STRENGTHS INSIGHT AND ACTIONPLANNING GUIDE

Survey Completion Date: 12-14-2013

Douglas Van Pelt

Your Top 5 Themes:

Responsibility
Context
Learner
Achiever
Belief

Responsibility
Shared Theme Description:

o People who are especially talented in the Responsibility theme take

psychological ownership of what they say they will do. They are
committed to stable values such as honesty and loyalty.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights:

o Driven by your talents, you are occasionally willing to be vulnerable.

Perhaps you claim your talents or admit your weaknesses. Your
openness may help some people know you better as a person. Your
straightforward style may convince others you are honest, dependable,
and reliable. Instinctively, you are a person upon whom others can
depend. When you make a promise, you keep it. You feel obligated to
honor your commitments. You do things correctly, accurately, and
properly. Chances are good that you are sometimes determined to be
victorious. As much as you yearn to be number one, you might realize
cheating is unacceptable. You might experience remorse when you
unintentionally take unfair advantage of anyone. Perhaps you think
finishing first counts only when you have followed the rules just like
everyone else. By nature, you might have a reputation for being
dependable. Certain individuals routinely rely on you to follow through
with assignments. Perhaps some people refrain from checking your
progress. Why? Maybe they trust you will do what you said you would
do. Its very likely that you volunteer for additional duties. You really
enjoy being given authority over projects, individuals, or groups. You
expect to be held accountable for the results you produce as well as your
words and deeds.

Context
Shared Theme Description:

o People who are especially talented in the Context theme enjoy thinking
about the past. They understand the present by researching its history.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

o Chances are good that you are quite intrigued by historys significant
events and people. Information about global conflicts fascinates you. Its
very likely that you may believe that history repeats itself. Sometimes
you discover that current events are mere reflections of past occurrences.
In your mind, perhaps what has already happened explains the present
and foreshadows the future. By nature, you may gather historical facts
or artifacts that is, pictures, tools, books, artwork, correspondence, or
documents. Perhaps you wait to determine whether this information is
useful. Your interest in history might have no purpose other than to
answer your own questions. Maybe you are drawn to the past and its
people. In some ways, the future starts to take shape in your mind if you
rummage through your collection of historic truths and objects. Because
of your strengths, you are devoted to the studying the past. This is one
way you make sense of the present. It probably explains why you can
predict how people will behave, how problems will be solved, how
decisions will be made, or how events will unfold. Driven by your talents,
you set aside time to examine past events as well as the lives of historic
figures. You probably construct timelines when you need a framework
within which to sort through historic evidence. You likely research topics
quite thoroughly before you draw any conclusions.

Learner
Shared Theme Description

o People who are especially talented 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.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

o Chances are good that you sometimes enroll in difficult or demanding

classes. You might aim to expand your knowledge or challenge your

thinking about certain things. Its very likely that you might register for
high level courses or honors classes. Why? Perhaps you are attracted to
subjects that are not easy to comprehend. Occasionally you trust yourself
enough to test your mental endurance and agility. Because of your
strengths, you endorse the importance of acquiring additional knowledge
and gaining new skills. You regard education as an ongoing activity.

By nature, you try to pay attention to what you do naturally and well.
Occasionally you set out to broaden your knowledge in certain areas or
sharpen specific skills. Maybe you are motivated to strive for excellence
by using a particular talent. Perhaps you refuse to waste time, energy, or
money correcting or fixing some of your limitations. Now and then, you
aim to concentrate on what you do quite well. You may think this is a
more challenging way to live. Instinctively, you might thirst for specific
types of information. Armed with newly acquired facts or skills, you may
be able to pinpoint areas where you need to upgrade certain things. In
the process, perhaps you generate a few ideas or devise several
techniques to do something you already do well even better.

Achiever
Shared Theme Description
o People who are especially talented in the Achiever theme have a great
deal of stamina and work hard. They take great satisfaction from being
busy and productive.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

o Its very likely that you invest a lot of time, effort, and energy in winning
followers. You probably aspire to leadership roles. You already realize
the backing of loyal individuals is essential. By nature, you make an
effort to be friendly and talkative whenever the situation demands. Even
so, you treasure your work or study time. Why? You yearn to produce
tangible results each day. Socializing, while important, fails to provide
outcomes to which you can point and measure. As a result, you likely
resist devoting time to activities that impede progress, compromise
productivity, or waste precious time. Driven by your talents, you
sometimes put in long hours performing assigned tasks. Perhaps you do
whatever is required, even when it means inconveniencing yourself.
Depending on your biological clock, you might work overtime, late into
the night, or into the wee hours of the morning. You may choose to wake
up one, two, or three hours earlier than usual because you do your finest
work when you are rested. You try to make the best use of your mental or
physical capabilities. Because of your strengths, you probably expend a
lot of energy to hold back your tears. You worry that individuals will
think poorly of you when they see you cry. Chances are good that you
work diligently to separate your private life from your public life. You
are a person with a reputation for being discreet that is, careful about
what you say. You intentionally avoid discussing your personal
problems, successes, finances, work, or history.

Belief
Shared Theme Description

o People who are especially talented in the Belief theme have certain core
values that are unchanging. Out of these values emerges a defined
purpose for their life.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

o Chances are good that you may choose to live your life in a way that
benefits individuals or groups. Perhaps you are motivated to make the
world a better place than you found it. To some extent, your ideals and
core values influence how you spend your time or use your talents. You
might have a deep and abiding concern for individuals who are
struggling in some way. Because of your strengths, you occasionally
sense you are part of something bigger or more important than yourself.
Maybe this conviction influences choices you make in life. Its very likely
that you may sense that your life has deep meaning. With remarkable
vividness, you occasionally imagine where you will be, what you will be
doing, and what you will have the ability to accomplish in the coming
months, years, or decades. To some degree, your dreams of tomorrow
are alive in your mind today. Perhaps you strive to transform these
possibilities into reality. By nature, you often argue that people should be
held to the highest moral standards. You insist that those who break the
law be required to accept the consequences of their deeds. You have little
sympathy for people who are caught in the act of taking things that do
not belong to them. Instinctively, you might refuse to live a meaningless
existence. Perhaps you seek a vocation that allows you to express certain
values every day. Work or school may provide you with the opportunity
to enrich or deepen the quality of your life. Sometimes you want to do
what you love doing. This partially explains why your job or studies need
to be much more than a means to an end that is, a paycheck or a
diploma.