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StrengthsFinder 2.0 Report

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Lucia Aschettino

Your Top 5 Themes

LearnerFuturisticIdeationCommandResponsibility

Strengths Insight Guide

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Learner

Shared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Learner theme have a great desire to learn and wantto continuously improve. In particular, the process of learning, rather than the outcome,excites them.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?

Instinctively, you enjoy sharing your point of view with individuals who ask, “What do youthink?” When you are familiar with the topic, problem, or people involved, you are quitecomfortable expressing yourself. Otherwise, you set out to discover the facts and weigh themwith care before speaking your mind — that is, giving advice or openly stating your ideas.Driven by your talents, you spend considerable time examining exactly why something hasgone wrong. Whenever you experience a personal or professional loss, make a mistake, orexperience failure, you tend to investigate. You are likely to be restless until you haveanswers to all your basic questions: What? How? When? Where? Who? Why? Chances aregood that you usually equate education — formal and informal — with understanding moreabout something today than you understood about it yesterday. By nature, you are a rationalthinker. That is, you exhibit good judgment and exercise sound reasoning. These thoughtprocesses serve you well whenever you set out to acquire true knowledge and/or gain a skill.You school yourself by reading, investigating, examining, experiencing, or receivinginstruction in a subject. Because of your strengths, you are able to concentrate for hours at atime. You examine new information to deepen your understanding of various subjects. Whenyou explore topics, customarily you generate fresh ideas. Acquiring knowledge and skillseach day adds zest to your life.

Questions

1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines standout to you?

2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most inyou?



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Futuristic


People who are especially talented in the Futuristic theme are inspired by the future and whatcould be. They inspire others with their visions of the future.



Driven by your talents, you channel your energy toward what you can accomplish in thecoming months, years, or decades. Your mind churns out new and inventive ways of reachingyour goals. You risk becoming bored and delivering a lackluster performance when you areconstantly forced to adhere to a predetermined process, a tried-and-tested procedure, or atraditional method. You can hear yourself pleading, “But, if we only did it this way, it wouldbe so much better.” It’s very likely that you channel your mental and physical energiestoward what you can accomplish in the months, years, or decades ahead. The question youmust answer is this: “How far into the future can I think before my ideas start becomingvague or uninspiring?” Instinctively, you invest considerable time creating the future of yourown choosing. You frequently share your ideas about what will be possible in the comingmonths, years, and decades. You probably capture people’s attention whenever you describein vivid detail what you imagine. Because of your strengths, you spend a lot of time andenergy contemplating what the coming months, years, or decades can offer you. From yourperspective, the future is full of possibilities for success. Through careful planning, youidentify what you must accomplish to reach your objectives. You are preoccupied with whatyou can do. You refuse to be distracted by what you cannot do. By nature, you create detailedand vivid images of what the future promises. You can describe it long before others canimagine it.

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Ideation


People who are especially talented in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They areable to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.



It’s very likely that you recharge your mind by creating ideas for new projects. This occurseven before you have completed your current assignment. You are happiest when you canhand off your unfinished work to others. You are like a surgeon who performs the operationbut asks a competent assistant close the patient’s incision. You have ways of freeing yourselfto think about your next project. By nature, you sometimes opt to systematically studyparticular subjects, rules, processes, mechanisms, or programs when you work alone. In youropinion, deciding how to do something might be one of the advantages of being an individualcontributor. Driven by your talents, you engage life with gusto. Bursting with creativity, youapproach assignments, tasks, projects, opportunities, or problems. You like to take theinnovative path rather than follow the traditional and tried-and-true ways of doing things.Because of your strengths, you usually contribute more innovative ideas to group discussionsthan most people do. You actually help strangers, newcomers, or outsiders feel comfortablesharing their thoughts. You welcome their fresh ideas. Why? They often stimulate everyone’sthinking, including your own. Instinctively, you are an original and innovative thinker. Othersfrequently rely on you to generate novel concepts, theories, plans, or solutions. You refuse tobe stifled by traditions or trapped by routines. You probably bristle when someone says, “Wecan’t change that. We’ve always done it this way.”

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Command


People who are especially talented in the Command theme have presence. They can takecontrol of a situation and make decisions.



Because of your strengths, you can prepare people to encounter danger, bear pain, orwithstand adversity. You fortify others so they grow stronger. Instinctively, you probablytake calculated risks. You typically study the pros and cons of a situation and assess theconsequences of an action. This thoughtful approach generally allows you to increase yournumber of successes. It’s very likely that you occasionally figure out how to get ahead andstay ahead of others. You usually generate more new ideas than anyone else in the group.Sometimes your brainpower gives you the advantage you need to succeed. Chances are goodthat you generate ideas quickly. You draw clever linkages between facts, events, people,problems, or solutions. You present others with numerous options at a pace some finddizzying. Your innovative thinking tends to foster ongoing dialogue between and among thegroup’s participants. By nature, you contribute many innovative ideas to the group duringbrainstorming sessions. You tend to be highly imaginative when proposals are fully heard andany criticism is reserved for a later time.

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Responsibility


People who are especially talented in the Responsibility theme take psychological ownershipof what they say they will do. They are committed to stable values such as honesty andloyalty.



It’s very likely that you often argue that people should be held to the highest moral standards.You insist that those who break the law be required to accept the consequences of their deeds.You have little sympathy for people who are caught in the act of taking things that do notbelong to them. Because of your strengths, you might be known as a reliable and dependableperson. Perhaps you are motivated to work diligently. In some cases, you cannot rest untilyou have completed what you told someone you would do. Instinctively, you are quitecomfortable being honest about yourself with others. You harbor very few illusions aboutwho you really are. Furthermore, you can openly acknowledge your mistakes andshortcomings. This is apt to distinguish you from most people. By nature, you sometimesopen yourself to diverse types of people. You ordinarily welcome individuals who otherwisewould feel out of place or ignored. Driven by your talents, you are apt to be disappointed withyourself when you fail to make someone feel welcome in your presence. You generally wantto give your approval to all kinds of individuals regardless of their age, nationality, income,job, education, religion, handicaps, or appearance.

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