Strengths Finder 2.0: A New and Updated Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths
Author: Tom Rath
Do You Do What You Do Best Every Day?
Chances are, you don't. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.
To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced StrengthsFinder in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your Strengths. The book ignited a global conversation, while StrengthsFinder helped millions discover their top five talents.
In StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular online assessment. With hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, StrengthsFinder 2.0 will change the way you look at yourself—and the world—forever.
Available exclusively in StrengthsFinder 2.0 (using the access code included with each book):
- The StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment, fine-tuned to be faster and more accurate
- A Strengths Discovery and Action-Planning Guide featuring: A customized version of your top five theme report; 50 Ideas for Action for building on your top five themes; A strengths-based action plan for setting goals
- And much more on the StrengthsFinder 2.0 website: A strengths community area; Resources, activities, and discussion guides; A strengths screensaver and program for creating display cards of your top five themes
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Now, Discover Your Strengths
Author: Marcus Buckingham
Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers, and by psychology's fascination with pathology, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, while our strengths lie dormant and neglected.
Marcus Buckingham, coauthor of the national bestseller First, Break All the Rules, and Donald O. Clifton, Chair of the Gallup International Research & Education Center, have created a revolutionary program to help readers identify their talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy consistent, near-perfect performance. At the heart of the book is the Internet-based StrengthsFinder® Profile, the product of a 25-year, multimillion-dollar effort to identify the most prevalent human strengths. The program introduces 34 dominant "themes" with thousands of possible combinations, and reveals how they can best be translated into personal and career success. In developing this program, Gallup has conducted psychological profiles with more than two million individuals to help readers learn how to focus and perfect these themes.
So how does it work? This book contains a unique identification number that allows you access to the StrengthsFinder Profile on the Internet. This Web-based interview analyzes your instinctive reactions and immediately presents you with your five most powerful signature themes. Once you know which of the 34 themes -- such as Achiever, Activator, Empathy, Futuristic, or Strategic -- you lead with, the book will show you how to leverage them for powerful results at three levels: foryour own development, for your success as a manager, and for the success of your organization.
With accessible and profound insights on how to turn talents into strengths, and with the immediate on-line feedback of StrengthsFinder at its core, Now, Discover Your Strengths is one of the most groundbreaking and useful business books ever written.
What People Are Saying
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Now, Discover Your Strengths, based on years of research by The Gallup Organization, is a refreshingly sensible and user-friendly way to assess your psychological assets and build on them a successful and satisfying life.
Mike Morrison
The code for managing has been broken and the secrets for success are here in this book! We know this from first-hand experience — with over 2,000 Gallup 'strengths' program graduates (and growing) — we will never look at our jobs, or our lives for that matter, the same way again. To achieve our greatest potential, this is by far the most important investment an individual or organization can make!
Ed Diener
A brilliant book that will help readers to discover and capitalize on their specific strengths, as well as assist managers in supervising people with varying strengths.
Frank Schmidt
Ralph L. Sheets Professor of Human Resources, Department of Management and Organization, College of Business, University of Iowa This book is built around a unique vision of the high-performing individual and the high-performing organization — and that vision is built on a recognition of individual differences and the unique strengths of each person. A truly important book.
Martin E.P. Seligman
The keystone of high achievement and happiness is exercising your strengths, not correcting your weaknesses. The first step is knowing which strengths you own, and this superb book gives you a powerful and accurate way to find out.
Table of Contents:
| Introduction: The Strengths Revolution at Work | ||
| The Revolution | 5 | |
| Two Million Interviews | 11 | |
| I. | The Anatomy of a Strength | |
| Chapter 1. | Strong Lives | |
| The Investor, the Director, the Skin Doctor, and the Editor | 19 | |
| Tiger Woods, Bill Gates, and Cole Porter | 25 | |
| Three Revolutionary Tools | 28 | |
| Chapter 2. | Strength Building | |
| Is He Always This Good? | 39 | |
| Knowledge and Skills | 41 | |
| Talent | 48 | |
| II. | Discover the Source of Your Strengths | |
| Chapter 3. | StrengthsFinder | |
| The Traces of Talent | 67 | |
| The StrengthsFinder Profile | 76 | |
| Chapter 4. | The Thirty-four Themes of StrengthsFinder | |
| Achiever | 83 | |
| Activator | 84 | |
| Adaptability | 85 | |
| Analytical | 86 | |
| Arranger | 87 | |
| Belief | 88 | |
| Command | 89 | |
| Communication | 90 | |
| Competition | 91 | |
| Connectedness | 92 | |
| Context | 93 | |
| Deliberative | 94 | |
| Developer | 95 | |
| Discipline | 96 | |
| Empathy | 97 | |
| Fairness | 98 | |
| Focus | 99 | |
| Futuristic | 100 | |
| Harmony | 101 | |
| Ideation | 102 | |
| Inclusiveness | 103 | |
| Individualization | 104 | |
| Input | 105 | |
| Intellection | 106 | |
| Learner | 107 | |
| Maximizer | 108 | |
| Positivity | 109 | |
| Relator | 110 | |
| Responsibility | 111 | |
| Restorative | 112 | |
| Self-assurance | 113 | |
| Significance | 114 | |
| Strategic | 115 | |
| Woo | 116 | |
| III. | Put Strengths to Work | |
| Chapter 5. | The Questions You're Asking | |
| Are there any obstacles to building my strengths? | 121 | |
| Why should I focus on my signature themes? | 131 | |
| Is there any significance to the order of my signature themes? | 134 | |
| Not all of the phrases in the theme description apply to me. Why? | 136 | |
| Why am I different from other people with whom I share some of the same themes? | 137 | |
| Are any of the themes "opposites"? | 139 | |
| Can I develop new themes if I don't like the ones I have? | 141 | |
| Will I become too narrow if I focus on my signature themes? | 144 | |
| How can I manage around my weaknesses? | 148 | |
| Can my themes reveal whether I am in the right career? | 160 | |
| Chapter 6. | Managing Strengths | |
| "Fidel," Sam Mendes, and Phil Jackson | 171 | |
| One By One | 176 | |
| Chapter 7. | Building a Strengths-based Organization | |
| The Full Story | 213 | |
| The Practical Guide | 218 | |
| Appendix | ||
| A Technical Report on StrengthsFinder | 247 |
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