What Are Your Strengths (Part 2)
My StregthsFinder results showed that my top 5 strengths were:
Intellection, Responsibility, Relator, Strategic, and Input.
These results differed somewhat from what I had determined
from reading. I easily saw that I have Intellection and Relator as strengths.
I had considered Responsibility as one of my top 5 instead
of Achiever. I am driven to complete things out of a sense of duty and because
my word is my bond. It is not important how much I achieve, but that I am true
to my promises and to my own integrity. Whereas the Achiever gets affirmation
and almost a sense of completion by getting things done. I also feel the need
to complete things because “it is not just about me.” The things I engage in
and commit to often impact people beyond just myself, so there is a sense of obligation
for the greater good. Like those who the text describes, I am utterly
dependable.[1]
The other strengths I identified from reading were Learner
and Belief. In hindsight, I can see how neither may be strengths. I am driven
to learn about specific things of interest but not everything. And I would say
that as I intellect (or think) about things and process them, I learn even
more. While I am good at research, I don’t feel this need to collect and uncover
every source of knowledge. I learn as a means to an end, it is not the end
itself. For the learner, the process of learning and learning about everything
is the focus and that is definitely not me.[2]
Belief was surprising, although I can see that as NOT being
a strength also. My convictions hold me true to things and, again, I think that
ties back more into responsibility. The intellection strength causes me to
process and process until I am sure that I am sure about something. This is a
way my faith (and thus my belief) is activated.
Strategic seems to fit me. When I listen to my friends
process, I am usually able to pinpoint the vital things they are sharing that
they may need to take action on. I am very much one like the text describes: playing
out scenarios to see what will happen if I make this choice.[3]
Although I think I do this more with others than myself. I strategize on a
deeply unconscious level because I don’t normally project various scenarios based
on choices I might make. Usually I can pretty quickly and easily see the vital
things I need to do to get from point A to B to C.
The Input strength was a little surprising, but not
completely. This speaks to how I function on teams: I am rarely the leader and
like to function in supportive roles, offering helpfully input. Usually my
input is very specific, probably because of because of strategy.
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