For those who work in cubicles at large corporations, there's a good chance you're initimately familiar with StrengthFinders. If not, read this and then this. While Gallup has done an excellent job of explaining the specs of each idiot working in Corporate America, they do nothing to explain their relationship to you -- an effective slacker (at least I'm assuming your are).
Over the course of the next 3 weeks, I will provide an in-depth guide as to how each of the 34 types of strengths provided in StrengthsFinder relate to you, the Effective Slacker. For brevity's sake, I have abbreviated "effective slacker" as "eSlack" (not to be confused with these stylish slacks)
Achiever
These people make you sick to your stomach. When you want to leave work at 4pm to go home and watch Jeopardy, these people are just hitting their mid-day point and have meetings scheduled out to 7pm. However, Achievers are usually so optimistic that they are clueless when eSlacks escape down the back stairway at 3:30pm.
Activator
Activators can be an eSlack's best friend or their worst enemy. It depends on how severe their activator traits are. A slight activator will get you into an environment with very little documentation, and few meetings. This is the perfect atmosphere for an eSlack. Unfortunately, severe activators have no idea what they're doing but pretend to have direction. These people are more concerned with running than they are of reaching a destination. This leads to a lot of unnecessary work. It's corporate Russian Roulette when mixing eSlacks and Activators.
Adaptability
eSlacks are typically strong in this trait. This is due to not caring about anything. Nihilists are very flexible.
Arranger
Arrangers and eSlacks are not friends. Organization is one thing, but most arrangers spend countless, agonizing hours making other people assist them in maintaining perfect organization on projects. This leads to countless hours in status meetings. Status meetings are 100% unnecessary to eSlacks.
Belief
Having strong beliefs about something where your core values are uncompromising is bothersome to eSlacks. eSlacks consider those strong in the Belief category to be somewhat annoying -- like Tim Tebow.
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Reference Card to the 34 StrengthFinders strengths, some of them listed above. If you aren't aware of these, consider yourself lucky. You have a great employer.
Return back later this week to view Part 2 of this article.
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