Strengthsfinder Reflection Paper

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Before taking the StrengthsFinder® assessment I didn’t know what type of leader I was, but I felt I had leadership traits that I could not describe. After answering several questions from the Clifton StrengthsFinder® 2.0, I found out my top five strengths. These strengths consist of individualization, arranger, learner, input and responsibility. The purpose of this paper is to go over my top five strengths to talk about which four domains of leadership these strengths fall under, how class material is applied, and the actions to best utilize my strengths. The first leadership domain we are going to look at will be the relationship domain in which my individualization strength falls under. In this domain the StrengthsFinder® Leadership Themes talks about this domain being, “the glue that holds a team together”, which means that you …show more content…

As stated in the relationship domain I feel that in order to succeed in the strategic domain you would need to be an active listener when absorbing the information while using coaching or counseling techniques when teaching others because when you combine the two skills you can coach people through your thought process on how things are done while pulling information from the information you actively listened to. We’ve also learned about different learning styles when taking a self-awareness test. In this test I found out that I use assimilation-learning styles, which combines reflective and abstract conceptualization traits to understand vast amount of information and puts them into simple forms to explain what they observed. Typically an assimilation learner prefers to learn though lectures, readings and research, which I have always felt more comfortable in taking in class lectures over on-line

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