M. Yvonne Scott 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.

The first strength I want to talk about is becoming aware of your own culture and self-awareness. I put these two strengths together because found and felt there really one for me. Here is why, it’s because they both show insight into how I know myself in different aspects of my life. And then how I can apply it to others in the real world and in group situations. This is one of my strengths because I found that through my life experiences it has given me a chance to connect with people on a deeper level and understanding. One situation that has helped me understand and connect with people better is being

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.

• Positivity: Positivity is for someone who is upbeat and positive, which tends to rub off on others.

After taking the assessment, my top five strengths were identified to be: restorative, empathy, developer, adaptability and strategic (in that order). A person that is restorative enjoys facing new

As an individual my top three strengths would be one, thinking deeply about something that I am interested about or something personal. Two, remembering, if it's something important to me I would definitely remember it. Last but not least three, being observant, is something I tend to do frequently especially when curiosity kicks in. As for my weaknesses I only have two which are leadership and patience. Leadership is something I have struggled with

The personal strengths inventory was very accurate in its’ assessment. My top five strengths are capacity for love (97.5%), forgiveness (95%), spirituality (95%), optimism (91.75%), and enthusiasm (90%). The four strengths that I am most lacking in are humility (45%), judgement (55%), love of learning (60%), and social intelligence (65%).

A large portion of my personal strength comes from the support I receive from family and friends. Since I have discovered who I am and what makes me me, I am able to focus on those clients who need help doing the same. Another strength is the perseverance that I have earned through everything I have went through.

Upon completion of the StrengthsFinder survey, I found that my five greatest strengths are responsibility, relator, restorative, achiever, and harmony. After reviewing the results from the survey, I was not a bit surprised because those are the strengths that I flourish on. Some of these strengths are not something that you are born with; they are talents of your personhood that make you who you are (Clifton, Anderson, and Schreiner, 2006, p. 2).

I was interested by the results discovered at the completion of the StrengthsFinder Survey. While I found the strengths listed surprising at first, after reading the descriptions I could see how they fit my personality and life experiences. I believe it will be a challenge learning how to utilize each individual strength into my life and career, but it will be worthwhile to take the things I’m already good at and use them to my advantage. My top 5 strengths were reported to be harmony, communication, responsibility, discipline, and consistency (Clifton, Anderson, & Schreiner, 2006). I will work to integrate and utilize these strengths into my professional life.

Strengths are “natural talents and abilities that have been supported and reinforced with learned knowledge and skills.” (Daft, ch.15) My personal strengths have developed over time and will continue to evolve as I learn more about leadership and management. My strengths are: an Internal Locus of Control, Authentic Leadership and Emotional Intelligence.

According to the StrengthsFinder survey, my five greatest strengths are: communication, achiever, woo, competition and ideation (Clifton PH.D, Anderson, PH.D, & Schreiner PH.D, 2006). I have utilized the above mentioned strengths in various ways, such a talking with classmates, being ahead of schedule, and trying to come up with ways to get homework done.

Trying to decide what your personal strengths are, is hard. For myself, I have grown in my strengths, and I’ve experienced my weaknesses. My personal strengths consist of: positivity, encouragement, laughter, and love. I pick these four because I feel that I am truly strongest in these aspects of my life. Being positive is a big factor in everything I do. I always want to be happy and joyful; not only to display Christ in me, but to make others feel the way I do. I want others to appreciate life and to feel any kind of uplift in his or her spirt. Positivity plays into encouragement. I make it my goal to make others feel better about themselves. My goal coming into college was to learn and know every person(s) name that I got the chance to meet. Just taking a few minutes out of your day to truly get to know someone, is such a blessing. It not only blesses me in new friendships, but it also blesses others because they feel that someone genuinely cares about them. Laughter is another characteristic I strive to pour out onto others. I laugh at practically everything. I love to laugh, and I love to make people laugh. I’ve learned the importance of laughter, and I just want to make one person smile every day. Love is my last of the four attributes. Love is so important to me. I love creation (Trees, birds, squirrels), God, and I love people. I just want the love that God has given me, to pour out onto others. I want others to know that I love them. These are my personal strengths

Before entering college, I have never done any survey that could point out my strengths. However, currently I know what my five strengths are and I am trying to focus on it to make it more powerful and useful. Five of my strengths are restorative, includer, consistency, responsibility and positivity. I do not know it is exactly right for me and it also depends on the situation. At the moment, I found out that four of the strengths are true to me, however, positivity, it does have it in my blood but if I am on a deadline for assignment and I have not finished it, I would not be positivity.

My top five strengths were Deliberative, Futuristic, Harmony, Achiever, and Analytical. Deliberative means thinking things through before making a decision and anticipating any potential obstacles. Futuristic means being able to visualize the future and constantly try to strive for that vision. Harmony means trying to bring peace and compromise to the situation you’re in whether it be an argument or conflict. Achiever describes someone who accomplishes their tasks-at-hand and persistently tries to goes above and beyond expectations. Lastly, someone who is analytical is objective and logical. They prefer numbers and patterns over subjectivity.