Strengths Based Leadership Report Tuan A Vu

Strengths-Based Leadership Report(with your personalized Strengths Insights)

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Leader: Tuan Vu

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

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

Your Top Five Clifton StrengthsFinder Themes

Executing Influencing RelationshipBuilding Strategic Thinking

Belief Maximizer Connectedness Learner

Ideation

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

Learner

Chances are good that you try to pay attention to what you do naturally and well.Occasionally you set out to broaden your knowledge in certain areas or sharpen specificskills. Maybe you are motivated to strive for excellence by using a particular talent. Perhapsyou refuse to waste time, energy, or money correcting or fixing some of your limitations.

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Now and then, you aim to concentrate on what you do quite well. You may think this is amore challenging way to live. Instinctively, you sometimes devote your entire attention tospecific tasks you desire to complete. From time to time, you study what needs to be doneand how you can tackle particular assignments. To some extent, your curiosity draws you tointeresting sources of information: people, printed materials, the Internet, formal classes,casual conversations, or personal experiences. You might be happier when you know a fewmore things today than you knew yesterday. By nature, you might search for the factors thatproduced a certain outcome or started a particular chain of events. Sometimes you arefrustrated until you figure out why things happened the way they did. It’s very likely that youare motivated to continually acquire knowledge and skills. Discovering new ways to use yourtalents energizes you. You are likely to escape from situations and avoid people who wantyou to keep doing what you already know how to do well. Maintaining an intellectual statusquo is unacceptable to you. Driven by your talents, you sometimes yearn to know more aboutthe thoughts of certain visionaries. Perhaps in their presence you begin to see how some ofthe inventions and ideas they propose might affect your life.

Ideation

Because of your strengths, you may enjoy occasional opportunities to understand individuals.Once in a while, you carefully examine each person’s behavior, character, choice of friends,interests, talents, shortcomings, skills, knowledge, future goals, or history. In the process, youmight draw conclusions or make judgments about certain individuals. Chances are good thatyou periodically engage innovators in small talk or serious discussions. Perhaps you ask forexamples or illustrations to better understand their inventive ideas. You might keep thesecreative people talking so you collect an abundance of information. Afterward, you mayreplay these verbal exchanges in your mind. You attempt to identify innovators’ key points,and sometimes assess whether their ideas for the coming years or decades make sense. Bynature, you marvel whenever you create a link between one thought or object and another.You develop entirely new concepts, theories, innovations, designs, plots, conclusions,proposals, and more. With each mental leap, you experience feelings of happiness, pleasure,and success. Instinctively, you may be delighted when you can generate new and innovativeideas for doing certain tasks or projects. Perhaps you lose enthusiasm or become bored whenyou are forced to follow standard operating procedures. Periodically you wonder if you are inthe right job or course of study when your creativity is stifled. Maybe you are frustrated bypeople who conclude that your inventive suggestions are forms of criticism orinsubordination — that is, refusal to submit to authority. Driven by your talents, yousometimes are aware of the views specific people have of you. This partially explains whyyou keep expanding your vocabulary to include elaborate terminology and complicatedwords. You might argue that your use of language causes certain individuals to think well ofyou.



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Maximizer

Because of your strengths, you sometimes engage newcomers or strangers in conversation.You may seek out these individuals. Making the acquaintance of certain types of peopledelights you. Perhaps your outgoing and personable style causes a few of them to want tospend more time with you. Chances are good that you are much happier with your life whenyou 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 evenmonths for a formal awards celebration. It’s very likely that you periodically inspire peopleby finding out what motivates them. You may give individuals lots of recognition. Once in awhile, you celebrate each person’s uniqueness. Perhaps your acknowledgments orcompliments energize particular people. Instinctively, you might often acknowledge theimportance of ideas that people share with you. Perhaps you give your attention to others toboost their self-confidence. By nature, you occasionally credit yourself with unravelingtangled issues, dilemmas, or puzzles. Perhaps you instinctively find the right solutions orcorrect answers.

Connectedness

Chances are good that you sense you are linked to all humanity. You contend that harminganother human being eventually harms you. Misusing the environment has personalconsequences, you argue. This perspective on life influences your thoughts, actions,decisions, or choices. By nature, you occasionally sense you are part of something bigger ormore important than yourself. Maybe this conviction influences choices you make in life.Driven by your talents, you may assert — that is, declare or affirm — that every personcomes into your life for a purpose. This partially explains why you launch into discussions orengage in small talk with people you are meeting for the first time. Perhaps you want tofigure out why your paths in life have crossed. It’s very likely that you occasionally helppeople realize they are part of the human family. With your guidance, perhaps theyunderstand that their lives are intertwined with people they will never meet. Because of yourstrengths, you are attracted to news that promises to improve the quality of life for the entirehuman family. This information makes you feel much more optimistic about the world’sfuture.

Belief

Because of your strengths, you feel much better about yourself and life in general when youhave a worthwhile cause or project to which you can dedicate your mind, body, and spirit.Driven by your talents, you may concede that monetary rewards, though important, are not asubstitute for feeling content with your life. It’s very likely that you periodically think aboutways you can provide for the basic needs of your entire family as well as the desires ofparticular individuals. Perhaps caring for your loved ones is one of your top priorities. By



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nature, you refuse to live a meaningless existence. You seek a vocation that allows you toexpress your deepest values every day. Work or school provides you with the opportunity toenrich and deepen the quality of your life. You really want to do what you love doing. Yourjob or studies need to be much more than a means to an end — that is, a paycheck or adiploma. Chances are good that you tend to be zealous — that is, fervent and enthusiastic —about solving problems that affect the quality of your life. You have been known to devote allyour time and energy to a worthy cause. Your core values explain why you participate invarious social, political, educational, religious, judicial, or environmental activities.



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Education

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