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Clifton Strength
Clifton Strength
A NOTE OF CAUTION:
Because many of your CliftonStrengths responses were neutral, the themes listed
are based only on the pairs of descriptors to which you did respond with something
other than a neutral response.
Some people do not choose one descriptor from any given pair because they feel
that neither — or both — descriptors fit them well. While this is acceptable, it does
mean that any feedback you might receive that is based on these results may not
be as personalized as it would be if your results were stronger.
Please keep this in mind when you consider how well you feel your top five themes
describe you.
Use this report to make the most of your strongest CliftonStrengths themes, navigate the rest and
maximize your infinite potential:
• Read and reflect on your results to understand what you naturally do best.
• Learn how to apply your strongest CliftonStrengths every day.
• Share your results with others to create stronger relationships and improve teamwork.
STRENGTHEN NAVIGATE
You lead with Relationship
1. Adaptability 11. Arranger Building CliftonStrengths
2. Positivity 12. Intellection themes.
3. Harmony 13. Developer
4. Input 14. Analytical EXECUTING themes help you
5. Connectedness 15. Belief make things happen.
6. Discipline 16. Restorative INFLUENCING themes help
7. Responsibility 17. Empathy you take charge, speak up and
8. Context 18. Focus make sure others are heard.
9. Consistency 19. Includer RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
10. Learner 20. Relator themes help you build strong
21. Woo relationships that hold a team
22. Communication together.
23. Significance STRATEGIC THINKING
24. Competition themes help you absorb and
25. Deliberative analyze information that informs
26. Command better decisions.
27. Ideation RE AD “IDENTIF Y YOUR UNIQUE
28. Strategic CONTRIB UTION: THE
29. Activator CLIF TONSTRENGTHS DOMAINS”
30. Maximizer SECTION TO LE ARN MORE
31. Futuristic
32. Individualization
33. Achiever
34. Self-Assurance
1. Adaptability The CliftonStrengths at the top of your profile are the most powerful.
2. Positivity These themes represent how you are uniquely talented. They are the
3. Harmony starting point for living your strongest life possible.
4. Input Develop these CliftonStrengths to maximize your potential
5. Connectedness Your greatest chance to succeed — at work or anywhere else — lies in
6. Discipline strengthening what you naturally do best and doing more of it.
7. Responsibility
8. Context Start with your top five.
They are your most powerful natural talents.
9. Consistency
10. Learner 1. Read everything about your top CliftonStrengths. To make the most
of your talents, you first need to understand them and how to
describe them to others.
4. Watch out for blind spots. Sometimes how you exhibit your
strongest CliftonStrengths can cause unintended negative
misperceptions. Read the “What Is a Weakness?” section to learn
more about preventing your strongest CliftonStrengths from getting
in your way.
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
1. Adaptability
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You prefer to go with the flow. You tend to be a “now” person who takes things as they come and who
discovers the future one day at a time.
Chances are good that 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.
Instinctively, you might be the team member who slows down to appreciate the loveliness
of your environment. Perhaps you have an easier time fitting into new settings than some
people do. Why? Maybe you see or are fascinated by the aesthetic — that is, beautiful —
qualities of each place.
It’s very likely that you occasionally can let today take care of itself. Why? Maybe you
understand that tomorrow will bring its own demands, worries, concerns, and
opportunities.
By nature, you now and then set aside time to appreciate the loveliness and splendor of
your surroundings.
Driven by your talents, you sometimes gravitate to roles where you can handle tasks or deal
with issues as they arise. Perhaps life is wonderful when you have the freedom to do what
you decide is necessary. You might be grumpy on days when you are forced to follow a rigid
schedule or procedure.
You are flexible and can quickly adjust to changing or unexpected circumstances that
upset or intimidate others. Your calm response to chaos reassures others and helps you
respond to what people need.
• You’re so willing to live in the moment that you might constantly shift your priorities. Be
aware that frequent changes can feel endless and often unnecessary to those who thrive
on structure and stability.
• You may have a tendency to miss deadlines or run late for appointments. Make sure you
keep track of the most important due dates and meetings.
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
2. Positivity
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You have contagious enthusiasm. You are upbeat and can get others excited about what they are
going to do.
By nature, you may feel best about life when you can figure out how to fit into new
situations. As a youth, you might have been determined to not cause any trouble for your
family members, classmates, teammates, or teachers. Maybe you discovered ways to
reduce some of their stress, frustration, anxiety, or anger. Perhaps you aimed to keep the
adults in your life happy.
