Strengths Assessment Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. As Roth states in Strengths Finder 2.0, we as a present day world tend to focus on and try to overcome our weaknesses rather that building up our strengths. Using our natural talents can help us do the best we can and help us be a better asset. After taking the strengths assessment, I found that my top five strengths themes ended up being: relator, discipline, competition, responsibility, and significance. I believe that these themes align with strengths I have. Some of them I find more fitting but they all match me and my natural abilities. Knowing my strengths helps me learn what I need to focus on in order to excel in the future. My first strength was the relator theme. …show more content…
I found that this involves the relationships I have around me and how I relate to others. I tend to be a little shy when I first meet people but after I’ve been around them and gotten to know a little about them I begin to trust them and develop a more meaningful relationship. I also enjoy having a few close friends that I know I can rely on rather than being friends with everyone. This is not to say that I don’t have many acquaintances, but I do like to have a few close friends that are reliable and I can trust. Some of the people who had excerpts in the relator section of the book mentioned that they believed that relationships included taking risks by investing so much time to furthering a relationship with a new potential friend. Trust is a big part of this. I used to find myself trusting of many people very easily. After many situations in which “friends” acted in ways not worthy of my trust, I learned that in personal relationships as well as business relationships one must be careful of who they can trust. Once I find I can truly trust people I will do anything for them in an effort to be loyal. I do the best I can to encourage them and help them as they are my friend. In the future I can use this strength to make sure that people I do business with are trustworthy people. I can build deep relationships with them and ensure that we succeed. Taking risks is a part of this but once you establish trust with someone, I have found the risk is worth the reward for the friendship that will follow. The next strength I had was discipline. I find this to be very spot on. Discipline includes organization, structure, predictability, and a sense of order. This definitely describes me. Sometimes disciplined people make lists and I find that lists are necessary to have a productive day. Much like Les T., one of the people included in excerpts of experiences with discipline in Strengths Finder 2.0, I found that I too believe organization is the perfect way to keep on track. Les talked about using a Palm Pilot, while I use a planner instead, I still keep my planner with me in hand everywhere I go in order to make sure I am on track and have all my arrangements prepared. I have found that I have been an organized person for a long time. I like to find structure in the things I do. I believe that there is a system that can work to create more structure for anything and that using order can be beneficial to many businesses and activities. When I was in middle school, my school received a grant to provide all of the students with planner books. They taught us how to keep track of all of our assignments and extra-curricular activities in these books. When I got to high school I became extremely involved in organizations and a job along with honors and duel enrollment courses and found that if I did not plan out a routine to when I did what, I would feel stressed and forget things. I made a routine schedule for all of my activities and made lists of all of my assignments and duties that I would need to complete by certain deadlines. In college, I still do this. I feel like I am missing something if I don’t have my planner with me and follow a structured routine and have an organized plan to get things done. In the future, this will help me make sure I accomplish goals and make sure that I follow through with completing all of my tasks in an orderly fashion. If I have files that need to be kept, I will have a system in place to ensure that everything is in perfect order to be easily found. My next strength was listed as competition. I find myself very competitive when it comes to academics, positions, and chances to exceed expectations. Competition is about comparison. I compare myself to others as a challenge to better myself each and every day. People say there is no feeling quite like winning and I agree. When I was in elementary school, I competed in the science fair every year. After many years of first place, my fourth grade year I found myself in second place. While I congratulated my opponent on his win of my previous first place spot, I found myself unhappy with the outcome and wishing I had pushed myself harder. I used this competitive drive to excel the next year and take back the first place spot. Sometime competition can drive people to excel to levels they would not have achieved without another person excelling for them to compare themselves to. This will be an asset to the future as I will be able to drive myself to compete against others to produce a better product or do a better job. A little competition can be helpful in many ways. I enjoy the thrill of a win and pledge to work harder after every “loss”. My fourth strength ended up being responsibility.
