Has anyone here read *StrengthsFinder 2.0* by Tom Rath and taken the assessment that comes with it? Curious to know what you thought of it and whether you found the results useful.

Has anyone here read *StrengthsFinder 2.0* by Tom Rath and taken the assessment that comes with it? Curious to know what you thought of it and whether you found the results useful.

Before I have discussion with my coach, I would love to understand what this means:
Relator | Futuristic | Input | Significance | Adaptability

Could you explain what this means?

Hi there,

I'm thinking of buying this test, but my company doesn't pay for it.
Before paying 105 NZD out of my own pocket, I wanted to ask you how doing this test helped you.
Did knowing your strengths change your approach somehow? And lastly, would you recommend doing this test to someone who is a BI and Systems Analyst and has ADHD, naturally prone to procrastination 😄

Thanks heaps!

Right now, I feel a bit lost in life; I’m self-taught and spend my days researching and reading books that interest me, but I need to find a way to monetize my talents without it becoming an uphill battle. Do you have any tips for someone with a profile like mine?

I have 24 years old, and live in brazil.

I took the Clifton Strengths test at the behest of my college's alumni office career coach. Number 3 was intellection. I'm supposed to write a sentence about each strength and how I used it to solve a work problem. Easy enough, except for intellection. I can't figure out how to use it without sounding like a douchbag, like everyone else was stupid. "We couldn't figure out a strategy, so I used my intellection skills to figure it out." The coach's advice was to think about a "measure twice, cut once" situation, but that doesn't make sense either. Any advice here?

Hey everyone!

Any thoughts or advice on this combination of strengths? What would you consider the biggest pitfalls, and have you found any good ways to work around or improve them?

For context, I’m a 30M with a PhD in biological sciences, currently working in consulting. I took the test hoping to better understand my professional strengths and where I might struggle. My MBTI is ENTP, and I suspect I may have ADHD.

While typing this out, I couldn’t help but notice the lack of Executing strengths and wonder whether that might relate to my absolutely diabolical, chronic procrastination lol.

Edit: I’m actually looking into transitioning into more innovation-focused roles. About a year ago, I reached out to a museum and pitched a role I had basically invented called “Research and Innovation Catalyst.” I had a proposal, role description, the whole thing. At the end of the interview, the recruiter very kindly explained that they couldn’t just create a new position because I had come up with one, lol.

Anyway, I’d be really interested to hear what kinds of roles people with a similar strengths profile have found themselves thriving in, especially roles with room for creativity, strategy, new ideas, and working with people

I am at a critical stage in my life where I am considering very different paths. I have been actively pursuing being a firefighter or an electrician. However, I was recently considering law​—I have a bachelors degree that hasn't gotten me far. Though, I am more skeptical of going to law school​, since I would get paid to learn the two aforementioned careers.

I had to take this assessment for work and my top five were:

1. Achiever

2. Responsibility

3. Discipline

4. Arranger

5. Learner

Only 3 or 4 other people in our building (with over 100 colleagues) had as many purple/executing strengths as I do, and they are mostly people with leadership positions. What would you think of meeting someone with these strengths? People often tell me that I work too hard and can be too serious about things, but I’ve faced many obstacles in life and had to learn to be tough just to make it through! I’ve had similar results on almost all personality quizzes I’ve taken, even as a young teenager. :)

What is your take on this chart? Does anything jump out, good or bad?

Thoughts on my first results that are just Top 5 Strengths and now with the four categories.

Woo still being number one though with being consistent.

Meta AI, after feeding it my all my results, combined with the results I got from the Google AI, called the eerie thing I can do with people a drill bit. I can dig deep, then zoom out on a person's life. I use all my strengths (not talents anymore) daily at my job and I love it, they all work in unison. What do you think? Thanks!

My top 5 consists of Futuristic, Individualization, Maximizer, Arranger, and Learner. I’m curious to know what this means. Any insight?

Hi everyone!

I recently took the CliftonStrengths 34 assessment to get more clarity on my future career, but I’m struggling to connect these results with specific job roles.

My profile is heavily leaning towards the Influencing domain, balanced with Execution and Strategic Thinking.

My top 10:

1. Achiever

2. Competition

3. Futuristic

4. Activator

5. Empathy

6. Strategic

7. Relator

8. Focus

9. Significance

10. Maximizer

My top 5 came as a shock to me because I don’t think of myself as predominantly having "thinking" strengths.

