Your Cliftonstrengths 34 Results: 1. Learner 2. Harmony 3. Intellection 4. Input 5. Relator
Your Cliftonstrengths 34 Results: 1. Learner 2. Harmony 3. Intellection 4. Input 5. Relator
Use this report to make the most of your strongest CliftonStrengths themes, navigate the rest and
maximize your infinite potential:
• Read and reflect on your results to understand what you naturally do best.
• Learn how to apply your strongest CliftonStrengths every day.
• Share your results with others to create stronger relationships and improve teamwork.
STRENGTHEN NAVIGATE
You lead with Strategic
1. Learner 11. Context Thinking CliftonStrengths
2. Harmony 12. Focus themes.
3. Intellection 13. Empathy
4. Input 14. Connectedness EXECUTING themes help you
5. Relator 15. Futuristic make things happen.
6. Responsibility 16. Belief INFLUENCING themes help
7. Maximizer 17. Discipline you take charge, speak up and
8. Individualization 18. Achiever make sure others are heard.
9. Deliberative 19. Arranger RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
10. Analytical 20. Ideation themes help you build strong
21. Activator relationships that hold a team
22. Significance together.
23. Self-Assurance STRATEGIC THINKING
24. Command themes help you absorb and
25. Developer analyze information that informs
26. Positivity better decisions.
27. Consistency RE AD “IDENTIF Y YOUR UNIQUE
28. Adaptability CONTRIB UTION: THE
29. Communication CLIF TONSTRENGTHS DOMAINS”
30. Competition SECTION TO LE ARN MORE
31. Restorative
32. Woo
33. Includer
34. Strategic
1. Learner The CliftonStrengths at the top of your profile are the most powerful.
2. Harmony These themes represent how you are uniquely talented. They are the
3. Intellection starting point for living your strongest life possible.
4. Input Develop these CliftonStrengths to maximize your potential
5. Relator Your greatest chance to succeed — at work or anywhere else — lies in
6. Responsibility strengthening what you naturally do best and doing more of it.
7. Maximizer
8. Individualization Start with your top five.
They are your most powerful natural talents.
9. Deliberative
10. Analytical 1. Read everything about your top CliftonStrengths. To make the most
of your talents, you first need to understand them and how to
describe them to others.
4. Watch out for blind spots. Sometimes how you exhibit your
strongest CliftonStrengths can cause unintended negative
misperceptions. Read the “What Is a Weakness?” section to learn
more about preventing your strongest CliftonStrengths from getting
in your way.
STRATEGIC THINKING
1. Learner
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You have a great desire to learn and want to continuously improve. The process of learning, rather than
the outcome, excites you.
By nature, you prefer having quiet time to mull over ideas as well as read and examine
interesting topics. Periods of uninterrupted thinking give you great pleasure. You probably
excuse yourself from noisy, active, or distracting situations to thoroughly process your
ideas.
Because of your strengths, you have little difficulty giving intense effort to projects,
problems, or opportunities that capture and keep your attention.
It’s very likely that you are motivated to continually acquire knowledge and skills.
Discovering new ways to use your talents energizes you. You are likely to escape from
situations and avoid people who want you to keep doing what you already know how to do
well. Maintaining an intellectual status quo is unacceptable to you.
Chances are good that you prefer to concentrate on activities, problems, opportunities, or
subjects that really intrigue you. Each time you acquire new information, you feel you can
help people who need the same information.
Instinctively, you sometimes do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to excel in your
studies or work-related assignments. Perhaps this is one reason why you may prefer to
tackle particular challenges on your own rather than team up with someone who lacks your
drive.
You love to learn, and you intuitively know how you learn best. Your natural ability to pick up
and absorb information quickly and to challenge yourself to continually learn more keeps
you on the cutting edge.
Use your passion for learning to add value to your own and others’ lives.
