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StrengthsFinder 2.0 Report

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Strengths Insight GuideSURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 06-17-2009

Mark Gardner

Your Top 5 Themes

RelatorConnectednessLearnerCompetitionAnalytical

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RelatorShared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Relator theme enjoy close relationships with others. Theyfind deep satisfaction in working hard with friends to achieve a goal.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?

Because of your strengths, you have the ability to instruct, train, or offer suggestions to people wholook to you for assistance. Driven by your talents, you fill your mind with new ideas by askingquestions, reading, studying, observing, or listening. Normally, you accumulate facts, data, stories,examples, or background information from the people you meet. Determining what they want toaccomplish in the coming weeks, months, or years generally satisfies your curiosity. These insightsalso allow you to understand why individuals behave they way they do in different situations.Instinctively, you sometimes declare you are as productive as you can be, especially when peopleallow you to work independently. Having to deal with teammates, classmates, or group members maystymie — that is, hinder — your progress. It’s very likely that you are drawn to the process of gainingknowledge and skills. You long to build on what you already know. You yearn to improve on what youalready can do. When you meet people who value education as much as you do, you are eager tohear about their personal or professional ambitions, intentions, or goals. Understanding what othersaim to accomplish in the coming weeks, months, or years can be the beginning of a practicalpartnership or an enduring friendship. By nature, you deconstruct tangled situations. You sort throughfacts to discover the inner workings of intricate processes, regulations, programs, or action plans.People rely on you to break complicated things into their basic parts. They trust you to present theinformation they need in an easy-to-understand manner.

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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ConnectednessShared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Connectedness theme have faith in the links between allthings. They believe there are few coincidences and that almost every event has a reason.



It’s very likely that you have no doubts about being linked in some way with everything in the universe.This includes all creation and all humankind. Chances are good that you may be guided by the notionthat no one can live life without some help from others. Perhaps this idea compels you to considerhow what you do and say affects people you know and individuals you will never meet. Instinctively,you usually come away refreshed after conversing with future-oriented thinkers. You probably inspiremany of them with your passion for projects or causes that benefit humanity as well as theenvironment. You likely feel restless when your life lacks a noble purpose. Driven by your talents, youoccasionally help people realize they are part of the human family. With your guidance, perhaps theyunderstand that their lives are intertwined with people they will never meet. By nature, you senseevery event is somehow the consequence of a series of actions, reactions, or lack of actions. You canaccept that which cannot be fully explained using logic. You say there are no accidents. You areconfident that things are linked together for a purpose that may or may not be revealed to you.

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LearnerShared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Learner theme have a great desire to learn and want tocontinuously improve. In particular, the process of learning, rather than the outcome, excites them.



It’s very likely that you usually equate education — formal and informal — with understanding moreabout something today than you understood about it yesterday. Chances are good that yousometimes dedicate yourself to acquiring specific types of knowledge or using particular skills. Maybeyou are self-taught. Maybe you work with an instructor, trainer, coach, or mentor. You might embraceopportunities to expose your mind to new ideas. You might welcome the chance to practice new waysof plying — that is, diligently practicing — a trade or a craft. Because of your strengths, you yearn toincrease your knowledge by being kept in the information loop. This explains why you gravitate topeople who converse about ideas at a deeper and more thoughtful level than most individuals arecapable of doing. “Making small talk” — that is, engaging in idle conversation — probably seems likea waste of time to you. Driven by your talents, you make sure you comprehend more than any of youropponents do about what it takes to win something. Whenever your results are going to be comparedto those of others, you are determined to be the sole victor. Consequently, you welcome opportunitiesto put your talents, knowledge, and skills to the test. You are especially interested when meaningfuland objective measurements are used to pinpoint the best performer. By nature, you can finagle —that is, obtain by indirect or involved means — time with people who think about the coming years anddecades. Routinely, you read their writings or listen to their conversations. You probably ask themquestions and consider their responses. You file away lots of ideas and facts, sensing that one daythis information will prove to be useful. Whether it ever actually does become useful makes nodifference to you. Collecting the predictions of forward-looking thinkers is apt to be rewarding in and ofitself.

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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.



Because of your strengths, you refuse to be content with your performance until you have beendeclared the most capable, successful, or accomplished person in the group. Just knowing you arebeing compared to others gives you the extra energy and determination you need to surpasseveryone else’s performance. Instinctively, you want people to see you as a winner, as “number one,”or as the very best in various activities. Being quite sensitive to what others think of you probably is apowerful motivating force that usually works to your advantage. Driven by your talents, you may excelat higher levels than usual when you are allowed to work on your own. Maybe you compare youroutcomes to those produced by other individual contributors. Chances are good that you may workindustriously on particular kinds of projects. Sometimes you devote unusually long hours or expendtremendous amounts of energy on your job or studies. When you know your scores, ratings, rankings,or performances are being compared to those of others, you quickly intensify your efforts to be thevery best. It’s very likely that you work hard to be the best or “number one.” When your performance iscompared to everyone else’s, you aim to win. If you were an Olympic athlete, being presented with asilver or bronze medal would be a huge disappointment. Only the gold medal in your chosen eventwould make you happy.

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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.



Chances are good that you sometimes use evidence to support your thinking. Perhaps you can detectsome repetition in certain types of data. Then you may be able to predict the frequency of somethingoccurring again. Instinctively, you sometimes reason through things carefully to arrive at a reasonableconclusion. By nature, you may be sought out for advice by individuals who appreciate yourmethodical thinking style. To some extent, your approach prevents people from being distracted bytheir own or someone else’s emotions. Perhaps you help them concentrate on the facts more than onthan their feelings. It’s very likely that you periodically like to work alone. Why? Maybe you sense youcan accomplish a little bit more that way. Perhaps you enhance your personal productivity byassigning a level of importance or urgency to every task. You might start with the most critical activityand work your way to the least critical. Driven by your talents, you may critically examine the essentialelements of the current condition. Perhaps you toil tirelessly to identify the basic parts of plans,problems, opportunities, processes, or ideas.

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