Friday, November 5, 2010

a quest to find my strengths.

more on these later... maybe?


Positivity
Maximizer
Belief
Woo
Communication


Positivity


Shared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Positivity theme have an enthusiasm that is contagious. They are upbeat and can get others excited about what they are going to do.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?

By nature, you habitually create up-close and personal relationships with people. Knowing what makes individuals unique usually provides you with clues about the best way to support or inspire each person. Driven by your talents, you enjoy discovering as much as you can about the people you meet. You are friendly and enjoy socializing. You quickly put at ease those you are meeting for the first time or the tenth time. Instinctively, you customarily take on additional duties or tasks when you feel optimistic about yourself and your life. Chances are good that you undoubtedly are talkative in social situations. You have a good time circulating from group to group. You feel wonderful about life when people appreciate your unreserved, gregarious, and friendly nature. It’s very likely that you normally tackle projects with gusto. New assignments or challenges energize your life. Facing mundane, tedious, or routine chores day after day eventually undermines your upbeat attitude.


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?

It’s very likely that you are likely to do your best work when someone truly recognizes your strengths. You want to be appreciated for the talents you own, the skills you possess, and the knowledge you have acquired. Driven by your talents, you assist others by using your talents to fill gaps in theirs. You realize practice is one of the best ways to add skill and knowledge to your talents. By nature, you probably enjoy life more when you can practice using your dominant talents every day. Not surprisingly, you reach your goals, excel, and gain confidence when you are permitted to do things you naturally do quite well. Instinctively, you sometimes pause to savor or simply reflect on your current accomplishments. Because of your strengths, you exhibit a heightened awareness of your talents. One of your top priorities is building upon these natural abilities to create strengths. You undoubtedly find opportunities to practice using your talents in new and different ways.


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?

Chances are good that you might place particular value on the purpose and meaning you draw from your core values. Perhaps you aim to provide for your family’s physical, educational, emotional, or social needs. This partially explains why you work hard to ensure that their quality of life is as good as it can be. Instinctively, you try to be helpful to others in ways that may improve their lives. Perhaps you hope to leave the world in better shape than you found it. Driven by your talents, you have clearly defined principles that set the tone for your life and influence your behavior. They reflect who and what is most important to you. They guide your decision-making. As a result, the people with whom you live, work, and study can usually predict what you will say or do. It’s very likely that you place more importance on the purpose and value of what you do than on the monetary rewards that accompany success. Because of your strengths, you are likely to inconvenience yourself to help someone. The person’s appreciation, smile, or words of thanks usually make you feel very good about yourself and life in general. You tend to have much more energy for your own job or studies after you have done a good deed.


Woo


Shared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Woo theme love the challenge of meeting new people and winning them over. They derive satisfaction from breaking the ice and making a connection with another person.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?

Chances are good that you are pleasant and amiable — that is, easy to get along with and likeable. You can socialize or work with just about anybody. Your congenial — that is, friendly — manner as well as your interest in people help you identify common ground, offer compliments, ask non-threatening questions, and effortlessly move in and out of conversations. By nature, you may be impelled to cheer up those who feel excluded with encouraging words or acts of kindness. Perhaps one of the reasons why you start conversations with outsiders is to make them feel comfortable in unfamiliar surroundings. Maybe your smile, laughter, or friendly disposition gives them a sense of safety. As a result, some timid individuals may decide to share bits and pieces of their life story with you. It’s very likely that you are more optimistic about life when you can devote yourself to individuals for whom you feel much fondness and affection. Because of your strengths, you characteristically find the right words to express whatever you are thinking. You offer explanations, discuss ideas, give examples, or share stories. You effectively use the spoken word. Driven by your talents, you may energize discussions with outsiders and/or newcomers. How? Perhaps you encourage them to talk about their successes, talents, or big ideas. Your animated reactions or interesting questions might prompt them to further describe things in minute detail.


Communication


Shared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Communication theme generally find it easy to put their thoughts into words. They are good conversationalists and presenters.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?

It’s very likely that you very much enjoy the animated give-and-take of a lively discussion. Chances are good that you are quite comfortable talking about yourself. You also enjoy listening to people describe their talents, limitations, goals, worries, or successes. These insights often help you discover what someone thinks or feels. You probably acquire valuable information about the individual’s style of thinking, learning, working, playing, problem solving, or studying. Because of your strengths, you sometimes enjoy verbalizing your thoughts. You may want certain individuals to acknowledge your ideas and honor your feelings. Perhaps gaining and maintaining specific people’s attention pleases you. By nature, you are naturally open and honest about who you are, what you have done, what you can do, and what you cannot do. Your straightforward explanations and stories help listeners see you as you see yourself. You reveal your strengths and limitations. You are forthright and plainspoken. People generally seek your company and want to work with you. Many are impelled to move into action by your words and examples. Driven by your talents, you demonstrate an ease with language. You effortlessly verbalize your thoughts. You relish the opportunity to share your insights. You derive pleasure from actively participating in conversations when group members propose ideas, seek solutions, or debate issues.

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