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RE: Unleash Your Super-Power, Part 2: Where Our Strengths Come From
Great post, Jason! Strength finders is a great platform to begin thinking differently about what brings success. Good stuff.
Great post, Jason! Strength finders is a great platform to begin thinking differently about what brings success. Good stuff.
Thanks Luke. Have you used it at all in your business? The StrengthsFinder terminology has become for me the primary way I understand the people I work with.
We've talked about it now and again but haven't yet done it with everyone. Might be a good time to revisit that. With a fully remote team from multiple cultural backgrounds, we have a lot of differences we work through already. Also, our team is pretty small, but I still think this could help. It's been a while since I took it also. Two of my five strengths changed between 1.0 and 2.0 the last time I took it. I wouldn't be surprised if some changes have happened again considering my world view shifts over the last few years.
That would be interesting to see if there is any change. It's not unusual for one nor two of your top five to be different on a second take. Apparently most people have three dominant themes and two supporting themes. The three that remained were likely more dominant. The supporting themes were probably still in your top ten if you were to get the full 34 theme report. That was the case on my second take.
But that said, there could always be some human error in the responses. While I buy into the enduring, hard-wiring aspect of our neural makeup, it's difficult to be precise with a subjective psychometric.
According to Gallup' research, the accuracy of the test diminishes when you take it a second or third time. 97.5% accuracy rating the first time, 89.9% second time. Not sure how valid that is.
Keep me posted. It'd be cool to hear your results.
Heh. The accuracy decreases. That's kinda funny, when you think about it. "This subjective thing gets less accurate the more you look closely at it, do it multiple times and think too much about the results." Heheh. I'm a fan of neural plasticity, so I'm not super convinced on the hard-wiring part. But yeah, I should take it again sometime. I'll let you know if I do. I took a Myers Briggs thing recently and was surprised to see it change up a bit also.
I'll need to study up on neural plasticity. There's no doubt there's some validity but I suppose its a question of how much can be changed with how much effort. Fascinating stuff though. The human brain is amazing.