The Clifton StrengthsFinder and the 34 Clifton StrengthsFinder theme names are protected by copyright of Gallup Inc., 2000. All rights reserved.
We wanted you to feel a little rushed. We wanted you to react to each pair of statements spontaneously. Most of all, we wanted to prevent you from over-thinking your response. In the real world, you don't have time to think through all possible behaviors and their outcomes before deciding what to do. Instead, most of your behaviors stem from top-of-mind decisions.
We are not talking here about major decisions, like whether to get married, quit your job, or buy a house. These decisions are infrequent, but when they do arise, they obviously require a great deal of reflection. Rather, we are talking about the multitude of tiny decisions you make during the course of a normal day: "The phone is ringing. Should I pick it up, or stay focused on this report? If I pick it up, should I make small talk, or dive straight into business? If he challenges me on something, should I defend myself immediately, or should I let him get it off his chest?"
Each day, you face an endless procession of choices like these. The sum of your instantaneous decisions creates your recurring patterns of behavior. Because the Clifton StrengthsFinder's express purpose is to identify your strongest recurring patterns of behavior -- your "talents" -- we specifically designed it to present you with situations that require the same type of immediate decision-making.
The Clifton StrengthsFinder and the 34 Clifton StrengthsFinder theme names are protected by copyright of Gallup Inc., 2000. All rights reserved.
