This domain is all about critical thinking. If you're dominant here, you're likely great at decision making. They'll help you spot your potential areas of superpowers when you're approaching a situation at work. Here are the four demands in more detail. Nonetheless, you have a dominant area or two, which is probably your first filter as you work through a new problem or goal at work. "Which of my talent themes help me build trust?" "Which of my Top 5 help (or hinder) a sense of stability on the team?" "Which of my talent themes help me be compassionate toward team members?" "Which of my talents naturally find or create hope?" It's interesting to look at these categories of hope, compassion, stability, and trust against your Top 5 talent themes. It's also a great read for people managers, as it gives you insights into critical "follower needs" of hope, compassion, stability, and trust.
If you want to read a full book based on this research, check out Strengths Based Leadership. In fact, we prefer to call them "the 4 demands" because we all have all of these demands on us at work. This study looked at the demands we all have on our personal leadership.
Gallup first created these " domains" based on a big research study. StrengthsFinder Colors - What's Dominant For You? Executing (purple) - Achiever, Arranger, Belief, Consistency, Deliberative, Discipline, Focus, Responsibility, Restorative.Strategic Thinking (green / formerly-red) - Analytical, Context, Futuristic, Ideation, Input, Intellection, Learner, Strategic.Influencing (yellow-orange) - Activator, Command, Communication, Competition, Maximizer, Self-Assurance, Significance, Woo.Relationship (blue) - Adaptability, Connectedness, Developer, Empathy, Harmony, Includer, Individualization, Positivity, Relator.Here are the official talent themes in each category, AKA strengths by color:
R-I-S-E would stand for Relationship, Influence, Strategic, and Executing. This might make it easier for you to remember them. The words can make the acronym RISE if you use "Strategic Thinking" rather than "Thinking" as the label. RISE to Remember What The StrengthsFinder Colors Mean Purple: Executing talent themes - the "get it done" drive, and the powerful motivation from practical actions. Orange-Yellow: Influencing talent themes - the creators of momentum, and the natural ability to spark change.īlue: Relationship talent themes - the builders of relationships, and those who use human connection to get things done. Green (formerly red): Thinking talent themes - the cerebral crew, in a variety of ways: critical thinking, decision-making, and creativity. Note: in August 2020, the color of the Thinking (AKA Strategic Thinking) domain changed from red to green to be more discernible to those who are color blind when presented in greyscale. There are four categories, which Gallup calls Leadership Domains. I love this nuance because many people have 3-4 colors in their Top 5 and they want to know more about which one "talks most loudly." It tells you what your most dominant lens of talent is. If you have the Full-34 premium report, you'll see an exciting array of colors lined up on the home page. Login and you'll see a DNA strand with the four colors. Speaking of colors, that's a very prominent part of the results nowadays. Gallup regularly updates the reports, and in the past few years, they've become really robust. If you haven't explored the dashboard in awhile, go check it out. Or you may have noticed that there are some colors on your Signature Theme Reports or the Insight Report. This question comes up straight away when people finish the CliftonStrengths assessment because smart people see the DNA icons on the Gallup Access dashboard. These are described in detail at the bottom of this article. The question was: "What do the StrengthsFinder colors mean?" If you stream the audio, you'll hear Lisa offer the three things you need to consider when looking at your colors: your thoughts, your demands, and your filters. This article was inspired by a question from a podcast listener.