My Top 5

A few months ago at work we were given a book Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath.  The gift came with a directive to log onto the website and take a short(ish) assessment to discover your top 5 strengths. Which I promtply (two days before it was due) did.  I have to say that overall the results were interesting; I don't know that I fully agree with the strengths that the assessment came up with for me.

[Here's the part where I have to take some responsibility, I did the assessment too quickly, I didn't read anything before hand and I really didn't care what it would say becuase it was for a work retreat that I didn't really want to go to.]

That said, when it was all over I was left with a list of strengths that I felt didn't quite fit and then I was very disappointed becuase I couldn't retake the assessment in a more calm state of being. Mr. Rath or his company (whichever) has limited the assessment to once per book.  For a minute I almost bought a second book, until I realized I was being crazy over something that didn't really matter.

The book lists 34 different strengths... I feel fairly certain that I can list them, but for more than that you might have to buy/borrow the book. I bolded the ones I identified for myself (yes, there are more than five) and underlined the ones the assessment identified for me. All five of the assessment one were ones I connected with I'm just not sure I would have put them in the top 5.
The strengths are:
Achiever
Activator
Adaptability
Analytical
Arranger
Belief
Command
Communication
Competition
Cennectedness
Consistency
Context
Deliberative
Developer
Discipline
Empathy
Focus
Futuristic
Harmony
Ideation
Includer
Individualism
Input
Intellection
Learner
Maximizer
Positivitiy
Relator
Responsibility
Resorative
Self-Assurance
Significane
Strategic
Woo

So why don't I fully agree with the results?
When I did finally go back and read about the assessment I learned that if you answer uncertain to questions it basically throws those questions out... I believe that given the time rush, I answered with too many uncertains which I also blieve if I could do it again would result in a different top 5.  But I got what I got and...

I thought that to get back into this blogging thing (yes I know I've been gone) I would talk about
My Top 5... 
                            Not right now!  But over the next few weeks :)

Love!