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• Jeff S
  April 23rd, 2008 at 10:12 pm

  2.0:
  Strategic
  Achiever
  Competition
  Ideation
  Activator

  i liked the parts of the book that talked about how other people perceive each of my strengths. very helpful.

• tony sheng
  April 23rd, 2008 at 10:12 pm

  developer, futuristic, arranger, positivity, woo

  love using the SF with teams and such – started using them a lot with our summer student team leaders for this summer

  would love to hear more about how you guys use the test at lifechurch

• Sam Soffes
  April 23rd, 2008 at 10:13 pm

  1. Maximizer
  2. Input
  3. Ideation
  4. Relator
  5. Command

• Kent Shaffer
  April 23rd, 2008 at 10:25 pm

  How much influence do you think one’s current job and consequently work mindset has on these tests? In other words, do you think “Relator” and “Deliberatve” fit your 2004 job role better? And do “Command” and “Maximizer” fit your current job description better?

  My strengths are:
  1. Strategic
  2. Communication
  3. Learner
  4. Maximizer
  5. Responsibility

• Crystal Renaud
  April 23rd, 2008 at 10:45 pm

  i’ve been wanting to take the strengths finder for a long time, but i never remember to buy the book and get the code. wish i could take it without said code.

• Travis Thompson
  April 24th, 2008 at 8:43 am

  Terry – does the new book have different criteria for the strengths, or is just personal growth/change that have shifted your top 5?

  The last time I took mine, they were
  1. Input
  2. Adaptability
  3. Ideation
  4. Positivity
  5. Includer

• Terry Storch
  April 24th, 2008 at 8:57 am

  Thanks for sharing you guys! This is great.

  Kent, I do think that my current environment has drawn out different things inside of me.

  Crystal- I highly encourage you to pick up the book. It is worth the money. You will enjoy it.

  Travis, the criteria is the same. I think growth, and environment has adjusted my 5.

  Here is how they break down: (interesting that I don’t have any “Working with People”.

  Command- Influencing People
  Futuristic- Working Smarter
  Maximizer- Influencing People
  Significance- Working Harder
  Strategic- Working Smarter

• Bill Glick
  April 24th, 2008 at 12:36 pm

  So, which of these 2 books would you recommend now?

• Tadd Grandstaff
  April 24th, 2008 at 2:42 pm

  Terry – we are Strengths Freaks at Pine Ridge Church. Our Executive Pastor, Tom Howe, is actually one of only 12 guys in the country that are level 5 certified for strengths coach training. He is actually in Indiana right now doing some more training. Not sure what all that means because that dude eats, sleep, and drinks strengths.

  Anyways, we use strengths for our disguised membership class. We call our ‘membership’ our volunteer staff and we have put together a 2 week series called, “The Discovery Matrix Series”. First week we look at ‘our design’ as a church and the second week we look at ‘their design’ and go through strengths.

  We use their strengths to plug them in to different volunteer roles – one that they are passionate about and one have that they have strengths in. Not sure if that is what you had in mind with your question – so I will shut up – quit pimpin’ my church and give you my top 5

  Futuristic
  Command
  Communication
  Activator
  WOO

• Fred McKinnon
  April 24th, 2008 at 8:32 pm

  Terry,
  Bill beat me to the question – if you could only buy 1 of these – would it be the Buckingham 04, or the new 08?

  Fred

• Lon
  May 20th, 2008 at 7:51 am

  I thought a big premise of strengthsfinder was that your ’signature’ themes don’t really change much.

  three years ago it was includer, ideation, woo, connectedness, and futuristic.

  I’m really tempted to take v2.0 but i’m too cheap. I could probably guess changes that have taken place…

  i wish they offered more on synthesizing the total results than just listing them and explaining each theme separately.

• Jami
  August 21st, 2008 at 3:15 pm

  Can you help me with mine and an easy way to remember them.
  I have -
  Relator
  Strategic
  Maximizer
  Command
  Communication

  I’m trying to figure out how to remember these. I like the Strategic as “Work Smarter”

• Billy
  December 30th, 2008 at 11:04 pm

  Yes I have and I’ve embraced them. My company actually promotes and employs them in building stronger people. We call it social sustainability. Without further delay my strengths are as follows. Drum roll please.

  Learner
  Achiever
  Maximizer
  Self Assurance
  Responsibility
  Strategic
  Relator
  Belief
  Input
  Focus

• Beeler
  February 8th, 2009 at 8:51 pm

  My strengths:

  Ideation
  Intellection
  Command
  Significance
  Relator

  (I could use a little Empathy, Focus though!)

• Rodney
  November 15th, 2009 at 7:38 am

  I have also taken the test twice.

  2001: Self-Assurance, Strategic, Achiever, Arranger, Maximizer.
  2009: Strategic, Ideation, Futuristic, Maximizer, Self-Assurance

  Interestingly enough, what it told me is that my inner compass has primarily remained true to course. Personally speaking, what I feel has changed in the past 8 years is that I now have a more outward (Futuristic/Ideation: Make the world a better place) as opposed to an inward (Achiever/Arranger: Make my world a better place) focus.

  I talk about this in more detail on my blog.

• Ryan
  January 12th, 2010 at 5:08 pm

  We are using this book in combination w/ the MBTI to better understand my team. We expect to get great insight on how best to position the team w/ in the company and understand what gaps need to be filled to move to the next level.

  My 5:
  Self Assurance
  Competition
  Ideation
  Restorative
  Futuristic

  As an aside I am an iNTP falling mid-line w/ the E/I, strong N and off the chart T&P. I see a relationship between the strong T for Competition and Self-Assurance with the NP combo with the other three.

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