• Become an early adopter of new technology, and keep your coworkers, friends and family
informed. You learn quickly, and others will appreciate when you share and explain cutting-
edge developments to them.
• Respect your desire to learn. Take advantage of educational opportunities in your
community or at work. Discipline yourself to sign up for at least one new course or class
each year.
• Find opportunities to expand your knowledge. Take on increasingly difficult topics, courses
or projects. You love the challenge of a steep learning curve, so beware of learning
plateaus.
• Be a catalyst for change. New rules, skills or circumstances might intimidate others. Your
willingness to absorb new and different factors can calm their fears.
• Keep track of your learning progress. If a skill or topic has distinct levels or stages of
learning, celebrate your progression from one level to the next. If not, create them for
yourself. For example, set a goal of reading five books on a new subject.
• You place a high value on learning and studying, and you may tend to impose this value on
others. Be sure to respect others’ motivations, and resist pushing them toward learning for
learning’s sake.
• You love the process of learning so much that the outcome might not matter to you. Be
careful not to let the process of knowledge acquisition get in the way of your results and
productivity.
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
2. Harmony
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You look for consensus. You don’t enjoy conflict; rather, you seek areas of agreement.
Instinctively, you may count on specialists to help you arrive at the correct solution,
decision, or conclusion. When you choose to work alone on an assignment, you
periodically turn to people with expertise for direction.
Chances are good that you derive some pleasure from being physically and/or mentally
engaged in certain kinds of work. Perhaps you willingly accept each day’s assignments.
Maybe you are delighted when you can finish them before quitting time. You might have
noticed that disagreements or conflicts are kept to a minimum when people do what they
have been asked to do.
By nature, you may appreciate experts who assure you that your thinking is sound, your
actions are correct, or your behavior is appropriate.
Driven by your talents, you occasionally exert physical effort or expend mental energy to
attain certain kinds of goals. Finishing assignments by the end of the day may exhilarate
you. You might carry your share of the workload as long as the tasks are evenly distributed
among people. If you can control the quality or the quantity of your outcomes, you might
thrive. Perhaps you perform better, faster, or more efficiently when you are free to work on
your own.
Because of your strengths, you are viewed as a practical thinker. You frequently seek out
specialists who have the best information on a particular topic. You trust their answers and
insights are correct.
You are naturally practical and prefer emotional balance. You can prevent arguments before
they start by quickly helping others find common ground and a resolution.
• In your desire to move conversations toward practical and common-sense decisions, you
may frustrate those who want to share broader ideas and opinions. Allow others to express
their ideas fully before bringing them back to the task at hand.
• You may instinctively downplay confrontational situations and try to suppress others from
openly airing their ideas and emotions. Recognize and accept that there will be times when
conflict is inevitable and that some people will revel in it.
STRATEGIC THINKING
3. Intellection
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You are characterized by your intellectual activity. You are introspective and appreciate intellectual
discussions.
By nature, you might take time to reflect on certain topics or issues. Perhaps your thinking
becomes more expansive when you delve into your particular areas of expertise or
specialized skills.
Because of your strengths, you are determined to stay up to date on the news. You
probably satisfy your hunger for current information by habitually reading newspapers,
magazines, correspondence or websites.
Instinctively, you periodically feel restless until you have collected enough insights to
thoughtfully examine certain kinds of abstract concepts, theories, or ideas. This may be
one reason why you are attracted to specific people. Perhaps they engage in intelligent
conversations. Possibly they refrain from casual chit-chat or meaningless small talk.
It’s very likely that you might be quiet during conversations, taking in what others say.
Perhaps you are particularly attentive when intelligent people toss about their ideas,
theories, or concepts. Sometimes you acquire more information and gain more insights
than the speakers do. When you choose to expound on a particular topic or pose specific
questions, maybe some individuals listen carefully to every word you utter.
