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My Clifton Report
My Clifton Report
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 Strategic
1. Achiever 11. Communication Thinking CliftonStrengths
2. Strategic 12. Significance themes.
3. Includer 13. Intellection
4. Analytical 14. Developer EXECUTING themes help you
5. Belief 15. Arranger make things happen.
6. Learner 16. Responsibility INFLUENCING themes help
7. Input 17. Self-Assurance you take charge, speak up and
8. Competition 18. Futuristic make sure others are heard.
9. Activator 19. Discipline RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
10. Relator 20. Woo themes help you build strong
21. Focus relationships that hold a team
22. Empathy together.
23. Ideation STRATEGIC THINKING
24. Adaptability themes help you absorb and
25. Connectedness analyze information that informs
26. Positivity better decisions.
27. Command RE AD “IDENTIF Y YOUR UNIQUE
28. Restorative CONTRIB UTION: THE
29. Maximizer CLIF TONSTRENGTHS DOMAINS”
30. Deliberative SECTION TO LE ARN MORE
31. Consistency
32. Context
33. Harmony
34. Individualization
1. Achiever The CliftonStrengths at the top of your profile are the most powerful.
2. Strategic These themes represent how you are uniquely talented. They are the
3. Includer starting point for living your strongest life possible.
4. Analytical Develop these CliftonStrengths to maximize your potential
5. Belief Your greatest chance to succeed — at work or anywhere else — lies in
6. Learner strengthening what you naturally do best and doing more of it.
7. Input
8. Competition Start with your top five.
They are your most powerful natural talents.
9. Activator
10. Relator 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.
EXECUTING
1. Achiever
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You work hard and possess a great deal of stamina. You take immense satisfaction in being busy and
productive.
By nature, you dedicate yourself to acquiring knowledge and using your skills. You likely are
self-taught in many ways. You probably work with instructors, trainers, coaches, or mentors.
You embrace opportunities to expose your mind to new ideas. You welcome the chance to
practice new ways of plying — that is, diligently practicing — your trade or craft.
Driven by your talents, you typically enroll in demanding classes. You thrive in situations
where you can test your talents as well as your endurance to discover how much you can
accomplish. You need to prove yourself to yourself each day.
It’s very likely that you enjoy working hard with little rest as long as you can partner with
individuals who share your strong work ethic. Having low performers in a group certainly
tries your patience, especially when they are content to meet the minimum expectations.
You feel that your drive to do more and better work annoys them.
Instinctively, you traditionally push yourself to work harder and longer than you have in the
past when your results are measured in a meaningful way. Perhaps you gauge today’s
performance against your previous scores, ratings, or rankings. You may be your most
worthy opponent when comparisons are made.
Because of your strengths, you aspire to head up a large enterprise. You feel you can
transform this hope into reality by working quite hard.
You love to complete tasks, and your accomplishments fulfill you. You have a strong inner
drive — an innate source of intensity, energy and power that motivates you to work hard to
get things done.
Bring intensity and effort to the most important areas of your life.
• Set challenging goals. Take advantage of your self-motivation with a more ambitious goal
every time you finish a project.
• Take time to celebrate each success before moving on to your next item or task, even for
just a few minutes.
• Limit your commitments to projects or assignments that align with your highest priorities
as much as you can.
• Be sure to take regular breaks, even though you might be naturally equipped to work harder
and longer than others.
• Make sure your to-do lists include tasks and responsibilities beyond work.
• You might get frustrated when others don’t work as hard as you do, and they might see you
as too demanding. Remember that not everyone has the same high expectations for
themselves or is driven to work as hard as you are.
• Your pressing need to get things done might cause you to take on projects or agree to
deadlines before you know everything that’s involved. Before you commit to something,
make sure you have the time and resources you need to do it right.
STRATEGIC THINKING
2. Strategic
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You create alternative ways to proceed. Faced with any given scenario, you can quickly spot the
relevant patterns and issues.
