Let me dive right into Futuristic. One of the things
and again in many of the nuances
or things that many of us have read
about the theme of Futuristic, and I have this
in my my Top Five as well. But one of the
things that we talk about is that individuals with Futuristic
have the innate
ability to clearly envision and inspirationally describe a picture of a
better tomorrow. And what's interesting with it, I think, sometimes most of us can
intuitively read the word or theme description for Futuristic and we know
that it's a Strategic Thinking theme. We know that
it's kind of within somebody's
head. That they can kind of envisioned it. But I think we sometimes miss the nuance
that for many people with the high kind of or dominant theme in Futuristic,
there's also the ability that they have to inspirationally describe that picture
of a better tomorrow. When we talk about
again kind of even more simply, it's you know,
kind of vision into the future. I think of kind of a telescope or binoculars
of kind of looking forward and if others, if it's somebody with a you know kind of a
telescope everybody else around them goes "What do you see?"
& it's that ability to kind of envisioncast that although it's clear to
them it may not be as clear to everybody around them.
So remembering that element of sharing the details
Communicating "Here's what I see"
or "here's what could be"
I think really becomes one of the powerful
pieces that again many others may not ask but if you remember that you may see
something or you have a unique vision that
can add real power to others, I think that's where Futuristic kind of
comes into play. The adjectives that sometimes describe with Futuristic
are creative, inspiring, vivid,
anticipating, imagining, expressive, communicating as I talked about.
Perceptive, future-oriented, and visionary.
Again kind of that ability to kind of see a
bigger broader picture. The nouns are
kind of when we think about the roles you may
think of somebody with high Futuristic as a forecaster.
Are they somebody that again
can kind of think about what's coming next? There is that sense of again the
predictor.
Here's what might happen. An anticipator, there somebody that can see what's next
and begin to say "I can't wait for," they begin to create some excitement with
that. There's the element, as I talk about the visionary, or the dreamer, or
the imaginer. I like that Disney again
even calls you know, one of their lines at work the
Imagineer. Much like an engineer. But so much of
what Walt Disney talked about, I don't know his themes
but I guess Futuristic was probably
pretty high. But one of the quotes that
he had about dreaming he said "If you can dream it, you can do it." And it's this
element that is until we see the picture until somebody sees the what could be
in their own head and then articulates
that, or inspires others to put it on paper
bring it to life, we are oftentimes hopeless without that dream. Some of the
nuances again within the theme when you think about the "being" aspects of this,
and again with the theme insights, some of you have
leveraged the theme insight cards, or the
on-line resources. But very simply with with Futuristic, individuals with
Futuristic are often fascinated with tomorrow. There's that anticipation again
of what will be.
They anticipate and imagine what could or should be.
It's not just again what could be but
there can sometimes be especially if paired with Belief or even Achiever
of what we need to get done, or the Belief of why
does it need to happen. Roseanne for you the
Activator let's just make it happen right let's just get started with it but
they anticipate and imagine what could or should be. The contribution piece is they
bring previews, predictions, forecasts, again kind of the snapshot that you can
tap in somebody with Futuristic and say
"What do you see?" I love actually Jim Clifton
our Chairman and CEO at Gallup has Futuristic high
and I love one of my
favorite questions when I'm interacting with
Jim is: "Jim what are you excited about?"
"What do you see in the future?" and top of
mind he'll have something to say. He
doesn't have to pause. He doesn't say
"Give me some time to think about it" but there's
something in his head that he sees and anticipates that again
acts as a prediction or forecast to myself or even my colleagues or you all on
the front lines with "What are we doing to change the world and get to over
a billion people that know their strengths?"
The needs or kind of requirements that
somebody with Futuristic has is really the opportunity to talk about the future
that they see. And again I think that's one of
the most untapped pieces often times
with Futuristic. We jump sometimes to the barrier label which is kind of the
dreamer, head in the clouds. I think of myself and Roseanne
you may have had similar scenarios
growing up and by the way I'm very low Context so to
think back as its almost painfully hard.
But I can recall what was written on report
cards when I was a kid
"Jeremy stares out the window" or "daydreams"
"or is distracted" Was it my ADD? [Roseanne laughs]
The answer to that might have been "yes."
But part of it was just
Am I dreaming? [Roseanne: mhmm] Am I again, kind of, thinking about
what could be. It's not that I've lost interest
in what's here now but again that ability that need
I have to not only think about it, but then to share that
with people.
My wife's gotten really good over the years that
when I kind of check out as she would call it,
She'll kind of tap back in to say "Hey, welcome back! where'd you go? How was it
there?" You know? It's that element of, she can tell that in my mind,
[Roseanne: mhmm] I went somewhere
but [Roseanne: mhmm] reminding me "tell us about it."
you know, "Where where you go?[Roseanne: yeah]
Was it warm? Was it fun?"
And were we there with you?" [Roseanne laughs] The other element
again with this is again that for people high in
Futuristic often hate contentment with the status quo and again when you think
about this, I love the way , Roseanne, again you lived and spent
your life with Curt so you would hear
him talk about this all the time. But he would begin
to kind of with his Analytical
put these in packages and Futuristic naturally
fits in that time package that again time
is very simply, you know, What happened when? and Remember that time? You know
it's kind of there's a measurable component to time. And in that
package you've got Context which is kind of past time ...remember when.
You've got Adaptability
which is kind of a "living in the now" which is present time. You've got
Connectedness which is beyond time or kind of between time,
kind of connecting the dots
But Futuristic brings that future time. Right imagine when we get to, or
"I know this will happen" and you can
kind of paint a picture that almost feels like
it's already happened when a futuristic person is talking about it. [Roseanne: mhmm]
Again, the theme is often paired with it's most commonly actually paired with
Strategic so Futuristic shows up in about 11 percent of individuals that
have completed StrengthsFinder. We now have
over 13 million people that have
completed StrengthsFinder shows up at about 11 percent of individuals. But often
seen with Strategic. And so it's not only that you can see a better world but if
you've got Strategic paired with that as well
you can see the route to get us
there. I've met plenty of people too who
have Futuristic high and not Strategic, but that's
often a good partnership is to say find someone who it's not only a dream but we
can build it or make it a reality because we've got the Strategic
or we've got the Activators or we've got the
Achievers partnered with us on that. A couple of other things on
Futuristic and then I want to just hear
from you Roseanne with again, you've...this is your most
your number 1 theme, dominant for you
integrate so nicely with so many of your
other themes. There was a quote that I actually find myself
and maybe it's my Futuristic
or Maximizer but I often will end when I do
keynotes for Gallup or even
external presentations or talks. there's an Abraham Lincoln
quote that is very simply "The
best way to predict the future is to create it."
[Roseanne laughs] And what's interesting I think
sometimes our Achiever friends might go "Oh no!
That's an Achiever Quote!" The Activators
go "Just go do something make it happen!" [Roseanne laughs]
but the reason I accredit it even to Futuristic is, again, we
can't predict the future or create it if we don't see what's there. And so
getting to that what's possible, what's imaginable, and not just letting it
exist as a dream, but again putting into reality.