DO YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO USE YOUR STRENGTHS EVERY DAY?
Chances are, you don’t. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.
To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, StrengthsFinder, in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your Strengths. The book spent more than five years on the bestseller lists and ignited a global conversation, while StrengthsFinder helped millions discover their top five talents.
In StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment, language of 34 themes, and much more. While you can read this book in one sitting, you’ll use it as a reference for decades.
Loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, this new book and accompanying website will change the way you look at yourself ― and the world around you ― forever.
Beware: You Only Get Your Top 5 Themes And Not All 34 In Order The book is a quick read and very helpful in getting one to think about one’s strengths and the potential complementary strengths to look for in others to offset one’s weaker areas, if you work in a team environment. However, once I completed the online test and obtained the resultant reports, I was shocked to learn that I would only get the Top 5 Themes, and the other 29 remain a mystery. Upon contacting the company, I learned that for an additional $550.00 I could then obtain the other 29…
Brilliantly Innovative Moneymaker for the Publisher, Total Waste of Time for Everyone Else. This book was provided by my employer as an HR exercise. Being one who rarely feels motivated to leave reviews, I have two main thoughts about this book:Â
What are the strengths YOU can rely on? Strengths Finder 2.0 is the follow up to Gallup’s Now, Discover Your Strengths. The book includes a revamped version of the StrengthsFinder test that shows you not just what your top five strengths are, but also how you rank in the rest of the 34 strengths from Clifton’s model. The new book is light on content (very light) but the test is a substantial improvement.Â