Let's start our Theme Thursday with a little bit of an introduction and
just an overview about the theme. So if we look at our description
short description of Developer, it's people exceptionally talented. In Developer
theme, they recognize and they cultivate the people, the potential of
others. And they spot signs of each improvement and also derive
satisfaction from evidence of progress. So when I think about the talent
Developer, that's that...it's the ability to see. So, if you're Analytical and
you have that ability to really see patterns in data or information that
people may not see. If you have Empathy then you have that ability to see almost
like see and sense the emotions of people and apply that talent.
Similar to that
Developer has that superpower of seeing. That vision. You're able to see the
potentials in others and because of that they naturally see other's capacity to
change, grow, and develop and become
a better version of who they are.
People with Developer talent they tend to look for
ways to challenge others. And also when
they see the signs of growth and development, it's almost like a fuel for
their satisfaction and energy. So some key things
we see how Developer in action
those are like they recognize and cultivate. They spot signals of each small improvement.
They are also very patient with some inexperienced and people who are
not fully blossomed in their talent and performance. And also they get
satisfaction from growth that they see in other people.
Some theme descriptions when we think about some adjectives that may describe
people who have Developer or people talented in this particular talent theme
is they're growth-oriented. They are patient. They are encouraging,
perceptive maybe another word. Effective, investing, and others oriented.
Observant and self-sacrificing and also helpful. Not necessarily attaching Developer to a
particular career or job, but we can see a particular role they serve in a
particular job or a career. And those may be adviser,
a stimulator, an investor,
a coach, a mentor, teacher, encourager, and a stretcher. They help people stretch.
They push people sometimes even beyond their belief of themselves, their
potentials. And also a good facilitator. Another way to understand, have a
different level of understanding about Developer talent is looking at the...
contrasting it with other themes. So for example if we contrast it with Achiever
and Developer, then Achiever may say something like "I'm interested in getting
work done." versus someone with Developer may say "I'm really
interested in getting people done."
If we contrast it with Maximizer,
a Developer may say "I notice and
promote growth in others."
Whereas a Maximizer may say "I notice and promote excellence." There are some
fun facts I gathered about our theme Developer and as we just passed 13
million people who took our Clifton StrengthsFinder
and was able to kind of find
their natural talent pool. We find Developer as the, there's some themes
that we find more common in the Top 5 than others. Achiever is one of them.
Learner is one of them. But the Developer theme we find that it's the 12th most
common theme we find in our top five.
So not as common as some of the
other themes like Learner or
Achiever but it's right there, right at the 12th. And this is one of the themes
that we do see some gender difference. And so we find that for the male
population, it's the 25th theme
that we find common in the [laughs] in the Top 5. Whereas in
female population, it's actually the eighth common theme
that we find in women's top 5.
So we see a little bit of a gender difference in the stats there. And
these are just fun facts. It does mean if you are male or female
or if you are
from this particular country the chances of you having this is common.
It doesn't have much meaning there because everybody's unique and very
individualized. But we also see from a fun data standpoint in countries
there are some countries that have Developer more common in their Top 5.
One of them are US. Another country is Germany. Another country is Thailand
and also Singapore. There are some themes that we commonly find together
in Top 5's. We call them likely pairs. And with Developer it's actually
Empathy. Some themes that we commonly find with, in the Top Five with Developer are
Empathy, Responsibility, and also Positivity. So those are the three themes.
And of the three, the most common is Empathy. And if we look at some themes
that are unlikely to find together, so from a statistics standpoint, is
Command. Self-assurance, Significance and Focus.
But these themes are not just
commonly unfound in the Top Five with Developer. These are in general just more
rare themes we find in the Top Five. But of the themes
that we do commonly
find in top fives but we don't find it very common with
with Developer are themes
like Analytical. And also themes as Activator. You know
at Gallup when we, what we
also do a lot is we study great managers. As we work with
organizations and research managers
and their management style. And how they bring out performance through other
people, we find that there are highly high-performance managers who are able
to differentiate their team performance versus the others. And if we really study
them, interview them, talk with them, what we find is that the way they describe
their role, the way they describe what they do, and the activities that they
engage in, and how they manage people, they use the word
"Developer" a lot. So even in
people management, we find that being
able to develop other people that's a, it's
a core, important activity. And I think that's one of the reasons why when we think
about engaging employees and the component that is important in an
employees engagement, to maximize their performance and potential, we, Gallup
identified 12 components and actually one of them is
"there's someone at work who
encourages my development." And another one
related to growth is "You know this last year I had opportunities at work to
learn and grow." Furthermore we find when we study people who are really having
somebody at work who develops them, if an employee says that at work they have
somebody who encourages their development, two out of three of
them are engaged in
their workplaces. So engaged/not engaged vs actively disengaged. And people who
even if we look at the other one third of people, actually less than one percent
are actively disengaged in their work places according to
our Gallup poll. So thinking
about Developer and in the lens of people management,
we find that managers
and leaders with Developer obviously they're in their role facilitating
employees growth is very important.
They are genuine. They genuinely care and interested in people's
progress and growth.
So with that they're very generous in their praise and in their coaching and
making themselves available. And they don't mind investing time in their
employees development and growth and progress because they derive that
personal satisfaction from seeing other people's growth. On the other side we
also find that managers or leaders with Developer,
there's some things to watch
out for. Or certain things that sometimes they may be too patient with
low performance or people who are not necessarily in the right role based on
their talent and their fit. Sometimes they forget to develop and bring growth and
invest in themselves, their
own investment. And also at times they can be seen
as kind of being pushy or pressing other people to grow in certain tasks or areas
that they're not necessarily interested in. Or where the talent doesn't really
fit their task and their roles. So that's about it
overview of Developer