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Strengths Insight ReportSURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 07-29-2015

Michael Deimen

Your Top 5 Themes

IntellectionIdeationLearnerAchieverInput

IntellectionShared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Intellection theme are characterized by their intellectualactivity. They are introspective and appreciate intellectual discussions.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?

It’s very likely that you sometimes evaluate ideas, theories, or philosophies by looking at them fromevery possible angle. Because of your strengths, you choose to associate with people who think bigand think smart. Exchanging ideas, concepts, or theories with intelligent individuals exhilarates you.You pull together as many thoughts as possible from these animated conversations. You never knowwhen someone’s question or suggestion will be valuable. You mentally file away or physicallydocument these snippets — that is, small bits — of insight or wisdom for easy retrieval. Instinctively,you sometimes wish you could switch off your active brain. Even so, you may enjoy your time aloneas you ponder ideas. Perhaps you want to test whether they make sense. By nature, you favorconversations where information, facts, or data are considered objectively — that is, emotions do notdistort the truth. You pose questions, evaluate answers, and figure out how things work. Reducing anidea, theory, or process to its most basic parts provides you with many insights. You are likely toarchive — that is, preserve — your discoveries so you can use them later. Driven by your talents, youperiodically contemplate your obligations and responsibilities. Keeping your promises might be apriority. Somewhat thorough by nature, you may carefully consider what you need to do. Perhaps youcan be relied upon to explore many angles of a situation before drawing conclusions, makingdecisions, or taking action.

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IdeationShared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able tofind connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.



Because of your strengths, you sometimes feel comfortable sharing your original ideas with groups.Perhaps they welcome your innovations. Maybe they realize you suggest novel ways of doing thingsthey would never have considered. By nature, you might welcome opportunities to exchange newtheories, innovative thoughts, or intriguing concepts. Sometimes the original thinking of individualsstimulates your creativity. Driven by your talents, you try to collect straightforward and precise words.Sometimes your enthusiasm for language causes you to expand your vocabulary. You might like totalk or write about philosophies, ideas, or theories that have not been proved or plans that have notbeen put into practice yet. Acquiring sophisticated terminology may be play for you, not work. Perhapsan unexpected chance to use these words in real life gives you satisfaction. Instinctively, you might bethe person people look to for original thoughts during discussions or meetings. Your reputation forinnovative thinking partially explains why groups attempt to recruit you. Perhaps you embraceopportunities to be creative. Chances are good that you regard yourself as logical and reasonable.You spontaneously reduce mechanisms, processes, proposals, ideas, or formulas to their basic parts.You figure out how the pieces interrelate. Your discoveries tell you why something does or does notfunction the way it should.

LearnerShared Theme Description

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



Because of your strengths, you may be able to figure out what makes each person special. You mighttalk to, observe, or study individuals who produce nothing less than excellence to identify whatinspires them. You might prefer to associate with those who insist on taking something good andmaking it better. When you understand what drives a person, perhaps you can motivate him or her totransform whatever was made better into something superb. Driven by your talents, you may devoteyourself to things that intrigue you. Sometimes your attention intensifies if you are encouraged toimmerse yourself in a specific activity or topic. By nature, you might be a rational thinker. That is, yousometimes exhibit good judgment and exercise sound reasoning. These thought processes mayserve you well when you set out to acquire true knowledge and/or gain skill. Perhaps you school


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yourself by reading, investigating, examining, experiencing, or receiving instruction in specificsubjects. It’s very likely that you might yearn to acquire certain types of knowledge and/or masterspecific skills. Perhaps your active mind grows weary of performing the same tasks the same way dayafter day. Now and then, you make a conscious effort to gather facts, evidence, data, or backgroundinformation. To some extent, your hard work prepares you to move forward with particular projects,assignments, or action plans. You might glean much of what you know from observation,investigation, study, or instruction. Instinctively, you sometimes devote your entire attention to specifictasks you desire to complete. From time to time, you study what needs to be done and how you cantackle particular assignments. To some extent, your curiosity draws you to interesting sources ofinformation: people, printed materials, the Internet, formal classes, casual conversations, or personalexperiences. You might be happier when you know a few more things today than you knew yesterday.

AchieverShared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Achiever theme have a great deal of stamina and workhard. They take great satisfaction from being busy and productive.



Chances are good that you place a premium on acquiring various kinds of knowledge and skills. Yousee definite links between your hard work and your accelerated growth as a person or as aprofessional. It’s very likely that you strive to complete many tasks prior to their deadlines. As a result,you usually have ample time to think through your ideas, decisions, or plans. You tend to feel ill-prepared when you are forced into action. Because of your strengths, you argue that hard workinfluences the course of your life more than anything else. You make your own good fortune bypreparing yourself to take advantage of opportunities as they arise. Each time you are successful, youcan outline exactly what you did to reach a goal. You link together facts, incidents, conversations, oravailable resources to understand your accomplishments. You resist the notion that life is nothingmore than a game of chance. By nature, you frequently take a long and hard look at yourself. Youprobably review what you have and have not accomplished. You scrutinize — that is, give closeattention to — how you treated various individuals and how they responded to you. You likelyconsider reordering your personal or professional priorities. You tend to examine many aspects ofyour life. Driven by your talents, you sometimes concentrate exceptional levels of your talent, energy,effort, and/or reasoning on certain tasks. Perhaps your good judgment allows you to establish long-term goals that are worthy of your attention.

InputShared Theme Description

People who are especially talented in the Input theme have a craving to know more. Often they like tocollect and archive all kinds of information.


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Driven by your talents, you may add theoretical, intricate, technical, or difficult-to-understand words toyour vocabulary. Perhaps this is an ongoing process. You might prefer to spend time with people whoappreciate your mastery of language and the ease with which you use sophisticated terminology.Certain individuals feel comfortable asking you what a particular term or phrase means. Instinctively,you might have a particular desire for knowledge. Perhaps you feel it makes little sense to skimthrough a book and read only the highlights. You might want to delve more deeply into intriguingsubjects than most people. Maybe you love to gather all kinds of information. Chances are good thatyou occasionally collect bits and pieces of information. At the time, the value of this material may notbe apparent. In specific cases, you have found it useful to turn to some specialists for help. Perhapsthese individuals can provide you with enough direction so you can ask some questions, render a fewdecisions, or try to map courses of action without upsetting anyone in the process. You avoidangering certain people by consulting with them before doing anything. Because of your strengths,you might place a high value on seeking and gathering specific kinds of information. Perhaps yourneed to be informed motivates you to acquire knowledge so you are as smart as you want to be aboutcertain subjects. By nature, you are comfortable saying, “I am a fine educator.” You probablyconverse 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 exploretopics. You want them to really understand the subject rather than memorize a few facts just to pass atest.


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