Current Strengths
Strategic Thinking CliftonStrengths Themes (From Cliftonstrengths website)
These themes answer the question “How do you absorb, think about and analyze information and situations?” They may help you make better decisions and create better outcomes.
When teams need to focus on what could be, they turn to people with Strategic Thinking themes to stretch the team’s thinking for the future.
Ideation (Strategic Thinking)
People exceptionally talented in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.
Achiever (Executing)
People exceptionally talented in the Achiever theme work hard and possess a great deal of stamina. They take immense satisfaction in being busy and productive.
Restorative (Executing)
People exceptionally talented in the Restorative theme are adept at dealing with problems. They are good at figuring out what is wrong and resolving it.
Command (Influencing)
People exceptionally talented in the Command theme have presence. They can take control of a situation and make decisions.
Individualization (Relationship Building)
People exceptionally talented in the Individualization theme are intrigued with the unique qualities of each person. They have a gift for figuring out how different people can work together productively.
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The Four Strength Domains: Strategic thinking, relationship building, executing, and influencing.
These domains describe how people and teams use their talents to work with information, make things happen, influence others and build relationships.
My take on my strengths:
I am blessed to have been able to study and understand my strengths over the past 6 years. Although they have changed over time, Command, Restorative, Ideation, and Individualization always seem to stick. I found it interesting to see I had strengths in all four domains. As someone who claims to be one of many, but master of none, this seems fitting. I see this as an asset when it comes to managing people, projects, events, and crisis scenarios. I believe I work best with a team who I can motivate and help execute my ideas, but truly enjoy time to plan on my own and dream up unique solutions. My strength of restoration has aided me to seek out roles, without looking at the time commitment, but rather what projects/ processes need to be evaluated and tweaked to better my role. Restoration combined with Ideation, means II find it easy to find creative solutions to problems, and then, use my influencing, executing relationship building qualities to resolve and leave behind instructions for those to come. The why and how are important to me, so with any role, I seek to explain this to others, and include this where possible, so others can understand how we came to our solution/conclusion.
Ultimately, I have had a hard time understanding my strengths and fearing that without having more in one domain. But with time and practice in using my strengths, and understanding how they work with others, I am happy to have a diverse list and use this to my advantage with leading a team.
What are your strengths and what insight can you provide for me and my continued journey to growing with this assessment?