Strengths Finder

I realized that I never blogged about this, but I found it on my desk today while cleaning up a bit. A number of months ago my team went through the Strengths Finder program, which is sort of a businessy version of a personality test, to find out what our underlying strengths are (so that we can theoretically focus on leveraging them, rather than trying to fix our weaknesses).

Here were mine:

Futurist
Ideation
Strategic
Communication
Activator

Here are the definitions:

Futurist: People strong in the Futurist theme are inspired by the future and what could be. They inspire others with their visions of the future.

Ideation: People strong in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.

Strategic: People strong in the Strategic theme create alternative ways to proceed. Faced with any given scenario they can quickly spot the relevant patterns and issues.

Communication: People strong in the communication theme generally find it eway to put their thoughts into words. They are good conversationalists and presenters.

Activator: People strong in the Activor theme can make things happen by turning thoughts into action. They are often impatient.


Fits me pretty well. The really interesting part for me, though, was in the more detailed descriptions, which I'll post later if I can find them. Basically, at least 3 of the first 4 strengths all say that I should partner with an "activator", which is my 5th strength! Split personality?