Day 2…Assess our strengths
Assessment - Self
Natural Talents:
1. Includer
2. Ideation
3. Positivity
4. Adaptability
5. Restorative
Educations:
1 MSc Computer Science
2. Project Manager
Skills:
1. Basketball
2. Right Brain Training
3. Sub-conscious mind
4. Cartooning
5. Motivation
Experience:
1. Almost broke a few time
2. Lost a few tenth-thousands in business because of greed
3. Got fired in my previous company because of ego.
4. Father of 2 lovely child
5. Life is good, only we can see it from their angle
Passion:
1. Parenthood
2. Right Brain Training
3. Sub-conscious
4. Motivation
5. Law of attractive
6. Humor
7. Help, talk to people
8. Internet Marketing
Others Ask Help Or Advice With:
1. Motivation
2. Parenthood
3. Computer
Name: Friend 1
Thinks Strengths Are:
1. Humor
2. Optimistic
3. Leadership
4. Creative
Name: Friend 2
Thinks Strengths Are:
1. Sincere
2. Helpful
3. Listening Ear
Name: Friend 3
Thinks Strengths Are:
1. Supportive
2. Comfortable
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This is by far, (ok, this is only the 2nd day…) the most difficuit tasks. It’s not easy to assess ourselves. Though, I had done my strength finder, but it’s good time to bring out to revise again:
INCLUDER (formerly Inclusiveness)
“Stretch the circle wider.” This is the philosophy around which you orient your life. You want to include people and make them feel part of the group. In direct contrast to those who are drawn only to exclusive groups, you actively avoid those groups that exclude others. You want to expand the group so that as many people as possible can benefit from its support. You hate the sight of someone on the outside looking in. You want to draw them in so that they can feel the warmth of the group. You are an instinctively accepting person. Regardless of race or sex or nationality or personality or faith, you cast few judgments. Judgments can hurt a person’s feelings. Why do that if you don’t have to? Your accepting nature does not necessarily rest on a belief that each of us is different and that one should respect these differences. Rather, it rests on your conviction that fundamentally we are all the same. We are all equally important. Thus, no one should be ignored. Each of us should be included. It is the least we all deserve.
Action Items for this Theme
Choose roles in which you are continuously working and interacting with people. You will enjoy the challenge of making everyone feel important.
Consider roles in which you are responsible for representing voices that are not normally heard. You will derive a great deal of satisfaction from being their representative.
Look for opportunities to bring together people of diverse cultures and backgrounds. You can be a leader in this area.
Help those who are new to an organization get to know other people. You will always be adept at quickly making people feel accepted and involved.
You naturally look for the best in people. Help your colleagues see what you see.
Be ready to:
Partner with someone with a strong Activator or Command theme. This person can help you deliver news that might hurt someone’s feelings.
Explain what we all have in common. Help others understand that to respect the differences among us (our diversity) you must begin by appreciating what we all share (our similarity).
IDEATION
You are fascinated by ideas. What is an idea? An idea is a concept, the best explanation of the most events. You are delighted when you discover beneath the complex surface an elegantly simple concept to explain why things are the way they are. An idea is a connection. Yours is the kind of mind that is always looking for connections, and so you are intrigued when seemingly disparate phenomena can be linked by an obscure connection. An idea is a new perspective on familiar challenges. You revel in taking the world we all know and turning it around so we can view it from a strange but strangely enlightening angle. You love all these ideas because they are profound, because they are novel, because they are clarifying, because they are contrary, because they are bizarre. For all these reasons you derive a jolt of energy whenever a new idea occurs to you. Others may label you creative or original or conceptual or even smart. Perhaps you are all of these. Who can be sure? What you are sure of is that ideas are thrilling. And on most days this is enough.
Action Items for this Theme
Seek work in which you will be paid for your ideas, such as marketing, advertising, journalism, design, or new product development. Find work in which you will be given credit for your ideas.
Yours is the kind of mind that bores quickly, so make small changes in your work or home life. Experiment. Play mental games with yourself. All of these will help keep you stimulated.
Seek brainstorming sessions. With your abundance of ideas, you will make these sessions more exciting and more productive.
Schedule time to read, because the ideas and experiences of others can become your raw material for new ideas. Schedule time to think, because thinking energizes you.
Discuss your ideas with other people. Their responses will help you keep refining your ideas.
Be ready to:
Finish your thoughts and ideas before communicating them. Lacking your Ideation strength, others might not be able to “join the dots” of an interesting but incomplete idea, and thus might dismiss it.
Partner with someone with a strong Activator theme. This person can push you to put your ideas into practice. This kind of exposure can only be good for your ideas.
