Pairing and Expanding Your Strengths: Activator -- Season 2

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Gallup's Theme Thursday is a live Webcast that targets strengths
coaches and enthusiasts to provide a deeper context behind the
language of strengths by talking in-depth about each of the 34
Clifton StrengthsFinder themes.

Activators are always thinking, "Let's get started. Let's go." They
are impatient for action, but that impatience is not a negative
thing. It represents Activators innate ability to energize and
mobilize others to act. People talented in the Activator are
comfortable with risk, as long as action is taken. Activators are
catalysts -- they turn ideas into action. When other people share
ideas, Activators are listening for openings in those ideas for
action. Their energy can be engaging and contagious.

With every theme, there are dimensions of talent and each theme
represents a natural pattern of behavior. Every theme represents
potential inside a person -- and that theme can be in either a raw
or mature state. Mature Activators are insightful instead of
impatient. They see opportunities to get started. When coaching an
Activator, Maika explained that it is best to ask, "How can I
position this Activator as a successful started? Where can she be
rewarded for starting the process?" Maika also explained that
coaches should not try to change an Activator into focusing on
following through on a project. Instead, Activators should be
paired with people naturally talented in finishing projects like
people with Focus and Responsibility in their top five themes.