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Strengths Insight and Action-Planning Guide

SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 07-27-2013
Kimberly Knox Your Top 5 Themes

Achiever Relator Belief Adaptability Responsibility
What's in This Guide?

Section I: Awareness A brief Shared Theme Description for each of your top five themes Your Personalized Strengths Insights, which describe what makes you stand out from others with the same theme in their top five Questions for you to answer to increase your awareness of your talents Section II: Application 10 Ideas for Action for each of your top five themes Questions for you to answer to help you apply your talents Section III: Achievement Examples of what each of your top five themes "sounds like" -- real quotes from people who also have the theme in their top five Steps for you to take to help you leverage your talents for achievement
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Section I: Awareness
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.
Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out? Instinctively, you work with much more intensity in the evening. This awareness probably allows you to increase your productivity, improve the quality of your outcomes, enhance your efficiency, and better manage your priorities. Chances are good that you may launch some projects with ease. Perhaps you methodically identify pertinent facts or establish a step-by-step workflow. Maybe this is the way you prefer to reach goals. Its very likely that you probably have a reputation for working hours and hours when the assignment adds special meaning to your work, studies, or life in general. Driven by your talents, you find the act of work naturally pleasurable. You routinely recharge yourself physically as well as mentally by toiling for hours on your tasks, projects, or assignments. By nature, you probably are much more willing to start something new when you know for sure it is the right thing to do. You usually work with greater intensity and confidence after you have studied the matter in depth and received someones approval.
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?
Relator
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.

What makes you stand out? By nature, you might notice that people regularly ask you the question What do you think? This might be because they value your views about particular people, situations, rules, news events, or decisions. Instinctively, you occasionally initiate small talk with newcomers and outsiders. On one level, you might make people comfortable in an unfamiliar setting with unfamiliar people. On another level, you might notice that strangers solicit your views on particular issues. Perhaps they reveal who referred them to you. Your knowledge and your personal interest in others may cause some individuals to return again and again with the same basic question: What do you think about . . .? Chances are good that you deconstruct tangled situations. You sort through facts to discover the inner workings of intricate processes, regulations, programs, or action plans. People rely on you to break complicated things into their basic parts. They trust you to present the information they need in an easy-to-understand manner. Because of your strengths, you might be content with your results when you can honestly say you are producing as much as you can. Perhaps you maintain an optimistic outlook on life regardless of the value some people place on your results. Driven by your talents, you help many people grasp elaborate and complicated ideas, processes, theories, or rules. You intentionally use easy-to-understand words and phrases.
Questions
Belief
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.

What makes you stand out? Its very likely that you refuse to be blinded by others enthusiasm about what is possible. You are hardwired to isolate the issues that lie ahead. Working with overly optimistic people is difficult for you. You have seen them accidentally derail more than one promising project or unwittingly sabotage more than one inventive, yet undeveloped, idea. By nature, you may convince certain people that a particular project or cause improves humankinds quality of life. Occasionally you persuade them of the importance of protecting the planets resources for future generations. Perhaps you help people realize they can accomplish more good as a group than they can as individuals. Because of your strengths, you place more importance on the purpose and value of what you do than on the monetary rewards that accompany success. Driven by your talents, you have no doubts about being linked in some way with everything in the universe. This includes all creation and all humankind. Instinctively, you are much more industrious when you are working on projects you feel are really important. Your fervor increases whenever the outcomes directly impact the quality of your life.
Questions
Adaptability
People who are especially talented in the Adaptability theme prefer to go with the flow. They tend to be now people who take things as they come and discover the future one day at a time.

What makes you stand out? Chances are good that you concentrate on living in the present. You have an ability to savor the good things in life as they unfold. Others are apt to comment on your cheerful, easygoing, and hopeful attitude. Its very likely that you are quite comfortable letting the days events and peoples demands determine what really deserves your attention. Instinctively, you may realize the quality of your life improves when you are surrounded by the loveliness of nature or enthralled that is, held spellbound by the artistry of human beings. Because of your strengths, you avoid individuals who work non-stop, never taking a break. You refuse to rush headlong from one activity to the next. You are quite comfortable dealing with change, surprises, and unexpected problems. Why? While you appreciate schedules and plans, you recognize when it is wise to deviate that is, turn away from them. By nature, you labor tirelessly on whatever needs to be accomplished today. You likely are willing to change your plans when the people around you change theirs. You ordinarily remain quite calm when others reverse their decisions, modify their schedules, or cancel their appointments.
Questions
Responsibility
People who are especially talented in the Responsibility theme take psychological ownership of what they say they will do. They are committed to stable values such as honesty and loyalty.

