my StrengthsFinder 2.0 report

Your StrengthsFinder 2.0 results yield an in-depth analysis of your strengths — featuring a look at the nuances of what makes you unique. Personalized Strengths Insights will help you understand how each of your top five themes plays out in your life on a much more personal level. These insights describe what makes you stand out when compared to the millions of people we have studied.

Your Top 5 Themes

Maximizer
Relator
Learner
Arranger
Ideation

Maximizer

Shared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Maximizer theme focus on strengths as a way to stimulate personal and group excellence. They seek to transform something strong into something superb.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?

Driven by your talents, you occasionally credit yourself with having a gift for seeing the unique talents that make people different from one another. You may have little patience for placing people into broadly-defined categories. Perhaps you describe individuals in specific and vivid detail. It’s very likely that you sometimes focus on the present moment and cause others to do the same. Perhaps you help individuals savor their successes or recognize their contributions. Because of your strengths, you might give yourself credit for being keenly aware of certain people's moods, motives, thoughts, or behaviors. By nature, you are quite determined to enhance your talents rather than waste time worrying about your limitations. You often experience bursts of rapid growth each time you can use your talents, knowledge, and/or skills. Chances are good that you might acknowledge your ability to detect specific configurations in events, data, or people's behavior. Perhaps you identify trends or potential problems before anyone else notices them. Sometimes you help people examine the consequences of taking action or failing to take action.


Relator

Shared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Relator theme enjoy close relationships with others. They find deep satisfaction in working hard with friends to achieve a goal.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?

Driven by your talents, you may welcome the questions or concerns voiced by people. You might listen compassionately to some and offer counsel to others. People sometimes seek you out because your insights are helpful. Maybe they appreciate the way you occasionally cause them to think in new ways. Chances are good that you are determined to share your knowledge and skills with people you coach, mentor, or train. Because of your strengths, you sometimes identify with people who share their ambitions, hopes, or intentions with you. It’s very likely that you occasionally make the complex easy to understand. Perhaps you have a gift for making the intricate seem simple. By nature, you might help people grasp elaborate or complicated ideas, processes, theories, or rules. Maybe you intentionally use easy-to understand words and phrases.


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 treasure opportunities to absorb knowledge or gather ideas from forward-looking thinkers. Perhaps you read their writings, listen to their presentations, or ask them questions about the future they envision. When you can conduct experiments or participate in hands-on activities, you might have a better grasp of their innovative ideas. Chances are good that you sometimes investigate topics or explore issues to become more knowledgeable. Through ongoing practice, you may acquire additional skills or perfect specific techniques. Maybe few things please you as much as having mastered a subject that interests you. Instinctively, you relish reading about topics that fascinate you. People are not surprised to find you with your nose in a book -- that is, reading all the time. When a subject intrigues you, you review a wide range of printed materials. You glean -- that is, collect bits and pieces -- as much information as you possibly can about your areas of greatest interest. By nature, you customarily figure out what makes each person special. You talk to, observe, or study individuals who produce nothing less than excellence to identify what inspires them. Unquestionably, you prefer to associate with those who share your passion for taking something good and making it better. Once you understand what drives a person, you can motivate him or her to transform whatever was made better into something utterly superb. It’s very likely that you are grateful when your questions are answered, your studies yield new information, or your knowledge increases. You routinely deepen your understanding through conversations, the media, the Internet, books, or classes. You resist spending the majority of your time on topics that are not in line with your natural abilities. Instead, you choose to take advantage of your talents -- and by doing so, you consistently produce topnotch results.


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 periodically recruit individuals into your work or study group. In some cases, you explain that you already view them as people of consequence -- that is, importance. Because of your strengths, you sometimes exhibit the ability needed to recruit individuals to your teams. You might think about the talent, skill, and/or knowledge you need to reach specific personal or professional goals. Pulling together the right mix of personalities or strengths might be one of your strong points. Instinctively, you may fondly recall the thoughtful attention given to you by a particular educator or coach. Perhaps this individual encouraged you as a youth. Consequently, you might have an easy time establishing rapport with people. Maybe others are attracted to your personable style or your optimistic outlook. By nature, you occasionally ask for assistance from your teammates, classmates, or coworkers. Perhaps you understand the importance of everyone doing what they do well. This partially explains why you figure out who is best qualified to work on projects requiring exactness, accuracy, and precision. Driven by your talents, you occasionally recruit individuals to join teams or work on special projects. You befriend people one by one to learn more about what they do well. Some may consider you a talent scout -- that is, someone who selects people of superior ability in a certain occupation, subject, or sport. You might collect the right combination of people with the talents, skills, and knowledge to do a specific task
with strength.


Ideation

Shared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?

Chances are good that you are ecstatic -- that is, thrilled -- when you read about a novel concept or an original theory. Probably, the hope of discovering a new way of thinking motivates you to read a lot. You enjoy collecting a variety of information. You sense that one day you will find a proper use for it. It’s very likely that you frequently question whether others regard you as aloof or standoffish. Those who have this impression need to understand how hard it is for you to initiate discussions or casual conversation. Instinctively, you may be the person to whom group members turn for original thoughts. Perhaps ideas pop into your consciousness as soon as someone describes a problem or an opportunity. Because of your strengths, you are particularly skilled or knowledgeable about certain topics or activities. This partially explains your tendency to invent innovative or unusual ways of performing specific tasks. Maybe you grow bored when you are forced to follow the same series of steps day after day. Your boredom might become frustration when your suggestions for change are dismissed without consideration. Driven by your talents, you tune in to people and figure out what they are saying and thinking about you. You are acutely aware of how individuals regard you. You probably curry -- that is, try to win -- the favor of some and seek to impress others.