strengths insight report

Strengths Insight ReportSURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 07-17-2015

Bill Corby

Your Top 5 Themes

ResponsibilityStrategicActivatorIdeationConnectedness

ResponsibilityShared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Responsibility theme take psychological ownership of whatthey say they will do. They are committed to stable values such as honesty and loyalty.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?

Instinctively, you might shoulder your obligations and duties with relative ease. You might bemotivated to behave in ways that cause individuals to say you are dependable. Chances are goodthat you sometimes feel comfortable being open and honest about who you are. Maybe you avoidpeople who are less than truthful. You may prefer to spend time with individuals who speak ascandidly as you do about their strengths, shortcomings, hopes, failures, or successes. Driven by yourtalents, you are sometimes open and honest about who you are, what you have done, what you cando, and what you cannot do. Maybe your straightforward explanations and stories help listeners seeyou as you see yourself. You might reveal your strengths and limitations. You might choose to beforthright and plainspoken. This partially explains why various people seek your company and want towork with you. Perhaps your words and examples move them to action. It’s very likely that you areknown as a reliable and dependable person. You are motivated to work diligently. You cannot restuntil you have completed what you told someone you would do. Because of your strengths, you oftenargue that people should be held to the highest moral standards. You insist that those who break thelaw be required to accept the consequences of their deeds. You have little sympathy for people whoare caught in the act of taking things that do not belong to them.

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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.



By nature, you are innovative, inventive, original, and resourceful. Your mind allows you to venturebeyond the commonplace, the familiar, or the obvious. You entertain ideas about the best ways toreach a goal, increase productivity, or solve a problem. First, you think of alternatives. Then youchoose the best option. Chances are good that you often bring an imaginative game plan to yourteammates’ attention. You enjoy partnering with people who rely on you to identify critical as well asrecurring sequences of events, facts, or data. Instinctively, you have acquired valuable skills andknowledge. You spend time considering numerous courses of action before choosing one. You inventoriginal and innovative techniques for dealing with expected and unexpected challenges. You use thesame approach to take advantage of promising opportunities. It’s very likely that you generateinnovative ideas. You offer unique perspectives on events, people, and proposals. You probablyinspire people to start projects and launch initiatives. You tend to identify a goal, devise numerousways of reaching it, then choose the best alternative. This explains why you see opportunities, trends,and solutions before your teammates, classmates, or peers see them. Driven by your talents, youwork diligently to invent alternative courses of action. You notice new as well as unusualconfigurations in facts, evidence, or data. Others, however, can see only separate, unrelated bits ofinformation. You are fascinated by problems that puzzle, confound, or frustrate most people.

ActivatorShared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Activator theme can make things happen by turningthoughts into action. They are often impatient.



It’s very likely that you may be described as a “what you see is what you get” person. Perhaps there islittle mystery about who you are. Now and then, you make a point of talking with strangers. Yousometimes tell them about yourself without being asked. Your forthright approach might encouragesome individuals to be as open with you as you are with them. Driven by your talents, you relishtalking to others. Frequently you help people express their opinions, thoughts, or viewpoints withenthusiasm. Your words frequently energize individuals or groups. Chances are good that youtypically take the lead. You seldom wait for orders or directions from people in positions of authority.You probably operate on the premise that it is better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.


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Using this approach, you have delivered impressive results and reached important goals. Instinctively,you may want people to like you. This partially explains why you speak candidly about yourself.Perhaps you are willing to risk being vulnerable now and then. By nature, you likely are the humanspark plug of your team. That is, you inspire and energize people to dedicate themselves to a task.Once a course of action is chosen, perhaps you are the person who says, “We’ve talked long enough.Let’s get started right now. Why wait? Let’s just do it!”

IdeationShared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able tofind connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.



Because of your strengths, you automatically think of new and different ways to do things. Your mindis brimming with ideas. You probably are eager to share them with whoever will listen. It’s very likelythat you usually are the group member who creates fresh approaches for dealing with variousactivities. Often you are inspired to invent new methods for performing tasks, reaching goals,operating processes, distributing goods, or increasing production. You probably have proposedoriginal thoughts for collecting materials, handling complaints, organizing events, raising funds, orcompleting assignments. Instinctively, you occasionally generate novel ideas for campaigns, businessventures, initiatives, or special events. By nature, you tune in to people and figure out what they aresaying and thinking about you. You are acutely aware of how individuals regard you. You probablycurry — that is, try to win — the favor of some and seek to impress others. Chances are good that younormally imagine numerous ways of doing something when you know your results, scores, orperformances are being compared to everyone else’s. Your desire to be the champion probablystimulates your creative thinking.

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.



Instinctively, you might be determined to do good for people and/or the environment. Perhaps you arepuzzled by people who cause harm without realizing they are hurting themselves. Because of yourstrengths, you may have a special ability to welcome a wide array of people into your life. From thefirst moment you meet people, you may sense an unspoken bond. Perhaps you are curious. Maybe


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you search for explanations about why you linked with each other at a particular moment. Even whenit remains a mystery, maybe you contend there is a reason. It’s very likely that you often areinstrumental in helping your teammates discover how they are linked to one another. You regularlyremind them that their successes and failures are a direct result of their ability to work together.Chances are good that you may be able to accept unpredictable events in your life on the basis ofsheer faith. Perhaps you sense there is a force greater than you at work in the world. Occasionallyyou can live with not knowing the exact reason why something good or bad happened to you and notto someone else. Driven by your talents, you have no doubts about being linked in some way witheverything in the universe. This includes all creation and all humankind.


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