VIA Online Inventory

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.

After reading these results of the VIA Survey of Character Strengths I believe it reflected what I also thought of myself. It is not only important to be assessed to have these traits, it is also necessary to let them be incumbent in my personality so as to really captivate the people I have to lead to success.

Considering the results of the VIA Strengths Survey I participated in seven short weeks ago, if there were someone with my identical scores, I would offer to them, the strategies that have helped me. After reviewing my results, I agreed with possessing these traits but not with the ranking order. To help this person, I would first find out how they felt that their strengths should be ranked and then assess what it would take to get them to that point. We would contrive a strategy and timeline to move from their currently ranked position to the idealistic ranking.

After taking the StrengthsFinder survey, I was surprised at what I found in some instances. This survey was actually the most accurate of any quiz I have taken previously when describing my strengths and it even nailed many of my personality traits. According to the StrengthsFinder survey, my top five themes, or strengths are Learner Maximizer, Arranger, Responsibility, and Developer (Gallup, 2012).

I’d say that one of my most prevalent qualities (and my number one quality on the StrengthsFinder test) is the fact that I’m a very analytical person. Before coming to George Fox University, I believe the best representation of those strengths in action is by the time I served as ASB President and Senior Class President my Junior and Senior year of high school. My responsibility was shown in the fact that, for multiple years straight, both my peers and my supervisors entrusted me with leadership roles in our school. Serving in a leadership role in student government for two years meant countless arguments over projects, which ultimately led to me developing my ability to really listen to opposing arguments and really take in what others are

My three greatest strengths as indicated by the Via Character Strengths Profile are leadership, hope, and creativity, respectively. Using the Via Character definitions provided in the downloaded pdf report, the following three traits are defined as follows:

Strengths. My high rating on question 1 of the assessment indicates that I am willing and interested in providing leadership to groups of people. Effective leaders influence followers and their followers influence them. The

After taking the Values in Action (VIA) Inventory of Strengths, I realized that some of what I thought were my character strengths actually proved otherwise based on the survey taken. Although I am not surprised that my top character strength is honesty, it was interesting to learn my other top strengths. Taking the Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and Leadership Self-Assessment introduced me to my social and self-intelligence. Using the KAB model, I was able to identify knowledge, attitude and behavior strengths for both self and social intelligence.

I have gotten more than fifteen checks, which means I am a role model of positive action in my own professional socialization process. Though I did get fifteen, I still missed five, which means there is still room for improvement. I do have my strengths. I would say my best strengths is I am self-directed, lifelong learner. I constantly want to know more and more. This is seen because not am I only trying to become a Nurse, but I am also in the ROTC program here at USD. I love the military and I am learning more about all the different stuff that goes on with it. Another strength is that I am realistic about my performance. I realize that to perform well you need to have hard work, which can be seen on my last semester GPA which I got

The list of my top strengths identified by the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths includes Appreciation of Beauty & Excellence, which refers to one's ability to notice and appreciate beauty and excellence in every area of life, Creativity as a means of thinking in an innovative and productive way, Curiosity for the sake of exploring and discovering, and Gratitude for the good things that happen (Lopez, Pedrotti, & Snyder, 2015).

The Assessment of Strengths shows my strengths and weaknesses. The highest on the list is my strengths, while the ones on the bottom are the ones that need improvement. This assessment is there to help me improve the weaknesses, that way it can help me in the future. Assessments like this can help you learn and can help you walk forward to the next level. Areas like Gratitude and Prudence helped me become stronger and to move forward to the next step, while for areas like Bravery and Perspective need to be trained and mastered by never giving up. I chose this for the Responsible Citizen because that is the part of being a normal person, to work hard, to avoid mistakes and learn from them, to fight your fears and make notes to accomplish

My first strength identified from the survey was Futuristic. This trait I can easily relate to because I have always been a planner and futuristic thinker both in my own personal life but also in every organization I have worked in. Having the ability to visualize future situations, how different actions can impact the those situations and being able to relay that to my co-workers is key. I always have one eye on the future and how the current situation or

The VIA Survey of Character Strengths described my top signature strengths as Honesty and Fairness. I believed that I have well demonstrated these aspects of my personality immediately before the assessable

I like to think I have many strengths. After review of my character/ personality test, I can see what they are. I am a task-oriented leader, which drives me to finish a project. I have a strong individual work ethic, which allows me to be responsible and not rely on others. I am good at building and leading

During this week I also examined some of my strengths thanks to the VIA survey of Character Strengths assessments. My top 5 strengths are in fairness, teamwork, forgiveness, open-minded, and humor. I feel like the results were accurate and I really wouldn’t go against them because I know it will be difficult for me to rank my own strengths. Fairness and teamwork will help me in any competition that I go into by myself or with others. Forgiveness will help so that I will not hold any grudges that will hold me back or make me biased on a decision. By being open-minded I can make more friends and not really be at odds with people. Having humor can help keep me positive and help reduce stress. I can’t remember a difficult situation in my life, but I feel that my humor has helped me the most in life.