God At Work Reflection

People have many different strengths in their lives. According to the strengthsfinder my top five five strength are input, harmony, maximize, communication, and responsibility. I will be utilizing my strengths in many different ways whether it's at work, home or school. While at work, home, or school I will use my input with making different decision. Utilizing input is very important for so many different reason.

I feel as though my strengths greatly impact on the support I can provide in the year 4 class I work in every Thursday morning in a positive way. This encourages the children and the child I work one to one with (who is awaiting a diagnosis of ADHD) in this class to approach their work positively and be positive themselves. I believe I have developed a professional working relationship with the year 4 class teacher, which in affect has enabled us to have good communication skills.

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

My paper will discuss personal revelations about myself arising from the Clifton Strengths Finder Assessment , delineate the particular thought, behavior, and emotion patterns within the strengths of connectedness, empathy, belief, relator, and developer distinctive of my unique talents , and finally discuss personal application for further development of these innate gifts.

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.

Envision this: a room, overflowing with intense emotions and a mother, laboring a child for endless hours. Finally, the newborn emerges into the world, taking its’ first, fresh breath of air; then, suddenly, a screeching scream like no other proliferates throughout the room. The infant finds its’ voice for the first time. But, the ability to speak ceases to begin with one’s first resonance; rather, it commences when we find our true selves influenced by inevitable circumstances and situations, where one’s voice truly shines forth. By exemplifying the harsh reality and stereotypical gender discrimination of the early 1900’s in the enduring novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston captivates the voice of an independent young woman who, as she matures, fiercely refuses to live a life pronounced by despondency, fear, and silence. Janie Crawford, a resilient, yet vibrant woman, overcomes many hardships while she evolves from a voiceless, adolescent girl into a woman, beating the drums of her own destiny. Janie continues showing dauntless courage as she encounters countless changes and endures numerable hardships throughout her life. Nevertheless, with many circumstantial influences and life-altering situations, she accomplishes liberating herself from the oppressive chains of stereotypical gender discrimination, all while finding her voice and gaining self-assurance. In the opening and ending paragraphs, Hurston effectively uses defining diction, colorful imagery,

My family influences me to make the right shows in my life. I am strong because I have seen my family struggler. I learned from my experience to be strong to reach my goals. I am confident because I can't let people use me and walk over me and brave during difficult times. My family has dreams for me which coincide with mine. Their sacrifices are my motivation.

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.

Tom Rath began working with a group of scientists in 1998 to start a conversation about our strengths (Rath, 2007). A 40-year study, led by Donald O. Clifton, helped to create a language of common talents, and in 2001, included this assessment into their bestselling management book Now, Discover Your Strengths (Rath, 2007). During their study, they found out that “people who do have the opportunity to focus on their strengths every day are six times as likely to be engaged in their jobs and more than three times as likely to report having an excellent quality of life in general” (Rath, 2007, pg. iii). A major problem with this was a majority of people were either unsure of or unable to explain their strengths (Rath, 2007). When developing StrengthFinder 2.0, the ultimate goal was to build upon your true strengths which take practice and hard work (Rath, 2007).

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.

Zora Neale Hurston is often credited for her ability to step outside of the box despite societal norms around her. Her book Their Eyes Were Watching God was nothing short of unexpected, especially during the time period it was released. The novel was released in 1937 when both the rights of women and African Americans were limited; because Hurston and her main character were both, many people were shocked. This astonishment was reflected in the reviews her novel received; male readers(both white and black) generally dismissed her book because she failed to address social injustices like other writers of color did during this time and because only African Americans lived in Eatonville (Washinton). These reviews were the motive behind Their

As I start my new chapter at college, I was given the opportunity to find my five top strengths in my life. The Strength Finders test by Gallup took about an hour asking me decision based question about society, beliefs, and personal decision of my day-to-day life. We later learned in that class how to focus on specific strengths and apply those strengths into my classes and course work throughout the rest of my years at the university and into my professional life. My strength include context, significance, command, woo, and competition, in which it focuses in my life and gives me the power, motivation, inspiration, in my daily life.

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.

As humans, and particularly individuals, we all have personal strengths that we bring to our interactions with others as well as areas that perhaps need some more time and attention in order to improve upon them. In this journal, I’ll be focusing on four areas of strength I believe I have, as well as four areas the require further growth and personal change.

The author’s personal strengths are compassion, fairness, kindness, integrity, gratitude and open mindedness. These personal