One of the workshop participants had Deliberative in his Top 5 CliftonStrengths themes. Recently, we conducted a StrengthsFinder teambuilding workshop for a non-profit organization that wanted to develop their volunteer leaders and staff. However, because of this natural wiring, many questions pop up the first time an individual with Deliberative sees their CliftonStrengths profiles. Due to the careful consideration they give to every situation or person they encounter, they tend to make outstanding decisions. They take time to weigh every option, mulling over the variables until all the possible pitfalls and obstacles come up - and then they find ways to eliminate these obstacles. Those with the Deliberative CliftonStrengths theme are careful and vigilant. However, it does serve as a classic example of the kind of disparity that individuals with Restorative will naturally spot within their CliftonStrengths profile or the StrengthsFinder philosophy.) Deliberative: 'I see the pitfalls.' We cover this common misconception in our article on the four StrengthsFinder leadership domains. (Side note: This is not true, by the way. (Red refers to the “Strategic Thinking” domain of leadership strengths, and yellow refers to the “Influencing” domain of leadership strengths.)Īccording to her, having no Strategic Thinking or Influencing strengths meant that she wasn’t a good thinker and that she couldn’t influence people on a larger scale. “Because I’ve got no red or yellow in my top 10,” she responded. But because they are natural problem-solvers, they tend to see the problems within their StrengthsFinder results.įor example, a friend of mine with the Restorative theme once told me that she didn’t much like her CliftonStrengths profile. Individuals with Restorative are intuitively attuned to spotting and resolving the problems around them. Here are the top 5 themes most likely to take issue with their CliftonStrengths results, and the reasons for it: Restorative: 'I see the problems.' So if you (or a friend) happen to have one of these themes and you had a similar reaction the first time you saw your Top 5 StrengthsFinder themes, fret not: you’re not alone! In fact, there are a few talent themes that are likely to question the validity of their CliftonStrengths results, simply because of the way they’re naturally wired. But based on my experience as a StrengthsFinder coach, Restorative is one of the top few talent themes very likely to find fault with their CliftonStrengths profiles. Truth is, I didn’t – it was just a good guess. I’m not sure how accurate the results are, though.”

She responded, “Uh, I don’t really remember all five of them. I got to talking about my work as a StrengthsFinder Coach (a common occurrence, if you hang around me often), and one of the young adults there remarked that she’d recently taken the CliftonStrengths assessment.Ĭurious, I asked: “Ah, really? What were your StrengthsFinder results?” Some strengths have no obvious partnerships.One Sunday, I was sitting around with a few other folks from the young adults group I was involved in. Positivity _Impacting_ Relationshipīelow you will find the suggested partnerships among strengths as listed in Strengthsfinder 2.0

Significance_Striving _InfluencingĪdaptability_Striving_Relationshipĭeveloper_Impacting_RelationshipĬonnectedness_ Thinking _Relationship Responsibility _Relating _ ExecutingĪctivator _ Striving _InfluencingĬommunication_Relating_ Influencing Talent Theme_1999 Category (GSM*)_2007 CategoryĪrranger_Striving _Executing Below, I will highlight the strengths that have switched categories. What I would like to know is if the new categories are unique because of the business application of the strengths, or if Gallup in their ongoing research has refined the categories and now the new ones are more accurate. Unfortunately I don’t have access to the underlying data to confirm these assumptions, but from observation, they seem accurate. Strategic Thinking = Thinking (working smarter).Relationship = Relating (relating with others).Influencing = Impacting (influencing others).– Analytical, Context, Futuristic, Ideation, Input, Intellection, Learner, Strategicįor the sake of analysis I will correlate the categories as such:

– Adaptability, Connectedness, Developer, Empathy, Harmony, Includer, Individualization, Positivity, Relator

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