90: How to Interpret Your StrengthsFinder Results, with Steve Dosier
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2013
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Steve Dosier: Blue Star Intel
On episode #89, I welcomed Steve Dosier, a StrengthsFinder expert formerly of Gallup and now with Blue Star Intel, to teach us about the history of CliftonStrengths (formerly StrengthsFinder). This week, he takes Bonni and I through our StrengthsFinder 2.0 results so you can learn more about the value of utilizing your CliftonStrengths report.
Questions Steve asked of us:
Individual Questions
- How closely do you feel your Top–5 Strengths match you?
- What do you agree strongly with?
- Are there any areas that don’t quite sound like you?
Relationship Questions
- What Strengths do you feel you both connect upon and why?
- What Strengths do you find complimentary to your own and why?
- How do you leverage each other’s Strengths to get the best from each other? (You get the best of me when…)
- I feel this Strength helps me provide a unique contribution to our relationship… (My contribution to this relationship is….)
- Now that you know each other’s Strengths as defined by the Clifton StrengthsFinder Report, what do you better understand and appreciate about each other? (Was there a point of conflict or disagreement that StrengthsFinder has helped you better understand and manage?)
Bonni’s Strengths:
- Relator
- Achiever
- Connectedness
- Futuristic
- Strategic
Dave’s Strengths (link to Dave’s report):
- Futuristic
- Relator
- Intellection
- Learner
- Responsibility
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| 0:00.0 | If you've taken the Strengths Finder instrument before, you end up with a list of your top five strengths. |
| 0:06.5 | Okay, so what do you do with it? |
| 0:08.5 | In this episode, we'll walk you through an actual debriefing of the instrument so you can get more out of your assessment results too. |
| 0:16.0 | This is coaching for leaders, episode number 90. |
| 0:20.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:25.0 | Greetings from Orange County, California. |
| 0:30.0 | This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahobia. |
| 0:37.4 | This is a weekly show to help people be better leaders through improved communications, human relations, and personal |
| 0:46.4 | productivity. |
| 0:47.4 | Man, it's hard for me to believe that we're at episode 90, 100 episodes coming up here soon. Hey, I'm so glad that you have joined me again this week |
| 0:57.5 | because this is the follow-up to last week's episode number 89 and if you listen last week already you'll remember |
| 1:06.5 | that I welcome Steve Dozier a strengths finder expert from Blue Star Intel to come in and to have some conversation with us about what |
| 1:16.8 | Strengths Finder is, why we should care about it, what's the history behind the |
| 1:21.2 | instrument, the theory, the process, everything. |
| 1:24.0 | And then we promise this week what we do is rather than talk more about kind of the |
| 1:30.0 | theory behind strengths finders actually get into the meat of it with some real results and it doesn't get any more real than me opening up my strengths finder and sharing it with you and Bonnie opening up hers and so what we did is we have also recorded a full debrief with Steve and |
| 1:47.1 | Bonnie and myself of walking through our results and so we've at least I've |
| 1:52.1 | placed my results online. I'll give you the link for that at the end of the show here |
| 1:56.0 | I hope that this is helpful to you to get a feel for the types of conversation and the types of thinking you can do as you're walking through |
| 2:04.0 | an assessment results like Stringsfinder |
| 2:07.0 | or you know really you could apply this to a lot of different |
| 2:10.0 | assessments so the important thing is whenever you take assessments is to be able to get some |
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