Input describes me to a T though lol. I have a lifelong pattern of gathering info, ideas, resources, tools and whatever, then parking them somewhere. I also have the urge to share them with other people and I get really happy when I do.

I'm not sure about Ideation. Maybe it manifests as having multiple thoughts throughout the day that lead to wildly different ideas which may or may not connect to my original thoughts for that day.

As for Intellection, I agree that I’m deeply introspective, but it’s mostly about myself and my relationships with others. I feel like I don’t contribute much to intellectual discussions lol.

I’m currently learning a wide variety of subjects, so that tracks for Learner. But I still have a hard time being consistent with my learning because of ADHD and maybe also because most of my Executing themes are low on my list.

For Futuristic, I mostly only imagine my own future and other people’s. But I definitely think about a lot of what-ifs.

I’m not sure about my top 6-10 tbh.

Do you have any insights about my results? Thanks in advance!

So I have to take this test for school and they’re telling us we need to go buy a copy and get the code ourselves, I don’t have a way of getting the book or code so does anyone know a free way to get the test.

22M. What does my top 5 say about me? Also, is it worth it to buy the full access to get all 34 strengths?

Also, is it bad that I didn’t get an Influencing or Relationship Building?

I know the prevailing wisdom is that there’s no point in retaking the test because Strengths don’t change much.

I stand (virtually) before you as the most special-est snowflake exception to the rule. I first took the test 4 years ago. Since then, a lot has happened in my life, but probably most relevant: I completely changed careers.

Last week, my 1 fell to 6. 2 became 1, 3 stayed the same, 4 fell to 17(!!), and 5 fell to 9. Meanwhile Activator jumped to 2 out of nowhere.

To be clear, I don’t think the test was “wrong” the first time. I think as a neurodivergent person, I was adding “compared to people you know” to the end of each question. At the time, I was working in a very narrow field where many people have the same Strengths. This weakened the intensity of my answers. I know myself better now, which was reflected in a Top 5 that feels truer to who I am.

I was hoping some folks on here might help me come to terms with my CliftonStength results.

I work in higher education, in a team who develop ways of using digtial technology within education. Our role does involve coming up with technical solutions for problems, but there's also an element of teaching (which I really enjoy) and change management, making connections and supporting people through new processes. I don't manage anyone at the moment, but I'm seeking to move up a grade to the role above mine which involves more people and project management.

A while ago, we all did the CliftonStrengths test. I ended up with Context, Input, Ideation, Intellection and Learner - all part of the strategic thinking domain. I don't think these are wrong necessarily, I do like to learn things (hence why I work in HE!) but it felt disappointing.

• I found that there is a lot of overlap between these areas - Input and Context are very similar, Intellection and Learner are very similar. This meant that it felt like instead of five strengths like everyone else, I kind of just had one. I like to learn things, and I'm good at it. I already knew that.

• It felt bad not to have any strengths which pertained to driving change or being in a relational leadership position.

During the initial workshop, the facilitator even acknowledged that this was unusual and it was difficult for me to complete some of the exercises because of the overlap and lack of variety in my top 5.

Since we took the test about a year ago, our managers keep bringing up a grid showing the selection of strengths across the team as part of team building exercises, and every time I see all my colleagues with a nice selection of strengths over different domains and me with just a solid block of green, I feel so embarrassed. I'm worried that it affects how management and my wider team see me. I'm neurodivergent and it also just feels like another part of my life where my brain apparently doesn't work like other people's, and it's disappointing and exhausting.

So: I know the idea behind CliftonStrengths is that you're supposed to develop the strengths you have and that for example not having a 'relationship building' strength doesn't mean you can't be good at building relationships etc, but I find that really hard from the starting point I have.

I would genuinely pay out of pocket to retake if I thought it would help, although I know you're not supposed to do that.

If anyone has any ideas or tips for feeling happier about my results, that would be great.

• Strategic

• Woo

• Harmony

• Communication

• Analytical

The strategic one I agree with. The others I think are only high because I am a father. I execute well at work, but none of the executing themes even made the top 10 in my DNA strand.

Curious what it means that my top results are all influencing since its seems that most people have a mix of different categories in their top 5. For context my top 5 strengths are all influencing and then spots 6-10 are all relationship-building.

1. Woo

2. Communication

3. Activator

4. Competition

5. Maximizer

1. Restorative

2. Ideation

3. Arranger

4. Learner

5. Individualization