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This paper will allow you to examine your strengths and develop a plan for moving forward. I. What Do You Do Best? · Of all the things you do well, which two do you do best and why? · Which activities do you seem to pick up quickly and why? · Which activities bring you the greatest satisfaction and why? II. STRENGTHSFINDER Results · What are your top five Signature Themes as identified by the Clifton STRENGTHSFINDER? Which theme resonates with you the most and why? · Based on your Signature Themes, what should a manager/supervisor know about working with you and why? · Based on your Signature Themes, what should a co-worker know about working with you and why? · How can a manager/supervisor help you with your strengths more within your current role and why? III. Celebrating Successes · What was your most significant accomplishment in the past 12 months? · When do you feel the most pride about your work? ·  How do you like to be supported in your work? IV. Applying Talents to the Role · What things distract you from being positive, productive, or accurate?  · Which talents do you have that could benefit the team if you had better opportunities to use them?  · What steps could be taken to ensure you have an opportunity to apply your natural talents to your role?  · Submit a 5-page paper double spaced · Include a cover page and a reference page (not to be included in the 5 pages of paper content) · Use the questions and bullets above as the framework and outline of your paper. · Please provide at least four (4) scholarly references to support your paper in addition to the STRENGTHSFINDER text. · All references should be used as in-text citations.  · All work must be completed in APA format. Harish Kumar Chilukuri Your Signature Theme Report S U R V E Y C O M P L E T I O N D A T E : 1 0 - 0 5 - 2 0 2 1 DON CLIFTON Father of Strengths Psychology and Inventor of CliftonStrengths 68141134 (Harish Kumar Chilukuri) Copyright © 2000, 2006-2012 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 Harish Kumar Chilukuri S U R V E Y C O M P L E T I O N D A T E : 1 0 - 0 5 - 2 0 2 1 Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people are those who understand their strengths and behaviors. These people are best able to develop strategies to meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families. A review of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilities, but an awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core reasons behind your consistent successes. Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant themes of talent, in the rank order revealed by your responses to StrengthsFinder. Of the 34 themes measured, these are your top five. Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the talents that lead to your successes. By focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in combination, you can identify your talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career success through consistent, near-perfect performance. Relator Relator describes your attitude toward your relationships. In simple terms, the Relator theme pulls you toward people you already know. You do not necessarily shy away from meeting new people—in fact, you may have other themes that cause you to enjoy the thrill of turning strangers into friends—but you do derive a great deal of pleasure and strength from being around your close friends. You are comfortable with intimacy. Once the initial connection has been made, you deliberately encourage a deepening of the relationship. You want to understand their feelings, their goals, their fears, and their dreams; and you want them to understand yours. You know that this kind of closeness implies a certain amount of risk—you might be taken advantage of—but you are willing to accept that risk. For you a relationship has value only if it is genuine. And the only way to know that is to entrust yourself to the other person. The more you share with each other, the more you risk together. The more you risk together, the more each of you proves your caring is genuine. These are your steps toward real friendship, and you take them willingly. Deliberative You are careful. You are vigilant. You are a private person. You know that the world is an unpredictable place. Everything may seem in order, but beneath the surface you sense the many risks. Rather than 68141134 (Harish Kumar Chilukuri) Copyright © 2000, 2006-2012 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved. 2 denying these risks, you draw each one out into the open. Then each risk can be identified, assessed, and ultimately reduced. Thus, you are a fairly serious person who approaches life with a certain reserve. For example, you like to plan ahead so as to anticipate what might go wrong. You select your friends cautiously and keep your own counsel when the conversation turns to personal matters. You are careful not to give too much praise and recognition, lest it be misconstrued. If some people don’t like you because you are not as effusive as others, then so be it. For you, life is not a popularity contest. Life is something of a minefield. Others can run through it recklessly if they so choose, but you take a different approach. You identify the dangers, weigh their relative impact, and then place your feet deliberately. You walk with care. Activator “When can we start?” This is a recurring question in your life. You are impatient for action. You may concede that analysis has its uses or that debate and discussion can occasionally yield some valuable insights, but deep down you know that only action is real. Only action can make things happen. Only action leads to performance. Once a decision is made, you cannot not act. Others may worry that “there are still some things we don’t know,” but this doesn’t seem to slow you. If the decision has been made to go across town, you know that the fastest way to get there is to go stoplight to stoplight. You are not going to sit around waiting until all the lights have turned green. Besides, in your view, action and thinking are not opposites. In fact, guided by your Activator theme, you believe that action is the best device for learning. You make a decision, you take action, you look at the result, and you learn. This learning informs your next action and your next. How can you grow if you have nothing to react to? Well, you believe you can’t. You must put yourself out there. You must take the next step. It is the only way to keep your thinking fresh and informed. The bottom line is this: You know you will be judged not by what you say, not by what you think, but by what you get done. This does not frighten you. It pleases you. Analytical Your Analytical theme challenges other people: “Prove it. Show me why what you are claiming is true.” In the face of this kind of questioning some will find that their brilliant theories wither and die. For you, this is precisely the point. You do not necessarily want to destroy other people’s ideas, but you do insist that their theories be sound. You see yourself as objective and dispassionate. You like data because they are value free. They have no agenda. Armed with these data, you search for patterns and connections. You want to understand how certain patterns affect one another. How do they combine? What is their outcome? Does this outcome fit with the theory being offered or the situation being confronted? These are your questions. You peel the layers back until, gradually, the root cause or causes are revealed. Others see you as logical and rigorous. Over time they will come to you in order to expose someone’s “wishful thinking” or “clumsy thinking” to your refining mind. It is hoped that your analysis is never delivered too harshly. Otherwise, 68141134 (Harish Kumar Chilukuri) Copyright © 2000, 2006-2012 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved. 3 others may avoid you when that “wishful thinking” is their own. Belief If you possess a strong Belief theme, you have certain core values that are enduring. These values vary from one person to another, but ordinarily your Belief theme causes you to be family-oriented, altruistic, even spiritual, and to value responsibility and high ethics—both in yourself and others. These core values affect your behavior in many ways. They give your life meaning and satisfaction; in your view, success is more than money and prestige. They provide you with direction, guiding you through the temptations and distractions of life toward a consistent set of priorities. This consistency is the foundation for all your relationships. Your friends call you dependable. “I know where you stand,” they say. Your Belief makes you easy to trust. It also demands that you find work that meshes with your values. Your work must be meaningful; it must matter to you. And guided by your Belief theme it will matter only if it gives you a chance to live out your values. 68141134 (Harish Kumar Chilukuri) Copyright © 2000, 2006-2012 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved. 4 Your Signature Theme Report Harish Kumar Chilukuri Relator Deliberative Activator Analytical Belief