Daley Scott |
List your top 5 strengths from the StrengthsFinder assessment report and comment on your reaction to this assessment tool. Then, describe how you can apply your strengths in your pursuit of leadership. Identify an example of how you applied each of your five strengths within the past month.
My top five strengths on StrengthsFinder were 1. Competition 2. Achiever 3. Consistency 4. Restorative 5. Harmony. I thought my top five strengths were fairly accurate; however, sometimes I have other strengths depending on certain situations. Competition and achiever definitely belong in the top two of my strengths because I almost identify with the entire theme for both of them. Overall, these are definitely some of my top strengths on a day to day basis. As far as the actual StrengthsFinder test goes, I did not enjoy most of the questions. I could see myself doing both activities that I was supposed to choose between, so most of the time I was forced to pick neutral. I believe that competition and achiever go hand in hand because as I leader I would size up the competition and set goals based on what we needed to do to win. This encompasses both my competition and achiever strengths. Consistency also makes me a good leader because this means I can give everybody a fair shot; I always want people to be compared by their abilities and how hard their work instead of their backgrounds. The restorative strength is another good strength in a leader because a leader needs to be able to have situations thrown at them and be able to respond in a quick way that fixes the problem. Lastly, harmony is the strength that applies to me the least because I am not afraid on conflict, but I would rather have everything in agreement. This can be both a good and bad quality in a leader because sometimes a leader needs to embrace conflict in order to get over a problem, but other times a leader needs to bring a group of people to harmony. I think I have applied all of these strengths in the last month in one situation. Before school started we had “Sisterhood Week” where my entire sorority spent almost all day at our house practicing for recruitment and doing sister bonding activities. One of the activities was to make a human pyramid with people that we do not normally talk to. I somehow became the leader of my group and had to size up our competition and decided who needs to be where on the pyramid so we could beat them (competition and achiever). After we won the first round, I decided to switch up the positions on the pyramid to make it fair for everybody because it really hurt to be the bottom row (restorative and consistency). Not many girls liked this idea, but we ended up coming to a resolution that everybody enjoyed and thought was fair (harmony). Although this is a trivial example of leadership, all of my strengths were applied in this situation and shows how my strengths can be applied in another leadership position latter on in life.
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Erin
10/11/2015 09:18:49 am
Thank you for reflecting on your strengths. These strengths will absolutely help you in your future career as a nurse. I am glad that you are able to identify situations in which you relied upon all of your strengths. Thank you for sharing!
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