Introduction A key role to being a successful manager is knowing what one’s strengths are. Throughout this paper I will be discussing my own strengths that were discovered through the help of the Strengths Finder Assessment and how they apply to management. Some strengths that I will be looking into further are my top five strengths; restorative, analytical, consistency, developer, and focus. When becoming a manager, it is very important to better understand your strengths and how you can use your strengths and talents to better your skill and role as a manager.
Understanding Your Strengths
Your Role as a Manager From previous experience, it can be hard to understand why your role as a manager is important and how your actions can effect
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After taking the Strengths Finder Assessment, I have found my top five strengths. These are restorative, analytical, consistency, developer, and focus.
1. Restorative: Loving for solve the problem. Being Restorative means to enjoying the challenge of analyzing something that is wrong, incomplete, or needs work. Having the quality of restorative is to enjoy the end result of taking a problem, finding a solution, and bringing it back to purpose.
2. Analytical: Looking for true facts/data. Analytical is looking at patterns and trends through the use of data to find an outcome. Being analytical used data and numbers to seek patterns and connections.
3. Consistency: treating people the same, and having clear rules and are to be applied to everyone the same. This also allows for a same and fair environment/work place.
4. Developer: Looking for the best in people. As a developer, this strength looks at people and the potential that they have. Looking to help develop and grow their success.
5. Focus: Evaluating your goals and progress. This strength helps to set goals and to consistently reevaluate
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Assignment 4 is a group assignment for this semester. Applying my skills of bring my teammates up by looking for best in them, treating them all the same, evaluating my goals along with team’s goals consistently, analyzing out work and data for outcomes, and helping to fix and problems that arise. By providing these skills to my team can become beneficial especial if my teammates have skills and strengths that I lack in. This is what creates a successful team, using everyone’s strengths. Not only will using these skills in a team setting but using them on project and assignments to achieve high quality results will be optimal. Using your natural strengths will help an individual’s ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance. My skills and strengths will help me during my assignments by using my natural way of thinking and building upon my previous knowledge to have high success.
Conclusion
Day in and day out there are natural strengths and skills people have. A lot of the time these skills go unused and is wasted potential. With this being said, the Strengths Finder from Gallup has allowed me to see my top five strengths and I have begun to analyze my natural talents that will be used in my future as a manager and within my own work. Using one’s skills provides an easy way for
SCI411 Academic and personal development Portfolio: Part 1 From not being in education for a few years, being able to recognise my own academic skills, strengths and weaknesses was quite difficult. However, over these first couple of weeks in lectures my learning strengths and weaknesses have made themselves apparent. Whilst filling out the questionnaire Skills Self-Assessment Audit (Theeducators, 2013) it took a lot of understanding of the questions to be able to answer honestly, and my lowest scores reflected this in the personal effectiveness category. Skill strengths
Were you surprised by the strengths identified? Overall, I was not surprised by the strengths identified after completing the assessment. The five strengths identified included: achiever, learner, focus, restorative, and futuristic.
No one person is the same as another, we all interact, behave, think and feel differently, and I think this is what amazes me the most. One strength that is substantive to my career that I believe I have, is empathy. I have always had such an efficacious sense of empathy with the people around me.
This strength has developed through the amount of good influences I have had in my life. I use this skill every day at work and in my personal life. The last skill I will discuss is I have excellent communication skills. This strength has developed through years of giving presentations in school, and on the job training. Effective communication skills can help convey important messages and can help gain someone’s
After knowing what my weaknesses are, I usually try to solve them and improve my skills. For example, I’m not a highly flexible and positive person, so I seek out to individuals who are flexible and positive in their lives and ask for their advice. Another strength that I have is that I usually have a positive outlook of my improvement, because I have seen examples of those who overcome their hardships and become successful in life, so I believe that if I try hard enough, I will be able to overcome my weaknesses. I’m also confident with my listening skills and my ability to focus on others and make them feel heard. I like to start on works and projects early so that if anything comes up, I will still have time to handle it.
In “Strengths Finder 2.0,” Tom Rath informs us that, “You cannot be anything you want to be- but you can be a lot more of who you already are” (Rath p9). I agree with him in the fact that we must focus on our strengths rather than trying to better our weaknesses in order to become successful. So many people today put their attention towards improving their weaknesses that they are surpass by others who focus on their strengths. After learning my own personal strengths, I have a better understanding of who I am and how to focus on these both in school and in the workforce.
What are your two strengths and what is your weakness? My two greatest strengths are my communication and problem solving skills. I excel at understanding customer needs and motivations, and using this insight to tailor selling points, to understand potential obstacles, and to devise effective solutions. My greatest weakness has been the difficult I have in declining additional work assignments.
I have become more determined which is one of my strengths. What I have done to stay more focused is make a list of my priorities that I need to stay on task with. It makes me feel better about myself when I check things off my list. I have been also persistent which is another strength that will help me succeed and will help me become a better
Leaders possess different strengths that allow them to succeed in their career or life. The Clifton Strengths Finder Assessment helped identify my top strengths and how to lead with my strengths in order to further develop them. My top five strengths were competition, positivity, winning others over (WOO), harmony, and achiever. Based on the meaning of each strength, I related to all them, however, I was surprised by some of them.
Introduction Management, a common job but difficult skill to master. While an emphasis tends to be placed on what managers are doing wrong, to become a great manager one must look at what sets the great managers apart from the others. Great managers understand and lay the foundation of trust, communication, and integrity in the workplace and actively pursue their commitment to purpose. Many of these aspects can be visual or verbal, and just as important for the workplace as a whole to follow. With many facets involved in management, it’s important to understand and acknowledge what it takes to really be a great manager.
If a person is not aware of our personal strengths, however, he does not always utilize them as fully as he could, and he potentially misses out on true fulfillment in his life and career. In this article, we will let you know how you can find your personal strength and a list of strengths so it could be easier
Being organized both mentally and physically is one of my biggest strengths. Since I’m am in high school as a student, it’s important to be able to balance tasks and keep things in order. In school, I balance homework, deadlines. Few strengths make tasks feel most effortless such as reasoning abilities or understanding knowledge. My strength to prepare for important deadlines in assignments was my most distinctive skill as a student.
In this part I will review myself, about what have I done and what can I do, so I can be closer to my vision. As I have mentioned in my current situations I have strength, weaknesses, opportunity and threats. My strategy is that I want to maintain my strength, overcome my weaknesses and threats and take advantage of the opportunity. My strengths are my calm and observant personality.
Strengths: As a student one of my strengths is organization. I can say I can keep my school materials and notebooks organized in a way that I and others can comprehend. The reason I can say I am organized is because, I have hardly ever had in the past or present any issues with trying to find homework or assignments because I always kept my materials for each class organized and in a place I could easily find. Another strength I have is social skills. I can believe that I communicate with others well in a group.
The purpose of this essay is to identify management strength and weakness that need to be developed. It is because of the need to recognize own weaknesses and learn how to make them benefit from management. In my view, management is the process of planning, organizing, leading and controlling the power of people who are involved in activities of organization in order to achieve the goal of organization. Skills of effective manager, time management skills and team leader skills are necessarily needed in management.