Dennis Motl completed a Gallup StrengthsFinder assessment. His top 5 themes were Discipline, Competition, Focus, Strategic, and Significance. The document provided personalized insights into how each of these strengths might show up for Dennis based on the assessment. It described words and behaviors that typically characterize people with these strengths and suggested ways Dennis could apply each strength. The insights encouraged Dennis to reflect on how he can best utilize and develop his strengths.

1. StrengthsFinder 2.0 Report
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2. Strengths Insight Guide
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Dennis Motl
Your Top 5 Themes
Discipline
Competition
Focus
Strategic
Significance
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3. Discipline
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Discipline theme enjoy routine and structure. Their world is
best described by the order they create.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
It’s very likely that you think more clearly when you can finish your assignments well ahead of
schedule. You tend to become quite frustrated with individuals who constantly operate in a crisis
mode. You resent having to interrupt your work or studies because someone else failed to anticipate
everything that could go awry — that is, amiss or wrong. Because of your strengths, you assess all of
the activities on your day’s agenda. Then you assign to each a level of importance and urgency. As
soon as you have outlined your plan, you methodically move into action. Chances are good that you
derive much satisfaction from pulling newcomers into discussions or friendly chitchat. Over time, you
may have become more aware of your abilities. They also have shown you how to be accountable for
your words and deeds. You exhibit maturity beyond that of others your age. By nature, you sometimes
set goals for the week. These might prevent you from being drawn off course by each day’s demands.
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.
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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4. Competition
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Competition theme measure their progress against the
performance of others. They strive to win first place and revel in contests.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
It’s very likely that you may aspire to hold the top job in a huge organization. Perhaps you study the
leader to find out what sets him or her apart from executives who applied, but were not chosen, for the
position. By nature, you are motivated when your results are compared to those of others. To a large
degree, this explains why you are so determined to continue working until your outcomes are
recognized as the very best. Because of your strengths, you routinely choose to participate in
selected tournaments, games, rivalries, or matches. Why? They provide you with ample opportunities
to compare your results to those that others produce. You customarily aim for the top award from the
outset. You have no interest in secondary titles or prizes. Chances are good that you are methodical
about preparing for events where your strengths are going to be tested against those of others. You
are apt to establish a practice schedule and follow it faithfully. Day after day, you build your
knowledge, skills, or endurance. You have the stick-to-itiveness — that is, the dogged perseverance
— to do everything you planned to win top honors. Your training is likely to be more rigorous than that
of others. Driven by your talents, you normally evaluate your current results in light of your past
accomplishments. You intentionally vie for first place when comparisons are made between your solo
performances and those of other individuals. Whenever your talent, knowledge, or skills are being
judged, you certainly relish knowing the victory is yours alone.
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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5. Focus
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Focus theme can take a direction, follow through, and make
the corrections necessary to stay on track. They prioritize, then act.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Instinctively, you are likely to have a reputation for wanting to succeed, to be noticed, and to make a
good impression on important people. You aim to acquire titles, promotions, or pay increases. You
probably yearn to gain these and other status symbols. By nature, you may earnestly apply yourself to
seeing certain things as they really are. Perhaps you bring a practical, matter-of-fact, and
unsentimental outlook to discussions, projects, or planning meetings. Chances are good that you
might prefer to be fully in charge of things that directly affect you. As a result, you may yearn to know
as much as you can about people. The more you understand individuals, the easier it might be for you
to govern them or what happens in your life. Driven by your talents, you occasionally work seriously at
something when you have defined the specific objective you want to reach in the near term or the long
term. Remember, your other talents might influence how far into the future you can push certain goals
and still give them your undivided attention. Because of your strengths, you occasionally adopt a
practical, factual, or unemotional position on certain issues. Maybe you refrain from becoming
sentimental about certain people and their problems.
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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6. Strategic
Shared Theme Description
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.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Instinctively, you may be viewed by some people as an innovative and original thinker. Perhaps your
ability to generate options causes others to see there is more than one way to attain an objective.
Now and then, you help certain individuals select the best alternative after having weighed the pros
and cons in light of prevailing circumstances or available resources. By nature, you may have
acquired expertise in specific areas. Occasionally you spend time considering several courses of
action before choosing one. Perhaps you invent original or innovative techniques for dealing with
expected or unexpected challenges. Maybe you use the same approach to take advantage of
promising opportunities. Because of your strengths, you might recognize recurring sequences in data,
events, information, or people’s comments. These insights might enable you to form links between
things that others cannot. Chances are good that you sometimes work diligently to generate several
alternatives. Perhaps you notice new as well as unusual configurations in facts, evidence, or data.
Others, however, may see only separate, unrelated bits of information. Periodically you are fascinated
by problems that puzzle, confound, or frustrate others. It’s very likely that you may see solutions
before other people know there is a problem. You might start formulating answers before your
teammates, coworkers, or classmates understand the question. Sometimes you generate numerous
ideas before sorting to the one that makes the most sense in a particular situation.
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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7. Significance
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Significance theme want to be very important in the eyes of
others. They are independent and want to be recognized.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Instinctively, you periodically want to direct, influence, and guide people. In other instances, you are
happy to be a follower. It’s very likely that you may have a need to know about certain people’s
distinct characteristics or qualities. Perhaps these insights allow you to remind them of their
accomplishments, strengths, or progress. Your words might inspire some individuals to be a bit more
self-confident. Driven by your talents, you express your ideas and feelings so others take notice. You
delight in conversations, storytelling, presentations, debates, or discussions. The verbal give-and-take
between human beings is something you value and do quite well. Chances are good that you
sometimes derive satisfaction from helping people recognize they have reached their desired goals. If
they have not met all their objectives, perhaps you emphasize the progress they have made up to this
point. Because of your strengths, you reveal to certain people your deep-seated desire to succeed.
Perhaps you are a bit more intentional than some individuals about striving for promotions, fame, or
financial gain. Maybe you showcase your natural or acquired abilities. You might handle particular
activities with apparent ease.
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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