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Learner®: Go to the Head of the Class
Oh, the joy of learning something new! Few things are as invigorating and life-giving, even loved as much as learning something new. FWIW, In Gallup’s database Learner is the second most common CliftonStrengths® talent found in people’s top 5. My favorite question to...
Intellection®: “I think, therefore I am.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=aY7ZPIiT7DE Or as a friend of mine with high ranking Intellection likes to put it, “conversations with me, myself, and I.” If you have the CliftonStrengths® talent theme of Intellection in your top 5, you don’t just like...
Input®: “Feed me, Seymour!”
How many browser windows and tabs do you have open right now? I love to ask that question when I am coaching people with the CliftonStrengths® talent theme of Input in their top 5. FYI, Input is my highest ranked talent and as I write this I have two open browser...
Includer®: “All Aboard”!!
If you live life by the motto, “The more the merrier” there is a good chance that Includes is in your top 5 CliftonStrengths® Talent Themes. People strong in Includer are very sensitive to people being left out, or just feeling left out. You see the value in diversity...
Ideation®: We are the dreamers of dreams…
https://youtu.be/1M0eMkcc91E?t=20 Creative and Creatable. Inventive and Innovative. New, Novel, and Noteworthy. People with the Ideation CliftonStrengths® talent theme are geniuses when it come to creating simple explanations for complex concepts. They derive great...
The Importance of Trust
Last week I had the honor of sitting down with Mandy Snell, Engagement Champion with CoreClairty. We discussed the importance of building trust, how to build trust, and why without it, not only will you not get the results you want, but more importantly, you stunt the...
Harmony®: Elvis wants to know, where is the Harmony, sweet Harmony?
You will hear from Elvis at the end of the post. Right now, picture a rowing team. Their movements are synchronized, precise, and harmonious. It is an exercise in practicality as nothing is wasted. To be sure, no one is rocking the boat. That is the type of...
Empathy®: I Feel Your Pain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDuBXotNZFU&t=3s Well, if you have the Empathy® CliftonStrengths talent theme you also feel others’ joy, sadness, grief, hopes, and a host of other emotions. Your intuition about others’ moods, emotions, and motivations is powerful...
Discipline®: Let me add you to my schedule
Are you a planner, structured, deadline-meeter who dislikes, even hates surprises and last-minute changes? You may have the Discipline CliftonStrengths talent theme in your top 5 talent themes. People with a high-ranking Discipline talent thrive with structure. If...
Developer®: Motivated to Motivate Others
Do you believe that everyone has potential? Do you love to cultivate growth in others in order to help them reach the potential that you know and believe they have? If so you may very well have Developer as one of your top 5 CliftonStrengths® talent themes. Developers...
Deliberative®: Let’s be careful. I’ve got a bad feeling about this…
Thoughtful, considerate, circumspect, measured, careful, reserved, and often private are words that can be used to describe people who have a top-5 CliftonStrengths® talent theme of Deliberative. If you have Deliberative in your top 5 you probably agree that making...
Context®: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
People who have Context in their top 5 CliftonStrengths® talent themes are no doubt devotees to George Santayana, the source of the quote above. People high in Context interpret the present and see the future based on the past. To understand the present, it is...