Clifton Strengths Assessment

For instance the strength of being restorative has shown me that I need to work on not trying to control every situation and solve every problem someone has. I need to let them figure out how to solve their problems and just be a sounding board for them when they need it. Being a mom it is hard to not just jump in every time my boys face a difficult situation and just solve it for them. They are young men now and I realize that I need to take a back seat and let them figure out where their life’s road will take them and to be there to listen and help as they ask me. Hard, yes, but a necessity. By doing the assessment and finding out what my top three strengths are I can use them to in the best way possible to achieve the goals I have for my life both personally and professionally. I realize that being deliberative, my belief system and being restorative are my strengths and not weaknesses and I can now capitalize on those strengths at work and

After completing the strength finder 2.0 assessment, the five strengths that were identified were Focus, Achiever, Learner, Intellection and Discipline.

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.

After comparing how this person thought their top and bottom five strengths should be ordered versus where the actual results placed them, we would review the descriptions of the strengths that they want to increase in the rankings. For example, my lowest ranking strength is “Modesty and Humility”, an area that I thought would have ranked much closer to my top five strengths. The description of this trait says, “You do not seek the spotlight, preferring to let your accomplishments speak for themselves. You do not regard yourself as special, and others

My top 5 themes from the StrengthsQuest Inventory are Maximizer, Relator, Adaptability, Includer, and Belief.

Discovering ones strengths is an important process that every young adult should strive to achieve, that is why I was excited to take the Gallup Strengthfinder Assessment. This test aims to highlight each individual’s unique assets, which is possible by completing a short evaluation. Then the poll produces the top five signature themes out of thirty-four possible options. Like many, I was very eager to learn something new about myself. This came as no surprise once I received my test results which are closely related to knowledge.

I usually have a sense of who I am and my strengths, but I can never seem to express it in words. So this evaluation of my strengths really helped to do that for me. My top five themes are strategic, context, discipline, consistency and futuristic. And it says that those who are strategic can spot patterns in any given situation and create solutions. I agree on parts of this because I like thinking about cause and effect, but I don’t think about the multiple solutions and then pick the best. For context, it is those who think about the past and use that to connect it with the present. I do this every day. I’m always thinking so that is probably why I do like talking about the past with other individuals. And yes, problematic issues, like wars, do interest me. For discipline, it is those who like structure and routine. I can’t believe how accurate the discipline trait is for me. The whole passage described me so well, and when going over it in the book, I am just blown away by its accuracy. I’ve always believed in equality and wouldn’t want to give someone an advantage over another. I love it when things go smoothly and easy for myself and others. I am an orderly person so the 1, 2, 3, step methods are easy for me to follow and preferable. For consistency, it is those who try to treat others equally and live the world by being consistent on their beliefs. This passage also described me so very well. The first part of it was quite similar to

* A strengths discovery interview that helps you think about how your experience, skills, and knowledge can help you build strengths

I cannot recognize that I have such many strengths until I receive the assessment from Strenthsfinder. Since I was a child,I had believed that my weaknesses are much more than my strengths, as the same as majority Chinese children. From the assessment of Strengthsfinder, it shows me my five top strengths, Empathy, Analytical, Restorative, Developer, and Futuristic. As follow, I will reflect what I think about this assessment of Strengthsfinder.

Have you ever thought about your personal strengths? A few of my personal strengths are that I am a good lacrosse player, am a good leader, and a good thinker. I have played lacrosse since second grade. For my leadership, I was selected to be the Zion house leader. I always find loopholes and additionally, different connections to things, this is my strength in thinking. These are a few of my personal strengths.

The StrengthsFinder 2.0 book is not too complicating to read. I first thought that the book would contain so many terminologies relating to psychology; however, the author uses the simple work for those not influencing in English to understand. In the introduction part of the book, the author recommends his readers to discover the strengths and what type of characteristic we are, and develop ourselves based on the strengths we have instead of building the new skills.

The results of my strengths from the VIA Institute indicated what my strengths were in order from 1 to 24. The high ranked the strength the more I used it in my everyday life. The results made me a little concerned as to weather or not I did it right. The top five don 't fit me as much as I would like. I received the results as Humor, Fairness, Loving to learn, Honesty, and Creativity. These are my top five used strengths, but I don 't use half of these on a regular bases so how can they me my strengths. I feel like the results are just not the true me. The fact that I feel that way has to be my own fault because I was not honesty to myself about all the questions. When we did the Myers-Briggs test I took that test four different times and I came back with different results every time. So the last test was more of how I view myself and less on what I want to be. I think that I needed to do the same with this test. If I had taken it a few times I would have been more honest about what my true strengths may actually be. In this reflection paper I will discuss each of the five strengths and how they may or may not fit me.

I predicted my top five character strengths to be creativity, perspective wisdom, appreciation of beauty, humor, and curiosity. After finishing the VIA assessment, my top strength was found to be judgement, critical-thinking, and open mindedness. Second was humor, creativity was third, gratitude was fourth, and the fifth strength was perspective wisdom. I agree with all of the strengths reported, it is the order of them I was not expecting. However, they still make sense to me and to those whom I sought validity.

In his book What You’re Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential, author Robert Kaplan observes that most people actually have no clue what their strengths and weaknesses are. Kaplan believes that people should take ownership of assessing themselves. Knowing your own strengths and weaknesses gives you a better understanding of yourself and how you function. Understanding your strengths keeps you ahead in a lot of things. Focusing on your strengths is about seeking opportunities instead of problems.

The results for my test showed that my top 5 strengths are achiever, discipline, positivity, relator and empathy. I wasn’t surprised by my results because they all show up on a daily basis. In college, I like to get things done in a timely manner. I love to stay busy and I can do that because I am great at organizing my life, and writing everything in my planner. Everyday, I try to stay positive and I find that I am always the one to cheer my friends up. I can see situation from their perspective and give them my best advice to help them. Every week, I have set time in my schedule where I call my parents or video chat with my sister or my friends back home. Currently, my major is undecided but I know my five strengths will play a role in my