My StrengthsFinder Strengths
My results from the StrengthsFinder exercise, done in 2012.
My Strengths
Woo
Shared Theme Description: People who are especially talented in the Woo theme love the challenge of meeting new people and winning them over. They derive satisfaction from breaking the ice and making a connection with another person.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights: What makes you stand out? Instinctively, you may be known for your ease with language. Perhaps this ability serves you well when you need to talk with newcomers or outsiders. Your vocabulary might allow you to tell stories or express your ideas with clarity. It’s very likely that you may enjoy drawing strangers into casual chitchat or interesting discussions. Perhaps your even-tempered, non-threatening approach tells outsiders and newcomers you are friendly and cordial. Driven by your talents, you are sometimes unreserved. Perhaps you share personal information and stories with first-time acquaintances as easily as with old friends. Chances are good that you may feel the absence of your friends more deeply than some people do. Perhaps you long for the emotional support these individuals provide when miles separate you or circumstances make communication impossible. Because of your strengths, you may acknowledge newcomers and/or welcome outsiders to your workgroup, team, or class. Occasionally you invite visitors to join a discussion or engage in friendly chitchat. Perhaps you are comfortable starting conversations with some strangers.
Communication
Shared Theme Description: People who are especially talented in the Communication theme generally find it easy to put their thoughts into words. They are good conversationalists and presenters.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights: What makes you stand out? Instinctively, you relish talking to others. Frequently you help people express their opinions, thoughts, or viewpoints with enthusiasm. Your words frequently energize individuals or groups. It’s very likely that you spontaneously regale people with funny anecdotes, timely jokes, witty comments, or whimsical ideas. Amusing others brings you pleasure. You have a gift for making people laugh out loud. Driven by your talents, you may possess enough strength in language to express your ideas and feelings with ease. Maybe you rely on words and phrases your teammates can readily understand. Chances are good that you occasionally feel comfortable telling certain individuals stories about your personal habits, qualities, experiences, or background. Your forthcoming nature might enable some people to share their thoughts and feelings with you. By nature, you are somewhat comfortable talking about yourself. You may also enjoy listening to people describe their talents, limitations, goals, worries, or successes. Perhaps these insights help you discover what someone thinks or feels. Maybe you acquire information about the individual’s style of thinking, learning, working, playing, problem solving, or studying.
Connectedness
Shared Theme Description: People who are especially talented in the Connectedness theme have faith in the links between all things. They believe there are few coincidences and that almost every event has a reason.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights: What makes you stand out? Driven by your talents, you routinely isolate facts that link ideas, events, or people. You are especially sensitive to how one person’s optimistic or negative thoughts can affect the entire human family. This prompts you to pay close attention to what individuals and groups think and do. By nature, you have no doubts about being linked in some way with everything in the universe. This includes all creation and all humankind. It’s very likely that you sense that everything in life is somehow interrelated and interdependent. This idea steels — that is, fortifies — you to calmly face most of life’s challenges and difficulties. Because of your strengths, you consider people more important than things. The value you place on humankind guides your decision-making. It also influences what you say and do as well as what you choose not to say and do. Instinctively, you sense every event is somehow the consequence of a series of actions, reactions, or lack of actions. You can accept that which cannot be fully explained using logic. You say there are no accidents. You are confident that things are linked together for a purpose that may or may not be revealed to you.
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? Chances are good that you might ask lots of questions when you are meeting someone for the first time. Your curiosity and interest in someone’s past occasionally helps you put your relationship with the person into a framework that makes sense. Driven by your talents, you sometimes research historic events to understand their impact on today’s people or events. Maybe knowing what occurred in bygone days helps you make sense of current conditions or the behavior of certain individuals. Because of your strengths, you periodically set aside time to examine past events or the lives of key figures. You may construct timelines when you need a framework within which to sort through historic evidence. You might research topics intensely before you draw any final conclusions. It’s very likely that you periodically investigate some of the events, policies, or people whose actions contributed to worldwide wars. You might delve into materials that reveal how these global conflicts were brought to an end. By nature, you occasionally study what occurred in days gone by to understand why some things happened. Maybe you wonder why certain people behaved the way they did. A few of your insights about the past might cause you to reflect on what you need to do better or more perfectly today.
Positivity
Shared Theme Description: People who are especially talented in the Positivity theme have an enthusiasm that is contagious. They are upbeat and can get others excited about what they are going to do.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights: What makes you stand out? Driven by your talents, you occasionally inspire people to try new things or adopt a more upbeat outlook on life. Perhaps your words and/or your attentiveness bolster the self-esteem of others. By nature, you sometimes move into up-close and personal relationships with people. Knowing what makes individuals unique may provide you with clues about the best way to support or inspire each person. Because of your strengths, you are sometimes big-hearted. Maybe you give things away. Perhaps you bestow gifts or favors on people. To some degree, this might strengthen the relationships you have forged with certain individuals over time. Chances are good that you might be a cheerful and easygoing person. Maybe you emphasize what you have in common with people. Occasionally you are diplomatic, and you sidestep areas of disagreement. Perhaps your eventempered nature and friendly disposition permit you to see good in practically everyone. You may feel sad for those who look for the worst in others and are gleeful when they find it. It’s very likely that you lavish compliments on others. You make them feel good about themselves, how they look, or what they have contributed. You probably describe things individuals have done well. You usually point out evidence of professional progress or personal growth.