Chances are good that you may feel wonderful about life, especially when you become a
link between individuals or groups. Sometimes these people would not have known one
another if you had not stepped into their lives.
Driven by your talents, you may be filled with wonder when historians speak of people or
events that demonstrate human beings’ capacity to survive. Perhaps you are intrigued by
individuals who rise above intimidation, distress, fear, or discouragement.
Instinctively, you might feel good about yourself and life in general when you frequently and
sincerely compliment your coworkers, classmates, peers, or teammates.
Because of your strengths, you may decide life is good when you give yourself time to
assess your actions. Sometimes you need to know beforehand that what you are about to
say or do is correct.
You have an infectious energy and enthusiasm. As someone who offers genuine
encouragement and an optimistic outlook on life, you have the power to make people feel
better when you are around.
• Sometimes your optimism and generosity with praise might come off as superficial, naïve
or insincere. Make sure your positivity and admiration are always genuine; you can do more
damage with false praise than with criticism.
• Be careful not to point out the positive side of a bad situation before others have the
chance to fully vent. Acknowledge that sometimes people are not ready to hear the bright
side and just need you to listen.
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
3. Harmony
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You look for consensus. You don’t enjoy conflict; rather, you seek areas of agreement.
Chances are good that you are happy to do exactly what is assigned to you, as long as you
sense you are not being asked to carry more than your fair share of the workload. Checking
those tasks off your list brings you much pleasure, and it helps you get along with others
who notice your close attention to the work required of you.
Because of your strengths, you enjoy being physically and/or mentally active. This is
especially true when you are assigned tasks to finish by day’s end. As long as the overall
workload is evenly distributed among people, you tend to be willing and eager to perform
your daily chores.
You are naturally practical and prefer emotional balance. You can prevent arguments before
they start by quickly helping others find common ground and a resolution.
• In your desire to move conversations toward practical and common-sense decisions, you
may frustrate those who want to share broader ideas and opinions. Allow others to express
their ideas fully before bringing them back to the task at hand.
• You may instinctively downplay confrontational situations and try to suppress others from
openly airing their ideas and emotions. Recognize and accept that there will be times when
conflict is inevitable and that some people will revel in it.
STRATEGIC THINKING
4. Input
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You have a need to collect and archive. You may accumulate information, ideas, artifacts or even
relationships.
Instinctively, you believe you make great strides mentally when you have opportunities to
exchange ideas, theories, or concepts with intelligent people. You delight in accumulating
unusual insights. Often you expand on these thoughts. You probably are eager to test them
during conversations with other intelligent individuals. This is one way you broaden your
knowledge base.
Driven by your talents, you are comfortable saying, “I am a fine educator.” You probably
converse with others in your field about ideas, theories, or concepts to gather the latest
thinking. Using these insights, you are apt to draw your students into discussions that
entice them to explore topics. You want them to really understand the subject rather than
memorize a few facts just to pass a test.
By nature, you eagerly welcome opportunities to think out loud about ideas, theories, or
philosophies. You derive pleasure from conversations that force you to ponder matters that
exist only in the realm of thought, not in reality.
Because of your strengths, you pay close attention to current events. Numerous people
merely recount what they heard, saw, or read. Typically you dive deeper into the topic. You
are likely to generate theories, concepts, or philosophies to explain the reasoning behind
newsmakers’ decisions. You routinely gather information about events, policy statements,
people, or crises. Your fresh insights are likely to draw equally engaged thinkers into the
conversation.
You seek and store information. Your pursuit of mastery and access to knowledge
empowers you to make credible and well-informed decisions.
• Unrestrained input can lead to intellectual or physical clutter. Consider occasionally taking
inventory and purging what you don’t need so that your surroundings — and your mind —
don’t become overloaded.
• You might have a tendency to give people so much information or so many resources that
you can overload and overwhelm them. Before you share your discoveries with others,
consider sorting out what is most meaningful so they don’t lose interest.
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
5. Connectedness
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You have faith in the links among all things. You believe there are few coincidences and that almost
every event has meaning.
By nature, you occasionally help people realize they are part of the human family. With your
guidance, perhaps they understand that their lives are intertwined with people they will
never meet.
Instinctively, you routinely isolate facts that link ideas, events, or people. You are especially
sensitive to how one person’s optimistic or negative thoughts can affect the entire human
family. This prompts you to pay close attention to what individuals and groups think and do.
Chances are good that you may be instrumental in helping your teammates discover how
they are linked to one another. Once in a while, you remind them that their success or failure
is a direct result of their ability to work together.
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.
• You may react more calmly and passively to others’ bad news, frustrations or concerns
than they would like. Be aware that people sometimes need to vent and will want you to
validate their feelings more than they want a philosophical response.