I found that some of the examples did not fit but in general I could relate to this as a strength theme. While I find myself sometimes having trouble focusing and waiting until a deadline is right in front of me, I do make sure to get things done. I almost always follow through and on the off chance I cannot, I make sure to make it up to that person one way or another. In these cases, I cannot apologize enough for my mistake and feel terrible about letting them down and not being able to follow through. It is my responsibility to own up to my actions and apologize for failures. Morals and ethics are a big part of this. If I find that something is going on that I cannot morally agree with, I will not support it. I believe in doing what is right at all times in effort to be responsible and a good asset to any team I’m on. Growing up, I had trouble saying no as I wanted to be involved in everything and take care of every task that came my way. I remember my dad telling me that I could be the person who tries all trades but masters none. While I still find myself volunteering for many things, I have learned to double check that I can take on a task or activity and do the best I can without causing trouble with my current involvements. I try to stay responsible by making sure that I don’t overdo it. Responsibility will definitely help me in the future as employers always look to make sure that employees are following guidelines and following through with what they say they will do. Enthusiasm to take responsibility will help me do a great
job. The final theme I was listed to have was that of significance. I started reading the description of significance and realized this definitely described me. Significance is about being an individual, and one who is known. Having a clear independent voice that is heard and deeply listened too is a major key to this. I find that I am creative and like to work in my own ways without being micromanaged, which relates back to significance. I set goals and focus on them, I want to be seen as a successful professional and therefore I enjoy associated with likeminded people who are also goal driven successful focused people. I feel that power is good and is okay if the person who has power uses it appropriately rather than abusing it. I want to stand out and be noticed for my accomplishments that I make. They say that pressure makes diamonds and under pressure I tend to preform my best and I want to be recognized to the wonderful job I do. When I disappoint others, it ends up being extremely devastating to me. I want to do the best I possibly can in an effort to look good not only to myself but to those around me. In high school I had a dream and goal of attending UF, I worked hard and did all that I could in an effort to accomplish this goal. When I found out I was accepted I was overly excited about accomplishing my goal. My friends around me also had goals they set out to accomplished and worked hard for. I feel that focusing on goals and surrounding myself with people who focus on their goals is essential to achieving all that I can. This will be extremely helpful in the future. When I am working for a company, I can achieve the best I can because I will put in one hundred and ten percent (110%) effort into accomplishing tasks and goals set out before me. I will work hard to be noticed as a hard working individual who is successful at her job and professional. I will make sure to give everything my all so that I can try hard no to disappoint others with any failures but rather impress others with successes. In all, I found that while I had never deeply thought about my strengths, the book and the assessment both helped me figure out my strengths and learn about them. This taught me that rather than focusing so much time and energy on weaknesses, I can devote time to building up my strengths. I found that the strengths were pretty true for me and that the information about them was helpful to me learning about these strengths and what they can do for me and those around me when I focus on improving upon them. In the future I plan to focus on using my talents (strengths) to excel and become the best I can be.
...gs. One of these things is that no matter what happens, there is always a positive outcome available, even if we need to work to find it. Remembering this theme will remind me that no matter how bleak things look, there is always a way for things to get better. It will also encourage me to work harder to discover this way, which will encourage me to work harder even in normal situations.
Identifying and understanding your own personal strengths is key to being a successful leader. Knowing your strengths means you can focus your efforts to maximize results, in yourself and in others. Strengths Finder 2.0 is designed to uncover your strengths and utilize these strengths to your advantage (Rath, 2007). Identifying and applying these strengths to your leadership style, will enhance your effectiveness as a transformational leader.
After reading Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath, I learned that there are thirty four different themes that one could have as strengths. Each strength has its own positive that allow people to better work with the people who have this style of strengths. Another key topic that I learned is that everyone has their own types of personal strengths. The main principle that was taken away from reading this book was that the old phrase of “You can be anything you want to be” is not a true statement (p. 6). We are all taught this idea at a very young age and it tends to stick with us for the rest of our lives. Forced by the past, most people are required to try to fix their weaknesses, but not improve on our strengths. We cannot truly be anything we want to be because we are not built this way. We are programmed to tend to stick with things that we are good at and when thrown at a task similar to the one we are good at we do not just excel at the other task. By sticking to increasing our strengths that we already have instead of fixing our weaknesses, we will be able to become a better human being because we are better the things in which we are good at.
Michael is a happy student who is working to improve his communication skills with his classmates. He is slowly making progress in his educational goals. Although Michael does show some frustration issues, he has shown great improvements and responds very well to praise, one on one attention, and immediate consequences. While Michael does need to be encouraged to participate in activities and independent work he is improving on these skills. However, he just needs an extra boost compared to most students.
