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Strengths Insight Guide

SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 11-11-2013

Jasmine Ervin Your Top 5 Themes

Context Restorative Responsibility Ideation Command

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Context
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Context theme enjoy thinking about the past. They understand the present by researching its history.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out? Its very likely that you generally accept invitations to participate in discussion groups that concentrate their attention on studying the past. Probably the sessions you enjoy most involve an animated exchange of ideas between people who recognize the relevance of history in their everyday lives. Chances are good that you enjoy having opportunities to think with people who reflect on past events. Why? They can relay that is, pass along information that helps you put the words and deeds of people in their proper perspective. Because of your strengths, you savor the time you spend with people who are knowledgeable concerning events of the past. They probably enlighten you about important events, places, or individuals. This information likely causes you to reflect on what could have been improved or done better. Driven by your talents, you often seek the company of historically astute individuals. You value the clarity of their thinking about past events. They probably help you evaluate the roles of principal figures in history. By nature, you create a vision of the future by unraveling what happened in the past. You strive to understand the what, when, who, where, how, and why of events. You are determined to create a framework of facts so you can put things in perspective.
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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Restorative
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Restorative theme are adept at dealing with problems. They are good at figuring out what is wrong and resolving it.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out? Because of your strengths, you normally pinpoint the elements creating the present problem, opportunity, or crisis. You often pause to determine what you need to upgrade, make better, or perfect before you expend any time, money, energy, or resources. Its very likely that you gravitate toward people who speak truthfully when you ask for constructive criticism and honest feedback. You especially seek information about areas where you need to perform better, eliminate deficiencies, or make upgrades. Chances are good that you identify skill deficiencies, knowledge gaps, or performance shortcomings. These usually capture your attention. Having discovered these problems, you are determined to conquer them. You probably say you can do anything you decide to do as long as you apply yourself. Instinctively, you might engage in self-improvement activities once you have identified things you need to know more about or do better. Perhaps you hope to minimize some of your shortcomings. Driven by your talents, you spend some of your time examining problems, malfunctions, or glitches. If you experience a personal or professional loss, make a mistake, or suffer a defeat, you might investigate. Perhaps you feel restless until you have answers to your basic questions: What? How? When? Where? Who? Why?
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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Responsibility
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Responsibility theme take psychological ownership of what they say they will do. They are committed to stable values such as honesty and loyalty.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out? Driven by your talents, you place a premium on doing everything correctly. Whatever you are involved in or associated with must typify that is, symbolize accuracy and precision. Your high standards demand exactness. By nature, you might feel best about yourself when you are honest and forthright. Perhaps telling untruths or omitting important facts violates your personal code of ethics. Because of your strengths, you are regarded as a credible and trustworthy person. This explains why so many individuals value what you say about them and what they have accomplished. Your honesty probably enables people to truly believe in themselves. Chances are good that you usually want to be held accountable for outcomes, especially when what you are being asked to do sounds reasonable. You are apt to scrutinize your own and others ideas before you begin a task. Instinctively, you may wish to have a broader range of control and accountability on the job or in your personal life.
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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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 occasionally contribute more innovative ideas to group discussions than some people do. You may help strangers, newcomers, or outsiders feel they can share their thoughts. You might welcome their ideas. Why? They may stimulate everyones thinking, including your own. Driven by your talents, you relish conversations with people whose vocabulary is as sophisticated as their thinking. Discussing philosophies, theories, or concepts is exhilarating. You do not have to translate this or that word or explain the basic points of a complex thought. You love to ask questions and be readily understood. As engaged as you are in the dialogue, you still make a point of pulling together insights so you can use this knowledge later. Chances are good that you rely on reason to reduce things to their simplest parts. You closely examine each element to discover how it does or does not benefit the overall situation. Instinctively, 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. By nature, you are highly sensitive to what others think of you. This sensitivity continually motivates you to do things better than you have in the past.
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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Command
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Command theme have presence. They can take control of a situation and make decisions.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out? Because of your strengths, you urge people to attain their goals by pressing ahead without stopping. Some people feel threatened by your forceful messages. You probably use this technique with individuals who are slow to start or who are inclined to quit before the work is finished. Driven by your talents, you quiet outspoken people with your quick and clever thinking. You rely on facts and reason to support your ideas. Many individuals choose to submit to whatever you tell them to do. Few dare to resist and ignore your orders. Frequently your mental agility overpowers people who traditionally like to take charge. Instinctively, you commonly embolden that is, give courage to people by convincing them that their individual contributions are quite noteworthy and valuable. By nature, you toughen and fortify individuals by telling them how much you value their contributions, talents, knowledge, and skills. Its very likely that you probably take calculated risks. You typically study the pros and cons of a situation and assess the consequences of an action. This thoughtful approach generally allows you to increase your number of successes.
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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