Strengths Finder 2.0 Results

I was clean­ing out my archives and ran across the results from the self-assessment tool Strengths Finder 1.0. After tak­ing that test, I pur­chased and read Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath and retook the exam. The results are based on more than 40 years of research by The Gallup Organization.

My Top 5 – from Strengths Finder 1.0

1. Intel­lec­tion — Peo­ple who are espe­cially tal­ented in the Intel­lec­tion theme are char­ac­ter­ized by their intel­lec­tual activ­ity. They are intro­spec­tive and appre­ci­ate intel­lec­tual discussions.
2. Input — Peo­ple strong in the Input theme have a crav­ing to know more. Often they like to col­lect and archive all kinds of information.
3. Learner — Peo­ple strong in the Learner theme have a great desire to learn and want to con­tin­u­ously improve. In par­tic­u­lar, the process of learn­ing, rather than the out­come, excites them.
4. Indi­vid­u­al­iza­tion — Peo­ple who are espe­cially tal­ented in the Indi­vid­u­al­iza­tion theme are intrigued with the unique qual­i­ties of each per­son. They have a gift for fig­ur­ing out how peo­ple who are dif­fer­ent can work together productively.
5. Achiever — 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.

I picked up two more with Strengths Finder 2.0

1. Arranger — Peo­ple strong in the Arranger theme can orga­nize, but they also have a flex­i­bil­ity that com­ple­ments this abil­ity. They like to fig­ure out how all of the pieces and resources can be arranged for max­i­mum productivity.
2. Max­i­mizer — Peo­ple strong 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.

And repeated Intel­lec­tion, Input, and Learner.

I highly rec­om­mend tak­ing this assess­ment no mat­ter where you are in your career. It’s empow­er­ing to know what your STRENGTHS are – I promise you, will not look at your career, or your life in the same way. I know it cer­tainly helped give me the con­fi­dence to start my Vir­tual Assis­tant business.

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