Seeking A Much More Positive And Productive Environment?

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	• StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths Tom Rath Gallup Press, 2007 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 215 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Extraordinary resource

This is the one resource that every manager and leader should require their employees to complete. It identifies the employee's core thinking which allows the manager and leader to direct employees into roles that match their thinking. This drives employee engagement and performance.

A must for everyone in business.

Read together with Now, Discover your strengths

It is relly uncanny, how dead on this test is. Use this to better understand yourself and put your strengths to work. Don't think you'll get step-by-step answers on "what to do next". But, if you are really interested in understanding yourself, and putting some effort forth to make changes for the better, then these are the books for you. I say books, because I read both the original "Now, Discover Your Strengths" and "Strengths Finder 2.0". I'm glad I did - "Now, Discover.." provides more information on the subject.

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Strengths Finder - Edition 2.0

What a great book! The concept of how we are encouraged and accept the idea of "being" a certain type of person "when we grow up" versus "who we really are" speaks volumes in the assessment test of this book's Gallop's test. My hat is off to the concept!StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths

Seeking A Much More Positive And Productive Environment?

Are you on the right track? Do you wonder about why you love doing certain things and dislike others? Do you wonder why you react in certain ways? Are you looking for a better way to make right decisions, enjoy peace of mind, and live in harmony with others. This may be the book for you.

"Strengths Finder 2.0" is an extension of "strengths" research begun more than forty years ago by the late `Father of Strengths Psychology," Dr. Donald Clifton of the Gallup Organization. For over 40 years, Clifton researched the natural patterns of thought, feeling, and action of two million people in more than 25 countries. The goal was to begin a conversation about what's right with people. The result is the Clifton "StrengthsFinder," a tool that reveals a person's top five themes of talent - one's "Signature Themes."

A "Strength" is the ability to provide consistent, near-perfect performance in a given activity. This ability is a powerful, productive combination of talent, skill, and knowledge. Talents are naturally recurring patterns of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied. Unlike skills and knowledge, talents exist within you and cannot be acquired. We must first need to identify, affirm, and apply our unique mix of talents then apply them.

Clifton's research highlights folly of the widely used "weakness prevention" model - to be successful, we must "fix" our weaknesses. This thinking is wrong. Building a life around one's greatest natural abilities rather than trying to repair weaknesses is the path to success.

The book is organized around the use of the StrengthsFinder (provided with the purchase of the book) to identify, assess and affirm our Signature Themes (talents), and how to apply them for growth and life success. There are thirty four identified talents ranging from achiever, maximizer, ideation, individualization, and significance to woo. The StrengthsFinder assessment tool has been translated into more than 20 languages and is used by businesses, schools, and communities in more than 100 nations around the world to create strength-based families, communities, and workplaces.

The Signature Themes are unique to the individual. According to Gallup, the chance of finding someone with your Signature Themes, in the same order, is 1 in 33 million and the chance of finding someone with your top ten themes of talent is 1 in 3 trillion. Finding one's themes and understanding their uniqueness should help one to gain a better appreciation of how special they are and how special the people around them are - deeper self-respect, deeper mutual respect. Studies indicate that people who do have an opportunity to focus on their strengths are three times more likely to have an excellent quality of life in general.

"StrengthsFinder 2.0" has been written to provide the reader with the latest discoveries and strategies for application, providing a much more in-depth analysis of one's strengths. The book also provides 10 "Ideas for Action" for each of the themes. Each reader will get 50 specific actions - culled from thousands of best-of-practice" suggestions.

The entire focus of this book is application. If you want to improve your life and the lives of those around you, you must take action. The chances are, if you do, that you will find yourself in a much more positive and productive environment.

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