Assessment Of Strengths

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.

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.

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.

Gallup’s (2017) StrengthsQuest assessment lists my five greatest strengths as competition, achiever, learner, input, and strategic. After reviewing the detailed descriptions of these strengths, I am confident that I can successfully apply these skills to my job as an investigator and further develop my capacity in leadership. Before taking this survey, I was certain that focus would be among my five greatest strengths, but after considering the book’s description of the achiever theme, I am convinced of the accuracy of this evaluation. Outlined below is my interpretation of these talents, their intrinsic drawbacks, and several illustrations of how they have helped me achieve success. I have also included a few examples of how I can implement

After reading Tom Rath’s Strengths Finder 2.0 and taking his assessment my results for my top five themes, in order, are harmony, input, learner, analytical, and deliberative. Harmony is my top strength and it is the same as my Myer-Briggs results, since they avoid conflict and are realists. Some of the personal characteristics that describe me as a leader is by not giving the impression I know everything, I create a friendly environment for others, I know that is foolhardy to do things myself, I think before I speak, and I promote cooperation by helping people with their ideas. Throughout my college years I have been involved in many group assignments so I learned early on not to do things myself because assignments just start piling up. It was a major eye opener for me when I started college. So when I was in groups I spoke out when I had a problem so that I can receive help and I would in return help them if they needed.

For the most part, I found that the Gallup Strengths Quest survey was a helpful and accurate tool for recognizing individuals’ strengths. While I have a few qualms with placement and the wording of a few themes, I believe the survey accurately reflected my traits. The Gallup Survey named restorative as my first, and most prominent, strength. I believe the description fits as one of my strengths because I enjoy solving problems and uncovering undetermined factors and eradicating them. But I do not agree with the first part listed as a characteristic of those who have restorative as a major theme, that is being energized when new problems arise .I do not get energized by problems, but rather, I love exterminating all problems.

I recently took the StrengthsFinder assessment for a class, which after a series of questions determined that my three greatest strengths are that I’m deliberative, disciplined, and an achiever. I felt that these strengths were accurate at describing me well. I have always been very deliberative when making decisions, as I like to evaluate all of the options and evidence, before I make a decision and I very rarely do things on a whim. One particular example of a decision I made after a lot of deliberation was when I was deciding which college to attend roughly four years ago. After researching and visiting all of the schools I had been accepted to, I made a chart in which I ranked all of the schools in a wide variety of characteristics that

(Explore): I have been an individual learning all my life. During my undergraduate years, I seek quiet locations at the library where I can study alone. Coming into pharmacy school I reserved time during my day to study individually. Something, I have incorporated into my schedule is studying alone, but in a group of people. It has been fulfilling because I can ask questions about materials I need clarification on. (69)

The StrengthsQuest process is a thirty-minute online assessment. At the end of the assessment you will be provided with five talents and a short synopsis of how to apply those talents to your success. The assessment was founded by Donald Clifton. Clifton began studying the strengths of leaders by conducting interviews in the 1960s. Today the StrengthsQuest process is used in various schools all over the world.

I think this assessment help me to specifically name the things that I am good at. When I read each of them I could identify them in my life but I have never thought about them before in that specific and narrow way. Also, it was curious how things that I consider weakness appeared as strengths, like “competition”, which for me it was bad but now I can try to focus that in a better way to help me and help others. It is interesting that some of the strengths align with the values and passion that I have identified and it is a challenge for me to use them in a more intentional way to achieve many goals in my personal and academic

My self assessment test made me think about myself in a new way. I’ve never sat down and thought about my weaknesses and strengths. By taking the assessment, I realize there are areas that I need improvement. I feel confident my strengths will help me overcome my weaknesses and be successful in my academic journey.

As I at in front of the judge with my music and clarinet my nerves began to rise. I then began to play my audition, which included scales and excerpts from songs, that determined whether I would be in the All Coachella Valley Honor Band conducted by H. Robert Reynolds at the McCallum theatre. After I finished my audition, the judge then said I had done great but I was still nervous inside. The next day the results were going to be posted online. That day I checked anxiously until the results were released, I then noticed that I had placed fifth chair playing second clarinet part. As soon as I received the music I began to practice because in the next couple of weeks we were going to be having practices, to prepare for when H. Robert Reynolds

My recommendation on how to answer the weakness questions would be to first identify my weaknesses and surround it around the positive skills that you will used in critical situation (Stahl, 2016). I will tell the interviewer how this has been a challenge for me in the past. I would outline the improvement that will explain the details of my weakness. I will show concepts of different projects that highlight the steps that you have taken to improve my weaknesses. Even though the question is about my weakness, I would stay focus on the positive aspects of my skills and explain that I have the skills for the job I am applying for.

Student’s Strengths (include a description of the student’s behavioral strengths, such as positive interactions with staff, ignoring the inappropriate behavior of peers, accepts responsibility, etc.):

Analysing results performed in the fitness test, my personal strengths are flexibility (sit and reach test) and muscular endurance (sit-up test) and my personal weaknesses are muscular strength (basketball throw) and cardiovascular endurance (beep test).