• Some may perceive you as naïve or idealistic because turmoil and upheaval likely trouble
you. Remember that not everyone shares your connected view of humanity or believes
that every negative event ultimately affects everyone.
EXECUTING
6. Discipline
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You enjoy routine and structure. Your world is best described by the order you create.
You need organization, order and precision. Your controlled planning and routines increase
efficiency and bring predictability and structure to turmoil.
• Because of your need for predictability and control, others might view you as rigid and
inflexible. Try not to automatically dismiss ideas that do not directly fit into the neat
framework you have created.
• As much as you thrive on structure and organization, others thrive on the freedom to
innovate. Be careful about expecting others to follow any structure you put in place.
EXECUTING
7. Responsibility
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You take psychological ownership of what you say you will do. You are committed to stable values such
as honesty and loyalty.
You have a deep sense of dedication and feel ownership for your commitments. You are a
person of your word, and others know they can rely on and trust you.
• Because you find it difficult to turn down others’ requests, sometimes you overcommit. Try
to manage your Responsibility talents by giving up something before you take on a new
task.
• Too many obligations can keep you from spending time with the most important people in
your life. Remember that sometimes, no is the best answer for the health of your
relationships.
STRATEGIC THINKING
8. Context
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You enjoy thinking about the past. You understand the present by researching its history.
You look to history to understand the present. Your distinctive ability to see the link
between where you have been and where you are going is extremely valuable for planning
and decision-making.
• Some people might think that you live in the past and are resistant to change. Consider
explaining the value of understanding history and what has — and has not — worked in the
past, but keep an open mind when new situations arise.
• You are often fascinated by history and the lessons it reveals, but others may find this
information boring or overwhelming. Keep this in mind as you share your perspectives, and
look for signs that you’ve lost people’s attention or interest.
EXECUTING
9. Consistency
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You are keenly aware of the need to treat people the same. You crave stable routines and clear rules
and procedures that everyone can follow.
You can easily and quickly make judgments and create systems that are fair to everyone.
As a result, others know what to expect from you.
• You are so committed to treating each person the same that you might forget that no two
people are alike. Remember that different things motivate different people, and everyone
has their own way of thinking and relating to others.
• You may see yourself as a guardian of what is right and a champion against special
treatment. Realize that others may reject you for assuming that responsibility and will want
to bend the rules for the greater good.
STRATEGIC THINKING
10. Learner
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You have a great desire to learn and want to continuously improve. The process of learning, rather than
the outcome, excites you.
You love to learn, and you intuitively know how you learn best. Your natural ability to pick up
and absorb information quickly and to challenge yourself to continually learn more keeps
you on the cutting edge.
Use your passion for learning to add value to your own and others’ lives.
• Become an early adopter of new technology, and keep your coworkers, friends and family
informed. You learn quickly, and others will appreciate when you share and explain cutting-
edge developments to them.
• Respect your desire to learn. Take advantage of educational opportunities in your
community or at work. Discipline yourself to sign up for at least one new course or class
each year.
• Find opportunities to expand your knowledge. Take on increasingly difficult topics, courses
or projects. You love the challenge of a steep learning curve, so beware of learning
plateaus.
• You place a high value on learning and studying, and you may tend to impose this value on
others. Be sure to respect others’ motivations, and resist pushing them toward learning for
learning’s sake.
• You love the process of learning so much that the outcome might not matter to you. Be
careful not to let the process of knowledge acquisition get in the way of your results and
productivity.
11. Arranger Your greatest opportunity to reach your full potential is developing and
12. Intellection using your strongest CliftonStrengths. But it is also important to
13. Developer understand all 34 of your CliftonStrengths themes.
14. Analytical Your unique CliftonStrengths 34 profile
15. Belief The themes toward the top of your CliftonStrengths 34 profile might show
16. Restorative up regularly in your life, and the ones closer to the bottom might not show
17. Empathy up at all.
18. Focus To fully understand your talent DNA, consider how all your CliftonStrengths
19. Includer themes, separately or in combination, influence your work and personal life.
20. Relator In addition to concentrating on your top 10 themes:
21. Woo
22. Communication • Navigate the middle. You might notice these CliftonStrengths
23. Significance themes in your behaviors from time to time. And you may need to rely
24. Competition on them in certain situations. Think of these themes as a support
25. Deliberative system you can use when you need to.
26. Command
• Manage the bottom. Just as your top CliftonStrengths show you
27. Ideation
who you are, those at the bottom may tell you who you are not. They
28. Strategic
aren’t necessarily weaknesses, but they are your least powerful
29. Activator
themes. If you don’t manage them properly, they could prevent you
30. Maximizer
from maximizing your potential.
