1. Strengths Insight Report
SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 04-19-2015
Karon Tollefson
Your Top 5 Themes
Achiever
Responsibility
Learner
Harmony
Analytical
Achiever
Shared Theme Description
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.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Driven by your talents, you occasionally work in earnest to coordinate things for people. Activities can
include orchestrating a cross-country move, accommodating a handicapped person’s special needs,
planning a project, or directing a community event. Instinctively, you dedicate yourself to practicing
your craft and expanding your knowledge base. Becoming highly proficient is a priority for you. You
likely have established a reputation for being very well-informed, well-practiced, and well-prepared.
You typically have great difficulty working with individuals who wing it — that is, do the best they can
without studying or planning. It’s very likely that you throw yourself into your work even when you are
personally inconvenienced. You usually place the well-being of others above your own. Chances are
good that you naturally resist being held back, restrained, or controlled by people or events. You
much prefer to be in charge of situations, materials, schedules, budgets, human resources,
processes, or decisions. Waiting for someone else to issue orders or level judgments certainly is not
your forte — that is, strength. Because of your strengths, you possess the physical and mental
endurance to withstand hardships as well as stress. Characteristically you work harder and longer
than most people are capable of doing.
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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?
By nature, you are the team member whom others count on to do what is right. You make sure your
job and assignments are done correctly. You customarily conduct yourself in such a way that your
ethics are above reproach — that is, anyone’s disapproval. Driven by your talents, you conduct
yourself in an exceptionally mature and orderly fashion even when your teammates, classmates,
friends, coworkers, and colleagues are acting childish. Instinctively, you are apt to be disappointed
with yourself when you fail to make someone feel welcome in your presence. You generally want to
give your approval to all kinds of individuals regardless of their age, nationality, income, job,
education, religion, handicaps, or appearance. Chances are good that you likely are a person whose
work ethic is as much a matter of conscience as it is a matter of completing tasks. You undoubtedly
need to do what you know is right, honest, true, correct, proper, and accurate. Because of your
strengths, you are quite comfortable being honest about yourself with others. You harbor very few
illusions about who you really are. Furthermore, you can openly acknowledge your mistakes and
shortcomings. This is apt to distinguish you from most people.
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 can finagle — that is, obtain by indirect or involved means — time with people who
think about the coming years and decades. Routinely, you read their writings or listen to their
conversations. You probably ask them questions and consider their responses. You file away lots of
ideas and facts, sensing that one day this information will prove to be useful. Whether it ever actually
does become useful makes no difference to you. Collecting the predictions of forward-looking thinkers
is apt to be rewarding in and of itself. It’s very likely that you treasure opportunities to absorb
knowledge and gather ideas from forward-looking thinkers. You usually read their writings, listen to
their presentations, or ask them questions about the future they envision. Whenever you can conduct
experiments or participate in hands-on activities, you have a much better grasp of their innovative
ideas. Driven by your talents, you yearn to know a lot. It makes little sense to you to skim through a
book and read only the highlights. You delve more deeply into intriguing subjects than most people
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3. do. You love to gather all kinds of information. This explains why you take time to grasp ideas that
appear in print. Chances are good that you have a strong need to know that you are taking the proper
course of action before you begin. Without a doubt, your hunger for evidence, data, or background
information is immense. Whether your sources of knowledge are people, classes, books, the Internet,
or discussions, you are hardwired to be as informed as you possibly can be prior to starting most
ventures. You probably prefer to be overly prepared rather than risk being poorly prepared. Because
of your strengths, you exhibit a yearning to collect information about topics of special interest and/or
entirely unrelated subjects. Whatever your ultimate goal, you usually locate specialists to help you ask
the right questions so you obtain the right answers. Rather than leap into action unprepared, you
prefer to uncover facts, data, itineraries, costs, or product specifications.
Harmony
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Harmony theme look for consensus. They don’t enjoy
conflict; rather, they seek areas of agreement.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Because of your strengths, you go out of your way to engage others in friendly conversation. This is
usually the case when situations warrant a lively exchange of ideas, feelings, or stories. Whenever
you have created a climate of open sharing, people just seem to get along with one another better.
You help them discover mutual interests, backgrounds, experiences, or acquaintances. Chances are
good that you tend to be more practical than creative. You usually think through problems or
situations step by step. You identify the facts to make the unknown known. You fill in missing
information. You clarify ideas, proposals, or rules. Using your intelligence or common sense, you
diplomatically show people what is true and what is false. Generally you are the unifying force
between individuals who are upset, mad, irritated, or in direct conflict with one another. By nature, you
are open to welcoming a wide array of people into your life. Being practical, you realize every
individual you meet possesses talents, skills, and experiences that you and those you already know
lack. Typically you are the person who helps people find reasons to befriend, work, and cooperate
with newcomers and outsiders. Instinctively, you are likely to be the team member who is naturally
congenial, pleasant, and accommodating. Many people appreciate your willingness to let them do
things their way as well as state their views. Others value your ability to listen, gather facts, and/or find
common ground when discussions become overly emotional. You probably help your teammates find
ways to compromise without losing the respect of others or jeopardizing their status in the group. It’s
very likely that you are willing to work with your coworkers, classmates, teammates, family members,
and friends. You realize everyone sees opportunities, problems, solutions, and events differently.
While you have opinions, you refrain from imposing them on others. You are good-natured — that is,
you have a pleasant, cheerful, and cooperative disposition.
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4. Analytical
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Analytical theme search for reasons and causes. They have
the ability to think about all the factors that might affect a situation.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
By nature, you are energized each time you isolate a recurring set of numbers in data. You realize
these sets have meaning. They contains questions, answers, trends, opportunities, and mysteries.
Instinctively, you really and truly hear what people have to say. Your natural inclination to evaluate
information from a variety of sources and angles explains your attentiveness. Frequently you find
subtle insights in what someone tells you — insights of which even that person is unaware. You enjoy
bringing these discoveries to that person’s attention. It’s very likely that you consistently weigh the
pros and cons before you make a decision. As a result, you avoid rushing headlong into action without
giving adequate forethought to the consequences and benefits of what you plan to do or say. Your
need to perform ethically, accurately, and properly forces you to consider all aspects of a project,
idea, or activity before you do anything. Driven by your talents, you reflect on what others say. You
carefully consider the information. Then you often draw conclusions. You have a sobering effect on
discussions. This intensifies your own and other people’s capacity to hear the words spoken and
understand their frame of reference. Chances are good that you are frequently asked to study data for
your team. Numbers make sense to you. Interestingly, the same data baffle, confound — that is,
confuse — and frustrate others in the group. These individuals likely are appreciative of your
proficiency with mathematics.
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