My Strength-Based Leadership Assessment

Identifying and understanding your own personal strengths is key to being a successful leader. Knowing your strengths means you can focus your efforts to maximize results, in yourself and in others. Strengths Finder 2.0 is designed to uncover your strengths and utilize these strengths to your advantage (Rath, 2007). Identifying and applying these strengths to your leadership style, will enhance your effectiveness as a transformational leader.

The Strengths Based Leadership assessment identified five strengths that describes my leadership skills: responsibility, relator, woo, communication, and futuristic. The dictionary defines responsibility as being answerable for all things within one’s control. To contain the strength of being responsible, one must deliver on all commitments, be trustworthy and dependable, as well as diligently attempt to complete tasks correctly the first time. Relator is defined as a person who understands the connections between people and their situations, as well as someone who tells a story. Gallup (2016) defines a relator to be someone who is intrigued by meeting and learning about other individuals, which could turn into a friendship or

Reflections on your personal strengths and weaknesses in terms of leadership and communication. Knowing how to advocate for clients by being assertive is a personal strength. By standing your ground, making needs known, and willing to present a subject that may be uncomfortable makes it a personal strength. Determining when to and when not to advocate for clients is a weakness. As an advocate you should be prepared to advocate for the clients wellbeing. Being able to negotiate is a weakness. Negotiation allows the employer to see how much of an asset you are to their organization.

When it comes to leadership strengths and domains I felt that the strength finder did a nice job of identifying my qualities. My top three strength finder results were relator, harmony, and restorative. My favorite quality and the one that I associate most with when it comes to personal leadership strengths is relator. I take pride in being able to form strong relationships with others based on trust and shared experiences. Personally, I feel that I combine relator and harmony when I have interactions with others, and groups. I like to understand their thought process, what

. Strengths Based Leadership (SBL) The Strengths Based Leadership (SBL) assessment is useful in determining the virtues and values that are predominantly attach to strengths and styles. The strengths that stood out for me were, Strategic, Analytical, Command, Self Assurance and Restorative.

Based on the Clifton Strengths Assessment my top five strengths are strategic, deliberative, learner, maximize and individualization. As an individual, I rarely look into my weakness. I believe that when your too focused on your weakness, you forget about your strengths. Everything the book said is true, and we need to take the time to look at our strengths and make it perfect. It is true that in this world or the school system, we are taught to look at our weakness and correct it so that we can become stronger in our life. This book brings out the truth that I longed to hear for a long time. Invariably, I hear my professor tell their students that for them success in life, they must practice and look at our weakness. This book proves it wrong because for us to become successful, we must stay to our strengths’ path.

Belief must be the foundation for becoming an effective leader. In the book, Strength Based Leadership, Belief is presented as one of the strength characteristics of a leader: "People strong in the Belief theme have certain core values that are unchanging. Out of these values emerges a defined purpose for their life" pg. 123. A strong set of core values provides the leader with a consistent point of reference and a moral compass. My core values are rooted in my faith in Jesus Christ as my personal savior. These values include honesty, integrity, respect for self and others, charity, and love; and I believe they are the cornerstone of positive leadership. Maintaining my faith through prayer, study of God's

Humans have been notorious for judging themselves more harshly than their peers for centuries. When asked what their strengths are, they often cannot look past their weaknesses. In 1998, Donald O. Clifton created the "Clifton StrengthsFinder" assessment to help "millions discover and develop their natural talents" (--------------) therefore giving everyone a chance to answer the ago old question: "What are my strengths?" The Clifton assessment gives its participants a description of their top five strengths, mine being the following: Includer, Woo, Communication, Responsibility, and Empathy. At first glance, I was confused at the results but when I read my summary and soon realized the test had pinned me perfectly.

I have identified three strengths as a leader. They all relate to the transformational leadership theory. The first strength is self-management. They relates to the transformational leadership theory because I am a self motivator. I am able to motivate myself in me personal and work life. I am then able to take that motivation and bring it to the work place for my team to drive off of and succeed day to day. I am able to motivate new team members and inspire them and truly make them believe the difference they will make with the organization. The second strength is keeping my ego in check. This relates to the transformational leadership theory because as a leader, I am never one to believe I am the final say so, the dictator, or the primary

According to the survey, my five strengths are; command, significance, self-assurance, belief, and focus. I fell this was a fairly accurate interpretation of my abilities. I do plan to take it again during the future, due to being interrupted while taking the survey. I use my command strength daily, I have to direct co-works to specific duties everyday. I am also delegated the responsibility to make major decisions when senior leadership is away(Gallup, 2010). I would agree, that this trait is the most accurate. My significance strength, has became more visible over the last few years. Being a leader, I have used this to help my subordinates achieve their greatest potential(Gallup, 2010). I truly enjoy this ability, because no one should be satisfied with mediocre.

According to the Strengths Quest survey, my five individual strength areas fell within the larger areas of external, motivation, internal and interaction which involve connecting, mobilizing, energizing, and reflecting. My five strengths found were strategic, activator, communication, analytical, and competition (Clifton, Anderson, & Schreiner, 2006). Each of my five strengths really paint a true picture of who I am as an individual and as an educator. Being aware of my strengths has allowed me the opportunity to choose the right career path and opened the door for many opportunities to do something great with the students I work with. Having my students succeed in life is my goal as an educator and human being regardless of their upbringings,

Even though I’m well suited in a leader role, since I’m assertive, adaptable, forthright and positive. Most importantly, I love to inspire and empower and develop others. Although I always model the qualities that I would like to see in my project team. What distinguishes me as a leader, is a willingness to take risks, embrace change and the unknown, a collaborative leadership, facilitation style, with a high commitment to personal and organizational excellence, and a passion of learning and continual improvement of myself as a leader. Whereas to improve my leadership skills so to become a better leader, using the leadership assessment. I need to be clear on what my strengths are, and what complementary strengths I’ll need from others. I need

As part of my leadership development plan, it is one of my primary goals to highlight the skills that I’m strong in, and subsequently improve the skills that I’m weak in. As previously discussed, a primary strength is my “Self-motivation,” and my tenacity to continuously pursue the highest performance out of myself and others. Like Ms. Barra, I will use my “Achiever” mentality to work hard, improve myself, and motivate others to perform (Rath & Conchie, 2008). I will attempt to build relationships with peers and subordinates by working alongside them, which will improve my interpersonal communication with them and inspire them to excel their performance (Rath & Conchie, 2008).

Individual Strengths Leading to Successful Performance (Please provide a detailed narrative and examples, especially in all performance areas where self-evaluation indicates exceeding expectations):

Rath and Conchie (2009) had explained in their book “Strengths-Based Leadership” that in order to become a good leader, one should have to be familiar with his or her strengths and weaknesses. An individual should focus more on his/her strengths than weaknesses because every individual has different talent .Daniel Goleman (1995) also states that IQ and Expertise are not only two factors to judge an individual capability in business but there are many others talents and competences which