| | |  | Books | Home » » » StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths | | | | | | | Description: | | DO YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO WHAT YOU DO BEST EVERY DAY?
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-- | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9781595620156
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Tom Rath | | Hardcover:
| 192 pages | | Publisher:
| Gallup Press | | Publication Date:
| February 01, 2007 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 159562015X | | Package Length:
| 7.01 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.12 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.87 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.66 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 308 reviews |
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 StrengthsFinder 2.0 - just okayNov 06, 2009
Several other reviewers said that the book is useless without the code to access the assessment tool. I disagree - I thought the assessment tool was useless and got just as much out of reading the different descriptions in the book. The assessment provides two statements and asks you to choose between them as well as how strongly you associate with your choice. I felt that many of the choices were false dichotomies, the two options were not opposites and many times I agreed equally and strongly about both statements. You'd be better off asking your spouse, friends or colleagues what your strengths are. Don't waste your money on this book.
 Strength Finder is GREAT!Nov 05, 2009
The book is a great resource and provide valuable information on a persons strength and how to find your own strength in order to maximize your talents and market onself.
StrengthsNov 01, 2009
A good general review of our strengths, but it would be more helpful if the test results also included our five biggest weaknesses.
Strengths Finder 2.0Oct 24, 2009
Strengths Finder 2.0 offers a fresh perspective on working to improve our weaknesses vs. mastering our strengths. The format is easy to read, the content interesting, and the message enlightening. I would most certainly recommend it to others. One word of caution however...I ordered a "gently used" book from Amazon. And while the book was in GREAT condition, it did not come with the online code in the back. (You want the online code to take advantage of the research behind the book). Long story short, I was trying to be "green" by purchasing a "gently used" book, and now I will be purchasing the book again to get the online code.
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Took the test twice and only one talent remained the same!Oct 23, 2009
The main concepts of the book can be summarized in 4 pages or gleaned from the reviews here, but what you are really paying for is a one time chance to take the online test to assess your strengths.
Unfortunately Gallup provides only your top 5 strengths without providing your actual score or an indication of how they measure relative to general population. Their claim is that telling you the score will distract you from the value of the strength and that only the top 5 strengths matter. I suspect the real reason is that they don't want to let anyone reverse engineer the test and find out how the scoring is done.
All this would still be fine by me if test scores were not important. But that is not the case. I took the test twice just to verify the publisher's premises that the results don't vary much based on your mood or from one test to another. As it turns out only one of the top 5 traits in the test existed in both results. The other 4 out of 5 were not shared. This makes the test of limited value.
To be fair, there was a common thread between the two sets of tests. For example in one test I was the "Futurist" who is concerned with "What if..." and "Wouldn't it be interesting if..." type of scenarios. In another test my strength was "Ideation" that is the ability to bring fresh ideas to the table. But this raises another key question, how reliable are the categories as whole if 4 out of the 5 strengths can be replaced with each other? This makes the strength categories defined here more like zodiac descriptions than real statistical clusters. At the very least then, Gallup should publish all your "strengths" that fall within some margin.
Given all of the above, you are probably more aware of your own strengths that Gallup can tell you. The test would be of more value if it provided your score for each of your strengths and how they measure relative to the full database.
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