Now, Discover Your Strengths

An excellent leadership tool for personal development - The online evaluation allows you to identify your five top strengths. I found this to be a great tool to establish a baseline of strengths for personal management. I still use it today - five stars. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in investing in personal growth: it's better in some ways than Myers Briggs(tm) and Strong Interest Inventory(tm). Talent identification is important for each of us and for your team: you can complete a questionnaire developed by the Gallup Organization. I have purchased both the audio and the book which I have shared with my family and friends. Frank Sowin

Combined with the access to the on-line test, this book can help provide insights both to yourself and others. The first half of the book is very interesting and provides a solid foundation for you to understand some basics about human development. The test is well done and easy to move through. The test results and the explanation of the strengths in the book can really change the way you see yourself.

Do your self a favor... read this book and take the online assessment (probably not the right term). I've used a lot of what I got out of each in conversation with my boss about a few things including a letter of recommendation from him, and I have used the findings as a major point of reference during an incredible interview for grad school.

A key value and purpose of this book is to link you to a web site to take the StrengthFinder survey. The code in the back cover can only be used once, so if you buy a used copy, that has probably already been consumed.

This is the most important book I've read about developing people. With the inclusion of the internet-based Strengths Finder Profile, the reader gets much more than a book. This is an interactive tool that will help the reader understand how his talents are best used when playing to strengths, a powerful motivator for self-improvement. The book is easy to read and well-organized so the reader can get right at the most important elements right away.