Discussion 2: Your Leadership Profile Week 5 NURS 6053

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Activator

SHARED THEME DESCRIPTION

People who are especially talented in the Activator theme can make things happen by turning thoughts into action. They are often impatient.

YOUR PERSONALIZED STRENGTHS INSIGHTS

What makes you stand out?

Because of your strengths, you urge people to attain their goals by pressing ahead without stopping. Some people feel threatened by your forceful messages. You probably use this technique with individuals who are slow to start or who are inclined to quit before the work is finished. Instinctively, you may find that you easily energize people.

You might be determined to generate enthusiasm about projects, events, or activities. Chances are good that you want to be in charge. As soon as you have made up your mind, you are eager to get started. People who interfere with your progress probably irritate you. Driven by your talents, you notice that people heed your demands. What you say and how you say it can even frighten and threaten people. You probably have used this effect to influence individuals to do what you want.

It’s very likely that you are naturally open and honest about who you are, what you have done, what you can do, and what you cannot do. Your straightforward explanations and stories help listeners see you as you see yourself. You reveal your strengths and limitations. You are forthright and plainspoken. People generally seek your company and want to work with you. Many are impelled to move into action by your words and examples.

Questions

1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand out to you?
2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in you?

Achiever

SHARED THEME DESCRIPTION

People who are especially talented in the Achiever theme have a great deal of stamina and work hard. They take great satisfaction from being busy and productive.

YOUR PERSONALIZED STRENGTHS INSIGHTS

What makes you stand out?

It’s very likely that you may prefer to enroll in demanding classes. Perhaps you thrive in situations where you can test your talents or your endurance to discover how much you can accomplish. You may need to “prove yourself to yourself” every now and then.

Because of your strengths, you might toil for hours, days, weeks, or months to produce desired outcomes. Perhaps you impose demanding standards for excellence or productivity on yourself. You might not rest until each requirement is met. By nature, you might argue that success is the product of hard work.

Perhaps your no-nonsense approach impels you to compare your most recent progress to your past performance. You sometimes strive to excel by imposing measurable goals for personal or professional growth on yourself. Instinctively, you might wonder why an unexpected series of events or personal encounters occurred. Sometimes you can simply accept what happened and you go on with your life.

You sense that good fortune, good timing, or good connections may influence outcomes as much as your hard work does. Chances are good that you might win over individuals when they notice you are intense, diligent, and earnest. Perhaps you are attracted to people whose work ethic matches your own. This may partially explain why they enjoy your company.

Questions

1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand out to you?
2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in you?

Discipline

SHARED THEME DESCRIPTION

People who are especially talented in the Discipline theme enjoy routine and structure. Their world is best described by the order they create.

YOUR PERSONALIZED STRENGTHS INSIGHTS

What makes you stand out?

Because of your strengths, you rely on your own exacting standards and methodical routines to ensure things are done with careful attention to all aspects and details. This is especially true when you encounter obstacles. You often decide it is easier to deal with these difficulties on your own. This way you know for sure everything is done right. Instinctively, you are the type of person who maps out trips, projects or agendas well ahead of time.

our detailed preparation usually involves a lot of reading. Fortunately, you devour the written word with the same passion as someone who loves food savors a delicious meal. Chances are good that you genuinely appreciate forward-looking thinkers who help you envision the future. They usually inspire you to outline the tasks and list the deadlines for reaching each of your goals.

Having a plan to follow improves your chances of accomplishing what you desire in the coming months, years, or decades. Driven by your talents, you track progress toward your major goals by evaluating your income. Your financial well-being contributes greatly to your outlook on life.

Money buys you many things that give you joy. You are apt to work even harder when you lack the funds to do what you want to do. By nature, you naturally are drawn to start-up activities. Why? They give you an opportunity to accomplish something no one else has done. You are likely to push yourself to reach goals. You are hardwired to double check your work to verify that everything is going as planned. You are equally concerned that every person and piece of equipment is in its assigned location.

Questions

1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand out to you?
2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in you?

Consistency

SHARED THEME DESCRIPTION

People who are especially talented in the Consistency theme are keenly aware of the need to treat people the same. They try to treat everyone in the world with consistency by setting up clear rules and adhering to them.

YOUR PERSONALIZED STRENGTHS INSIGHTS

What makes you stand out?

It’s very likely that you probably are one of those people who reads the regulations first, especially when they apply to everyone in a group. Your need to commit these rules to memory is apt to be the way you prepare to play a game, assemble a device, use a computer program, or adhere to a standard process. Driven by your talents, you routinely search for ways to do a better job of making sure all individuals know and abide by established rules, procedures, or guidelines.

Chances are good that you might be the team member who streamlines processes, rules, or procedures. Periodically you outline steps so all group members perform the same task the same way every time they do it. Because of your strengths, you may prefer to set goals in an environment where most people agree to follow the procedures or rules. Perhaps knowing beforehand what to expect of others and what they expect of you makes the task a bit more enjoyable. When you are given the choice between order and chaos, you sometimes choose order. This partially explains why you become irritated with individuals who try to change procedures or make exceptions to the rules in the middle of meetings.