What makes you stand out? Instinctively, you prefer to work with teammates who share your concern about doing everything correctly and ethically. Because of your strengths, you place a premium on doing everything correctly. Whatever you are involved in or associated with must typify that is, symbolize accuracy and precision. Your high standards demand exactness. Chances are good that you normally strive to do things right. Taking shortcuts strikes you as unprincipled, thoughtless, and careless. You likely refuse to produce sloppy work or engage in unethical practices. By nature, you might describe your life in favorable terms even when obligations force you to keep working until a particular goal is reached. 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
Questions
1. How does this information help you better understand your unique talents? 2. How can you use this understanding to add value to your role? 3. How can you apply this knowledge to add value to your team, workgroup, department, or division? 4. How will this understanding help you add value to your organization? 5. What will you do differently tomorrow as a result of this report?
Section II: Application
Achiever
Ideas for Action:
Select jobs that allow you to have the leeway to work as hard as you want and in which you are encouraged to measure your own productivity. You will feel challenged and alive in these environments. As an achiever, you relish the feeling of being busy, yet you also need to know when you are done. Attach timelines and measurement to goals so that effort leads to defined progress and tangible outcomes. Remember to build celebration and recognition into your life. Achievers tend to move on to the next challenge without acknowledging their successes. Counter this impulse by creating regular opportunities to enjoy your progress and accomplishments. Your drive for action might cause you to find meetings a bit boring. If thats the case, appeal to your Achiever talents by learning the objectives of each meeting ahead of time and by taking notes about progress toward those objectives during the meeting. You can help ensure that meetings are productive and efficient. Continue your education by attaining certifications in your area or specialty in addition to attending conferences and other programs. This will give you even more goals to achieve and will push your existing boundaries of accomplishment. You do not require much motivation from others. Take advantage of your self-motivation by setting challenging goals. Set a more demanding goal every time you finish a project. Partner with other hard workers. Share your goals with them so they can help you to get more done. Count personal achievements in your scoring system. This will help you direct your Achiever talents toward family and friends as well as toward work. More work excites you. The prospect of what lies ahead is infinitely more motivating than what has been completed. Launch initiatives and new projects. Your seemingly endless reserve of energy will create enthusiasm and momentum. Make sure that in your eagerness to do more at work, you do not skimp on quality. Create measurable outcome standards to guarantee that increased productivity is matched by enhanced quality.
Questions
1. Which of these action items speak to you? Highlight the actions that you are most likely to take. 2. How will you commit to taking action? Write your own personalized action item that you will take in the next 30 days.
Relator
Ideas for Action:
Find a workplace in which friendships are encouraged. You will not do well in an overly formal organization. In job interviews, ask about work styles and company culture. Deliberately learn as much as you can about the people you meet. You like knowing about people, and other people like being known. By doing this, you will act as a catalyst for trusting relationships. Let it be known that you are more interested in the character and personality of others than in their status or job title. This is one of your greatest talents and can serve as a model for others. Let your caring show. For example, find people in your company to mentor, help your colleagues get to know each other better, or extend your relationships beyond the office. No matter how busy you are, stay in contact with your friends. They are your fuel. Be honest with your friends. True caring means helping the other person be successful and fulfilled. Giving honest feedback or encouraging your friend to move out of a role in which he or she is struggling is a compassionate act. You probably prefer to be seen as a person, an equal, or a friend, rather than as a function, a superior, or a title. Let people know that they can address you by your first name, rather than formally. You might tend to withhold the most engaging aspects of your personality until you have sensed openness from another person. Remember, building relationships is not a oneway street. Proactively put yourself out there. Others will quickly see you for the genuine individual you are, and you will create many more opportunities to cultivate strong, longlasting connections. Make time for family and close friends. You need to spend quality moments with those you love in order to feed your Relator talents. Schedule activities that allow you to get even closer to the people who keep you grounded and happy. Make an effort to socialize with your colleagues and team members outside of work. It can be as simple as lunch or coffee together. This will help you forge more connected relationships at work, which in turn can facilitate more effective teamwork and cooperation.
Questions
Belief
Ideas for Action:
