In 2021, I completed the CliftonStrengths personality assessment through my employer. Afterwards, I completed a comprehensive training program to better understand the insights of my results, develop strategies to enhance my top five strengths, and how to effectively apply them in the workplace.
What is CliftonStrengths?
My Results
What do my top five strengths mean?
1. Restorative
Understanding and Investing in Your Restorative Talent -- Theme Thursday -- S4
The Restorative theme describes the talent present in individuals who continually and effectively create solutions where others may see problems. They calmly bring back what is off-track to a place, restoring working order and moving forward. People with dominant Restorative talents believe brokenness is not permanent, but something we pass through on the way to improvement. In many cases, this executing theme enables people to interact well with real, practical, and perhaps technical options rather than anticipating imagined solutions.
"You are adept at dealing with problems. You are good at figuring out what is wrong and resolving it."
WHY YOUR RESTORATIVE IS UNIQUE
It’s very likely that you frequently promise yourself to do something better than you did it the last time. As you examine the consequences of your words and deeds, you usually recognize ways you could perform a similar task or problem the next time with a higher degree of knowledge or skill. Simply put: You are determined to gain insights from your mistakes so you do not repeat them.
Chances are good that you search for opportunities to improve yourself. You are determined to confront your weak points and correct them.
Instinctively, you are very decisive about implementing upgrades or making enhancements. You probably realize that great ideas without action are totally meaningless. You occasionally become frustrated with individuals who lack the gumption — that is, boldness — to transform their original thoughts into tangible results.
By nature, you intend to govern events and manage activities. You want to be in charge of your life. You frequently pause to think about what you need to upgrade or perfect. You consistently generate good ideas for doing things better.
Driven by your talents, you typically put forth much effort and energy to reach your goals. You aim to overcome your limitations and fix your mistakes. You attempt to compensate for your lack of knowledge, skills, and/or talent in various areas.
WHY YOU SUCCEED USING RESTORATIVE
You love to solve problems. Your ability to analyze a situation, identify potential shortcomings and modify as needed makes you powerful in times of difficulty and crisis.
2. Analytical
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"You search for reasons and causes. You have the ability to think about all of the factors that might affect a situation."
WHY YOUR ANALYTICAL IS UNIQUE
Driven by your talents, you naturally yearn to acquire knowledge. You often aim to establish reasonable links between one set of facts, events, or numerical data and another set of information.
It’s very likely that you frequently work without much rest. You typically want to pinpoint useful and intriguing facts. You likely have a need to explain why various events unfolded as they did. This information undoubtedly permits you to produce more and better results.
Instinctively, you normally direct most of your talent, energy, effort, and reasoning to the task at hand. Your good judgment probably allows you to establish long-term goals that are truly worthy of your undivided attention.
Chances are good that you define for yourself what is most important. You probably have one, two, or three major goals to reach in the coming months, years, or decades. Once you have set your priorities, you are eager to begin working on them. Your enthusiasm might prevent you from maintaining an even balance between your personal commitments and professional duties.
By nature, you typically offer valid reasons and substantial evidence to support your thinking and your conclusions. You can detect repetitions in numerical data. These insights allow you to predict the frequency of something occurring again.
WHY YOU SUCCEED USING ANALYTICAL
Your natural ability to investigate, diagnose and identify patterns results in valuable insights that are logical and well-thought-out. Your critical thinking helps clarify reality and provides objectivity.
3. Connectedness
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"You have faith in the links among all things. You believe there are few coincidences and that almost every event has meaning."
WHY YOUR CONNECTEDNESS IS UNIQUE
It’s very likely that you sense every event is somehow the consequence of a series of actions, reactions, or lack of actions. You can accept that which cannot be fully explained using logic. You say there are no accidents. You are confident that things are linked together for a purpose that may or may not be revealed to you.
Driven by your talents, you desire to dictate the circumstances of your existence. You refuse to be a victim. You aim to leave your mark on the world. Although you want to be in charge of everything, you realize this is unrealistic. Why? You sense you are somehow linked to every human being on the planet. Whatever you choose to do or not do affects them. Their choices eventually affect you. You walk a tightrope between needing to manage every part of your life and knowing this is impossible.
Chances are good that you may welcome all kinds of people into your circle of friends, family, or acquaintances. Perhaps you have an ability to bond with individuals without expecting them to conform to your way of thinking, working, or living. Sometimes you revel in the diversity of humankind, rather than complain that every person, language, and culture is different. Maybe you have concluded that people are inextricably linked with one another as well as with everything in the universe.