Instinctively, you might not want any one thing to consume every minute of your day. For practical purposes, you may choose to handle some personal or professional problems matter-of-factly or deal with information unemotionally. Perhaps you minimize conflict between people by not taking sides. Instead, you try to make certain individuals aware of things as they actually are. Maybe you emphasize what they have in common. Sometimes you manage to move adversaries toward peaceable solutions or general agreements.

Questions

1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand out to you?
2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in you?

Focus

SHARED THEME DESCRIPTION

People who are especially talented in the Focus theme can take a direction, follow through, and make the corrections necessary to stay on track. They prioritize, then act.

YOUR PERSONALIZED STRENGTHS INSIGHTS

What makes you stand out?

Chances are good that you might want to distribute your time more evenly among the priorities in your life. This is a challenge, however. Why? You tend to express yourself through your work. One part of you is completely devoted to your job or studies. Another part of you demands equal time for family, friends, solitude, or recreation. You typically block out everything but your work when you must give your undivided attention to an assignment, project, experiment, or special event.

Driven by your talents, you usually consider what you need to do better as a person or as a professional. You are surprised when you realize how much time you have spent thinking about an important problem, issue, or question. By nature, you channel your energy toward what you can accomplish in the coming months, years, or decades. Your mind churns out new and inventive ways of reaching your goals. You risk becoming bored and delivering a lackluster performance when you are constantly forced to adhere to a predetermined process, a tried-and- tested procedure, or a traditional method.

You can hear yourself pleading, “But, if we only did it this way, it would be so much better.” It’s very likely that you are baffled — that is, confused or puzzled — by people who have few, if any, clear goals. These individuals serve as constant reminders that poorly defined objectives frequently lead to failure. You are aware of this risk. You concentrate your mental, emotional, and physical energy on reaching your most important goal.

Simply put: You become single-minded — that is, you dedicate yourself to one purpose. Because of your strengths, you can mentally zero in on tasks for hours at a time when you have a goal to reach. When the assignment demands extra time, you would be wise to honor your body’s natural rhythms. In other words, if you are a “morning person,” work in the morning. Work in the afternoon if that is when you hit your stride. Work in the evening if that is when you think better. Work around midnight after everyone has gone to bed if you are someone who usually stays up very late.

Questions

1. As you read your personalized strengths insights, what words, phrases, or lines stand out to you?
2. Out of all the talents in this insight, what would you like for others to see most in you?

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.

Activator

“When can we start?” This is a recurring question in your life. You are impatient for action. You may concede that analysis has its uses or that debate and discussion can occasionally yield some valuable insights, but deep down you know that only action is real. Only action can make things happen. Only action leads to performance. Once a decision is made, you cannot not act. Others may worry that “there are still some things we don’t know,” but this doesn’t seem to slow you.

If the decision has been made to go across town, you know that the fastest way to get there is to go stoplight to stoplight. You are not going to sit around waiting until all the lights have turned green. Besides, in your view, action and thinking are not opposites. In fact, guided by your Activator theme, you believe that action is the best device for learning. You make a decision, you take action, you look at the result, and you learn. This learning informs your next action and your next.

How can you grow if you have nothing to react to? Well, you believe you can’t. You must put yourself out there. You must take the next step. It is the only way to keep your thinking fresh and informed. The bottom line is this: You know you will be judged not by what you say, not by what you think, but by what you get done. This does not frighten you. It pleases you.

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.

Discipline

Your world needs to be predictable. It needs to be ordered and planned. So you instinctively impose structure on your world. You set up routines. You focus on timelines and deadlines. You break long-term projects into a series of specific short-term plans, and you work through each plan diligently. You are not necessarily neat and clean, but you do need precision. Faced with the inherent messiness of life, you want to feel in control. The routines, the timelines, the structure, all of these help create this feeling of control.

Lacking this theme of Discipline, others may sometimes resent your need for order, but there need not be conflict. You must understand that not everyone feels your urge for predictability; they have other ways of getting things done. Likewise, you can help them understand and even appreciate your need for structure.

Your dislike of surprises, your impatience with errors, your routines, and your detail orientation don’t need to be misinterpreted as controlling behaviors that box people in. Rather, these behaviors can be understood as your instinctive method for maintaining your progress and your productivity in the face of life’s many distractions.

Consistency

Balance is important to you. You are keenly aware of the need to treat people the same, no matter what their station in life, so you do not want to see the scales tipped too far in any one person’s favor. In your view this leads to selfishness and individualism. It leads to a world where some people gain an unfair advantage because of their connections or their background or their greasing of the wheels. This is truly

Focus

“Where am I headed?” you ask yourself. You ask this question every day. Guided by this theme of Focus, you need a clear destination. Lacking one, your life and your work can quickly become frustrating. And so each year, each month, and even each week you set goals.

These goals then serve as your compass, helping you determine priorities and make the necessary corrections to get back on course. Your Focus is powerful because it forces you to filter; you instinctively evaluate whether or not a particular action will help you move toward your goal. Those that don’t are ignored. In the end, then, your Focus forces you to be efficient.

Naturally, the flip side of this is that it causes you to become impatient with delays, obstacles, and even tangents, no matter how intriguing they appear to be. This makes you an extremely valuable team member. When others start to wander down other avenues, you bring them back to the main road.

Your Focus reminds everyone that if something is not helping you move toward your destination, then it is not important. And if it is not important, then it is not worth your time. You keep everyone on point.