Personal Narrative: My Strengths Quest

According to the SAPA project survey (Condon,2015), my five greatest strengths are being reliable, dependable, trustworthy, honest, and punctual. In this survey their were a lot of questions about myself when it comes to my personality. The questions that I answered consisted of my feelings towards others and how would I deal with certain situations that will occur in my life. After answering those hundred questions, the test proved I was very reliable. In the results it showed three different line graphs showing extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability (Condon,2015).

My Personal Assessment In preparation to determine what I believe are my personal strengths and weaknesses as a leader, I made a list of experiences where I believe I had to exercise leadership in the past three years. As I was developing the list I determined three areas that require leadership. The first is leadership needed within my coursework here at USU. The second is leadership needed within my everyday relationships.

Developing Leadership This Article addresses some of the key points that some studies emphasized on, relevant to leadership communication development. It compiles three different approaches on how to improve leadership communications according to three different environments, military environment, corporate environment, and media environment. Moreover, it answers questions to what communication strategies are associated with effective leadership, and what are some barriers to effective communication that a leader should over come. Communication Approaches 1 – Military Approach

It’s almost the end of my sophomore year and I know Ii didn't do well this school year. I went through a lot but I’m proud of myself for another school year almost done. This year I’ve realize that Ii need to try more and focus better.

My strength as a writer seems to be the flow of my paper, finding good citations to support my argument, and writing in a clear manner. I still need to work on floating quotes, word choice, and synthesizing along with clarifying who said certain quotes. I am also working on scheduling more than enough time to write and perfect my essays because as much as I think I have allowed myself enough time I feel like the time is never enough.

My thematic pathway consists of three classes: Introduction to Music, Introduction to Sociology, and Digital System. The first two classes were taken in John Jay College and the last one was taken in my first semester at Buffalo University. These classes come together to qualify my global pathway under the topic of Design and the Build Environment. Nevertheless, I am still not sure how they assimilated into this topic to develop our critical thinking skill and analytical skill to approaches the problem solving as how it descripted on the website. Furthermore, it really gives me a tough time to make these classes echoed each other.

What vision do you have of yourself ten years from now? I see myself in the National Basketball Association (NBA) getting money and living the good life. I know it will be tough because life is not easy. I will have to work harder than others to get recognized. I will face a lot of tough obstacles, but I know my main three obstacles.

The threshold goblin stood before me, between me and the end of my quest. “You are small, you are weak, you know nothing!” He screeched. My blood started to boil and my anger built. I shouted back, “That’s not true!

As a writer one of my two strengths are coming up with a story. Whenever I write I tend to have an idea on how I want my story to start and finish. I imagine what I want to write by putting my story in point form, gathering the necessary research before I move to completing the story. I feel organization and planning is important and effective to have a good essay. Every time I write I am constantly proofreading my work.

Goals for this year My goals for this year i wanna get good grades. I also wanna start on the junior high football team. When basketball comes around I wanna be the starting shooting guard. I wanna have good relationships with my teachers.