I believe that everyone has their own strength and weaknesses, but not everyone is able to figure out their strengths and weaknesses correctly. Knowing our own strengths and weaknesses is essential because it can help to achieve success in anything we choose to do. For me, my weakness is the time management, communication skills and weak in preparing effective Curriculum Vitae (CV) Below will be further explaining all my personal weaknesses and the ways to overcome it.
After completing the Clifton strength finders test, I learned my dominant strengths and it gave me a sense on what areas I am strong in. It allows you to work in the areas that you are good in and not in the ones you might not be as strong in. My top five strengths were learner, connectedness, belief, positivity, and includer. A lot of these I figured I would have because I am an athlete and I love to be positive. That is good because I practice these strengths every day which in turn will make me better at them and will allow me to use them in my career.
My first signature theme was discipline and it means that I need to have everything together all the time. I need order and stability in my life that I created in order to be happy and feel safe. Others can come to find my need for order annoying and this may be because they do not understand my need for predictability. My next signature theme was competition and it means that I thrive when it comes to winning or achieving something better than others. If I don’t outperform someone that I may feel hollow and that I am weaker than that person. It means that I need to compare things that I do to others. My third theme was included and it is having a large group of people of friends in your life because you want to make sure everyone is included. It means that I am very accepting of others no matter what race, gender, religion or other barriers that may arise. The fourth theme I had was an activator and it is an indicator that I believe that action is required to get things done. It means that I need to get things done in an instant and that if
My forth Theme is Individualization. I feel that God had a purpose of making us all different and unique. I don’t like to generalize “types” because I like to see each person as a individual. I’m a observer and I like to tap into people talent. Conclusion, one person might have strength on creativity and the other one has the strength of Analyzing, either way they both are unique and they can still bring value and strength to the
Understanding one’s strengths and weaknesses is essential to becoming and being a good leader. “Purposeful leaders understand who they are” (Mayfield, 2013). The author of this paper has had previous opportunities to lead, and will reflect on her experiences using the assigned inventory. She will evaluate her skill set and discuss ways she can be an advocate for change with the hospital and community in which she is employed. Lastly, she will identify one personal goal for her leadership growth and explore different avenues for obtaining that goal.
My five strengths according to the strength finder include; balance, this helps me be aware of treating all people equally regardless of the situation. I am neither in anyone 's favor or against anyone as this to me is selfishness and individualism. This would result in a situation where some people scale heights due to connections while others are lagging behind. I believe that a consistent environment where the rules apply to everyone is the best for individuals to function best (Rath, 2007). Flexibility is my next strength. By knowing that things do not always work out as planned has helped me change the tactics of how I perform my tasks. I do not always expect to have a smooth flow of opportunities or accomplish goals, but
The results indicated the top five themes for me were input, learner, responsibility, maximizer and arranger. I believe the evaluation offered an accurate assessment of my strengths. The input theme states my mind is like a sponge, soaking up information. As a lifelong learner, the second theme is, also, correct. I have a quest for knowledge about things that interest me.
For personal and professional growth, given my personality traits, I need to embrace my strengths and weaknesses. I must use my strengths to my advantage, to be more effective academically and in the workplace, but I also need to identify and try to overcome my weaknesses, especially professionally.
I would describe some of strengths as being able to define clear objectives when working in group settings whether it is in the working world or in academic settings and communicating clearly to the rest of the people in my group when I am in the lead or not. I communicate clearly to other people what I want to achieve out of working in a group, but also what I want them to achieve themselves. As a leader it is imperative that I allow other people in the group to learn and grow along with the rest of the group. I enjoy defining clear objectives when I am a leader and not a leader because it provides the rest of my peers an efficient way of working together. If the objectives are not clear and concise then the productivity of the group will
I think my strengths was the cooking. While I was cooking I did not stress, make any mistakes, or make it too complicated for myself. While cooking I tried to keep calm and did everything as the recipe said and in order. One of my weaknesses was deciding what I was going to cook and what I wanted to put in my lunch box. It took me a very long time to research what I wanted to do as there are so many good, healthy, notorious, and interesting foods. Once I finally made my decision I was very happy with what I made.
We all have things that we excel in and things that we aren’t the best at. Personally, my strengths are centered around organization, planning, and time management. Although these are all things that I can incorporate into my school work and home life, I do feel that I am not capitalizing on my strengths at work.