It’s very likely that you often bring an imaginative game plan to your teammates’ attention.
You enjoy partnering with people who rely on you to identify critical as well as recurring
sequences of events, facts, or data.
Instinctively, you are known for your ease with language. This ability serves you well when
you need to talk with newcomers or outsiders. Your vocabulary probably allows you to tell
stories or express your ideas with great clarity.
Chances are good that you notice that the right word usually pops into your mind exactly
when you need it. Your comfort with language makes the oral or written expression of your
ideas or feelings appear almost effortless. Others benefit from your ability to transmit
information, thoughts, or emotions by using a vocabulary they can easily understand.
Driven by your talents, you generate innovative ideas. You have a unique perspective on
events, people and situations. You probably inspire others to start projects and launch
initiatives as a result of your perspective. You tend to identify a goal, devise numerous ways
of reaching it and choose the best alternative. This explains why you see opportunities,
trends and solutions before your teammates, classmates or peers do.
Because of your strengths, you long to know more so you remain on the cutting edge of
your field or areas of interest. Your inventive mind usually generates more possibilities than
you can handle or fund. Nonetheless, you are committed to acquiring knowledge and/or
skills. You study everything involved in a situation and conceive entirely new ways of seeing
or doing things. What you already know prompts you to ask questions and delve even
deeper into a subject or problem.
You quickly weigh alternative paths and determine the best one. Your natural ability to
anticipate, play out different scenarios and plan ahead makes you an agile decision-maker.
Always have at least three options in mind so you can adapt if circumstances change.
• Strengthen the groups you belong to by using your talent to discover the best path to
success. Because you can do this quickly, it may look as if you are “winging it,” so explain
yourself along the way to help others understand what you see.
• Schedule time each day to think about your goals and strategies. Time alone might be the
best way for you to evaluate all your options and to find the right course of action for each
goal.
• Trust your insights. Because you consider options so naturally and easily, you might not
realize how you came up with a strategy. But because of your exceptional talents, it will likely
be successful.
• Find a group that does important work, and contribute your strategic thinking. Your ideas
and expert planning can make you a strong leader in any group.
• Be prepared to explain your thought process; sometimes people can misinterpret your
Strategic talents as criticism of their ideas. Help them understand that, instead, you are
considering what is already working well and what others have already done.
• When working with others, sometimes they may misinterpret your strong Strategic talents
as criticism. Be mindful of what is already working well and what others have accomplished.
• Because you evaluate patterns and pathways so quickly, others might find it difficult to
follow or understand your thought process. Be aware that sometimes, you might have to
backtrack to explain how you got to where you are.
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
3. Includer
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You accept others. You show awareness of those who feel left out and make an effort to include them.
Because of your strengths, you probably harbor tender feelings for individuals who are
quite different from you. Your openhearted — that is, kind and generous — nature compels
you to reach out and draw into your life many different kinds of people.
It’s very likely that you genuinely care about the people you meet. Your fondness is apt to
be apparent to them. Habitually, you ask lots of questions and carefully study the
responses. Because you take time to know them personally, many individuals feel safe
sharing their innermost thoughts or feelings with you. Armed with these insights, you
probably become their ambassador of good will. You frequently teach your circle of
acquaintances and friends how to welcome these people into the group.
Chances are good that you can help others easily fit into groups. You quickly establish
good relationships with just about everyone you encounter. How? You spontaneously
notice people’s good qualities. When others hear your favorable comments about an
individual, they are much more likely to make the person feel welcome.
By nature, you work with much more intensity in the evening. This awareness probably
allows you to increase your productivity, improve the quality of your outcomes, enhance
your efficiency, and better manage your priorities.
Instinctively, you make a point of teaming with individuals who regularly acknowledge your
strengths. You want to be recognized for having mastered specific bodies of knowledge
and special skills.
You notice those who are left out, and you naturally invite them in and make them feel
welcome. Your ability to accept people without judgment fosters tolerance and open-
mindedness.
