Thinking About Your Signature Themes

CliftonStrengths Provides Clues to Your Greatest Talents

After completing the CliftonStrengths assessment, you receive a customized report of your top five
CliftonStrengths. Your top five are a ranked listing of the categories in which you can most likely find your most
dominant talents. Your top five themes make you as unique as your signature. That is why Gallup calls them your
Signature Themes.

Closely look at the descriptions of talents associated with your dominant themes, and use the following sections
to help you understand and start to interpret the findings in your report.

At First Glance

What was your initial reaction to seeing your CliftonStrengths 34 report?

How well do your Signature Themes describe the ways in which you most naturally think, feel and behave?

Did any of your top five themes surprise you?

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Getting Started With Your Signature Themes

Does CliftonStrengths capture everything about you? Not at all. You are unique. In fact, the chance that another
person has the same top five strengths in the same order as you is one in 33 million.

Your individual responses to the CliftonStrengths assessment are a starting point for identifying the clues to your
greatest talents.

Use your CliftonStrengths 34 report to complete the following activity that will help you look for more clues to your
natural talents.
1) Grab a highlighter.

2) While reading each of your top five theme descriptions, carefully consider each sentence, phrase and word.
Take your time.
3) Highlight the parts of the descriptions that best describe your dominant talents — the ways in which you most
naturally think, feel and behave no matter where you are or what you are doing.
4) If you feel that you need to add words or phrases to your Signature Theme descriptions to better reflect your
greatest talents, write these additions alongside the descriptions.

Learning More About Your Signature Themes

After identifying the areas of your Signature Theme descriptions that resonate most with you, continue to look for
more clues to your natural talents by completing the following activities.
1) Post your CliftonStrengths 34 report in your work area and/or at home where you will see it every day. Seeing
your top five every day will help ensure that you are keeping your natural talents at the front of your mind and
in all of your interactions.
2) Share your report with people who know you well. Ask your coworkers, family members and friends for their
reactions after reading your report. Have them give you their feedback and examples of when they have seen
your natural talents in action. Ask them if any of your Signature Themes surprised them.
3) Stay focused. Pick one of your Signature Themes to focus on for a day. Ask yourself the following questions,
and capture your ideas in the space provided.
-- How can I use this Signature Theme today?

-- In what areas can this Signature Theme make a positive difference in my life today?

-- How did intentionally focusing on this Signature Theme affect my day?

4) Keep going. When you find yourself deliberately using one of your Signature Themes on a daily basis, select
another theme to focus on and ask yourself the same questions. Continue this activity until you can maximize
each of your Signature Themes every day. Remember, together your themes provide the greatest description
of who you most naturally are.

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