{"id":441,"date":"2007-06-23T03:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=441"},"modified":"2007-06-23T03:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-23T09:06:00","slug":"roy-blumenthal-five-most-dominant-themes-of-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/roy-blumenthal-five-most-dominant-themes-of-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Blumenthal: Five Most Dominant Themes of Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"CSP<\/a>On the advice of a friend, I bought Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton’s book, NOW, DISCOVER YOUR STRENGTHS. I bought it primarily because the book contains a code to do the web-based strengths finder test.<\/p>\n

So, needless to say, like any good activator, I did the test immediately, before reading the book. This is the result…<\/p>\n

The Signature Themes report below displays my five most dominant themes of talent, as indicated by my responses to Clifton StrengthsFinder, The Gallup Organization’s Web-based talent assessment tool.<\/i><\/p>\n

Activator<\/big>:
People strong in the Activator theme can make things happen by turning thoughts into action. They are often impatient.<\/p>\n

Ideation<\/big>:
People strong in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.<\/p>\n

Strategic<\/big>:
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.<\/p>\n

Input<\/big>:
People strong in the Input theme have a craving to know more. Often they like to collect and archive all kinds of information.<\/p>\n

Learner<\/big>:
People strong in the Learner theme have a great desire to learn and want to continuously improve. In particular, the process of learning, rather than the outcome, excites them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I would have thought ‘Ideation’ would have come first, with ‘Strategic’ second, and ‘Activator’ third. But on second thoughts, the order is probably right. Fascinating stuff (for me).<\/p>\n

Please note that the online test appears to be a bit of a marketing gimmick from Gallup International. In order to get the order of the remaining 34 strengths as discovered by the test, you’ve got to pay them around US$550. Which I’m simply not going to do. That’s ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Basically, if you buy the book cos of the free test… Yes… it’s a good test. Yes… the methodology appears to be correct. Yes… the results are useful and interesting to a certain extent. However… I would really like to see my BOTTOM five strengths. So if that’s what YOU want if YOU buy the book, you ain’t gonna get it.<\/p>\n

The pic is titled ‘CSP Tug of War<\/a>‘ by Christopher Potter<\/a>. I sourced the pic by searching stock.xchng<\/a> for the term ‘strength’. Used with permission, based on Christopher’s licensing condition that the work is free to use, with a request from him that I let him know how I’ve used it.<\/i><\/small><\/div>\n

Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the advice of a friend, I bought Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton’s book, NOW, DISCOVER YOUR STRENGTHS. I bought it primarily because the book contains a code to do the web-based strengths finder test. So, needless to say, like …<\/p>\n

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