Stretch the circle wider. Find ways to get more people involved.
• Look for opportunities to bring people from diverse cultures and backgrounds together.
You might be a natural leader in connecting and enlightening individuals from different
walks of life.
• Help those who are new to a group get to know others. You are great at quickly making
people feel accepted and involved.
• Be a spokesperson for those whose voices are not usually heard. Emphasize the
importance of including everyone’s feelings and opinions.
• Choose roles that allow you to continuously interact with people. You will enjoy the
challenge of making everyone feel important.
• Help your friends and coworkers see the best in people. Explain to them that to respect our
differences — our diversity — we must begin by appreciating what we all share — our
similarities.
• You might tend to include others to the point of unnecessary complexity, with too many
opinions and conflicting efforts. Acknowledge that sometimes, you will need to be
selective for the sake of clarity and efficiency.
• Even though you cast few judgments, be careful not to criticize those who belong to
exclusive groups and clubs. While you likely disagree with what they stand for and might
view them as elitist, remember that everyone has the right to choose whom they spend
time with.
STRATEGIC THINKING
4. Analytical
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You search for reasons and causes. You have the ability to think about all of the factors that might
affect a situation.
By nature, you are a reasonable person. You regularly investigate people’s behavior to
discover the truth about them. This explains why you find something to approve of in so
many different types of individuals.
Chances are good that you are likely to be restless until you have collected enough insights
to thoughtfully examine an abstract concept, theory, or idea. This is one reason why you are
attracted to people who frequently engage in intelligent conversations. They intentionally
avoid casual chit-chat or meaningless small talk.
It’s very likely that you usually bring a rational and objective perspective to your discussions
with possibility thinkers. You are the person who helps them transform their big dreams into
workable action plans. They probably rely on you to outline the basic steps, identify needed
resources, or establish a sensible timeline.
Instinctively, you probably notice that people tell you about their innermost thoughts and
feelings. Why? They are apt to sense you can help them sort through information and
pinpoint relevant facts. You are known for your good mind and your sensitivity.
Driven by your talents, you customarily search for pertinent facts and relevant data to
reconstruct the chain of events that produced a problem or an opportunity. You prefer
reasonable explanations. Typically you reject the notion that fate, chance, or luck rules your
life.
Your natural ability to investigate, diagnose and identify patterns results in valuable insights
that are logical and well-thought-out. Your critical thinking helps clarify reality and provides
objectivity.
• Your objective and fact-based approach to decision-making may seem skeptical or critical.
Keep in mind that others will have emotional, subjective and personal opinions — and that
their input is just as valuable as yours is.
• Because you ask many questions, people may think that you always doubt the validity of
their ideas, that you do not trust them and that you are tough to work with. Explain your
analysis so they will be more likely to trust your process and your motives.
EXECUTING
5. Belief
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You have certain core values that are unchanging. Out of these values emerges a defined purpose for
your life.
Because of your strengths, you are determined to leave the world a better place than you
found it. This explains why you welcome many kinds of people into your life. You realize that
when individuals fail to make their unique contributions, humankind suffers an irreversible
loss.
Instinctively, you are naturally compelled to admit the truth. If someone asked you or told
you to intentionally mislead someone, you would reply, “I cannot and I will not do that!”
Chances are good that you are enthused about being declared the very best. The
experience of winning likely means much more to you than any monetary reward.
Driven by your talents, you are determined to push for changes that will benefit humankind
or Earth itself. Your desire to have an impact motivates you to enter into conversations with
intelligent people. Drawing on their wealth of knowledge and ideas as well as sharing your
treasure trove of wisdom is exciting. These discussions frequently cause you to think in
new ways and to reexamine your purpose in life.
By nature, you choose to live your life in a way that benefits individuals and society as a
whole. You are highly motivated to make the world a better place than you found it. Your
ideals and core values influence how you spend your time and use your talents. You have a
deep and abiding concern for others.