Because of your strengths, you occasionally think about some of the ways you are linked to every person on the planet. This may inspire you to include an interesting assortment of people in your life. Perhaps you look for ties between yourself and family members, coworkers, friends, classmates, or teammates.
Instinctively, you occasionally are curious about people’s diverse philosophies of life. Maybe you search for ideas that link one person’s fundamental truths with another person’s core values. Perhaps you realize human beings are linked to one another regardless of their age, language, education, socio-economic status, nationality, race, religion, or culture.
WHY YOU SUCCEED USING CONNECTEDNESS
You build bridges between people and groups. You help others find meaning by looking at the bigger picture of the world around them, and you give them a sense of comfort and stability in the face of uncertainty.
4. Futuristic
Understanding and Investing in Your Futuristic Talent -- Theme Thursday -- S4
Futuristic can be described by every step taken today gets you closer to the very clear future you live in. Futuristic is making sense of what is through a lens of what will be. Futuristic is not just creativity. It’s not just “what if” but it’s “when.” Individuals with high Futuristic are energized and energizing to others by what can be. Other themes will influence the exact picture of the future, but it’s always with an element of improvement. It’s improvement for a better team, a better product, a better life, a better world.
"You are inspired by the future and what could be. You energize others with your visions of the future."
WHY YOUR FUTURISTIC IS UNIQUE
Chances are good that you intentionally spend a lot of time pondering the behaviors, activities, skills, knowledge, processes, and ideas you want to perfect in the coming months, years, or decades.
It’s very likely that you might direct your attention to a few things you want to accomplish in the coming months, years, or decades. Your enthusiasm sometimes increases when you spend a bit of time in the company of “possibility thinkers.”
Instinctively, you take advantage of every opportunity to describe to others all the amazing things you see happening in the coming months, years, or decades. Your vision opens people’s minds to new and wondrous possibilities. You challenge them to consider ideas they might not have thought of on their own.
Because of your strengths, you think a lot about the coming months, years, or decades. You gravitate to projects and study subjects that promise to shape the future. You enjoy talking about possibilities that exist only in your imagination. You probably worry about being left behind if what you know and do were no longer valued or needed. You prefer to be a pioneer and an inventor.
By nature, you invest considerable time creating the future of your own choosing. You frequently share your ideas about what will be possible in the coming months, years, and decades. You probably capture people’s attention whenever you describe in vivid detail what you imagine.
WHY YOU SUCCEED USING FUTURISTIC
You are a visionary. Your powerful anticipation and detailed visualization of a better future can turn aspirations into reality. Your vision of tomorrow can inspire and push others to new heights.
5. Strategic
Understanding and Investing in Your Strategic Talent -- Theme Thursday -- S4
The Strategic Thinking theme of Strategic describes more than just having a plan. People especially talented in this theme consider the world through a series of contingencies, contemplating quickly and constantly about the “what if” scenarios of a day, an event, an interaction, or a lifetime.
"You create alternative ways to proceed. Faced with any given scenario, you can quickly spot the relevant patterns and issues."
WHY YOUR STRATEGIC IS UNIQUE
By nature, you have acquired valuable skills and knowledge. You spend time considering numerous courses of action before choosing one. You invent original and innovative techniques for dealing with expected and unexpected challenges. You use the same approach to take advantage of promising opportunities.
Driven by your talents, you examine the past. You discover why things happened. This permits you to foresee the future. You study humankind’s story to identify subtle nuances, recurring sequences of events, and predictable human behavior. Generating clever, resourceful, inventive, and original alternatives, you can offer solutions to age-old problems.
Chances are good that you usually identify problems others fail to notice. You repeatedly create solutions and find the right answers. You yearn to improve things about yourself, other people, or situations. You are drawn to classes, books, or activities that promise to give you the skills and knowledge you seek.
Because of your strengths, you can design innovative plans. You probably raise issues and identify recurring obstacles as you generate tactical options. Problems and possible solutions become apparent to you. Once you outline action steps, you quickly execute them one by one. You refuse to waste time questioning your ideas after everything has been set into motion.
It’s very likely that you customarily pinpoint the core problems and identify the best solutions. You artfully and skillfully eliminate distractions. This helps people gain a clear understanding of what is happening and why it is happening. You frequently identify ways to transform an obstacle into an opportunity.
WHY YOU SUCCEED USING STRATEGIC
You quickly weigh alternative paths and determine the best one. Your natural ability to anticipate, play out different scenarios and plan ahead makes you an agile decision-maker.