Clarify your values by thinking about one of your best days ever. How did your values play into the satisfaction that you received on that day? How can you organize your life to repeat that day as often as possible? Actively seek roles that fit your values. In particular, think about joining organizations that define their purpose by the contribution they make to society. The meaning and purpose of your work will often provide direction for others. Remind people why their work is important and how it makes a difference in their lives and in the lives of others. Your Belief talents allow you to talk to the hearts of people. Develop a purpose statement and communicate it to your family, friends, and coworkers. Your powerful emotional appeal can give them a motivating sense of contribution. Create a gallery of letters and/or pictures of the people whose lives you have substantially influenced. When you are feeling down or overwhelmed, remind yourself of your value by looking at this gallery. It will energize you and revive your commitment to helping others. Set aside time to ensure that you are balancing your work demands and your personal life. Your devotion to your career should not come at the expense of your strong commitment to your family. Dont be afraid to give voice to your values. This will help others know who you are and how to relate to you. Actively cultivate friends who share your basic values. Consider your best friend. Does this person share your value system? Partner with someone who has strong Futuristic talents. This person can energize you by painting a vivid picture of the direction in which your values will lead. Accept that the values of other people might differ from your own. Express your beliefs without being judgmental.
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Adaptability
Ideas for Action:
Cultivate your reputation as a calm and reassuring person when others become upset by daily events. Avoid roles that demand structure and predictability. These roles will quickly frustrate you, make you feel inadequate, and stifle your independence. When the pressure is on, help your hesitant friends, colleagues, and clients find ways to collect themselves and take control of the situation. Explain that adaptability is about more than simply rolling with the punches; it is about calmly, intelligently, and readily responding to circumstances. Dont let others abuse your inherent flexibility. Though your Adaptability talents serve you well, dont compromise your long-term success by bending to every whim, desire, and demand of others. Use smart guidelines to help you decide when to flex and when to stand firm. Seek roles in which success depends on responding to constantly changing circumstances. Consider career areas such as journalism, live television production, emergency healthcare, and customer service. In these roles, the best react the fastest and stay levelheaded. Fine-tune your responsiveness. For example, if your job demands unanticipated travel, learn how to pack and leave in 30 minutes. If your work pressure comes in unpredictable spurts, practice the first three moves you will always make when the pressure hits. Look to others for planning. People who have strong Focus, Strategic, or Belief talents can help you shape your long-term goals, leaving you to excel at dealing with the day-to-day variations. Your Adaptability talents give you an even-keel mindset that lets you ride the ups and downs without becoming an emotional volcano. Your dont cry over spilled milk approach will help you quickly recover from setbacks. Recognize this aspect of your nature, and help your friends and colleagues understand that it is productive flexibility rather than an I dont care attitude. Avoid tasks that are too structured and stifle your need for variety. If given a list of tasks to complete, try to indulge your desire for flexibility by making a game of that list. See if you can be creative or make the tasks more fun in some way. Openly use your reassuring demeanor to soothe disgruntled friends or coworkers. Think about the approach you used, and remember to apply it again when the situation presents itself.
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Responsibility
Ideas for Action:
Emphasize your sense of responsibility when job hunting. During interviews, describe your desire to be held fully accountable for the success or failure of projects, your intense dislike of unfinished work, and your need to make it right if a commitment is not met. Keep volunteering for more responsibility than your experience seems to warrant. You thrive on responsibility, and you can deal with it very effectively. Align yourself with others who share your sense of responsibility. You will flourish when working with people who share your determination to get things done. Tell your manager that you work best when given the freedom to follow through on your commitments that you dont need to check in during a project, just at the end. You can be trusted to get it done. Push yourself to say no. Because you are instinctively responsible, it might sometimes be difficult to refuse opportunities. For this reason, you must be selective. Ask for more responsibility in only the areas that matter most to you. You naturally take ownership of every project you are involved in. Make sure that your capacity to own does not keep you from sharing responsibility. Allow others the opportunity to experience the challenges of ownership. In doing so, you will contribute to their growth and development. Learn to manage your Responsibility talents by considering whether you really are the person who should be handling a particular issue. Defer to your existing responsibilities and goals before undertaking additional burdens, as you may end up skimping on quality if you have too many tasks or competing demands. Partner with someone especially talented in Discipline or Focus. This person can help you stay on track and prevent you from becoming overloaded. Working with a like-minded, responsible colleague is satisfying for you. Be sure to clarify expectations and boundaries so that each person can feel ownership for his or her particular tasks without stepping on each others toes. Responsible individuals like to know they have delivered on their commitments, so create metrics and goals to gauge how effectively you meet your obligations. Also, make sure you have explicit and concrete expectations so that there is no question regarding quality outcomes and so that you can hit the mark as promised.
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Section III: Achievement