Chances are good that you may yearn to discover as much as you can about certain issues
or topics. Perhaps the more knowledge you acquire, the easier it might be for you to fill in
missing information. Occasionally your need to know a lot enables you to form some
objective conclusions. You might draw reasonable linkages between specific facts, events,
data, or people’s comments.
You love to think, muse and reflect. Your powerful mental processing and intellectual
activity empower you to clarify and explain, regardless of the topic or situation.
• Because you are comfortable with silence and solitude, others might view you as isolated,
disinterested or disengaged. Be prepared to tell them that solitary thinking is just your
natural process and not necessarily a reflection of how much you care.
• Some people might think you create needless complexity during discussions and may
want you to make decisions faster than you do. Consider tailoring your approach;
sometimes it’s better to keep it simple and go more in depth later.
STRATEGIC THINKING
4. Input
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You have a need to collect and archive. You may accumulate information, ideas, artifacts or even
relationships.
Because of your strengths, you yearn to dedicate sufficient time and energy to all the
important parts of your life, such as personal growth, professional responsibilities, family
obligations, friends, health, and mental stimulation. Reading about topics that interest you
or fiction that spellbinds — that is, fascinates — you is apt to be a factor in your quality-of-
life equation.
It’s very likely that you absorb the written word like a sponge sops up water. You revel in an
opportunity to lose yourself in a book. Time seems to float by when you are the grateful
guest of an entertaining or informative author. Your only choice is to finish the book as
quickly as possible.
Driven by your talents, you may pay close attention to specific categories of current events.
Some people merely recount what they heard, saw, or read. Perhaps you dive deeper into
the topic. You might generate a few theories, concepts, or philosophies to explain some of
the reasoning behind certain newsmakers’ decisions. Sometimes you can gather
information about events, policy statements, people, or crises. Your fresh insights might
draw equally engaged thinkers into the conversation.
Chances are good that you enjoy reading as long as you can savor each sentence and
consider each idea. Your goal is to comprehend everything you read. It makes no sense to
you to rush through books, magazine or newspaper articles, Internet sites, or other forms
of written material just to say you finished them.
By nature, you sometimes enjoy instructing others. Because you like to read, you probably
have more information to share with your students than some educators do. The individuals
you tutor benefit from the facts or insights you gather from the printed page or the
computer screen.
You seek and store information. Your pursuit of mastery and access to knowledge
empowers you to make credible and well-informed decisions.
• Unrestrained input can lead to intellectual or physical clutter. Consider occasionally taking
inventory and purging what you don’t need so that your surroundings — and your mind —
don’t become overloaded.
• You might have a tendency to give people so much information or so many resources that
you can overload and overwhelm them. Before you share your discoveries with others,
consider sorting out what is most meaningful so they don’t lose interest.
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
5. Relator
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You enjoy close relationships with others. You find deep satisfaction in working hard with friends to
achieve a goal.
It’s very likely that you may have a reputation for being an individual performer who likes to
begin things and see them through to completion. Perhaps working solo gives you the
opportunity to finish tasks on your terms.
Driven by your talents, you may realize that each individual’s interests, background,
motivations, desires, fears, and work style are different. Perhaps you strive to honor
everyone’s unique qualities and preferences. Understanding the ambitions of particular
people might give you insights into the type of support, training, experiences, partnerships,
or nurturing each person needs to thrive.
Because of your strengths, you sometimes notice that individuals or groups solicit your
point of view on specific topics or issues. Perhaps they turn to you because you have
specialized in certain fields. Maybe you have gained skills or gathered expertise beyond
that of the average person.
Chances are good that you might notice that people regularly ask you, "What do you think?"
This might be because they value your views about particular people, situations, rules,
news events or decisions.
Instinctively, you may welcome the questions or concerns voiced by people. You might
listen compassionately to some and offer counsel to others. People sometimes seek you
out because your insights are helpful. Maybe they appreciate the way you occasionally
cause them to think in new ways.
