Analysis: The Clifton Strength

Based on the Clifton Strengths Assessment my top five strengths are strategic, deliberative, learner, maximize and individualization. As an individual, I rarely look into my weakness. I believe that when your too focused on your weakness, you forget about your strengths. Everything the book said is true, and we need to take the time to look at our strengths and make it perfect. It is true that in this world or the school system, we are taught to look at our weakness and correct it so that we can become stronger in our life. This book brings out the truth that I longed to hear for a long time. Invariably, I hear my professor tell their students that for them success in life, they must practice and look at our weakness. This book proves it wrong because for us to become successful, we must stay to our strengths’ path.

As I have mentioned above, that achiever, strategic, learner, belief, and responsibility are my top five themes as revealed by StrengthsFinder. I was astounded and amazed after reading the detail description of my personal five themes, because these are the most consistent behaviors that I display in my daily personal and professional life. I think this assessment is reliable and trustworthy, because the result provided on the bases of my responses drew an accurate picture of my strengths.

Tom Rath’s “Strengths Finder 2.0” on-line assessment identified that my top five strengths are: Strategic, Focus, Futuristic, Significance, and Learner. I see the Strength Finder Assessment as a great opportunity to get to know my personal strengths and it motivates me to work and practice my talents rather than trying to fix my weaknesses. Looking only at my strengths is a new type of skills-building which allows me to stay focus on my talents.

My top strength identified was the Achiever theme. Achiever describes the need for constant achievement. Achievers have the capacity and the drive to keep taking on new challenges and strive toward new goals (Rath, 2007). This description is accurate in that I enjoy a new challenge and like to keep busy working towards anything with some sort of successful outcome. I welcome the opportunity to do something better, more perfectly, or more complete which motivates me to a higher level (Rath, 2007).

After taking the Strength Based Leadership (SBL) assessment there were domains identified that outline my strengths, see Appendix 1. The first strength identified under the executing domain is responsibility. This domain really identifies me because I always tend to be very responsible at every task that is given or any created for myself. For example, I execute all the goals I set for myself and when I do not do that, I feel a sense or remorse and failure. The responsibility theme is identified as a person who delivers all their requirements, and by doing so it also feeds to their integrity (Rath & Conchie, 2008).

Upon completion of the StrengthsFinder survey, I discovered that my five greatest strengths were Achiever, Discipline, Responsibility, Relator, and Competition. However, I was skeptical about the initial results until I read what each strength entails. I found most of the information given to be accurate. According to the description of those strengths, I discovered that I use them daily without realizing it.

Signature themes are skills we innately possess that can develop into talents and strengths used to produce excellence. Personally, my five signature themes; empathy, achiever, learner, strategic, and connectedness, have been apparent my entire life and can develop into strengths promoting success in my future. Few aspects of my strengths came as a surprise, other than how accurate my assessment was. Others see my empathy and signature themes as weaknesses needing improvement, but now I realize that I can grow my skills into my greatest strengths to succeed in my future career, my spiritual journey and in my relationships.

This also leads into the feedback I received on my Competency Assessment tool regarding working with teams internally and externally, paying attentions to other people’s needs and maintaining good relations while being an example to others, following through and unfolding organizational values. These findings also coincided with the Strengths Finder Assessment I took at my current place of employment. According to this assessment, my five strengths are Empathy, Relator, Consistency, Harmony and Includer. Gallup stated that Identifying, developing, and using your strengths and talents would help you become a more effective leader.

My strengths are Ideation, Deliberation, Focus, Empathy, and Individualization. My top three strengths going in order are first: Individualization-I tailor my approach to each person and try to see how we can work better as a team. I enjoy peace and try to bring people together.

According to the Strengths Finder Survey which identified my top five strengths by analyzing my answers to the questions asked of me on a website they are as follows: Strategic, Deliberative, Context, Adaptability and Learner. Being employed by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee for fourteen years this has taught me how to use those strengths to my advantage and also to the company’s advantage.

According to Donald Clifton's StrengthsFinder survey (2006) my greatest strengths are identified as being: strategic, restorative, belief, futuristic, and responsibility. These five strengths have helped develop my career as a police officer and continue to shape my overall being.

Personally the top three strengths connect to me very perfectly. Perspective is a form of saying that I take a look of things in a broader point of view. Where everyone’s idea are taken into consideration to come up with a fair conclusion, or viewing a problem globally to define my answer. These past few years I have found a humble, peaceful, and positive perceptive of the human race and the earth itself. Meditation, rituals, and change of life style has embraced in me that my strength for spirituality stands as number 2 on the list. I cannot count the times I had to be strong not only for myself, but for my family. Bravery is a strength that helps me stay strong from all the obstacles thrown my way. According to “Level 5 leadership” by Jim Collins is described as Humility + Will = Level 5. "Level 5 leaders are a study in duality,

By taking the Strengths finder assessment I found my top five talents to be Restorative, Responsibility, Harmony, Relator, and Belief. I believe that I have had the opportunity to exemplify all of these talents in some aspect of my life from academics, positions I’ve held in organizations and lastly, the jobs I’ve taken on in the workforce. My strengths lie within the yellow and red quadrant and mainly are recognized in team related tasks.

I was very nervous to begin my self-assessment from the reading assignment. I am not one to point out my weaknesses, but this self-assessment was very helpful in determining which areas I need to better myself. I have learned I am scaled as “Good” in categories such as listening, critical thinking, planning, prioritizing, and organization. I am scaled as “Okay” in areas such as writing, speaking, seeking support from others, focusing, and ability to change.

for me, these talents are represented through my top five strengths that were given to me from a test I took. Two of my signature strengths that I think best fit me and are the ones that will help me be successful are Competition and Analytical. Competition by definition is when someone measures their progress against the performance of others, they also strive to win first place and revel in contests. Growing up playing competitive sports at a young age is what I believe led me to be in the competitor I am now. I think my Competition strength not only best describes me but, it may also be my best feature that I can tie into to my daily life to reach success and the goals I have set forth. Being competitive got me where I am today. I’ve be running for nearly my whole life, this year makes 11 years that I have been running track and cross country and it has truly paid off for me in the biggest ways. I think that having the competitive nature will always help down the line in life. When having the competitive nature my talent is valuable because it will influence and even push people in a group to achieve more than others. I will also bring energy to a group and will be capable of energizing others to move to higher levels of excellence. Also, being competitive also gives me capability of adaptation go different obstacles of life. It often applies to the class room such as seeking out highly competitive people and study with them. You will know that you will push each other to learn more, faster. Because of hardships and challenges I have faced during my running career I feel as if I will be prepared well enough for anything coming fast at a me in life, which will also help me achieve success in the