1. Strengths Insight Report
SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 07-29-2015
Michael Deimen
Your Top 5 Themes
Intellection
Ideation
Learner
Achiever
Input
Intellection
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Intellection theme are characterized by their intellectual
activity. They are introspective and appreciate intellectual discussions.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
It’s very likely that you sometimes evaluate ideas, theories, or philosophies by looking at them from
every possible angle. Because of your strengths, you choose to associate with people who think big
and think smart. Exchanging ideas, concepts, or theories with intelligent individuals exhilarates you.
You pull together as many thoughts as possible from these animated conversations. You never know
when someone’s question or suggestion will be valuable. You mentally file away or physically
document these snippets — that is, small bits — of insight or wisdom for easy retrieval. Instinctively,
you sometimes wish you could switch off your active brain. Even so, you may enjoy your time alone
as you ponder ideas. Perhaps you want to test whether they make sense. By nature, you favor
conversations where information, facts, or data are considered objectively — that is, emotions do not
distort the truth. You pose questions, evaluate answers, and figure out how things work. Reducing an
idea, theory, or process to its most basic parts provides you with many insights. You are likely to
archive — that is, preserve — your discoveries so you can use them later. Driven by your talents, you
periodically contemplate your obligations and responsibilities. Keeping your promises might be a
priority. Somewhat thorough by nature, you may carefully consider what you need to do. Perhaps you
can be relied upon to explore many angles of a situation before drawing conclusions, making
decisions, or taking action.
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2. Ideation
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to
find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Because of your strengths, you sometimes feel comfortable sharing your original ideas with groups.
Perhaps they welcome your innovations. Maybe they realize you suggest novel ways of doing things
they would never have considered. By nature, you might welcome opportunities to exchange new
theories, innovative thoughts, or intriguing concepts. Sometimes the original thinking of individuals
stimulates your creativity. Driven by your talents, you try to collect straightforward and precise words.
Sometimes your enthusiasm for language causes you to expand your vocabulary. You might like to
talk or write about philosophies, ideas, or theories that have not been proved or plans that have not
been put into practice yet. Acquiring sophisticated terminology may be play for you, not work. Perhaps
an unexpected chance to use these words in real life gives you satisfaction. Instinctively, you might be
the person people look to for original thoughts during discussions or meetings. Your reputation for
innovative thinking partially explains why groups attempt to recruit you. Perhaps you embrace
opportunities to be creative. Chances are good that you regard yourself as logical and reasonable.
You spontaneously reduce mechanisms, processes, proposals, ideas, or formulas to their basic parts.
You figure out how the pieces interrelate. Your discoveries tell you why something does or does not
function the way it should.
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?
Because of your strengths, you may be able to figure out what makes each person special. You might
talk to, observe, or study individuals who produce nothing less than excellence to identify what
inspires them. You might prefer to associate with those who insist on taking something good and
making it better. When you understand what drives a person, perhaps you can motivate him or her to
transform whatever was made better into something superb. Driven by your talents, you may devote
yourself to things that intrigue you. Sometimes your attention intensifies if you are encouraged to
immerse yourself in a specific activity or topic. By nature, you might be a rational thinker. That is, you
sometimes exhibit good judgment and exercise sound reasoning. These thought processes may
serve you well when you set out to acquire true knowledge and/or gain skill. Perhaps you school
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3. yourself by reading, investigating, examining, experiencing, or receiving instruction in specific
subjects. It’s very likely that you might yearn to acquire certain types of knowledge and/or master
specific skills. Perhaps your active mind grows weary of performing the same tasks the same way day
after day. Now and then, you make a conscious effort to gather facts, evidence, data, or background
information. To some extent, your hard work prepares you to move forward with particular projects,
assignments, or action plans. You might glean much of what you know from observation,
investigation, study, or instruction. 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.
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?
Chances are good that you place a premium on acquiring various kinds of knowledge and skills. You
see definite links between your hard work and your accelerated growth as a person or as a
professional. It’s very likely that you strive to complete many tasks prior to their deadlines. As a result,
you usually have ample time to think through your ideas, decisions, or plans. You tend to feel ill-
prepared when you are forced into action. Because of your strengths, you argue that hard work
influences the course of your life more than anything else. You make your own good fortune by
preparing yourself to take advantage of opportunities as they arise. Each time you are successful, you
can outline exactly what you did to reach a goal. You link together facts, incidents, conversations, or
available resources to understand your accomplishments. You resist the notion that life is nothing
more than a game of chance. By nature, you frequently take a long and hard look at yourself. You
probably review what you have and have not accomplished. You scrutinize — that is, give close
attention to — how you treated various individuals and how they responded to you. You likely
consider reordering your personal or professional priorities. You tend to examine many aspects of
your life. Driven by your talents, you sometimes concentrate exceptional levels of your talent, energy,
effort, and/or reasoning on certain tasks. Perhaps your good judgment allows you to establish long-
term goals that are worthy of your attention.
Input
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Input theme have a craving to know more. Often they like to
collect and archive all kinds of information.
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4. Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Driven by your talents, you may add theoretical, intricate, technical, or difficult-to-understand words to
your vocabulary. Perhaps this is an ongoing process. You might prefer to spend time with people who
appreciate your mastery of language and the ease with which you use sophisticated terminology.
Certain individuals feel comfortable asking you what a particular term or phrase means. Instinctively,
you might have a particular desire for knowledge. Perhaps you feel it makes little sense to skim
through a book and read only the highlights. You might want to delve more deeply into intriguing
subjects than most people. Maybe you love to gather all kinds of information. Chances are good that
you occasionally collect bits and pieces of information. At the time, the value of this material may not
be apparent. In specific cases, you have found it useful to turn to some specialists for help. Perhaps
these individuals can provide you with enough direction so you can ask some questions, render a few
decisions, or try to map courses of action without upsetting anyone in the process. You avoid
angering certain people by consulting with them before doing anything. Because of your strengths,
you might place a high value on seeking and gathering specific kinds of information. Perhaps your
need to be informed motivates you to acquire knowledge so you are as smart as you want to be about
certain subjects. By nature, you are comfortable saying, “I am a fine educator.” You probably
converse with others in your field about ideas, theories, or concepts to gather the latest thinking.
Using these insights, you are apt to draw your students into discussions that entice them to explore
topics. You want them to really understand the subject rather than memorize a few facts just to pass a
test.
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