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Edmund Freeborn
Your Signature Themes

SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 09-18-2016
DON CLIFTON
Father of Strengths Psychology and

Inventor of CliftonStrengths
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Edmund Freeborn
SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 09-18-2016
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.
Strategic
The Strategic theme enables you to sort through the clutter and find the best route. It is not a skill that
can be taught. It is a distinct way of thinking, a special perspective on the world at large. This
perspective allows you to see patterns where others simply see complexity. Mindful of these patterns,
you play out alternative scenarios, always asking, “What if this happened? Okay, well what if this
happened?” This recurring question helps you see around the next corner. There you can evaluate
accurately the potential obstacles. Guided by where you see each path leading, you start to make
selections. You discard the paths that lead nowhere. You discard the paths that lead straight into
resistance. You discard the paths that lead into a fog of confusion. You cull and make selections until
you arrive at the chosen path—your strategy. Armed with your strategy, you strike forward. This is
your Strategic theme at work: “What if?” Select. Strike.
Includer
“Stretch the circle wider.” This is the philosophy around which you orient your life. You want to include
people and make them feel part of the group. In direct contrast to those who are drawn only to
exclusive groups, you actively avoid those groups that exclude others. You want to expand the group

so that as many people as possible can benefit from its support. You hate the sight of someone on the
outside looking in. You want to draw them in so that they can feel the warmth of the group. You are an
instinctively accepting person. Regardless of race or sex or nationality or personality or faith, you cast
few judgments. Judgments can hurt a person’s feelings. Why do that if you don’t have to? Your
accepting nature does not necessarily rest on a belief that each of us is different and that one should
respect these differences. Rather, it rests on your conviction that fundamentally we are all the same.
We are all equally important. Thus, no one should be ignored. Each of us should be included. It is the
least we all deserve.
Self-Assurance
Self-Assurance is similar to self-confidence. In the deepest part of you, you have faith in your
strengths. You know that you are able—able to take risks, able to meet new challenges, able to stake
claims, and, most important, able to deliver. But Self-Assurance is more than just self-confidence.
Blessed with the theme of Self-assurance, you have confidence not only in your abilities but in your
judgment. When you look at the world, you know that your perspective is unique and distinct. And
because no one sees exactly what you see, you know that no one can make your decisions for you.
No one can tell you what to think. They can guide. They can suggest. But you alone have the
authority to form conclusions, make decisions, and act. This authority, this final accountability for the
living of your life, does not intimidate you. On the contrary, it feels natural to you. No matter what the
situation, you seem to know what the right decision is. This theme lends you an aura of certainty.
Unlike many, you are not easily swayed by someone else’s arguments, no matter how persuasive
they may be. This Self-Assurance may be quiet or loud, depending on your other themes, but it is
solid. It is strong. Like the keel of a ship, it withstands many different pressures and keeps you on
your course.
Restorative
You love to solve problems. Whereas some are dismayed when they encounter yet another
breakdown, you can be energized by it. You enjoy the challenge of analyzing the symptoms,
identifying what is wrong, and finding the solution. You may prefer practical problems or conceptual
ones or personal ones. You may seek out specific kinds of problems that you have met many times
before and that you are confident you can fix. Or you may feel the greatest push when faced with
complex and unfamiliar problems. Your exact preferences are determined by your other themes and
experiences. But what is certain is that you enjoy bringing things back to life. It is a wonderful feeling
to identify the undermining factor(s), eradicate them, and restore something to its true glory.
Intuitively, you know that without your intervention, this thing—this machine, this technique, this
person, this company—might have ceased to function. You fixed it, resuscitated it, rekindled its
vitality. Phrasing it the way you might, you saved it.

Individualization
Your Individualization theme leads you to be intrigued by the unique qualities of each person. You are
impatient with generalizations or “types” because you don’t want to obscure what is special and
distinct about each person. Instead, you focus on the differences between individuals. You
instinctively observe each person’s style, each person’s motivation, how each thinks, and how each
builds relationships. You hear the one-of-a-kind stories in each person’s life. This theme explains why
you pick your friends just the right birthday gift, why you know that one person prefers praise in public
and another detests it, and why you tailor your teaching style to accommodate one person’s need to
be shown and another’s desire to “figure it out as I go.” Because you are such a keen observer of
other people’s strengths, you can draw out the best in each person. This Individualization theme also
helps you build productive teams. While some search around for the perfect team “structure” or
“process,” you know instinctively that the secret to great teams is casting by individual strengths so
that everyone can do a lot of what they do well.


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Your Signature Themes

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