Visit Leverage Your Strengths for Success! Part 1 of a Series for the background information on this post.
IDEATION
People who are especially talented in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.
Personalized Strengths Insights
What makes you stand out?
Driven by your talents, you are ecstatic -- that is, thrilled -- when you read about a novel concept or an original theory. Probably, the hope of discovering a new way of thinking motivates you to read a lot. You enjoy collecting a variety of information. You sense that one day you will find a proper use for it. Because of your strengths, you automatically think of new and different ways to do things. Your mind is brimming with ideas. You are probably eager to share them with whoever will listen. Chances are good that you are highly sensitive to what others think of you. This sensitivity continually motivates you to do things better than you have in the past. It's very likely that you generate ideas quickly. You draw clever linkages between facts, events, people, problems, or solutions. You present others with numerous options at a pace some find dizzying. Your innovative thinking tends to foster ongoing dialogue between and among the group's participants.
Ideas for Action:
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Seek a career in which you will be given credit for and paid for your ideas, such as marketing, advertising, journalism, design, or new product development.
Looks like I'm on track with that one!
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Finish your thoughts and ideas before communicating them. Lacking your Ideation talents, others might not be able to "join the dots" of an interesting but incomplete idea and thus might dismiss it.
An explanation for why I sometimes get that "deer in the headlights" look when expounding on an idea!
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Understand the fuel for your Ideation talents: When do you get your best ideas? When you're talking with people? When you're reading? When you're simply listening or observing? Take note of the circumstances that seem to produce your best ideas, and recreate them.
For me it's when I'm in the shower! Being alone, with the white noise of the water blocking out distractions? Reading sometimes sparks an idea.
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You are a natural fit with research and development; you appreciate the mindset of visionaries and dreamers. Spend time with imaginative peers, and sit in on their brainstorming sessions.
I do that with several Mastermind groups, and by reading the great information on Active Rain!
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Partner with someone with strong Analytical talents. This person will question you and challenge you, therefore strengthening your ideas.
Analytical is another of my Top 5 - so I'm partnering with myself on this one!
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Excerpts from StrengthsFinder 2.0 are from my personal results. Material on the website is subject to Copyright © 2007 The Gallup Organization, Princeton, NJ.
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