31. Futuristic
32. Individualization • Identify weaknesses. To determine if any themes are getting in your
33. Achiever way, review the “What Is a Weakness?” section on the next page, and
34. Self-Assurance find out how to overcome potential obstacles to your success.
To learn more about your entire CliftonStrengths profile, see the “Your
CliftonStrengths 34 Theme Sequence” section at the end of the report.
What Is a Weakness?
1. Adaptability Focusing on your CliftonStrengths doesn’t mean you can ignore your
2. Positivity weaknesses.
3. Harmony Gallup defines a weakness as anything that gets in the way of your
4. Input success.
5. Connectedness While the CliftonStrengths assessment does not mathematically quantify
6. Discipline weaknesses, you can use your profile to understand how any of your
7. Responsibility CliftonStrengths themes might prevent you from maximizing your potential.
8. Context
Your strongest CliftonStrengths are your best opportunity for success. But
9. Consistency in some situations and with some people, these same themes can hinder
10. Learner your effectiveness and become blind spots.
11. Arranger
12. Intellection The themes at the bottom of your profile can also get in the way of your
success. They aren’t necessarily weaknesses, but they likely do not come
13. Developer
naturally to you.
14. Analytical
15. Belief To identify potential weaknesses, ask yourself:
16. Restorative • Does this theme ever undermine my success?
17. Empathy • Have I ever received negative feedback related to this theme?
18. Focus • Does my role require me to use this theme, but I feel drained when I
19. Includer do?
20. Relator
21. Woo If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be discovering
22. Communication areas of weakness. Don’t ignore your weaknesses. Instead, focus on your
strengths, and work to manage the areas that get in your way.
23. Significance
24. Competition How do I manage my weaknesses?
25. Deliberative • Claim them: Know your weaknesses and how they get in your way
26. Command • Collaborate: Ask partners for support
27. Ideation
• Apply a strength: Use a different theme to achieve a better
28. Strategic
outcome
29. Activator
• Just do it: Lean in and do your best
30. Maximizer
31. Futuristic
32. Individualization
33. Achiever
34. Self-Assurance
The best teams are made up of individuals who understand their own — and others’ — unique contribution
to the team. This awareness and appreciation empowers the team to be more cohesive, versatile,
productive and engaged.
However, be careful not to let the four domains limit your thinking. If you don’t have any top themes in a
particular domain, don’t worry. That doesn’t mean you can’t think strategically or build relationships, for
example. Everyone accomplishes tasks, influences others, builds relationships and processes information.
You just use your stronger themes in different domains to get to the same outcome.
The next page shows you how your unique CliftonStrengths profile sorts into the four domains. Knowing
which domain you lead with can help you understand your most powerful contribution.
EXECUTING INFLUENCING
This chart shows the relative distribution of your unique CliftonStrengths 34 results across the four domains. These
categories are a good starting point for you to examine where you have the most potential to perform with excellence and
how you can best contribute to a team.
See chart below for more detail about your CliftonStrengths by domain.
33 6 29 30 1 19 14 4
Achiever Discipline Activator Maximizer Adaptability Includer Analytical Input
11 18 26 34 5 32 8 12
15 7 22 23 13 2 31 10
Belief Responsibility Communication Significance Developer Positivity Futuristic Learner
9 16 24 21 17 20 27 28
25 3
Deliberative Harmony
Take Action
Discovering your CliftonStrengths is only the beginning. Achieving excellence depends on your ability to
develop and apply your CliftonStrengths and maximize your potential.
• Share your CliftonStrengths with others. Conversations with those closest to you can
accelerate your CliftonStrengths development.
• Find a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach. A coach can help you learn to productively apply your
CliftonStrengths regardless of the situation.
• Apply your strongest CliftonStrengths every day. Read the suggestions in your report, and
use the following statements to guide you.
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE WITH YOUR TOP CLIF TONSTRE NGTHS
Adaptability
React immediately, and be a positive force for change.
Positivity
Help others see the humor and positive side of life.
Harmony
Help others find common ground through practical solutions.
Input
Keep exploring; always be curious.
Connectedness
Help others see connections and purpose in everyday life.
Discipline
Create structure, and keep things organized.
Responsibility
Take ownership for the things that matter most to you.
Context
Look to the past to build a better tomorrow.
Consistency
Create fair systems to establish and build trust.
Learner
Use your passion for learning to add value to your own and others’ lives.