Strengths Search 1. Strengths List: Our strengths are the things at which we most excel. They make us feel powerful when using them, and we’re able to perform at a high level with them. Review the list of strengths below and note the ones at which you excel.(Required)1. Strengths List Action-taking Adapting Advising Advocating Analyzing Arranging Assessing Awakening Building Calming Caring / caregiving Challenges: overcoming Challenging Change: initiating Change: managing Clarifying Coaching Coalition-building Collaborating Communicating Composing Composure: maintaining Connecting Coordinating: people, projects Counseling Creating Crisis: managing Critiquing Culture: building Curating Deal-making / deal-closing Debating Deciding Defending people Designing Details: noticing Developing people Diagnosing Dialogue: fostering Diplomacy Discovery _ Distilling: getting to the essence Documenting Editing Efficiency Empathizing Empowering Encouraging Engaging people Engineering Entertaining Executing Experimenting Explaining Expressing Facilitating Fixing Focus Following Forecasting Getting things done Goal-achievement Goal-setting Growing things Guiding Harmony: creating Healing Helping Hiring Humor Idea generation / brainstorming Imagining Implementing Improving things Including Influencing Initiating Innovating Inspiring Interpreting: data, etc. Intuition Inventing _ Investigating Joy: bringing Judgment Launching Leading Learning Listening Loving Managing Marketing Maximizing Mediating Mentoring Mobilizing: people, resources Motivating Negotiating Noticing Number-crunching Nurturing Observing Opportunity: creating Opportunity: recognizing Optimizing Orchestrating Organizing Pattern recognition Peacemaking Perceiving Performing Persevering through obstacles Perspective: seeing the big picture Persuading Pitching Planning Potential: eliciting Potential: seeing Presenting Problem-solving Process: designing Process: improving _ Projects: managing Promoting Protecting Prototyping Questioning Recruiting Relating: forming close relationships Researching Restoring Selling Serving Simplifying Skills: manual Skills: technical Speaking Speaking up / truth-telling Starting things Storytelling Strategizing Supporting Synthesizing Taking charge Teaching Team-building Thinking conceptually Thinking critically Time: managing Training Translating Trendspotting Troubleshooting Trust: developing Understanding Validating others Visioning Winning Wondering Writing Others (see below)... Other Strengths: Review the strengths you selected from the list above and think about whether you have any major strengths that are missing from the list. If you wish, consider these questions: What activities make you feel confident and powerful? What things do people ask you for help with or say you have a gift for? What strengths did you use when you’ve been very successful at something? List any other major strengths here: Other Strengths: 2. Core Strengths: Reviewing your answers to the questions above, list your three to five core strengths—the things at which you most excel. If you can, place them in order, or at least identify your top strength. (Required)2. Core Strengths:(Required)3. Descriptions: Describe each of your core strengths. Consider finishing the sentence, “I am strong when I…,” and noting details (e.g., what you’re doing and for whom and how)—and to what extent you enjoy it or feel energized by it. (Required)3. Descriptions:(Required)4. Usage: To what extent are you using your core strengths (at work, home, etc.)? Address each strength in turn and explain. (Required)4. Usage:(Required)5. Ideation: How could you use your core strengths more? Brainstorm many ideas here without filtering. (Required)5. Ideation:(Required)6. Action: What specific actions will you take this week to start using your core strengths more? (Required)6. Action:(Required)Your Name(Required) First Last Your Email(Required) Share Results (optional)If you’d like to share your results with one or more people you know well, please enter a comma-separated list of their email(s). For example: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Ask for Input (optional)If you’d like to get input about your strengths, think about several people who know you very well (e.g., family, friends, colleagues, mentors). This can be helpful because it can either validate your choices or show you other strengths you have that you may not know about. Enter their emails below and we’ll send them a shorter version of this tool (only questions 1 and 2, asking about your strengths and your top 3 to 5 core strengths). Enter a comma-separated list of emails. For example: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] By submitting this assessment you agree to receive monthly email newsletters from Gregg Vanourek. You can unsubscribe at any time.CommentsThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Δ
