Includer®
People especially talented in the Includer theme are accepting of others. They show awareness of those who feel left out, and make an effort to include them.
Score Distribution
Shows scores for this strength across all staff.
Users with Includer strength
In their TOP FIVE strengths:
Theme Description
"Stretch the circle wider." This is the philosophy around which you orient your life. You want to include people and make them feel part of the group. In direct contrast to those who are drawn only to exclusive groups, you actively avoid those groups that exclude others. You want to expand the group so that as many people as possible can benefit from its support. You hate the sight of someone on the outside looking in. You want to draw them in so that they can feel the warmth of the group. You are an instinctively accepting person. Regardless of race or sex or nationality or personality or faith, you cast few judgments. Judgments can hurt a person's feelings. Why do that if you don't have to? Your accepting nature does not necessarily rest on a belief that each of us is different and that one should respect these differences. Rather, it rests on your conviction that fundamentally we are all the same. We are all equally important. Thus, no one should be ignored. Each of us should be included. It is the least we all deserve.
Action Items
- Choose roles in which you are continuously working and interacting with people. You will enjoy the challenge of making everyone feel important.
- Consider roles in which you are responsible for representing voices that are not normally heard. You will derive a great deal of satisfaction from being their representative.
- Look for opportunities to bring together people of diverse cultures and backgrounds. You can be a leader in this area.
- Help those who are new to an organization get to know other people. You will always be adept at quickly making people feel accepted and involved.
- You naturally look for the best in people. Help your colleagues see what you see.
- Partner with someone with a strong Activator or Command theme. This person can help you deliver news that might hurt someone's feelings.
- Explain what we all have in common. Help others understand that to respect the differences among us (our diversity) you must begin by appreciating what we all share (our similarity).
How to Manage a Person Especially Talented in the Includer Theme
- This person is interested in making everyone feel part of the team. Ask him to work on an orientation program for new employees. He will be excited to think about ways to welcome these new recruits.
- Ask him to lead a task force to recruit minority persons into your organization. He is instinctively sensitive to those who are or have been left out.
- When you have group functions, ask him to make sure that everyone is included. He will work hard to ensure that no individual or group is overlooked.
- In the same vein, you can capitalize on this person's Includer theme by focusing it on your customers. Properly positioned, he may prove very effective at breaking the barriers between customer and company.
- Because he probably will not appreciate elite products or services made for a select category of customer, position him to work on products or services that are designed with a broad market in mind. He will enjoy planning ways to open the net wide.
- In certain situations it may be appropriate to ask him to be your organization's link to community social agencies.