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What are my top 5 strengths as a professional?
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Jeannette Browning
Your Top 5 Themes
Strategic
Maximizer
Self-Assurance
Futuristic
Achiever
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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?
It’s very likely that you feel wonderful when people value your innovative and original ideas.
You are likely to help them envision what can be accomplished in the coming months, years,
or decades. Chances are good that you commonly opt to work by yourself. You trust your
talents, knowledge, and skills to identify problems. You consider numerous solutions before
you pinpoint the most appropriate course of action. Questions and answers materialize
without a lot of effort on your part. Because of your strengths, you trust your ability to be an
innovative thinker. You routinely invent many ways you can reach a single goal. Only then
do you start narrowing down your options to the best one. You probably take into
consideration prevailing circumstances, available resources, budgetary constraints, or
pressing deadlines. Driven by your talents, you have a knack for identifying problems. You
spontaneously generate alternatives for solving them. You probably consider the pros and
cons of each option. You often factor into your thinking prevailing circumstances and
available resources. You feel life is good when you sense you are choosing the best course of
action. Instinctively, you realize you can identify a variety of problems and respond to a wide
range of questions. You probably can pinpoint specific times when you proposed alternative
ways of doing things. You probably recall giving answers no one else considered. You are
aware that your subconscious mind continuously absorbs information and creates possible
options.
Questions
1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand
out to you?
2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in
you?
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Maximizer
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Maximizer theme focus on strengths as a way to
stimulate personal and group excellence. They seek to transform something strong into
something superb.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Chances are good that you can show people from diverse backgrounds or with different
interests how to cooperate and work productively with one another. By nature, you may be
aware that you are more persistent and determined than many people are. Perhaps this is most
evident when you have established a clear goal. You direct most of your attention to the task.
You avoid being distracted by irrelevant, time-consuming, and/or nonproductive activities.
Because of your strengths, you probably enjoy life more when you can practice using your
dominant talents every day. Not surprisingly, you reach your goals, excel, and gain
confidence when you are permitted to do things you naturally do quite well. It’s very likely
that you have noticed that people count on you to simplify things that are vague and abstract.
This ability is most evident when people are struggling to grasp the meaning of intricate
ideas, systems, problems, solutions, rules, procedures, contracts, or designs. Driven by your
talents, you may recognize your ability to involve different sorts of individuals in your life.
Some people might recall that you were the first person to welcome them with open arms, an
open heart, or an open mind.
Questions
1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand
out to you?
2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in
you?
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Self-Assurance
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Self-Assurance theme feel confident in their ability
to manage their own lives. They possess an inner compass that gives them confidence that
their decisions are right.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
It’s very likely that you bring an electricity — that is, a keen, contagious excitement — to
conversations with old friends, long-time associates, or new acquaintances. You can walk up
to a group of people, ease into the conversation, and make them feel glad you are there. You
gravitate to individuals who talk about mind-boggling — that is, mentally exciting —
concepts or innovative projects. You probably are bored by idle chitchat and gossip. Because
of your strengths, you crave positions in which you can channel your energy and creativity
into activities that distinguish you from others. Because you trust your judgment and your
abilities, it is imperative that your work be both invigorating and challenging. You want it to
be a vital expression of who you are. Driven by your talents, you may trust yourself to decide
when to use intricate, sophisticated, or complicated words. Perhaps you enjoy inserting
academic or professional terminology into your conversations, debates, and correspondence.
Sometimes you reinforce your knowledge and build your confidence by using your extensive
vocabulary. Maybe difficult-to-understand words give you an advantage that some people
lack. Chances are good that you channel your energy into your work or studies. You seldom
count the hours you work. Feeling fully engaged in what you do is a major source of
satisfaction. You believe there is always something more challenging you can pursue. Given
your ability to withstand hardship, adversity, and stress, it is no surprise you love what you
do. You strive to do more and more of it each day. By nature, you long for employment or
assignments that inspire you and pique — that is, arouse — your interest. You are much more
enthusiastic about life when you can look forward to each day with enthusiasm rather than
dread.
Questions
1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand
out to you?
2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in
you?
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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?
Driven by your talents, you sense your life has deep meaning. With remarkable vividness,
you often imagine where you will be, what you will be doing, and what you have the ability
to accomplish in the coming months, years, or decades. Your dreams of tomorrow are very
alive in your mind today. You intentionally strive to transform these possibilities into reality.
Because of your strengths, you have a capacity for envisioning what the coming months,
years, or decades could, should, or will be like. Frequently you are prompted to transform
your ideas into things you can touch, taste, see, smell, or hear. Chances are good that you are
a visionary thinker. Your vivid mental images of the coming months, years, or decades often
impel you to move into action. Instinctively, you envision what you can accomplish
tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, or in the coming decades. Your goals and
aspirations motivate you to keep moving forward. The tension you feel when a deadline is
fast approaching forces you to concentrate on the right activities, discard irrelevant
information, and not waste time on intriguing distractions. Your one aim is to reach your
objectives. By nature, you are eager to get started on a project once you realize what you can
accomplish in the coming weeks, months, or years. You work very hard to breathe life into
your big dreams. These often push and pull you into the future.
Questions
1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand
out to you?
2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in
you?
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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?
Driven by your talents, you have an undeniably sound work ethic. You probably devote lots
of time and energy to your work or studies. You enjoy producing outstanding results. You
feel restless until you reach your goals and measure up to your high standards of excellence.
By nature, 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. It’s very likely that you strive to hear what
individuals say. Your attentiveness reassures many of them that you comprehend what they
are thinking and feeling. You are delighted to hear, “Finally, someone really understands me.
Thank you for taking the time.” Because of your strengths, you exhibit a strong work ethic.
Work probably gives your life a sense of purpose it would otherwise lack. Instinctively, you
feel much more favorable about yourself and life in general when you are functioning at an
optimal level. Being “number one” or named the best usually motivates you to do more and
better work in the coming hours, days, weeks, or months.
Questions
1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand
out to you?
2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in
you?
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