Personality Profile

Gallup Strengths Finder
For
Jeff Hengsbach

The Gallup Organization tests & profiles individuals according to their five greatest strength areas. Their belief is that persons will maximize their performance by taking the greatest advantage of their strengths rather than trying to improve weaker areas.

Jeff's profile is made available here to provide the client with a realistic expectation of his approach and capabilities as the decision is made to retain.

ACTIVATOR

"When can we start?" This is a recurring question in your life. You are impatient for action. Only action is real. Only action can make things happen. Only action leads to performance. In your view, action and thinking are not opposites. You make a decision, you take action, you look at the result, and you learn. This learning informs your next action and your next. You must put yourself out there. You must take the next step. It is the only way to keep your thinking fresh and informed. The bottom line is this: You know you will be judged not by what you say, not by what you think, but by what you get done. This does not frighten you. It pleases you.

COMMUNICATION

You like to explain. to describe, to host, to speak in public, and to write. This is your Communication theme at work. Ideas are a dry beginning. Events are static. You feel a need to bring them to life, to energize them, to make them exciting and vivid. And so you turn events into stories and practice telling them. You want your information - whether an idea, an event, a product's features and benefits, a discovery, or a lesson - to survive. This is what draws you toward dramatic words and powerful word combinations. This is why people like to listen to you. Your word pictures pique their interest, sharpen their world, and inspire them to act.

INPUT

You are inquisitive. The world is exciting precisely because of its infinite variety and complexity. If you read a great deal, it is not necessarily to refine your theories but, rather, to add more inforamtion to your archives. It's interesting. It keeps your mind fresh. And perhaps one day some of it will prove valuable.

RESPONSIBILITY

Your Responsibility theme forces you to take psychological ownership for anything you commit to, and whether large or small, you feel emotionally bound to follow it through to completion. Your good name depends on it. If for some reason you cannot deliver, you automatically start to look for ways to make it up to the other person. Apologies are not enough. Excuses and rationalizations are totally unacceptable. This conscientiousness, this near obsession for doing things right, and your impeccable ethics, combine to create your reputation: utterly dependable. When assigning new respoinsibilities, people will look to you first because they know it will get done.

MAXIMIZER

Excellence, not average, is your measure. Strengths, whether yours or someone else's, fascinate you. Like a diver after pearls, you search them out watching for the telltale signs of a strength. A glimpse of untutored excellence, rapid learning, a skill mastered without recourse to steps - all these are clues that a strength may be in play. And having found a strength, you feel compelled to nurture it, refine it, and stretch it toward excellence. You polish the pearl until it shines. You are attracted to others who seem to have found and clutivated their own strengths. You don't want to spend your life bemoaning what you lack. Rather you want to capitalize on the gifts with which you are blessed. It's more fun. It's more productive. And, counterintuitively, it is more demanding.