Erika Garcia

Strengths-Based Leadership Report (Brief)

SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 07-19-2016

DON CLIFTON

Father of Strengths Psychology and

Inventor of CliftonStrengths

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Gallup found that it serves a team well to have a representation of strengths in each of the four
domains of leadership strength: Executing, Influencing, Relationship Building, and Strategic Thinking.
Instead of one dominant leader who tries to do everything or individuals who all have similar
strengths, contributions from all four domains lead to a strong and cohesive team. This doesn't mean
that each person on a team must have strengths exclusively in a single category. In most cases, each
team member will possess some strength in multiple domains.

According to our latest research, the 34 Clifton StrengthsFinder themes naturally cluster into these
four domains of leadership strength. See below for how your top five themes sort into the four
domains. As you think about how you can contribute to a team and who you need to surround yourself
with, this may be a good starting point.

YOUR TOP FIVE CLIFTON STRENGTHSFINDER THEMES

EXECUTING INFLUENCING RELATIONSHIP STRATEGIC THINKING

BUILDING

Maximizer Individualization Futuristic

Significance Learner

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Your Personalized Strengths Insights

INDIVIDUALIZATION

Its very likely that you adopt a much more favorable outlook on life when you can identify the
conditions that produced various outcomes. You probably need to know why something did or did not
happen. You are impelled to examine the details of many events, processes, programs, or
mechanisms. Because of your strengths, you often consider what you need to redesign, refurbish,
replace, or revise. You intentionally study how individuals think, feel, behave, and/or react to your
ideas for doing things better. By nature, you normally feel much more upbeat about life when you
unravel the mysteries of a persons talents, motivations, ambitions, fears, shortcomings, work style,
thinking processes, or academic preferences. Driven by your talents, you probably offer useful
suggestions when individuals and groups are deciding what they want to accomplish. Instinctively,
you enjoy working and studying with people whose backgrounds, cultures, talents, or experiences are
quite different from one another. You usually are the one who determines how each individual can
contribute to the group.

FUTURISTIC

Chances are good that you intentionally take steps to be the mastermind of your own future. You
refuse to leave your destiny to chance. You probably resist placing it in someone elses hands. You
trust your own intelligence and imagination when setting a direction for your life. Because of your
strengths, you feel wonderful when people value your innovative and original ideas. You are likely to
help them envision what can be accomplished in the coming months, years, or decades. Its very
likely that you are an individual contributor who thinks about the goals you want to reach in the coming
months, years, or decades. Your imagination ordinarily pulls you into the future even as you work on
current assignments. By nature, you channel your mental and physical energies toward what you can
accomplish in the months, years, or decades ahead. The question you must answer is this: How far
into the future can I think before my ideas start becoming vague or uninspiring? Driven by your
talents, you prefer mapping paths toward your long-term goals. You usually create orderly and
detailed tactics to secure your objectives. Customarily, you are energized by what you can
accomplish.

LEARNER

Instinctively, you yearn to acquire additional knowledge and skills. Often you use these to do
something better, more perfectly, or more completely than you have in the past. You seek
opportunities to enhance your capacity for fixing things, correcting mistakes, or overcoming

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weaknesses. Its very likely that you prefer having quiet time to mull over ideas as well as read and
examine interesting topics. Periods of uninterrupted thinking give you great pleasure. You probably
excuse yourself from noisy, active, or distracting situations to thoroughly process your ideas. By
nature, 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. Driven by your talents, you enjoy reflecting on what you already know and on
what you want to know. Your concentration leads you to major and minor discoveries. You need
ample quiet time to critically examine new information, theories, concepts, or philosophies. Wherever
you go and whatever you do, your mind is seldom at rest. You consider what you have observed. You
pose never-before-asked questions. Thinking deeply about things is a necessity for you. It is not a
luxury. It is not an option. Chances are good that you dedicate yourself to acquiring knowledge and
using your skills. You likely are self-taught in many ways. You probably work with instructors, trainers,
coaches, or mentors. You embrace opportunities to expose your mind to new ideas. You welcome the
chance to practice new ways of plying that is, diligently practicing your trade or craft.

MAXIMIZER

Chances are good that you select projects, assignments, or tasks that allow you to use your talents to
produce outcomes. You actively seek opportunities to work independently. You probably realize you
make a lot more progress when you are allowed to work alone. Its very likely that 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. By nature, 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. Instinctively, you customarily focus on the present and cause others to do the same.
You are likely to help numerous individuals savor their successes and recognize their contributions.
Driven by your talents, you are much happier with your life when you routinely pause to savor your
accomplishments at the precise moment they occur. Immediately celebrating a success means a lot
more to you than waiting days, weeks, or even months for a formal awards celebration.

SIGNIFICANCE

Instinctively, you provide the impetus that is, the driving force or motivation people need to
reach their goals and excel. Driven by your talents, you inspire enthusiasm in people with your words
and deeds. You envision yourself being in charge of an important group one day. You are eager to set
directions, make decisions, and assume responsibilities. You look forward to the benefits and
privileges of rank. Chances are good that you yearn to step into roles where you can influence people
to follow you. Many individuals allow you to take charge. Why? They likely remember times you set
them up for success in the past. Its very likely that you contend that what you have to say is very
important. You probably tell individuals or groups they would be wise to stop what they are doing and
give you their undivided attention. By nature, you are attracted to hardworking and highly productive
people. Life is much more satisfying when others share your upbeat attitude toward life.

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