You naturally form genuine and mutually rewarding one-on-one relationships. Your
authenticity allows you to build close, long-lasting connections that foster trust and
confidence.
Connect deeply with the right people to gain friends for life.
• Try to get one-on-one time with people, rather than attempting to connect with them in a
group. This will help you build the deeper and trusting relationships you value most.
• Stay in contact with your friends, no matter how busy you are. Your closest relationships
energize you.
• Make sure people know that you are more interested in their character and personality than
in their status or job title. You might serve as a model for others.
• Let your caring show. For example, find someone to mentor, help your coworkers get to
know one another better or deepen your existing relationships.
• Look for workplaces, classes, teams or groups that encourage friendships. You prefer a
casual style and culture and will likely not do well in overly formal situations.
• Because Relators typically do not trust others implicitly and people have to earn your trust
over time, some may think you are hard to get to know. Be aware of this perception with
new people you meet as well as with the people you see every day.
• Your tendency to spend more time with the people you know best might give the
impression that you are exclusive or unfriendly to those outside your inner circle. Consider
that you might be missing out on the benefits of widening the circle and getting to know
more people.
EXECUTING
6. Responsibility
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You take psychological ownership of what you say you will do. You are committed to stable values such
as honesty and loyalty.
You have a deep sense of dedication and feel ownership for your commitments. You are a
person of your word, and others know they can rely on and trust you.
• Because you find it difficult to turn down others’ requests, sometimes you overcommit. Try
to manage your Responsibility talents by giving up something before you take on a new
task.
• Too many obligations can keep you from spending time with the most important people in
your life. Remember that sometimes, no is the best answer for the health of your
relationships.
INFLUENCING
7. Maximizer
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You focus on strengths as a way to stimulate personal and group excellence. You seek to transform
something strong into something superb.
You focus on quality, and you prefer working with and for the best. By seeing what each
person naturally does best and empowering them to do it, you make individuals, teams and
groups better.
• Your desire to exhaust all possible outcomes can frustrate those who want to come to a
suitable conclusion and move forward. Sometimes, you will need to accept that “good
enough” is adequate and appropriate.
• You might be disappointed when a project or initiative falls short of your definition of
excellence. Try not to get discouraged when you have to work on or sign off on something
that is acceptable, but not ideal, in your eyes.
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
8. Individualization
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You are intrigued with the unique qualities of each person. You have a gift for figuring out how different
people can work together productively.
You notice and appreciate each person’s unique characteristics, and you don’t treat
everyone the same. Because you can see what makes each individual unique, you know
how to bring out their best.
• You often know more about others than they know about you, and when people don’t
naturally show awareness of your likes, dislikes, motivations and needs, this may disappoint
you. Recognize that you will need to share your preferences with people, and don’t assume
they will instinctively know.
• Your natural impulse is to put individual needs and goals ahead of what is best for the
group. To prevent the appearance of favoritism and bias, acknowledge that sometimes you
will need to adjust your style for the greater good.
EXECUTING
9. Deliberative
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You are best described by the serious care you take in making decisions or choices. You anticipate
obstacles.
You are thorough and conscientious. Through your natural anticipation and careful thought
process, you know how to reduce risks and prevent problems from arising.
• Because you take time to think carefully before making a decision, people might perceive
you as forgetful, slow or afraid to act. Be prepared to explain that you are none of those
things and that you are just considering all of the potential next steps.
• Your cautious and serious outlook on life might give the impression that you are a distant,
private and unapproachable person who doesn’t give much praise. Keep this in mind,
especially when the important people in your life need your approval and validation.
STRATEGIC THINKING
10. Analytical
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You search for reasons and causes. You have the ability to think about all of the factors that might
affect a situation.
Your natural ability to investigate, diagnose and identify patterns results in valuable insights
that are logical and well-thought-out. Your critical thinking helps clarify reality and provides
objectivity.
• Your objective and fact-based approach to decision-making may seem skeptical or critical.
