Your Leadership Profile
Do you believe you have the traits to be an effective leader? Perhaps you are already in a supervisory role, but as has been discussed previously, appointment does not guarantee leadership skills.
How can you evaluate your own leadership skills and behaviors? You can start by analyzing your performance in specific areas of leadership. In this Discussion, you will complete Gallup’s StrengthsFinder assessment. This assessment will identify your personal strengths, which have been shown to improve motivation, engagement, and academic self-conference. Through this assessment, you will discover your top five themes—which you can reflect upon and use to leverage your talents for optimal success and examine how the results relate to your leadership traits.
To Prepare:
Complete the StrengthsFinder assessment instrument, per the instructions found in this Module’s Learning Resources.
Please Note: This Assessment will take roughly 30 minutes to complete.
NOTE: Please keep your report. You will need your results for future courses. Technical Issues with Gallup:
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- Reflect on the results of your Assessment, and consider how the results relate to your leadership traits.
By Day 3 of Week 5
Post a brief description of your results from the StrengthsFinder assessment. Then, briefly describe two core values, two strengths, and two characteristics that you would like to strengthen based on the results of your StrengthsFinder assessment. Be specific.
SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 09-27-2020
Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people are those who understand their strengths and behaviors. These people are best able to develop strategies to meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families. A review of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilities, but an awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core reasons behind your consistent successes. Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant themes of talent, in the rank order revealed by your responses to StrengthsFinder. Of the 34 themes measured, these are your “top five.” Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the talents that lead to your successes. By focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in combination, you can identify your talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career success through consistent, near-perfect performance.
Relator Relator describes your attitude toward your relationships. In simple terms, the Relator theme pulls you toward people you already know. You do not necessarily shy away from meeting new people—in fact, you may have other themes that cause you to enjoy the thrill of turning strangers into friends—but you do derive a great deal of pleasure and strength from being around your close friends. You are comfortable with intimacy. Once the initial connection has been made, you deliberately encourage a deepening of the relationship. You want to understand their feelings, their goals, their fears, and their dreams; and you want them to understand yours. You know that this kind of closeness implies a certain amount of risk—you might be taken advantage of—but you are willing to accept that risk. For you a relationship has value only if it is genuine. And the only way to know that is to entrust yourself to the other person. The more you share with each other, the more you risk together. The more you risk together, the more each of you proves your caring is genuine. These are your steps toward real friendship, and you take them willingly.
Restorative You love to solve problems. Whereas some are dismayed when they encounter yet another breakdown, you can be energized by it. You enjoy the challenge of analyzing the symptoms, identifying what is wrong, and finding the solution. You may prefer practical problems or conceptual ones or personal ones. You may seek out specific kinds of problems that you have met many times before and that you are confident you can fix. Or you may feel the greatest push when faced with complex and unfamiliar problems. Your exact preferences are determined by your other themes and experiences. But what is certain is that you enjoy bringing things back to life. It is a wonderful feeling to identify the undermining factor(s), eradicate them, and restore something to its true glory. Intuitively, you know that without your intervention, this thing—this machine, this technique, this person, this company—might have ceased to function. You fixed it, resuscitated it, rekindled its vitality. Phrasing it the way you might, you saved it.
Futuristic “Wouldn’t it be great if . . .” You are the kind of person who loves to peer over the horizon. The future fascinates you. As if it were projected on the wall, you see in detail what the future might hold, and this detailed picture keeps pulling you forward, into tomorrow. While the exact content of the picture will depend on your other strengths and interests—a better product, a better team, a better life, or a better world—it will always be inspirational to you. You are a dreamer who sees visions of what could be and who cherishes those visions. When the present proves too frustrating and the people around you too pragmatic, you conjure up your visions of the future and they energize you. They can energize others, too. In fact, very often people look to you to describe your visions of the future. They want a picture that can raise their sights and thereby their spirits. You can paint it for them. Practice. Choose your words carefully. Make the picture as vivid as possible. People will want to latch on to the hope you bring. Learner You love to learn. The subject matter that interests you most will be determined by your other themes and experiences, but whatever the subject, you will always be drawn to the process of learning. The process, more than the content or the result, is especially exciting for you. You are energized by the steady and deliberate journey from ignorance to competence. The thrill of the first few facts, the early efforts to recite or practice what you have learned, the growing confidence of a skill mastered—this is the process that entices you. Your excitement leads you to engage in adult learning experiences—yoga or piano lessons or graduate classes. It enables you to thrive in dynamic work environments where you are asked to take on short project assignments and are expected to learn a lot about the new subject matter in a short period of time and then move on to the next one. This Learner theme does not necessarily mean that you seek to become the subject matter expert, or that you are striving for the respect that accompanies a professional or academic credential. The outcome of the learning is less significant than the “getting there.” Achiever Your Achiever theme helps explain your drive.
Achiever describes a constant need for achievement. You feel as if every day starts at zero. By the end of the day you must achieve something tangible in order to feel good about yourself. And by “every day” you mean every single day—workdays, weekends, vacations. No matter how much you may feel you deserve a day of rest, if the day passes without some form of achievement, no matter how small, you will feel dissatisfied. You have an internal fire burning inside you. It pushes you to do more, to achieve more. After each accomplishment is reached, the fire dwindles for a moment, but very soon it rekindles itself, forcing you toward the next accomplishment. Your relentless need for achievement might not be logical. It might not even be focused. But it will always be with you. As an Achiever you must learn to live with this whisper of discontent. It does have its benefits. It brings you the energy you need to work long hours without burning out. It is the jolt you can always count on to get you started on new tasks, new challenges. It is the power supply that causes you to set the pace and define the levels of productivity for your work group. It is the theme that keeps you moving.
SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 09
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27
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2020
Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people
are those who understand their str
engths and behaviors. These people are best able to develop
strategies to meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families. A review
of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilitie
s, but an
awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core reasons
behind your consistent successes. Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant
themes of talent, in the rank order revealed by yo
ur responses to StrengthsFinder. Of the 34 themes
measured, these are your “top five.” Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the
talents that lead to your successes. By focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in
combination, you
can identify your talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career
success through consistent, near
–
perfect performance.
Relator
Relator describes your attitude toward your relationships. In simple terms, the Relator theme
pulls you toward
people you already know. You do not necessarily shy away from meeting new people
—
in fact, you may have other themes that cause you to enjoy the thrill of turning strangers into friends
—
but you do derive a great deal of pleasure and strength from being aro
und your close friends. You are
comfortable with intimacy. Once the initial connection has been made, you deliberately encourage a
deepening of the relationship. You want to understand their feelings, their goals, their fears, and their
dreams; and you wan
t them to understand yours. You know that this kind of closeness implies a certain
amount of risk
—
you might be taken advantage of
—
but you are willing to accept that risk. For you a
relationship has value only if it is genuine. And the only way to know that
is to entrust yourself to the
other person. The more you share with each other, the more you risk together. The more you risk
together, the more each of you proves your caring is genuine. These are your steps toward real
friendship, and you take them will
ingly.
Restorative
You love to solve problems. Whereas some are dismayed when they encounter yet another
breakdown, you can be energized by it. You enjoy the challenge of analyzing the symptoms, identifying
what is wrong,
and finding the solution. You ma
y prefer practical problems or conceptual ones or
personal ones. You may seek out specific kinds of problems that you have met many times before and
that you are confident you can fix. Or you may feel the greatest push when faced with complex and
unfamilia
r problems. Your exact preferences are determined by your other themes and experiences. But
what is certain is that you enjoy bringing things back to life. It is a wonderful feeling to identify the
undermining factor(s), eradicate them, and restore somethi
ng to its true glory. Intuitively, you know
that without your intervention, this thing
—
this machine, this technique, this person, this company
—
might have ceased to function. You fixed it, resuscitated it, rekindled its vitality. Phrasing it the way you
mig
ht, you saved it.
Futuristic
“Wouldn’t it be great if . . .” You are the kind of person who loves to peer over the horizon.
The future fascinates you. As if it were projected on the wall, you see in detail what the future might
hold, and this detailed pict
ure keeps pulling you forward, into tomorrow. While the exact content of the
picture will depend on your other strengths and interests
—
a better product, a better team, a better life,
or a better world
—
it will always be inspirational to you. You are a dream
er who sees visions of what
could be and who cherishes those visions. When the present proves too frustrating and the people
around you too pragmatic, you conjure up your visions of the future and they energize you. They can
SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 09-27-2020
Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people
are those who understand their strengths and behaviors. These people are best able to develop
strategies to meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families. A review
of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilities, but an
awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core reasons
behind your consistent successes. Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant
themes of talent, in the rank order revealed by your responses to StrengthsFinder. Of the 34 themes
measured, these are your “top five.” Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the
talents that lead to your successes. By focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in
combination, you can identify your talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career
success through consistent, near-perfect performance.
Relator Relator describes your attitude toward your relationships. In simple terms, the Relator theme
pulls you toward people you already know. You do not necessarily shy away from meeting new people—
in fact, you may have other themes that cause you to enjoy the thrill of turning strangers into friends—
but you do derive a great deal of pleasure and strength from being around your close friends. You are
comfortable with intimacy. Once the initial connection has been made, you deliberately encourage a
deepening of the relationship. You want to understand their feelings, their goals, their fears, and their
dreams; and you want them to understand yours. You know that this kind of closeness implies a certain
amount of risk—you might be taken advantage of—but you are willing to accept that risk. For you a
relationship has value only if it is genuine. And the only way to know that is to entrust yourself to the
other person. The more you share with each other, the more you risk together. The more you risk
together, the more each of you proves your caring is genuine. These are your steps toward real
friendship, and you take them willingly.
Restorative You love to solve problems. Whereas some are dismayed when they encounter yet another
breakdown, you can be energized by it. You enjoy the challenge of analyzing the symptoms, identifying
what is wrong, and finding the solution. You may prefer practical problems or conceptual ones or
personal ones. You may seek out specific kinds of problems that you have met many times before and
that you are confident you can fix. Or you may feel the greatest push when faced with complex and
unfamiliar problems. Your exact preferences are determined by your other themes and experiences. But
what is certain is that you enjoy bringing things back to life. It is a wonderful feeling to identify the
undermining factor(s), eradicate them, and restore something to its true glory. Intuitively, you know
that without your intervention, this thing—this machine, this technique, this person, this company—
might have ceased to function. You fixed it, resuscitated it, rekindled its vitality. Phrasing it the way you
might, you saved it.
Futuristic “Wouldn’t it be great if . . .” You are the kind of person who loves to peer over the horizon.
The future fascinates you. As if it were projected on the wall, you see in detail what the future might
hold, and this detailed picture keeps pulling you forward, into tomorrow. While the exact content of the
picture will depend on your other strengths and interests—a better product, a better team, a better life,
or a better world—it will always be inspirational to you. You are a dreamer who sees visions of what
could be and who cherishes those visions. When the present proves too frustrating and the people
around you too pragmatic, you conjure up your visions of the future and they energize you.
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