Partner with someone with a strong Analytical theme. This person will question you and challenge you, therefore strengthening your ideas.
POSITIVITY
You are generous with praise, quick to smile, and always on the lookout for the positive in the situation. Some call you lighthearted. Others just wish that their glass were as full as yours seems to be. But either way, people want to be around you. Their world looks better around you because your enthusiasm is contagious. Lacking your energy and optimism, some find their world drab with repetition or, worse, heavy with pressure. You seem to find a way to lighten their spirit. You inject drama into every project. You celebrate every achievement. You find ways to make everything more exciting and more vital. Some cynics may reject your energy, but you are rarely dragged down. Your Positivity won’t allow it. Somehow you can’t quite escape your conviction that it is good to be alive, that work can be fun, and that no matter what the setbacks, one must never lose one’s sense of humor.
Action Items for this Theme
You will excel in any role in which you are paid to highlight the positive. A teaching role, a sales role, an entrepreneurial role, or a leadership role will utilize your ability to make things dramatic.
You tend to be more enthusiastic and energetic than most people. When others become discouraged or are reluctant to take risks, your attitude will provide the impetus to keep them moving. Over time, others will start to look to you for this “lift.”
Deliberately help others see the things that are going well for them. You can keep their eyes on the positive.
Because people will rely on you to help them rise above their daily frustrations, arm yourself with good stories, jokes and sayings. Never underestimate the effect that you can have on people.
Plan highlight activities for your colleagues. For example, find ways to turn small achievements into “events,” or plan regular “celebrations” that others can look forward to, or capitalize on the year’s holidays and festivals.
Increase the recognition you give to others. Try to tailor it to each person’s need.
Be ready to:
Avoid negative people. They will bring you down. Instead, seek people who find in the world the same kind of drama and humor that you do. You will energize each other.
Explain that your enthusiasm is not simple naivety. You know that bad things can happen; you simply prefer to focus on the good things. Pessimists might superficially seem wiser; they might even sometimes be right-but they are rarely achievers (and, incidentally, optimists have more fun).
ADAPTABILITY
You live in the moment. You don’t see the future as a fixed destination. Instead, you see it as a place that you create out of the choices that you make right now. And so you discover your future one choice at a time. This doesn’t mean that you don’t have plans. You probably do. But this theme of Adaptability does enable you to respond willingly to the demands of the moment even if they pull you away from your plans. Unlike some, you don’t resent sudden requests or unforeseen detours. You expect them. They are inevitable. Indeed, on some level you actually look forward to them. You are, at heart, a very flexible person who can stay productive when the demands of work are pulling you in many different directions at once.
Action Items for this Theme
Seek roles in which success depends upon responding to constantly changing circumstances. Consider career areas such as journalism, live television production, emergency healthcare, and customer service. In roles of this type, the best react the fastest and stay level headed.
Fine-tune your responsiveness. For example, if your job demands unanticipated travel, learn how to pack and leave in 30 minutes. If your work pressure comes in unpredictable spurts, practice the first three moves you will always make when the pressure hits.
During times when the pressure is on, help your colleagues find productive ways to relieve the pressure and therefore make progress. You can be the spark that “unfreezes” them.
Cultivate your reputation as a calm and reassuring person when others become upset by daily events.
Never apologize for your spontaneity. On the contrary, help others realize how many experiences might be missed if you don’t seize the moment now.
Be ready to:
Avoid roles that demand structure and predictability. These roles will quickly frustrate you, make you feel inadequate, and stifle your independence.
Look to others for planning. People who strong in themes such as Focus, Strategic, or Belief can help you shape your longer-term goals, leaving you to excel at dealing with the day-to-day variations.
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.
Action Items for this Theme
Seek roles in which you are paid to solve problems. You might particularly enjoy roles in medicine, consulting, computer programming, or customer service, in which your success depends on your ability to restore and resolve.
Study your chosen subject closely to become adept at identifying what causes certain problems to recur. This sort of expertise will lead you to the solution that much faster.
In all of your relationships, do not be afraid to let others know that you enjoy fixing problems. It comes naturally to you, but many people shy away from problems. You can help.
Think through the ways you can improve your skills and knowledge. Identify the courses you can take to plug your gaps.
Make a list of ways that you could help people who are disadvantaged, such as volunteering in your community or fund-raising.
Be ready to:
Give yourself a break. Your strong Restorative theme might lead you to be overly self-critical. Try to redirect this theme either toward things about yourself that can be fixed, such as knowledge or skills (but not talent), or toward external, tangible problems.
Allow other people to solve their own problems. You might want to rush in and solve things for them, but in so doing you might hinder their learning. Watch out for this, particularly if you are in a manager, coach, teacher, or parenting role.