Keep in mind that others will have emotional, subjective and personal opinions — and that
their input is just as valuable as yours is.
• Because you ask many questions, people may think that you always doubt the validity of
their ideas, that you do not trust them and that you are tough to work with. Explain your
analysis so they will be more likely to trust your process and your motives.
11. Context Your greatest opportunity to reach your full potential is developing and
12. Focus using your strongest CliftonStrengths. But it is also important to
13. Empathy understand all 34 of your CliftonStrengths themes.
14. Connectedness Your unique CliftonStrengths 34 profile
15. Futuristic The themes toward the top of your CliftonStrengths 34 profile might show
16. Belief up regularly in your life, and the ones closer to the bottom might not show
17. Discipline up at all.
18. Achiever To fully understand your talent DNA, consider how all your CliftonStrengths
19. Arranger themes, separately or in combination, influence your work and personal life.
20. Ideation In addition to concentrating on your top 10 themes:
21. Activator
22. Significance • Navigate the middle. You might notice these CliftonStrengths
23. Self-Assurance themes in your behaviors from time to time. And you may need to rely
24. Command on them in certain situations. Think of these themes as a support
25. Developer system you can use when you need to.
26. Positivity
• Manage the bottom. Just as your top CliftonStrengths show you
27. Consistency
who you are, those at the bottom may tell you who you are not. They
28. Adaptability
aren’t necessarily weaknesses, but they are your least powerful
29. Communication
themes. If you don’t manage them properly, they could prevent you
30. Competition
from maximizing your potential.
31. Restorative
32. Woo • Identify weaknesses. To determine if any themes are getting in your
33. Includer way, review the “What Is a Weakness?” section on the next page, and
34. Strategic find out how to overcome potential obstacles to your success.
To learn more about your entire CliftonStrengths profile, see the “Your
CliftonStrengths 34 Theme Sequence” section at the end of the report.
What Is a Weakness?
1. Learner Focusing on your CliftonStrengths doesn’t mean you can ignore your
2. Harmony weaknesses.
3. Intellection Gallup defines a weakness as anything that gets in the way of your
4. Input success.
5. Relator While the CliftonStrengths assessment does not mathematically quantify
6. Responsibility weaknesses, you can use your profile to understand how any of your
7. Maximizer CliftonStrengths themes might prevent you from maximizing your potential.
8. Individualization
Your strongest CliftonStrengths are your best opportunity for success. But
9. Deliberative in some situations and with some people, these same themes can hinder
10. Analytical your effectiveness and become blind spots.
11. Context
12. Focus The themes at the bottom of your profile can also get in the way of your
success. They aren’t necessarily weaknesses, but they likely do not come
13. Empathy
naturally to you.
14. Connectedness
15. Futuristic To identify potential weaknesses, ask yourself:
16. Belief • Does this theme ever undermine my success?
17. Discipline • Have I ever received negative feedback related to this theme?
18. Achiever • Does my role require me to use this theme, but I feel drained when I
19. Arranger do?
20. Ideation
21. Activator If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be discovering
22. Significance areas of weakness. Don’t ignore your weaknesses. Instead, focus on your
strengths, and work to manage the areas that get in your way.
23. Self-Assurance
24. Command How do I manage my weaknesses?
25. Developer • Claim them: Know your weaknesses and how they get in your way
26. Positivity • Collaborate: Ask partners for support
27. Consistency
• Apply a strength: Use a different theme to achieve a better
28. Adaptability
outcome
29. Communication
• Just do it: Lean in and do your best
30. Competition
31. Restorative
32. Woo
33. Includer
34. Strategic
The best teams are made up of individuals who understand their own — and others’ — unique contribution
to the team. This awareness and appreciation empowers the team to be more cohesive, versatile,
productive and engaged.
