1. Strengths Insight Report
SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 03-31-2014
Benjamin Bolshaw
Your Top 5 Themes
Command
Responsibility
Arranger
Self-Assurance
Activator
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?
It’s very likely that you may help some individuals be stronger and tougher in the face of life’s
challenges, difficulties, or adversities. Because of your strengths, you sometimes feel comfortable
sharing your original ideas with groups. Perhaps they welcome your innovations. Maybe they realize
you suggest novel ways of doing things they would never have considered. Driven by your talents,
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 everyone’s thinking, including your own. By nature, you might
be the person in a group who easily explains how and why some things operate. Perhaps you cannot
remain silent when a creative idea or a novel solution comes to mind. To some degree, you feel
restless until you can share your thoughts. Chances are good that you are sometimes willing to take
chances. You might insist on calculating beforehand whether the odds of success are in your favor.
When they are, you may forge ahead.
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2. 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?
Because of your strengths, you may be happier with your own life when acquaintances and friends
acknowledge your exceptionally mature behavior. Perhaps they count on you to handle important as
well as mundane tasks. Some people automatically trust you. Why? They might realize you are
serious about meeting deadlines, keeping promises, or paying attention to details. Driven by your
talents, you may enjoy hearing people describe you as more serious than some of your colleagues,
classmates, teammates, friends, or coworkers. By nature, you sometimes volunteer to do things
rather than wait to be asked to assume more duties. It’s very likely that you might go out of your way
to do what you promised. Sometimes you are impelled to follow the rules of your conscience. Is it any
wonder that you may take time to think about certain things you could do or should do better?
Instinctively, you sometimes are viewed as the most adult-like, upstanding, or reliable person on the
team. Why? You might orchestrate the group’s activities better than some of your teammates. As a
result, they may count on you to lay out the steps of an action plan. Maybe they expect you to acquire
materials, raise funds, coordinate schedules, or distribute supplies at the right time. Maybe they allow
you to redirect their energies when distractions pull them off course.
Arranger
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented 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.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Chances are good that you may help your teammates discover ways to cooperate that they never
before considered. Sometimes you can identify certain individuals’ talents, motivations, interests,
skills, or knowledge. Maybe you tune in to their unique styles of thinking, working, or learning. Driven
by your talents, you sometimes ask your teammates to ensure excellence and accuracy by fully using
their talents. Perhaps experience has taught you to reject the illusion that you are the only person
capable of doing the job. This partially explains why you choose to work with talented individuals
during a crisis. Because of your strengths, you occasionally spend time alone thinking about which
individuals work well together. Perhaps your thoughtful examination of each human being allows you
to mix and match the strengths of several individuals. Sometimes the strengths of one person
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3. compensate for the limitations of another person, and vice versa. You might conclude that a group’s
true strength lies in the diversity of its members’ knowledge, skills, motivations, work styles, or
thinking styles. Instinctively, you typically do your finest work when you have several things going on
simultaneously. The challenge of coordinating activities, schedules, and resources probably engages
your mind as well as your body. It’s very likely that you sometimes inspire your teammates to be as
enthused as you are about particular jobs, opportunities, events, causes, or ideas.
Self-Assurance
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Self-Assurance theme feel confident in their ability to
manage their own lives. They possess an inner compass that gives them confidence that their
decisions are right.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Instinctively, you have great fun exchanging large-scale thoughts and opinions with your colleagues,
associates, coworkers, or fellow students. These animated conversations allow you to refine your
thinking and test your ideas. By nature, you may feel contented with the advances you have made in
certain areas of your life. Perhaps you trust your judgment in identifying what you do well. Chances
are good that you may be content with the progress you have made personally or professionally. This
partially explains why you tend to see the brighter side of life. Driven by your talents, you sometimes
look for opportunities to put your talents to use in ways that are productive. Perhaps you reject the
notion of spending hours attempting to overcome your weaknesses or conquer your limitations. You
might know from experience that you accomplish more and deliver better results when you sharpen or
practice using your natural abilities. Because of your strengths, you may trust that your talents, skills,
and knowledge in making good judgments will move you toward your goals. Although you are
somewhat aware of your strengths, you occasionally pause to reflect on things you could or need to
do better. Aware of this continual improvement, you might be content with what you have
accomplished up to this point in your life.
Activator
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Activator theme can make things happen by turning
thoughts into action. They are often impatient.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
By nature, you sometimes gravitate to situations where you can be your true self. You might feel life is
wonderful when people listen as you share stories about your successes, failures, talents, limitations,
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4. hope, or fears. 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. Because of your strengths,
you want to be in charge. As soon as you have made up your mind, you are eager to get started.
People who interfere with your progress probably irritate you. Instinctively, you may relish talking to
others about things that are going well in their lives. Sometimes you help people enthusiastically
express their opinions, thoughts, or viewpoints. To some extent, your words can energize individuals
or groups. Driven by your talents, you may energize some people with your ideas about what can be
changed or done better. Perhaps you describe how individuals or groups can benefit from your
suggestions. Your optimistic approach might inspire others to design improvement plans. You
occasionally rally individuals to support and execute those plans.
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