Knowing how your dominant CliftonStrengths themes interact will help you identify your natural talents and develop your strengths. Theme dynamics are like the chemistry of talent themes — how your CliftonStrengths themes interact to create something brand new and more powerful than either theme alone.
ANALYTICAL
| Achiever | Your mind works overtime to understand how something works, and your hands work overtime to get something accomplished. |
| Activator | It is important for you to understand things, but you are comfortable figuring things out while on the move. |
| Adaptability | You are willing to be influenced by what goes on around you, but you want to understand why and how you are influenced. |
| Arranger | You take puzzles apart to clarify and simplify. You put puzzles together to improve performance. |
| Belief | You believe in some things because you can truly see them, but you also see some things because you truly believe in them. |
| Command | You bring clarity to complexity and confusion by appealing to rational arguments and by engaging in emotional debates. |
| Communication | You are always looking for objective truth, and you often find it through the give and take of conversation and dialogue. |
| Competition | For you, victory can’t be confirmed by emotions. The proof of a real victory is found in scores or metrics. |
| Connectedness | To you, life is both scientific and sacred. Truth must be proven, but there are mysteries that must be accepted. |
| Consistency | Your commitment to objective measurements and protective regulations helps maintain and improve performance. |
| Context | Your recalling and recording of history is shaped by measurable data and objective facts. Good history is good science. |
| Deliberative | You are serious-minded. You rely on quantification to validate existing theories and on calculation to minimize existing risks. |
| Developer | You want to invest in the growth of others, and you need to measure that growth to make sure there is real progress. |
| Discipline | You love logic because it’s objective, objectivity because it’s orderly and order because it’s efficient. |
| Empathy | Your approach to life involves both the rational intelligence of your mind and the emotional intelligence of your heart. |
| Focus | You are aware of all the contributing factors in a situation. But at the same time, you can concentrate on the most critical priority. |
| Futuristic | You can shape a series of objective metrics into a future trend that enables you to get a glimpse of a better tomorrow. |
| Harmony | You look for patterns in the multiplicity of facts, and you manage the tension that comes from a variety of feelings. |
| Ideation | Your mind can toggle back and forth between the expansion and reduction of possibilities. You have a calculated imagination. |
| Includer | You take things apart to improve understanding, and you bring everyone together to increase involvement. |
| Individualization | You notice elegant simplicity in complex realities and individual uniqueness in human diversity. |
| Input | You look for tools and information that can improve everyone’s work and reliable data that can help everyone make better decisions. |
| Intellection | You seek understanding through deep and theoretical inquiry, and you validate truth through objective measurement. |
| Learner | Education is something you enjoy personally, but its ultimate value is something you must measure objectively. |
| Maximiser | For you, quality can’t be defined only in emotional terms. For something to be real, it has to be measurable. |
| Positivity | While you are serious-minded about data and facts, you are also light-hearted — kind of a scientist with a sense of humour. |
| Relator | You often bring facts and logic to your close relationships. You believe that intimacy and objectivity can coexist. |
| Responsibility | You are a serious person who approaches life reasonably and honourably. You seek truth and speak truth. |
| Restorative | Your ability to recognize patterns helps you when you encounter real problems that require logical solutions. |
| Self-assurance | Your decisions are usually based on facts. But there have been times when you have trusted your instincts and it worked. |
| Significance | Because perceptions are real and powerful, you want them to be measured objectively rather than evaluated emotionally. |
| Strategic | Your mind can find a way through a multiplicity of future options and find truth in the complexity of a present reality. |
| Woo | Even though you value objective thinking, you also see the value of social influence. Who you know will enhance what you know. |