My Strengths Analysis

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.

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

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.

Strengths Finder 2.0 identifies my top five strengths are adaptability, restorative, individualization, communication and strategic. I must use these strengths every day in my job and my home life. These strengths are apparent in all areas of my life both at work and home.

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).

There are strengths that I have yet to discover or recognized within myself. But, If I were to select only five strengths that I have recognized within myself, they would be: my strength of intuitiveness, the power of being a good listener, my willpower, the extreme organizational skills, and open-mindedness. All of the strengths depend on each other to thrive

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).

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.

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

At the side of identifying the areas of improvement, focusing and building on the youth’s strengths and resiliency encourages growth and effective practices. The strengths perspective is “. . . built on the premise that individuals and communities have strengths and resources” (Handbook of social work with group, 2004, p. 66). This perspective permits social workers to recognize personal assets and beliefs of foster youth to promote growth, resiliency, and

Most of time people tend to only focus on their weakness and not their strengths. If people spent more time identifying their strengths it, he or she could build a more positive life. Identifying strengths would allow people to maximize their potential, and become successful in life. There would be less people stressed and depressed over there weakness, and things that are simply out of their control.

My evaluation test to see what matched my interests and personality reinforced my decision on continuing the Business Administration path towards a human resource specialist degree. The exercise helped me recognize the strengths I have that will be beneficial in the workplace, attention to detail which is a plus from me since I am very organized, stress tolerance which I can manage, Integrity is another positive quality I have, as well as dependability and initiative, I can work alone and get things done. After the exercise I got my score and continued where it said “Job Zones,” and my great fit based on my interests it just so happened to be the job that I am aspiring. There are many small tasks that my career requires and I feel confident

I know having a well-rounded team with different strengths can be important when getting a job or project completed. I have been evaluating my top five strengths from the StrenthsQuest report. I find that most of the descriptions describe my attitudes and the way I work. Most of my strengths have me doing most of the relationship building and some of the executing parts of a project. I know relationship building is very important when completing projects because every job needs resources and help from outside sources. In my job we create many relationships with other organizations to make our program work. If we did not build relationships we may not have funds to keep our program running. It also helps when people believe in what you are doing because they will give good feedback to others who may help. The team also needs someone who is well rounded and keeps the team running smoothly and knows each person’s role in their jobs. I have been working with nonprofits for a long time and I find that most of their collaborations are with other non-profits. The organizations have a unique relationship with each other because many of their goals are the same. They focus on helping others who are less fortunate. We spend a lot of time in the community doing various workshops and presentations. A person like myself with the positivity theme works great in this environment because if you are upbeat and positive about what you are doing, others will be as well. The Includer theme came up as my number one in the report. I find this to me true on so many levels. I know it’s important to have various people with different backgrounds to help execute a project because each person