It's up to you. While we have fine-tuned the new assessment to be slightly faster and more precise, the language of 34 themes remains the same. So if you have taken version 1.0, your results remain as valid as they were when you originally completed the assessment.
The primary difference between version 1.0 and version 2.0 is not in the assessment itself, but in the results and resources available. The Strengths Discovery and Action-Planning Guide includes the new Strengths Insights, which are based on more than 5,000 unique combinations of responses within the new assessment. Because of this, we are able to produce this comprehensive guide only if you take StrengthsFinder 2.0. In addition, version 2.0 includes all of the online resources described on pages 24-28 of StrengthsFinder 2.0.
If you have taken Clifton StrengthsFinder 1.0, and you decide to take the new version, you may find that a few of your top five themes have changed. Given the basic odds and statistics of calculating a ranking of 34 dimensions, even if you take the same version of the assessment again a few months later, it is not unusual for a couple of your top five themes to change. With more than 33 million unique combinations of top five themes, the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment is very different from basic "personality tests" that classify you, for example, as either an extrovert or an introvert.
Based on our calculations, if you compare your version 1.0 results to your version 2.0 results, there's a strong chance that at least three of your top five themes will remain the same. In most cases, at least four themes will appear in your top five both times. Perhaps the most important thing to understand for your development is that if you do see a new theme in your top five, it was likely in your top 10 before. In other words, you have not "lost" a theme, but instead now have the opportunity to see a theme or two that had been hiding just below the Signature Themes radar.