Your core values guide you and give you purpose. You provide clarity, conviction and
stability by living your values.
Honor your values; they keep you on course during tough times.
• Keep reminders of your personal mission around. In difficult situations, these reminders will
help you focus on your objective and the valuable contribution you make.
• Have courage in your ability to select projects to work on. Ask about their intended
outcomes and target audiences. When possible, get involved in ideas and projects that
match your values.
• Try to keep an appropriate balance between your work and personal life. Both areas will
benefit when you dedicate enough time and attention to each.
• Accept that others will have values different from yours. Having strong Belief is not the
same as being judgmental.
• Don’t be afraid to give voice to your values to help others know who you are and how to
relate to you.
• Because you are passionate about your own beliefs, others might view you as stubborn or
set in your ways. Keep in mind that everyone has a unique worldview, and often, it will not
be the same as yours.
• Be careful not to pass judgment on others’ principles and motivations. Their values and
belief systems deserve your respect, even when you don’t agree with them.
STRATEGIC THINKING
6. 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.
STRATEGIC THINKING
7. Input
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You have a need to collect and archive. You may accumulate information, ideas, artifacts or even
relationships.
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.
INFLUENCING
8. Competition
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You measure your progress against the performance of others. You strive to win first place and revel in
contests.
You motivate yourself and others to a higher standard of performance. You can raise a
group’s achievement level by creating a culture of winning and aspiring to be the best.
• Be careful not to let your competitive spirit get in the way of your relationships. Not
everyone has your drive to win, and constantly comparing your performance to theirs
might offend them or hurt their feelings.
• Winning at all costs isn’t winning; it’s self-defeating. Make sure you maintain your principles
when you push yourself toward ultimate victory.
INFLUENCING
9. Activator
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You can make things happen by turning thoughts into action. You want to do things now, rather than
simply talk about them.
You are a catalyst. You naturally know how to turn ideas into action, and you make things
happen. Your energy can be contagious and engaging.
Be the catalyst. When others are stuck, make a decision and get going.
• Record your insights or revelations when you have them so you can act on them later.
• Take responsibility for your intensity. Your drive to make things happen can be the push that
people and groups need to move from discussion to action.
• Put yourself in situations where you can make things happen. Your energy and tempo will
engage you and the people you work with.
• Sometimes you might charge ahead and act without a solid plan. Before making a major
decision, think about challenging yourself to consider alternatives and weigh options first.
• The force of your urging people to take action might make them feel overwhelmed and
pressured to act before they are comfortable. Remember that others may not feel that
same urgency, and some people will need more time to think before they act.
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
10. Relator
HOW YOU CAN THRIVE
You enjoy close relationships with others. You find deep satisfaction in working hard with friends to
achieve a goal.
You naturally form genuine and mutually rewarding one-on-one relationships. Your
authenticity allows you to build close, long-lasting connections that foster trust and
confidence.
Connect deeply with the right people to gain friends for life.
• Try to get one-on-one time with people, rather than attempting to connect with them in a
group. This will help you build the deeper and trusting relationships you value most.
• Stay in contact with your friends, no matter how busy you are. Your closest relationships
energize you.
• Make sure people know that you are more interested in their character and personality than
in their status or job title. You might serve as a model for others.
• Because Relators typically do not trust others implicitly and people have to earn your trust
over time, some may think you are hard to get to know. Be aware of this perception with
new people you meet as well as with the people you see every day.
• Your tendency to spend more time with the people you know best might give the
impression that you are exclusive or unfriendly to those outside your inner circle. Consider
that you might be missing out on the benefits of widening the circle and getting to know
more people.
