My Top 5 Strengths

     Strength-based leadership can support a community of practice in many different ways. Each individual has areas of strengths and weaknesses. I like many others tend to focus more on my weaknesses not my strengths. Just after the short time of being in this course I have learned that focusing on my weaknesses is making me weaker, because I am always bringing myself down. But when I focus on my strengths I am able to be more positive in my outlook of myself. It makes a huge difference. I am already more focused and confident then I was even last week. I know that if I can have such a massive change in myself in such a short time I can only imagine what it would be like if everyone focused on their strengths and not their weaknesses. People can pull together to combine their strengths to make the ultimate teams. Here is some background information on what my colleauges felt my strengths were, what I thought my strengths were and what my strengths really are...


After reading the themes of Strengths Finder 2.0, I asked two different colleagues what themes they felt fit me the most, the first told me:

1. Adaptability
2. Responsibility
3. Achiever
4. Developer
5. Deliberative
 
The second colleague told me my top five strengths were:

1. Activator
2. Consistency
3. Includer
4. Positivity
5. Achiever
 
The top 5 strengths that I gave to myself before taking the assessment were:

1. Belief
2. Harmony
3. Relator
4. Deliberative
5. Consistency
 
After taking the assessment my top 5 strengths were:
 
1. Restorative: "People who are especially talented in the Restorative theme are adept at dealing with problems. They are good at figuring out what is wrong and resolving it."
 
2. Responsibility: " People who are especially talented in the Responsibility theme take psychological ownership of what they say they will do. They are committed to stable values such as honesty and loyalty."
 
3. Adaptability: "People who are especially talented in the adaptability theme prefer to "go with the flow." They tend to be "now" people who take things as they come and discover the future one day at a time."
 
4. Harmony: "People who are especially talented in the harmony theme look for consensus. They don't enjoy conflict; rather, they seek areas of agreement."
 
5. Connectedness: "People who are especially talented in the connectedness theme have faith in the links between all things. They believe there are few coincidences and that almost every event has a reason."
 
 
After completing the assessment and reading the theme descriptions again and really thinking about myself it is completely accurate. I honestly do not know what I was thinking on the pre-assessment of myself. I am now really thinking about my strengths and how I can build on them even more to be a well rounded teacher leader...

 
Reference
Gallup, Inc. (2000, 2006-2012). Strengths Finder . Retrieved from https://strengths.gallup.com/private/sf2/reports/default.aspx