#…this activity invites you to begin building an understanding of how learning about and developing your strengths applies to your success in your new career. Read through the following three articles and write a reflection using the questions listed below. After reading the three articles, answer the following questions in a reflection (4-6 sentences)
What is your impression of strengths-based development? What questions do you have about this kind of development?
It is like the horoscope— genuinely insightful look into certain larger patterns of thinking and feeling which do seem true— even if (their major flaw) they can’t be proved false.
To that end, I most enjoy seeing an image grid of world leaders with their types, although you could probably shuffle them all up and nobody would detect the difference. However, in the context of how that individual approached problems in life, I find it stimulating.
I think I have a pretty round strength base, based on how difficult certain learning challenges are. But I am much more aware that I have terrible meta-organizational skills.
To see not only how skills mesh but personalities. Realizing that the latter are much harder to change and probably twice as important on a given day.
(To that end, I most enjoy seeing an image grid of world leaders with their types, although you could probably shuffle them all up and nobody would detect the difference. However, in the context of how that individual approached problems in life, I find it stimulating to imagine epic, anachronistic team-ups and stare-downs.)
I like the Strengths not as personality types, but more as ways of approaching a problem (or challenge, or anything that can be done many different ways). Some people are more naturally inclined by personality toward certain ways of solving a problem. Just as crucially, people have different ways of talking about a problem. I guess the point is that you can learn them. We make assumptions about what information is relevant. We often don’t know just how incomplete our understanding is until it fails. I hope to develop my strengths by learning from as many directions as possible.