"Insulted" Words - CliftonStrengths Clues To Your Hot Buttons

Achiever - Things not getting to the finish line — you get satisfaction when things are complete, so every "restart" can feel like a punch in the arm

Activator - Analysis paralysis — you get satisfaction from starting things, so every delay and moment of bureaucracy can make you feel like an animal trapped in a cage

Adaptability - Same old, same old / the inability to be in the moment — you get satisfaction by reacting to the here-and-now, so every rehashing of the past can feel like an anchor in the water when you're trying to drive a speedboat

Analytical - Impractical, "head in the clouds" thinking; a culture that appreciates the outlandish, a constant 30,000-foot view, or rushed decisions; consistently having to deal with unexplored assumptions; the lack of prudence and truth-seeking

Arranger - Obsolete processes; naysayers; the inability to change things — you get satisfaction when things are changing and adapting to meet current needs, so old rules, obsolete technologies, and stubborn hangers-on will be tough for you to work with

Belief - Pushing on ethical boundaries, or worse, being asked to breach your moral standards; obsession with money and power; others constantly breaking rules or feeding egos; an insincere approach to business — you get satisfaction when values and purpose are honored, so being around selfish acts can make you feel like you're working in the wrong office

Command - Wishy-washy opinions, or conflicts on the team being avoided; others constantly choosing the middle ground or emphasizing compromise — your style of collaboration does not require everyone to agree, it's more about removing ambiguity

Communication - Big doses of solitary time; focusing solely on data when a story needs a voice; the inability to interact — you connect people and ideas by using words, so squelching verbal expression will make you feel small

Competition - Everyone being given a participation trophy; scorecards or metrics being hidden or only discussed in 1:1s; a "fair is equal" environment; the inability to know if you're excelling — you get satisfaction from getting high rewards for high achievement, so if everyone gets the "peanut butter spreading of rewards," you will lose motivation

Connectedness - Possibilities being shut down / being told there's only one rigid path; being isolated from other humans; focus on facts, figures, and data rather than connecting the human race into the picture — you get satisfaction when things are acknowledged as borderless and timeless, so trying to stuff them in a box will feel stifling

Consistency - Rules being broken, or others shamelessly gloating about how guidelines do not or should not apply to them; changing for change's sake, or changing and allowing it to seem like a "flavor of the month" initiative

Context - A lopsided focus on the future and the vision; skipping over debriefs or post mortems; saying things like "the past is the past — it is gone."

Deliberative - Being asked to do the rework that stemmed from someone else's hasty decisions; being put under pressure to share about your personal life

Developer - Focus on the work rather than those doing the work; celebrating mega achievements while forgetting to praise small improvements

Discipline - Casting a vision and failing to create a plan to support it; scattering focus broadly and disregarding questions about practical execution

Empathy - Placing a lopsided focus on data and disregarding emotions as lacking credibility or truth; telling or dictating rather than asking and expressing

Focus - Celebrating or requiring multitasking or constant task switching; interruptions while in the flow, including instant messaging or in-person interruptions

Futuristic - Preoccupation with the past; holding meetings in reaction to daily "fire drills" rather than getting ahead to the important vision of the future

Harmony - Allowing a tense work culture to fester; a team habit of water cooler talk or people gossiping about those not around

Ideation - Jumping to execution before exploring ideas and possibilities; shutting down the idea-generating phase fast / being too busy for creativity and innovation

Individualization - Heavily investing in weakness fixing, especially on performance reviews and development plans where the "work on being someone else" view is institutionalized; being glued to job descriptions or standard operating procedures

Includer - Showing there's a good ol' boys club you must be part of to get promoted or to get your ideas considered; forgetting stakeholders who want to be informed or involved

Input - Requiring the use of disappearing media like live stream that can't be tagged or saved for future use; irrelevant tools or unfindable/unsearchable resources on the job

Intellection - Being put under pressure to react in the moment; surface-level groupthink dominating the team's decision-making process

Learner - Being assigned to long-term maintenance of projects or products; stagnation

Maximizer - Focus only on quantity; launching before it’s ready

Positivity - Withholding appreciation with the belief that it's not worth giving unless it's a huge win or hard-won accomplishment; throwing out consistent pessimism and reality checks

Relator - Surface-level, obligatory small talk; trying to feign interest yet coming off with coldness or superficial interactions that lack authenticity

Responsibility - Being given false or padded deadlines; changing priorities and not being told that your project is no longer important (meanwhile you're off toiling)

Restorative - Fighting among the team rather than fixing the problem (letting the problem sprout new symptoms); avoiding conflict, and maintaining false harmony on the team

Self-Assurance - Being questioned for your decisions or thought process; forced collaborations when you already know exactly what direction this project needs to take

Significance - Being asked to sit on the sidelines while the team works on a highly purposeful project; being assigned work that doesn’t matter

Strategic - Ignoring or overlooking the downstream impact, especially when quick input could have been asked for; getting paralyzed in decision-making, especially on something already started

Woo - Being put on a small team with low social variety; solitude — this can happen working from home or in a work environment where people are quiet and keep to themselves