However, be careful not to let the four domains limit your thinking. If you don’t have any top themes in a
particular domain, don’t worry. That doesn’t mean you can’t think strategically or build relationships, for
example. Everyone accomplishes tasks, influences others, builds relationships and processes information.
You just use your stronger themes in different domains to get to the same outcome.
The next page shows you how your unique CliftonStrengths profile sorts into the four domains. Knowing
which domain you lead with can help you understand your most powerful contribution.
EXECUTING INFLUENCING
This chart shows the relative distribution of your unique CliftonStrengths 34 results across the four domains. These
categories are a good starting point for you to examine where you have the most potential to perform with excellence and
how you can best contribute to a team.
See chart below for more detail about your CliftonStrengths by domain.
18 17 21 7 28 33 10 4
Achiever Discipline Activator Maximizer Adaptability Includer Analytical Input
19 12 24 23 14 8 11 3
Arranger Focus Command Self-Assurance Connectedness Individualization Context Intellection
16 6 29 22 25 26 15 1
Belief Responsibility Communication Significance Developer Positivity Futuristic Learner
27 31 30 32 13 5 20 34
9 2
Deliberative Harmony
Take Action
Discovering your CliftonStrengths is only the beginning. Achieving excellence depends on your ability to
develop and apply your CliftonStrengths and maximize your potential.
• Share your CliftonStrengths with others. Conversations with those closest to you can
accelerate your CliftonStrengths development.
• Find a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach. A coach can help you learn to productively apply your
CliftonStrengths regardless of the situation.
• Apply your strongest CliftonStrengths every day. Read the suggestions in your report, and
use the following statements to guide you.
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE WITH YOUR TOP CLIF TONSTRE NGTHS
Learner
Use your passion for learning to add value to your own and others’ lives.
Harmony
Help others find common ground through practical solutions.
Intellection
Think deeply. Think often.
Input
Keep exploring; always be curious.
Relator
Connect deeply with the right people to gain friends for life.
Responsibility
Take ownership for the things that matter most to you.
Maximizer
Strive for excellence, and encourage others to do the same.
Individualization
Appreciate the uniqueness in each person you meet.
Deliberative
Stop, listen and assess before taking action.
Analytical
Use your logical, objective approach to make important decisions.
2. Harmony 9. Deliberative
REL ATIONSHIP B UILDING E XECUTING
People exceptionally talented in the Harmony theme People exceptionally talented in the Deliberative
look for consensus. They don’t enjoy conflict; rather, theme are best described by the serious care they
they seek areas of agreement. take in making decisions or choices. They anticipate
obstacles.
3. Intellection
STR ATEGIC THINKING
10. Analytical
People exceptionally talented in the Intellection theme STR ATEGIC THINKING
are characterized by their intellectual activity. They are People exceptionally talented in the Analytical theme
introspective and appreciate intellectual discussions. search for reasons and causes. They have the ability to
think about all of the factors that might affect a
4. Input situation.
STR ATEGIC THINKING
11. Context
People exceptionally talented in the Input theme have
a need to collect and archive. They may accumulate STR ATEGIC THINKING
information, ideas, artifacts or even relationships. People exceptionally talented in the Context theme
enjoy thinking about the past. They understand the
5. Relator present by researching its history.
REL ATIONSHIP B UILDING
12. Focus
People exceptionally talented in the Relator theme
enjoy close relationships with others. They find deep E XECUTING
satisfaction in working hard with friends to achieve a People exceptionally talented in the Focus theme can
goal. take a direction, follow through and make the
corrections necessary to stay on track. They prioritize,
6. Responsibility then act.
E XECUTING
13. Empathy
People exceptionally talented in the Responsibility
theme take psychological ownership of what they say REL ATIONSHIP B UILDING
they will do. They are committed to stable values such People exceptionally talented in the Empathy theme
as honesty and loyalty. can sense other people’s feelings by imagining
themselves in others’ lives or situations.
7. Maximizer
INFLUENCING
People exceptionally 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.