VIA Character Assessment For this assignment, we, the students, has to complete a 240 question survey of character strength, which should identify your top five strengths. By using this survey, I know how to use my strengths to benefit myself in the future. 1. Fairness, Equity, and Justice My top strength is fairness, equity, and justice. This strength allowed me to treat people equally, which my personal feelings will not change my decisions. I also give everybody a chance. For example, I will partner with random students to do a STEM research project. Most of citizens in Texas are immigrants, including myself. As an immigrant, I understand how others are treated poorly in many situations. I want to treat everyone equally regardless of their education, race, and religion to make them feel better. 2. Leadership …show more content…
Leadership is defined as encouraging groups or teams to get their work done, make mates feel included, and organizing activities. I have a habit to put down everything in a digital calendar, and I will look at the calendar to remind myself what I need to do. Using this habit can improve my leadership skill to organize activities in group of people. 3. Honesty, Authenticity, and Genuineness Honesty, authenticity, and genuineness, my third strength, can be simply defined as speaking the truth. Also, this allowed me to be a “real” person who live my life in a genuine and authentic way. I’ve been the enemy to my classmates because I tell the truth to the teachers. For example, when my English teacher, Mrs. Galvan, said to turn in the assignment and my classmates said it is not due until next week, I am the one who said, “Mrs. Galvan told us it’s due today.” I believe if lying become a habit, then a person becomes “fake.” 4. Capacity to love and be
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.
After reviewing my VIA and Gallup strength results, I noticed a contrast between collective and individualistic characteristics. For instance, my VIA strengths are as follows: Humor, forgiveness, Fairness, Bravery, and Curiosity. All of which, display my collective side. First, Humor, my top strength, presents itself in my inner desire to see those around me cheerful rather than upset.
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.
My 3 greatest strengths are communication, adaptability, and positivity. Forming relationships with clients in my previous role has enhanced my communication skills and relationship-building skills. Effective communication among a team is essential to the success of an organization. Individuals that can adapt in quickly changing workplaces are in high demand. I am well prepared to tackle the obstacles that come with growth and innovation because of my open mentality and readiness to adapt.
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.
These characteristics help define who we are and our individuality. Our strengths are often what we are known best for. These are the abilities of people to perform something, using much mental or physical effort (Cambridge Dictionary, 2022). On the other hand, our weaknesses are things we can improve on. My strengths and weaknesses have had a direct impact on my role as a future counselor and it is my job to use and improve my strengths and weaknesses to ensure that I am helping individuals as best as
a. My Strengths include being dependable because I feel that I am able to always be there for the client whenever they need me because I am ready to be fully committed to this career. My second strength is communication skills. Active listening is an essential skill combined with encouraging clients to talk by asking open questions trying to keep the client’s responses on track. I also need to listen to what is not being said, whether through omission or expressed non-verbally. Being able to understand and use non-verbal communication such as tone of voice, posture, facial expressions, gestures and unconscious movements.
My strengths are I know when to ask for help, when I am struggling. Another one is I always push myself to do my best, even when times get really hard. Also I make sure to get everything done on time. I also have a job but it is only during the summer. I work at Great Oak Country Club as a lifeguard.
1. Of the four domains of leadership strengths (see Table 3.2), which are your strongest? Describe how you could solicit support from followers to complement these areas of strength. My strongest strength is innovation. To complement my strength best I would want to pair up with an implementer and mediator to govern the execution of the work to be performed.
Another strength in my LinkedIn profile is my summary statement. My kind, compassionate and selfless attributes are particularly evident in my summary statement. It allows other people to understand how I use my goals and values to make my decisions about my volunteer and work experience. Therefore, all of these life experiences show that my character strengths are based on the way I have
“Strength is an attribute or quality of an individual that accounts for successful performance; it is the characteristics that are demonstrated when you perform at your best” (Northouse, 2015: 50). When people especially in leadership positions, are aware of their strengths and weaknesses, they can draw from their strengths and enhance it by utilizing their strengths, this applies to team members, co-workers and followers. Once a leader is able to identify their strengths and weaknesses, they are able to identify other people’s strengths and enable them to build on that instead of focusing on what they cannot do. “According to Northouse (2015: 50) strengths are positive features of ourselves that make us effective and help us
Some of my strengths would be my love and caring heart. For example, I am open to help whom wants help. I'm the nicest person ever even if I portray a nasty way. Another strength would be how smart I am. The only way I can show off my smartness is when I chose too.
Strengths Of Humanity These are interpersonal strengths that involve social skills and making friends. Love: Valuing close relations with others, in particular those in which sharing and caring are reciprocated. Kindness: Doing favors and good deeds for others.
LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM SPORTS What is Leadership? Leadership is defined as the ability to influence a group towards the achievement of a vision or set of goals. The source of this influence may be formal, as happens by organizational hierarchy. However, this does not imply that every manager is a leader or only managers are leaders. The ability to influence and motivate an individual may arise in any non-formal structure as well.
My top five strengths are, restorative, adaptability, activator, strategic, and positivity. In the job description has a lot of key point directly related to my strengths such as ‘the ability to work autonomously in a changing environment while keeping supervisors appropriately appraised of issues, problems, opportunities, and progress,’ (Make-A-Wish) which I can accomplish with my strength of adaptability which gives me the ability to go with the flow and take things as the come. I can use my strategic and restorative strength through ‘implementing the strategic vision of the chapter and Make-A-Wish brand,’ these strengths will also help me be detail-oriented and well organized. (Make-A-Wish) Make-A-Wish being the organization that it is positivity is essential when working with external clients especially when dealing with the children and their families and when working with internal staff. The strength activator will help me in program planning, coordinating different departments, and developing monthly and quarterly reports.