Toryn Terrell's top 5 strengths themes according to a Gallup survey are Strategic, Learner, Input, Belief, and Achiever. The report provides insights into how each of these strengths manifest based on Toryn's natural talents and abilities. They include being able to see patterns and alternative ways to proceed, a strong desire to continuously learn and improve, a craving to know more facts and details, having core values and a defined sense of purpose, and working hard with stamina to be productive.

1. Strengths Insight Report
SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 01-08-2014
Toryn Terrell
Your Top 5 Themes
Strategic
Learner
Input
Belief
Achiever
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 normally find just the right words at the right moment to express whatever you are
thinking and feeling. Many people are likely to appreciate your fine speaking abilities. You can present
your ideas in a reasonable, sequential, and methodical way. Moreover, you generate lots of options
for others to consider. Because of your strengths, you long to know more so you remain on the cutting
edge of your field or areas of interest. Your inventive mind usually generates more possibilities than
you can handle or fund. Nonetheless, you are committed to acquiring knowledge and/or skills. You
study everything involved in a situation and conceive entirely new ways of seeing or doing things.
What you already know prompts you to ask questions and delve even deeper into a subject or
problem. Chances are good that you customarily pinpoint the core problems and identify the best
solutions. You artfully and skillfully eliminate distractions. This helps people gain a clear
understanding of what is happening and why it is happening. You frequently identify ways to transform
an obstacle into an opportunity. By nature, you can reconfigure factual information or data in ways
that reveal trends, raise issues, identify opportunities, or offer solutions. You bring an added
dimension to discussions. You make sense out of seemingly unrelated information. You are likely to
generate multiple action plans before you choose the best one. It’s very likely that you can design
innovative plans. You probably raise issues and identify recurring obstacles as you generate tactical
options. Problems and possible solutions become apparent to you. Once you outline action steps, you
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2. quickly execute them one by one. You refuse to waste time questioning your ideas after everything
has been set into motion.
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?
Driven by your talents, you may ignore distractions to concentrate on your assignments. Sometimes
you keep reading, researching, experimenting, or writing until you know all you need to know about a
particular subject. You might not rest until you have mastered certain concepts, committed important
information to memory, or completed specific course requirements. It’s very likely that you are a
rational thinker. That is, you exhibit good judgment and exercise sound reasoning. These thought
processes serve you well whenever you set out to acquire true knowledge and/or gain a skill. You
school yourself by reading, investigating, examining, experiencing, or receiving instruction in a
subject. Instinctively, you possess the physical and mental endurance needed to spend hours
studying, reading, or researching. The more you know, the more questions you have to ask. Your
diligence reflects your need to work harder and longer than most people can. You set lofty goals for
yourself and relentlessly pursue them. Once you have reached your objective, you direct much of your
energy toward a second goal. You are self-motivated. You prefer to push yourself rather than relax.
Chances are good that you occasionally dedicate yourself to acquiring certain kinds of knowledge or
skills. You might devote many hours to mental labor. Because of your strengths, you thirst for new
ideas and knowledge. Often you lose yourself in a book. You pore over the ideas contained on its
pages for long stretches of time. Why? You want to absorb as much information as you can.
Input
Shared Theme Description
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.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
By nature, you are primarily concerned with facts and reality. Usually you reject whatever is
impractical or exists only in someone’s imagination. Not surprisingly, you are determined to become
proficient in the language of your chosen profession, area of study, or field of interest. You frequently
introduce these terms in your speech or writing. Because of your strengths, you now and then speak
up when you feel you have something of value to contribute to a discussion. Perhaps you help others
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3. understand complicated ideas, procedures, policies, rules, plans, or systems by outlining them step by
step. Chances are good that you are devoted to building your vocabulary. Each time you memorize a
complicated or theoretical word and its meaning, you probably are eager to use it in conversations,
discussions, or presentations. Undoubtedly, your work or studies demand that you continually add
highly technical terms to your vocabulary. Instinctively, you may help your teammates understand
some of the pieces, parts, or steps of elaborate procedures or systems. You might outline how all the
human and material resources are scheduled for distribution. Driven by your talents, you purposely
interject highly technical language into your conversations — language that may be understood by a
limited number of people. Your vocabulary, in and of itself, tends to alert listeners that your ideas and
opinions carry extra weight. Simply put: Your air of authority causes individuals to take quite seriously
whatever you tell them.
Belief
Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Belief theme have certain core values that are unchanging.
Out of these values emerges a defined purpose for their life.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Instinctively, you are naturally compelled to admit the truth. If someone asked you or told you to
intentionally mislead someone, you would reply, “I cannot and I will not do that!” Driven by your
talents, you may be zealous — that is, fervent and enthusiastic — about solving problems that affect
the quality of your life. Once in a while, you devote all your time and energy to a specific cause.
Perhaps your core values explain why you participate in certain social, political, educational, religious,
legal, or environmental activities. Because of your strengths, you may be more industrious when you
are working on projects that you feel are really important. Perhaps your fervor increases when the
outcomes affect the quality of your life. By nature, you are a wordsmith — that is, a person who works
with words. With ease, you collect hard-to-understand terms and their definitions. Whether you can
use these immediately or months later is of no concern. You probably realize your sophisticated
vocabulary is an “open sesame” — that is, words that unfailingly bring about a desired end. You are
likely to speak or write in such a manner that the condition of humankind improves in a meaningful
way. Chances are good that you have no doubts about being linked in some way with everything in
the universe. This includes all creation and all humankind.
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.
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4. Your Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Chances are good that you are sometimes quite industrious. You might work diligently to produce
good outcomes. Perhaps you are motivated by a desire for personal or professional advancement .
Because of your strengths, you may accomplish more than some of your teammates accomplish.
Perhaps you are driven from within to do more work or better work today than you ever have in the
past. Perhaps you are motivated to be the winner when your performance, grades, productivity, or
profits are compared to those of others. Perhaps you know how to find the most efficient way to use
available time, money, materials, or human resources. By nature, 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. Driven by your talents, you sometimes use your mental
or physical energy for several hours when the situation demands such effort. Perhaps you persist,
persevere, and push yourself to keep working on assignments until you finish. Maybe you refuse to
quit until you reach your goal. It’s very likely that you might be known for outmaneuvering or
outthinking other individuals. How do you do it? Perhaps you are a bit more persistent, unyielding, or
energetic than they are.
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