite important to you. You have little, if any, tolerance for mediocrity, especially about the things that
matter most to you. Driven by your talents, you use your mental and physical energy for hours when
the situation demands such effort. You generally persevere and push yourself to keep working on
assignments until you finish them. You refuse to quit until you reach your goal. It’s very likely that you
exhibit a strong work ethic. Work probably gives your life a sense of purpose it would otherwise lack.
Chances are good that you exhibit a natural aptitude for overcoming difficulties. You are frequently
called upon to identify problems and then make needed repairs or implement appropriate solutions.
You work so diligently that you ignore all kinds of distractions. Because of your strengths, you do
much more than just try to live up to your commitments. You persist working until you can deliver on
your promises. This certainly enhances your reputation for being trustworthy, reliable, and
dependable.
Learner
Instinctively, you might register for high level courses or honors classes. Why? Perhaps you are
attracted to subjects that are not easy to comprehend. Occasionally you trust yourself enough to test
your mental endurance and agility. Driven by your talents, you yearn to be inspired by your work. You
want experience to be your teacher. You need to feel enthused by your work or studies. You
constantly acquire knowledge and skills. Whenever you study facts, ponder concepts, test theories, or
sharpen your skills, you feel most alive. You are inclined to avoid people and situations that prevent
you from expanding your mind. Chances are good that you are grateful when your questions are
answered, your studies yield new information, or your knowledge increases. You routinely deepen
your understanding through conversations, the media, the Internet, books, or classes. You resist
spending the majority of your time on topics that are not in line with your natural abilities. Instead, you
choose to take advantage of your talents — and by doing so, you consistently produce topnotch
results. It’s very likely that you normally dedicate yourself to acquiring knowledge and gaining skills.
You probably devote many hours to mental labor. By nature, you value education and scholarship at
any level and at any age. Your thirst for knowledge causes you to explore many topics of study or
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4. specialize in one particular subject. You thoroughly enjoy opportunities to acquire additional
information, skills, and experiences.
Intellection
It’s very likely that you occasionally dedicate time to reading, listening, or scrutinizing facts as well as
ideas. Consequently, some people seek your counsel. Why? They might recognize your talent and/or
knowledge. Maybe you are a valuable source of information for your family, friends, colleagues,
coworkers, or classmates. Instinctively, you pay close attention to current events. Numerous people
merely recount what they heard, saw, or read. Typically you dive deeper into the topic. You are likely
to generate theories, concepts, or philosophies to explain the reasoning behind newsmakers’
decisions. You routinely gather information about events, policy statements, people, or crises. Your
fresh insights are likely to draw equally engaged thinkers into the conversation. Chances are good
that you eagerly welcome opportunities to think out loud about ideas, theories, or philosophies. You
derive pleasure from conversations that force you to ponder matters that exist only in the realm of
thought, not in reality. Driven by your talents, you relish conversations with people whose vocabulary
is as sophisticated as their thinking. Discussing philosophies, theories, or concepts is exhilarating.
You do not have to translate this or that word or explain the basic points of a complex thought. You
love to ask questions and be readily understood. As engaged as you are in the dialogue, you still
make a point of pulling together insights so you can use this knowledge later. By nature, you
designate a minimum of five hours a week for solitary thinking. You probably have figured out how to
eliminate distractions and interruptions. You accept the fact that you have less free time to spend with
family, friends, coworkers, teammates, or classmates.
Maximizer
Because of your strengths, you sometimes congratulate yourself for being a good counselor. Certain
people may keep coming back to you for words of wisdom. Others might seek your recommendations
about how to handle problems or take advantage of opportunities. Driven by your talents, 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. Instinctively, you have dedicated yourself to
acquiring knowledge and skills that make you an expert in various fields. Intentionally, you expand on
your natural abilities. You avoid struggling to overcome your weaknesses. You wisely credit many of
your past successes to doing what you know you do very well. By nature, you may surround yourself
with people who notice what you do right and applaud what you do well. Maybe you avoid critics who
dwell on your shortcomings. It’s very likely that you might keep certain people’s attention by telling
stories. Sometimes your tales are entertaining. Occasionally they are informative. Once in a while,
they contain a moral — that is, a lesson about what is good and right.
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