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StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup’s Now, Discover Your Strengths (Hardcover)

by Tom Rath (Author)

Textbook Details
* Hardcover: 192 pages
* Publisher: Gallup Press; 1 edition (February 1, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 159562015X
* ISBN-13: 978-1595620156
* Dimensions: 7.1 x 5 x 1 inches
* Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
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Textbook Description
Chances are, you don’t. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.

To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, StrengthsFinder, in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your Strengths. The book spent more than five years on the bestseller lists and ignited a global conversation, while StrengthsFinder helped millions to discover their top five talents.

In its latest national bestseller, StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment, language of 34 themes, and much more (see below for details). While you can read this book in one sitting, you’ll use it as a reference for decades.

Loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, this new book and accompanying website will change the way you look at yourself — and the world around you — forever.

AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY IN THE NEW & UPGRADED EDITION OF STRENGTHSFINDER 2.0
(using the unique access code included with each book)

* A new and upgraded edition of the StrengthsFinder assessment
* A personalized Strengths Discovery and Action-Planning Guide for applying your strengths in the next week, month, and year
* A more customized version of your top five theme report
* 50 Ideas for Action (10 strategies for building on each of your top five themes)
* The more user-friendly StrengthsFinder 2.0 companion website, with a strengths community area, library of downloadable discussion guides and activities, a strengths screensaver, and a program for creating display cards of your top five themes

StrengthsFinder 2.0 Review
As a professional Human Resource developer, I have designed and implemented curriculum for the development of leaders, supervisors, managers, and executives. They are aware they have talents, but still encounter a variety of situations that challenge them in their use of these talents. In particular, talented people rarely have coworkers who provide candid feedback on their perceptions of these talents. If they do comment, it is typically in the heat of anger or a dash of praise (far from an honest and objective evaluation for formative purposes). In fact, most supervisors do not solicit nor value subordinate evaluations. Therein lies the value of StrengthsFinder 2.0. It allows the individual taking the test to objectively be evaluated via the assessment. Most people I’ve given the test to say that it teaches them a lot about themselves and (perhaps even more importantly) provides a helpful reminder of the unique strengths they possess that they should lean into each and every day.

In StrengthsFinder 2.0 Gallup unveils a new and improved version of its popular assessment. While you can read this book in one sitting, you’ll use it as a reference for decades. It’s loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, and helps you to understand those around you who have strengths and tendencies that are different from your own.
My other favorite book that includes an online test and has been a huge help to me at work and at home is The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book.