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Erin Tooley
Strengths Insight Guide
SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 08-27-2016
DON CLIFTON
Father of Strengths Psychology and
Inventor of CliftonStrengths
(Erin Tooley)
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Erin Tooley
SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 08-27-2016
YOUR TOP 5 THEMES
1. Learner
2. Input
3. Intellection
4. Strategic
5. Ideation
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Learner
SHARED THEME DESCRIPTION
People who are especially talented 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.
YOUR PERSONALIZED STRENGTHS INSIGHTS
What makes you stand out?
By nature, you may see some value in continuous education. Perhaps this reflects your interest in
particular topics. Sometimes you are fascinated with the process of acquiring knowledge or skills.
Driven by your talents, you prefer to register for rigorous courses of study rather than take easy
classes. This often satisfies your need to do things that do not come naturally. You trust you can
endure the unpleasantness and difficulties that accompany the expansion of your knowledge base,
the acquisition of skills, and the conquest of deficiencies. Because of your strengths, you have little
difficulty giving intense effort to projects, problems, or opportunities that capture and keep your
attention. Instinctively, you yearn to be inspired by your work. You want experience to be your
teacher. You need to feel enthused by your work or studies. You constantly acquire knowledge and
skills. Whenever you study facts, ponder concepts, test theories, or sharpen your skills, you feel most
alive. You are inclined to avoid people and situations that prevent you from expanding your mind. It’s
very likely that you usually equate education — formal and informal — with understanding more about
something today than you understood about it yesterday.
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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Input
People who are especially talented in the Input theme have a craving to know more. Often they like to
collect and archive all kinds of information.
Instinctively, you believe you make great strides mentally when you have opportunities to exchange
ideas, theories, or concepts with intelligent people. You delight in accumulating unusual insights.
Often you expand on these thoughts. You probably are eager to test them during conversations with
other intelligent individuals. This is one way you broaden your knowledge base. Chances are good
that you frequently use academic-sounding words to talk about your ideas or areas of expertise. You
intentionally spend time broadening your vocabulary by looking up words in the dictionary and
committing their meanings to memory. By nature, you put yourself in the middle of mentally
stimulating conversations. You want to gather new ideas, discover new approaches, hear about new
theories, consider new concepts, or apply new technologies. Often you are one of the early
discoverers of innovations. Others can lag behind if they wish, but you consistently acquire
knowledge. You exhibit little need to know precisely where all this information ultimately will lead you.
Driven by your talents, you favor working toward goals by yourself. You enjoy having total ownership
of a project. You probably invent and continuously build a specialized vocabulary that makes total
sense to you. When you forget to translate your language for others, however, they are likely to ask
you to define your complicated terminology. Only afterward can you expect your listeners to
understand what you are doing, how you are doing it, and why you are doing it. Because of your
strengths, you have acquired a sophisticated vocabulary, comprised of technical, subject-specific, or
complicated words. Whenever you describe the intricate steps of procedures, you are likely to rely on
this terminology. Your attention to detail works to your advantage when you are addressing experts.
Because you comprehend the meanings of their words, you can talk about how things function in a
language they understand.
QUESTIONS
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Intellection
People who are especially talented in the Intellection theme are characterized by their intellectual
activity. They are introspective and appreciate intellectual discussions.
Driven by your talents, you probably need a place where you can be alone to reflect on your
experiences or conversations with people. You often draw conclusions about a person’s knowledge,
skills, talents, likes, dislikes, or moods. These insights naturally influence how you interact with that
individual in the coming days, weeks, or months. By nature, you think carefully about weighty matters.
You enjoy reflecting on the people and/or circumstances in your life. You rely less on emotion and
more on logic to draw reasonable conclusions. Simply put: You tend to use your mind rather than your
heart when making critical judgments. You are quite comfortable being alone with your thoughts. You
have little need to be constantly surrounded by talkative people. Instinctively, you pay close attention
to current events. Numerous people merely recount what they heard, saw, or read. Typically you dive
deeper into the topic. You are likely to generate theories, concepts, or philosophies to explain the
reasoning behind newsmakers’ decisions. You routinely gather information about events, policy
statements, people, or crises. Your fresh insights are likely to draw equally engaged thinkers into the
conversation. Chances are good that you can hold your own in conversations with certain types of
reasonable people. Perhaps they share a little bit of your desire to search for truth in specific areas.
Occasionally you fine tune your thinking about some of the issues facing individuals or humankind. It’s
very likely that you are mentally quick and highly resourceful. You constantly consider how you can
upgrade all sorts of things in your personal or professional life. You eagerly seek and find
opportunities to better yourself.
QUESTIONS
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Strategic
People who are especially talented in the Strategic theme create alternative ways to proceed. Faced
with any given scenario, they can quickly spot the relevant patterns and issues.
It’s very likely that you are innovative, inventive, original, and resourceful. Your mind allows you to
venture beyond the commonplace, the familiar, or the obvious. You entertain ideas about the best
ways to reach a goal, increase productivity, or solve a problem. First, you think of alternatives. Then
you choose the best option. By nature, you generate ideas quickly. You draw clever linkages between
facts, events, people, problems, or solutions. You present others with numerous options at a pace
some find dizzying. Your innovative thinking tends to foster ongoing dialogue between and among the
group’s participants. Chances are good that you select the right combination of words to convey your
ideas or feelings. In the middle of discussions, your vocabulary provides you with precise phrases and
terminology. You probably express yourself with ease and grace. Because of your strengths, you
automatically generate numerous ways to enhance, upgrade, revise, correct, or revamp a process,
action plan, or itinerary. Your suggestions often influence how a project will unfold in the coming
months, years, or decades. You tend to find fault with your own and even other people’s talents, skills,
and/or knowledge. Fixing people or things ranks high on your favorite activities. Driven by your
talents, you may notice that multiple solutions to nagging problems just pop into your mind.
Sometimes you study each option from many different angles. Perhaps you carefully evaluate the
entire situation, then choose the alternative that makes the most sense. Why? Maybe you aim to
outscore or outperform your rivals.
QUESTIONS
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Ideation
People who are especially talented in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to
find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.
Chances are good that 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. It’s very likely that you contribute many innovative ideas to the group during brainstorming
sessions. You tend to be highly imaginative when proposals are fully heard and any criticism is
reserved for a later time. Driven by your talents, you often are the originator of fresh ideas for brand-
new campaigns, business ventures, initiatives, or special events. Instinctively, you are an original and
innovative thinker. Others frequently rely on you to generate novel concepts, theories, plans, or
solutions. You refuse to be stifled by traditions or trapped by routines. You probably bristle when
someone says, “We can’t change that. We’ve always done it this way.” By nature, you favor
conversations where information, facts, or data are considered objectively — that is, emotions do not
distort the truth. You pose questions, evaluate answers, and figure out how things work. Reducing an
idea, theory, or process to its most basic parts provides you with many insights. You are likely to
archive — that is, preserve — your discoveries so you can use them later.
QUESTIONS
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