StrengthsFinder 2.0: From Gallup: By the New York Times Bestselling Author of Wellbeing (Cover may vary)

I bought this book on the recommendation of a friend and I'm very glad I did. The book gives you a one time use code that allows you to make up your strengthsfinder 2 account and to take the online quiz. Note: it is better to do the quiz without reading the book first as it may affect how honestly you answer certain questions. Upon taking the quiz it tells you your 5 core strengths and provides a personalised insight into which attributes of these strengths that you exhibit more frequently. It also gives you advice on how to grow in your strengths and recommends careers or activities which will allow you to harness your natural skills. I read my personalised insights and it had described me to a T and even explained why I am motivated and stirred by certain things and what excites me. The book also contains a chapter summarising every one of the strengths so you can refer back to it and your personalised insights are stored online so you can keep going back and reminding yourself of what you're good at. Ideal for anyone who is going through a transitional phase or who just wants to know what they're good at. Also good for helping with career decisions (the personalised insights sometimes offer suggestions of what careers people with certain skills would excel in).

This little book is fantastic! It is concise and gets to the point very quickly... that is, finding your strengths. The book contains a code for completing an on-line test, the results of which are immediately available in a nice report which includes insights and ideas for action. The personal insights I've gained from the on-line test and have helped me transform my working life (and my personal life). The book helped me understand my strengths and gave usable guidance about applying them every day... I feel incredibly energised by this. I'd recommend the book if you are unhappy in your work, can't quite put your finger on "why" but want to do something about it!

Thoroughly impressed. It makes a nice change to see personality tests coming from an organisation with access to really significant data. I found the summary of my strengths really useful with a number of good ideas of new things I could get involved in. The book itself is really a glorified set of log in details for the website which hosts the test itself. Once you have logged on and done the test, you have access to all the information online and the book becomes somewhat redundant. *Do not buy a second hand copy* as the chances are that the log in details won't work (having been used already).

This product consists of a book with some background information and descriptions of all the various strengths, as well as a unique link to a website where you take a 'test' of about 100 paired statements. You then get a personalised report of the results and how you might look to use them. The test involves strongly agreeing or disagreeing with two statements on each end of a scale where you rate whether you lean more towards one statement than the other. I found it very difficult to answer some of the questions as occasionally I agreed completely (or disagreed completely) with both statements though had to 'sit on the fence' in order to feel equally about each which I think must have affected the results. Like all these things (Myers Briggs, Insights etc) there are always limitations due to the way you take the test, interpret the results and so on. The test tells you your top 5 strengths but it's easy to interpret this wrongly by assuming that you don't have certain other strengths which some people could find misleading. What's also missing is some guidance on what actually to do with the results particularly if you want to use it for working in teams or in collaboration with others in the work place. I spent some considerable time trying to work out what conclusions I could draw from this and designing a follow up session to try and make something out of my team's combined results, but still am not convinced I've really achieved that. All that said, the test is quite enjoyable (even if I didn't understand some of the 'Americanisms' used in some of the wording) and I suppose is a good tool for companies to reassure staff that they actually are interested in developing them. Very importantly, you must buy the book new otherwise you will not get your unique code to get onto the website and take the test.

Ok, let's be clear. What you're really buying access to is the fantastic online psychometric test. I bought the kindle version of this as it's slightly cheaper. The book itself is fairly short: it contains an intro (about a fifth of the book) which explains the Gallup point of view. This is basically that if we all understood and focussed on our strengths rather than our weaknesses, we would be happier and far, far more productive (after decades of work on this, they have the research to back this up). It's articulated really well, and is really convincing. The rest of the book is a summary of each of the different strengths, including how people with that strength might want to make the most of that strength, and how to work with people like that. But the truth is you don't need to read that for yourself, because when you take the test (relatively short) you get a personalised report on each of your strengths (ok, it's not totally personalised, but it adapted for exactly *how much* you have each strength, and the mixtures you have). And here's where the transformative bit comes in. This personalised report really affected me. When I read some of it, I welled up. I hadn't felt that *got* for ages. And it opened up all sorts of things: I understood why I had left a particular job, which had mostly been a great job, I understood why I was so attracted to the career path I am developing into. And I just know that I will be able to use this going forward. I work as a coach now, and I often recommend this to clients. Mostly they don't do it, because it costs £10 or so, and you can get free psychometric tests about strengths online. But the ones who take it find it transformative, too. It's WAY better than the free ones, and for me the £10 is one of the best £10s I've ever spent. Go on, get it!

This is a great book but beware, you are not really paying for the book, you are paying for access to the personality test, the book is just a vehicle for that. The test itself is very detailed and adds a lot of value to the general info in the book. At around $25, it is a very reasonable price for this kind of test (I have seen less detailed ones for over $50.). The test is accessed using the individual code printed inside each book and can only be used once. If you buy second hand, your code will already have been used, rendering the book useless. I urge everyone to buy this book but buy it new.

I have been a fan of StrengthFinder 2.0 and when I originally got the book and took the assessment back in 2021 - I received a c40 page report with my top 5 strengths, insight and practical applications. Hoping to reassess and expecting the same, I re-ordered the StrengthFinder 2.0 only to find that there is not a full commercial operation that sits behind it! I got a 4 page summary of my 5 strengths and a 7 page summary of applications that just asked the same 2 questions for each strength 'what stood out to you' 'what do you want others to see' - to get the additional insight, I had to pay a further £40. Good summary insight like before - but (since Martin Shkreli bought it out?), diluted the value and increased the price for the content that was previously included - this is an inferior product riding on the coattails of a successful brand name to try an capitalize on a craze that it arguably helped to launch.

Recommended to me by one of the senior management team after I found it difficult to answer what my strengths were. I have completed the assessment using the code in this book, and am now looking to rollout the use of the strengths assessment to everyone in my department to make use of when setting development goals.

Me describió totalmente. Te dan una pequeña contraseña para hacer el test, lo puedes hacer en español o en ingles. La reseña también la puedes tener en español o en ingles. Únicamente el libro esta en ingles. Es un libro muy bueno, me ha ayudado a enfocarme más en que quiero hacer y hacia donde quiero ir. Descubrí cosas que no sabía de mi. Se los recomiendo.

最初に出版された「さあ、才能に目覚めよう」を購入し、セカンドエディションが出ていることに気がつき購入しました。本書を購入することにより、Strengths Finder Version2のオンラインテストを受けることができます。テストを受けるまでの設定は英語ですがテストの質問事項は、日本語で受けられます。より良くなった点は、行動のアドバイスが得られたり、掲示板での意見交換が行えます。2冊購入し、妻との結果を比較したのですが、一致しているものは、一つもありませんでした。お互いを補いあえるということで、この方がよい結果であるといえるように思われます。信憑性のない占いをするよりは、統計データに基づく本書の利用をお勧めします。

I bought it as part of a leadership program. Its main intent is to find your strengths thru an online assessment, accessed via a unique one-time code included in the book. So, it’s best to buy a new copy. The assessment reveals your top 5 strengths for free, with an option to unlock all 34 by paying extra. In my view, the top 5 are good enough. The book itself describes all 34 strengths in a couple of pages each, so a used copy is still useful for general reference. The only confusing part was the price on Amazon India—it ranged from ₹900 to ₹2400. I got it at the lower price, and it served its purpose well.

The delivery is fast and no defects.

I bought the book especially to have the code for the test, I opened the book a few months after I bought it to use the code in the back which was sealed shut, but for some reason it did not work. It said it had already been used before, which was not possible in my case because I took scissors to cut the envelope open to see the code. For the rest the book looks completely new and good.