Personal leadership philosophies

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Your Signature Theme Report
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DON CLIFTON

Father of Strengths Psychology and
Inventor of CliftonStrengths

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Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people are
those who understand their strengths and behaviors. These people are best able to develop strategies to
meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families.

A review of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilities, but an
awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core reasons behind
your consistent successes.

Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant themes of talent, in the rank order
revealed by your responses to StrengthsFinder. Of the 34 themes measured, these are your “top five.”

Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the talents that lead to your successes. By
focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in combination, you can identify your talents, build
them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career success through consistent, near-perfect performance.

Responsibility
Your Responsibility theme forces you to take psychological ownership for anything you commit to, and
whether large or small, you feel emotionally bound to follow it through to completion. Your good name
depends on it. If for some reason you cannot deliver, you automatically start to look for ways to make it up
to the other person. Apologies are not enough. Excuses and rationalizations are totally unacceptable. You
will not quite be able to live with yourself until you have made restitution. This conscientiousness, this near
obsession for doing things right, and your impeccable ethics, combine to create your reputation: utterly
dependable. When assigning new responsibilities, people will look to you first because they know it will get
done. When people come to you for help—and they soon will—you must be selective. Your willingness to
volunteer may sometimes lead you to take on more than you should.

Strategic
The Strategic theme enables you to sort through the clutter and find the best route. It is not a skill that can
be taught. It is a distinct way of thinking, a special perspective on the world at large. This perspective
allows you to see patterns where others simply see complexity. Mindful of these patterns, you play out
alternative scenarios, always asking, “What if this happened? Okay, well what if this happened?” This

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recurring question helps you see around the next corner. There you can evaluate accurately the potential
obstacles. Guided by where you see each path leading, you start to make selections. You discard the
paths that lead nowhere. You discard the paths that lead straight into resistance. You discard the paths
that lead into a fog of confusion. You cull and make selections until you arrive at the chosen path—your
strategy. Armed with your strategy, you strike forward. This is your Strategic theme at work: “What if?”
Select. Strike.

Input
You are inquisitive. You collect things. You might collect information—words, facts, books, and
quotations—or you might collect tangible objects such as butterflies, baseball cards, porcelain dolls, or
sepia photographs. Whatever you collect, you collect it because it interests you. And yours is the kind of
mind that finds so many things interesting. The world is exciting precisely because of its infinite variety and
complexity. If you read a great deal, it is not necessarily to refine your theories but, rather, to add more
information to your archives. If you like to travel, it is because each new location offers novel artifacts and
facts. These can be acquired and then stored away. Why are they worth storing? At the time of storing it is
often hard to say exactly when or why you might need them, but who knows when they might become
useful? With all those possible uses in mind, you really don’t feel comfortable throwing anything away. So
you keep acquiring and compiling and filing stuff away. It’s interesting. It keeps your mind fresh. And
perhaps one day some of it will prove valuable.

Positivity
You are generous with praise, quick to smile, and always on the lookout for the positive in the situation.
Some call you lighthearted. Others just wish that their glass were as full as yours seems to be. But either
way, people want to be around you. Their world looks better around you because your enthusiasm is
contagious. Lacking your energy and optimism, some find their world drab with repetition or, worse, heavy
with pressure. You seem to find a way to lighten their spirit. You inject drama into every project. You
celebrate every achievement. You find ways to make everything more exciting and more vital. Some cynics
may reject your energy, but you are rarely dragged down. Your Positivity won’t allow it. Somehow you can’t
quite escape your conviction that it is good to be alive, that work can be fun, and that no matter what the
setbacks, one must never lose one’s sense of humor.

Consistency
Balance is important to you. You are keenly aware of the need to treat people the same, no matter what

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their station in life, so you do not want to see the scales tipped too far in any one person’s favor. In your
view this leads to selfishness and individualism. It leads to a world where some people gain an unfair
advantage because of their connections or their background or their greasing of the wheels. This is truly
offensive to you. You see yourself as a guardian against it. In direct contrast to this world of special favors,
you believe that people function best in a consistent environment where the rules are clear and are applied
to everyone equally. This is an environment where people know what is expected. It is predictable and
evenhanded. It is fair. Here each person has an even chance to show his or her worth.

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