Daniel Small StrengthsFinder Excerpt

StrengthsFinder 2.0 Report

© 2000, 2006-2012 GALLUP, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Strengths Insight and Action-Planning GuideSURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 06-27-2013

Danny Small

Your Top 5 Themes

StrategicCommandSignificanceCompetitionAnalytical

What's in This Guide?

Section I: Awareness

A brief Shared Theme Description for each of your top five themes

Your Personalized Strengths Insights, which describe what makes you stand out from otherswith the same theme in their top five

Questions for you to answer to increase your awareness of your talentsSection II: Application

10 Ideas for Action for each of your top five themes

Questions for you to answer to help you apply your talentsSection III: Achievement

Examples of what each of your top five themes "sounds like" -- real quotes from people whoalso have the theme in their top five

Steps for you to take to help you leverage your talents for achievement

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Section I: Awareness

StrategicShared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Strategic theme create alternative ways to proceed. Facedwith any given scenario, they can quickly spot the relevant patterns and issues.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?

Chances are good that you occasionally opt to work by yourself. Perhaps you trust your talents,knowledge, and skills in identifying problems. You might consider numerous solutions before youpinpoint an appropriate course of action. Sometimes questions and answers materialize without mucheffort on your part. Instinctively, you can reconfigure factual information or data in ways that revealtrends, raise issues, identify opportunities, or offer solutions. You bring an added dimension todiscussions. You make sense out of seemingly unrelated information. You are likely to generatemultiple action plans before you choose the best one. Because of your strengths, you periodicallyidentify problems others fail to notice. You might create solutions and find the right answers. Perhapsyou yearn to improve certain things about yourself, other people, or situations. Maybe you are drawnto specific kinds of classes, books, or activities. Why? Maybe they promise to give you the skills orknowledge you seek. Driven by your talents, you may generate numerous ways to enhance, upgrade,revise, correct, or revamp certain processes, action plans, or itineraries. Sometimes your suggestionsinfluence how a project will unfold in the coming months, years, or decades. You might find fault withyour own or another person’s talents, skills, or knowledge. To some extent, fixing people or thingsranks in the top half of your list of favorite activities. By nature, you might generate certain types ofideas quickly. Occasionally you draw links between facts, events, people, problems, or solutions. Youmay present numerous options for consideration. Perhaps your innovative thinking fosters ongoingdialogue between and among associates, committee members, teammates, or classmates.

Questions

1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand out toyou?

2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in you?


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CommandShared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Command theme have presence. They can take control of asituation and make decisions.



By nature, you might be unsentimental and realistic, especially when you must plan how to dosomething efficiently, reliably, or predictably time after time. Perhaps you streamline some of yourdaily, weekly, monthly, or annual chores. You may identify the steps needed to complete the task.You might study the requirements, overlooking no details. You might tend to concentrate on the basicfacts. Maybe you avoid letting prejudice or favoritism cloud — that is, confuse — your judgment. It’svery likely that you occasionally appear to be a pragmatist — that is, someone who spends time onfactual matters or practical affairs. You might demand that certain individuals working with youbecome fluent in the language of their chosen profession, area of study, or field of interest. Once in awhile, you may express displeasure when you must stop to explain a subject-specific or technical termthat the person should already know. Instinctively, you might be the person in a group who easilyexplains how and why some things operate. Perhaps you cannot remain silent when a creative idea ora novel solution comes to mind. To some degree, you feel restless until you can share your thoughts.Driven by your talents, you sometimes feel comfortable sharing your original ideas with groups.Perhaps they welcome your innovations. Maybe they realize you suggest novel ways of doing thingsthey would never have considered. Because of your strengths, you may be regarded by certainpeople as realistic or unsentimental. Perhaps there are times when you want to do a better job ofexpressing your own feelings or allowing others to voice some of theirs. When necessary, you mightbe the person who brings the conversation back to practical or factual matters.

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SignificanceShared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Significance theme want to be very important in the eyes ofothers. They are independent and want to be recognized.



Because of your strengths, you derive much satisfaction from doing whatever you can to help peopleprosper and flourish. You probably boost their spirits each time you acknowledge theiraccomplishments, talents, knowledge, and/or skills. Driven by your talents, you might prefer to partnerwith people who exhibit a sound work ethic. Perhaps you sense they are apt to accept the upgradesor changes you propose. To some extent, you are drawn to individuals who hold you in high regardbecause of your ability to make improvements. By nature, you attempt to regulate what happens inyour life. Perhaps you sense you have the power to determine what you will and will not do. Maybeyou become annoyed when others meddle in your work, studies, or personal activities. It’s very likelythat you might have a reputation for being a hard worker. This partially explains why you may tellindividuals they can accomplish more than they think they can. Maybe you pressure people to excelrather than settle for mediocre results. You may have a difficult time associating with people who doonly what is expected or who whine when they are challenged to do more. Instinctively, you aresometimes quite industrious. You might work diligently to produce good outcomes. Perhaps you aremotivated by a desire for personal or professional advancement .

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CompetitionShared Theme Description

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



Driven by your talents, you periodically rely on your sophisticated vocabulary to outthink certainpeople. Whether speaking or writing, you might interject technical or subject-specific terms to confrontresistance or force specific issues into the open. This authoritarian stance may put a few people onnotice that you are clever. Sometimes their confidence begins to crumble. Perhaps your ease withlanguage and artful tactics signal that you are the one in charge. Instinctively, you sometimes workhard to reach specific personal or professional goals. These include, but are not limited to, earning apay raise, winning a promotion, receiving a degree, acquiring something you value, or completing acertification program. Perhaps challenges related to status motivate you more than others do.Because of your strengths, you do much better when you can concentrate on capturing topmosthonors, first-place awards, or championship titles. Devoting yourself to one activity at a timeeliminates numerous annoying distractions. Being single-minded certainly improves your overallperformance and extends your record of winning. By nature, you sometimes outwit people bycapitalizing on your ingenuity — that is, your originality. When scores are being tallied, you might relyon your talents to emerge the victor. It’s very likely that you may sometimes feel a particular need toreach goals, make money, have power, or become famous. To achieve these successes, you mighteasily state what you want, expect, demand, or need. From time to time, you use sophisticated wordsor complicated terminology to capture and keep the attention of certain people. Maybe yourvocabulary sets you apart. What you say and how you say it might threaten or intimidate selectedlisteners, if that is your intent.

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AnalyticalShared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Analytical theme search for reasons and causes. They havethe ability to think about all the factors that might affect a situation.



It’s very likely that you are an objective person. You investigate the problems you must face in life.You methodically reason through these difficulties. Often you create workable solutions. Driven byyour talents, you may work to identify the forces that influence situations in which you are, have been,or might be involved. Instinctively, you may rely on logic and reason when you face important or life-changing choices. Because of your strengths, you may rely on credible facts or objective data whenyou are faced with a difficult choice. Perhaps you refuse to act in haste. Occasionally you might askfor more time to examine the evidence or evaluate the situation before deciding on a course of action.Chances are good that you normally state your grievances when you think doing so is appropriate.You probably prefer to express your dissatisfaction in a reasonable rather than emotional manner.

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