Strength Assessment
In life, each and every individual have some form of practical task that they are good at. That task is an area that thrives and motivates an individual to excel: We call this a strength. The ability to identify ones’ strength, and use it to engage others and their strengths can increase productivity, efficiency, and satisfaction overall; plus, it can better an environment. In addition, leadership style is effected by the certain type of strength an individual possess. These types of leadership can range from authoritarian, democratic, and laiseez-faire style. Some leaders are not able to realize their strength and this can result to them not being able to engage others’ strengths to better their surroundings to achieve a goal (or allow them
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She was one of the seven children that her parents had. Christine was very ambiguous when it comes to leadership and being a CEO. The nonprofit organization that she was working for asked her to apply for the chief executive officer position. Christine knew she didn’t have the experience to run a nonprofit organization, and wanted some experience to help improve it. In order to do this, she need to identify her strengths, which she had no clue what they were. Christine was recommended by the board members to take a strength assessment to find out those strength or strengths she possess. The strength she possessed was in strategic planning, relationship building, creativity, compassion, and influencing. Christine’s enthusiasm, good work ethic, work experience, and her ability to be creatively innovative up is what develop her strengths. “Create a habit of developing your strengths” (fastcompany.com). Out of those strengths that she discovered from the assessment, creativity was the observable strength. “Her program, Study Buddies, paired up volunteer tutors from a local college with children to meet three times a week for a half-hour of tutoring followed by a half-hour of recreation and games. Christine also initiated Girl Power, a program allowing middle school girls to spend an afternoon each week shadowing a local female professional or businesswoman who worked in a career that they were interested in
She was one of the seven children that her parents had. Christine was very ambiguous when it comes to leadership and being a CEO. The nonprofit organization that she was working for asked her to apply for the chief executive officer position. Christine knew she didn’t have the experience to run a nonprofit organization, and wanted some experience to help improve it. In order to do this, she need to identify her strengths, which she had no clue what they were. Christine was recommended by the board members to take a strength assessment to find out those strength or strengths she possess. The strength she possessed was in strategic planning, relationship building, creativity, compassion, and influencing. Christine’s enthusiasm, good work ethic, work experience, and her ability to be creatively innovative up is what develop her strengths. “Create a habit of developing your strengths” (fastcompany.com). Out of those strengths that she discovered from the assessment, creativity was the observable strength. “Her program, Study Buddies, paired up volunteer tutors from a local college with children to meet three times a week for a half-hour of tutoring followed by a half-hour of recreation and games. Christine also initiated Girl Power, a program allowing middle school girls to spend an afternoon each week shadowing a local female professional or businesswoman who worked in a career that they were interested in