Look for signs of achievement as you read these real quotes from people who share your top five themes.
Achiever sounds like this:

Melanie K., ER nurse: I have to rack up points every day to feel successful. Today Ive been here only half an hour, but Ive probably racked up thirty points already. I ordered equipment for the ER, I had equipment repaired, I had a meeting with my charge nurse, and I brainstormed with my secretary about improving our computerized logbook. So on my list of ninety things, I have thirty done already. Im feeling pretty good about myself right now. Ted S., salesperson: Last year I was salesperson of the year out of my companys three hundred salespeople. It felt good for a day, but sure enough, later that week, it was as if it never happened. I was back at zero again. Sometimes I wish I wasnt an achiever because it can lead me away from a balanced life and toward obsession. I used to think I could change myself, but now I know I am just wired this way. This theme is truly a double-edged sword. It helps me achieve my goals, but on the other hand, I wish I could just turn it off and on at will. But, hey, I cant. I can manage it and avoid work obsession by focusing on achieving in all parts of my life, not just work. Sara L., writer: This theme is a weird one. First, its good because you live in pursuit of the perpetual challenge. But in the second place, you never feel as though youve reached your goal. It can keep you running uphill at seventy miles an hour for your whole life. You never rest because theres always more to do. But, on balance, I think I would rather have it than not. I call it my divine restlessness, and if it makes me feel as if I owe the present everything I have, then so be it. I can live with that.
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Relator sounds like this:

Gavin T., flight attendant: I have many wonderful acquaintances, but as for true friends that I hold dear, not very many. And Im real okay with that. My best times are spent with the people Im tightest with, like my family. We are a very tight-knit Irish Catholic family, and we get together every chance we can. Its a large family I have five brothers and sisters and ten nieces and nephews but we all get together about once a month and yuk it up. Im the catalyst. When Im back in Chicago, even if there is no birthday or anniversary or whatever, I become the excuse for getting together and hanging out for three or four days. We really enjoy one anothers company. Tony D., pilot: I used to fly in the Marines, and, boy, you had better be comfortable with the word friend in the Marines. You had better feel good about trusting someone else. I cant tell you how many times I put my life in someone elses hands. I was flying off my friends wing, and Id be dead if he couldnt get me back safely. Jamie T., entrepreneur: Im definitely selective about my relationships. When I first meet people, I dont want to give them very much of my time. I dont know them; they dont know me so lets just be pleasant and leave it at that. But if circumstances make it so that we get to know each other better, it seems like a threshold is reached where I suddenly start wanting to invest more. Ill share more of myself, put myself out for them, do things for them that will bring us a little closer, and show that I care. Its funny because I am not looking for any more friends in my life. I have enough. And yet with each new person I meet, as soon as that threshold is reached, I feel compelled to go deeper and deeper. Now I have ten people working for me, and I would call each of them my very good friend.
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Belief sounds like this:

Michael K., salesperson: The vast majority of my nonworking time goes to my family and to the things we do in the community. I was on the countywide Boy Scouts board of directors. And when I was a Boy Scout, I was pack leader. When I was an Explorer, I was junior assistant leader for the Boy Scouts. I just like being with kids. I believe thats where the future is. And I think you can do a whole lot worse with your time than investing it in the future. Lara M., college president: My values are why I work so hard every day at my job. I put hours and hours into this job, and I dont even care what I get paid. I just found out that I am the lowest paid college president in my state, and I dont even care. I mean, I dont do this for the money. Tracy D., airline executive: If you are not doing something important, why bother? Getting up every day and working on ways to make flying safer seems important to me, purposeful. If I didnt find this purpose in my job, I dont know if I could work through all the challenges and frustrations that get in my way. I think I would get demoralized.
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Adaptability sounds like this:

Marie T., television producer: I love live TV because you never know what is going to happen. One minute, I might be putting together a segment on the best teenage holiday gifts, and the next, I will be doing the pre-interview for a presidential candidate. I guess I have always been this way. I live in the moment. If someone asks me, What are you doing tomorrow? my answer is always, I dont know. Depends what Im in the mood for. I drive my boyfriend crazy because hell plan for us to go to the antique market on Sunday afternoon, and then right at the last minute, Ill change my mind and say, Nah, lets go home and read the Sunday papers. Annoying, right? Yeah, but on the positive side, it does mean that Im up for anything. Linda G., project manager: Where I work, I am the calmest person I know. When someone comes in and says, We didnt plan right. We need this turned around by tomorrow, my colleagues seem to tense up and freeze. Somehow that doesnt happen to me. I like that pressure, that need for instant response. It makes me feel alive. Peter F., corporate trainer: I think I deal with life better than most people. Last week, I found that my car window had been smashed and the stereo stolen. I was annoyed, of course, but it didnt throw me off my day one bit. I just cleared it, mentally moved on, and went right on with the other things I had to get done that day.
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Responsibility sounds like this:

Nigel T., sales executive: I used to think that there was a piece of metal in my hand and a magnet on the ceiling. I would just volunteer for everything. I have had to learn how to manage that because not only would I end up with too much on my plate, but I would also wind up thinking that everything was my fault. I realize now that I cant be responsible for everything in the world thats Gods job. Kelly G., operations manager: The country manager in Sweden called me in November and said, Kelly, could you please not ship my inventory until January 1. I said, Sure. Sounds like a good plan. I told my people about the plan and thought I had all the bases covered. On December 31, however, when I was checking my messages while on a ski slope, making sure everything was hunky-dory, I saw that his order had already been shipped and invoiced. I had to call immediately and tell him what happened. Hes a nice man, so he didnt use any four-letter words, but he was very angry and very disappointed. I felt terrible. An apology wasnt enough. I needed to fix it. I called our controller from the chalet, and that afternoon we figured out a way to put the value of his inventory back on our books and clean it off his. It took most of the weekend, but it was the right thing to do. Harry B., outplacement consultant: I was just a young bank manager in one of the branches when the president of the company decided that he wanted to foreclose on a property. I said, Thats fine, but we have a responsibility to give the people full value for their property. He didnt see it that way. He wanted to sell the property to a friend of his for what was owed, and he said my problem was that I couldnt separate my business ethics from my personal ethics. I told him that was correct. I couldnt because I didnt believe and still dont believe that you can have two standards. So I quit the firm and went back to earning five dollars an hour working for the forestry service picking up trash. Since my wife and I were trying to support our two kids and make ends meet, it was a hard decision for me to make. But looking back, on one level, it really wasnt hard at all. I simply couldnt function in an organization with those kinds of ethics.
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Questions
1. Talk to friends or coworkers to hear how they have used their talents to achieve.
2. How will you use your talents to achieve?
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2000, 2006-2012 GALLUP, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Strengths Insight and Action-Planning Guide

Kimberly Knox Your Top 5 Themes

What's in This Guide?

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

Section II: Application

Section III: Achievement

Achiever sounds like this:

Relator sounds like this:

Belief sounds like this:

Adaptability sounds like this:

Responsibility sounds like this:

2. How will you use your talents to achieve?

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