Core Concept #3: Regulate By Situation Lead Through Strengths

If you want others to experience the best of your StrengthsFinder talent themes, you'll love our third core concept -- regulate by situation. 
A Simple Concept? Imagine you’re in front of a mixing board wherein you’re looking at your Top 5 or Top 10 from your CliftonStrengths reports. Each of your talent themes is assigned a fader so that each of them could have its own volume. 
To regulate by situation is to adjust your talent theme’s “volume” based on the following:
the person you're interacting with  the project and what it calls for It’s much like setting the quantities of your musical instrument or tool based on the song you wrote or the genre you're in. 
From Simple To Complex While that seems like a fairly simple concept, it gets a bit more interesting when we apply it to a team context.
Having to fiddle five to ten faders in order to manage your own talent themes can already be overwhelming. Imagine how much tougher that would be when aside from watching over your own set of five or ten, you will now have to consider that every person you interact with -- whether within or outside of the team -- could receive the varying quantities of your strengths in different ways! For example, in certain projects, they may call for a little bit more or a little bit less of that given strength. 
If you think about working on this for the rest of your life, it can get really complicated!
The Experiment Mindset The most effective way to not get overwhelmed with regulating your strengths is to think about it as just an ongoing experiment. In particular:
Assess how much every situation calls for.  Get a feel for what is received well by other people in your collaborations.  Scenario 1: Communication as a troublemaker talent
In one StrengthsFinder event, a client had five cards representing her Top 5 CliftonStrengths talent themes spread on her desk. Out of the five, there was one card that was pushed off to the side. It read: “Communication.” 
Apparently, she could not view Communication as her talent or strength. She had just gone through a series of performance reviews with her manager who elaborated to her what she described as bad feedback on her communication, including: 
“I talk too much in meetings.”  “I’m just too much to handle.” She resisted when we offered the notion that Communication could be her greatest asset. But coming into the event might as well be her opportunity to apply the core concepts of both troublemaker talents (core concept #2) and regulate by situation (core concept #3), as follows:
Core Concept #2 (Troublemaker Talents) - She needs to recognize that her love for words -- how she values them as important -- are strong points to her communication theme. The reason Communication was coming out as a troublemaker talent for her was that she was talking to think instead of thinking before talking. 
Core Concept #3 (Regulate By Situation) - By turning her Communication volume high up all the time and not checking how it is being received by others, she’s clearly not regulating it. She has to start adjusting it accordingly.
In the end, it’s how she operates that can transform her troublemaker talent into a great asset.
Scenario 2: Volume wars
In a band, the drummer plays a loud instrument, which tends to make the guitar player, the keys player, and other members to start turning up so they can hear their part and not miss a note. This kicks off what is called volume wars. 
When this results in a big wall of sound, not every person in the audience will receive it well. Loud is not for everyone. 
The same thing happens at work if we think of our talent themes as a collection of variations, nuances, and colors and can be received differently by people. But many of us haven’t recognized those variations and the value of regulating that we turn our talents all the way up to all situations. 
Tip: Get a feel of each situation to determine whethe