11. Communication Your greatest opportunity to reach your full potential is developing and
12. Significance using your strongest CliftonStrengths. But it is also important to
13. Intellection understand all 34 of your CliftonStrengths themes.
14. Developer Your unique CliftonStrengths 34 profile
15. Arranger The themes toward the top of your CliftonStrengths 34 profile might show
16. Responsibility up regularly in your life, and the ones closer to the bottom might not show
17. Self-Assurance up at all.
18. Futuristic To fully understand your talent DNA, consider how all your CliftonStrengths
19. Discipline themes, separately or in combination, influence your work and personal life.
20. Woo In addition to concentrating on your top 10 themes:
21. Focus
22. Empathy • Navigate the middle. You might notice these CliftonStrengths
23. Ideation themes in your behaviors from time to time. And you may need to rely
24. Adaptability on them in certain situations. Think of these themes as a support
25. Connectedness system you can use when you need to.
26. Positivity
• Manage the bottom. Just as your top CliftonStrengths show you
27. Command
who you are, those at the bottom may tell you who you are not. They
28. Restorative
aren’t necessarily weaknesses, but they are your least powerful
29. Maximizer
themes. If you don’t manage them properly, they could prevent you
30. Deliberative
from maximizing your potential.
31. Consistency
32. Context • Identify weaknesses. To determine if any themes are getting in your
33. Harmony way, review the “What Is a Weakness?” section on the next page, and
34. Individualization 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. Achiever Focusing on your CliftonStrengths doesn’t mean you can ignore your
2. Strategic weaknesses.
3. Includer Gallup defines a weakness as anything that gets in the way of your
4. Analytical success.
5. Belief While the CliftonStrengths assessment does not mathematically quantify
6. Learner weaknesses, you can use your profile to understand how any of your
7. Input CliftonStrengths themes might prevent you from maximizing your potential.
8. Competition
Your strongest CliftonStrengths are your best opportunity for success. But
9. Activator in some situations and with some people, these same themes can hinder
10. Relator your effectiveness and become blind spots.
11. Communication
12. Significance 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. Intellection
naturally to you.
14. Developer
15. Arranger To identify potential weaknesses, ask yourself:
16. Responsibility • Does this theme ever undermine my success?
17. Self-Assurance • Have I ever received negative feedback related to this theme?
18. Futuristic • Does my role require me to use this theme, but I feel drained when I
19. Discipline do?
20. Woo
21. Focus If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be discovering
22. Empathy 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. Ideation
24. Adaptability How do I manage my weaknesses?
25. Connectedness • Claim them: Know your weaknesses and how they get in your way
26. Positivity • Collaborate: Ask partners for support
27. Command
• Apply a strength: Use a different theme to achieve a better
28. Restorative
outcome
29. Maximizer
• Just do it: Lean in and do your best
30. Deliberative
31. Consistency
32. Context
33. Harmony
34. Individualization
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.
1 19 9 29 24 3 4 7
Achiever Discipline Activator Maximizer Adaptability Includer Analytical Input
15 21 27 17 25 34 32 13
5 16 11 12 14 26 18 6
Belief Responsibility Communication Significance Developer Positivity Futuristic Learner
31 28 8 20 22 10 23 2
Consistency Restorative Competition Woo Empathy Relator Ideation Strategic
30 33
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
Achiever
Bring intensity and effort to the most important areas of your life.
Strategic
Always have at least three options in mind so you can adapt if circumstances change.
Includer
Stretch the circle wider. Find ways to get more people involved.
Analytical
Use your logical, objective approach to make important decisions.
Belief
Honor your values; they keep you on course during tough times.
Learner
Use your passion for learning to add value to your own and others’ lives.
Input
Keep exploring; always be curious.
Competition
Aim for first place so you’ll always finish strong.
Activator
Be the catalyst. When others are stuck, make a decision and get going.
Relator
Connect deeply with the right people to gain friends for life.
2. Strategic 9. Activator
STR ATEGIC THINKING INFLUENCING
People exceptionally talented in the Strategic theme People exceptionally talented in the Activator theme
create alternative ways to proceed. Faced with any can make things happen by turning thoughts into
given scenario, they can quickly spot the relevant action. They want to do things now, rather than simply
patterns and issues. talk about them.