Strengths
We have our semi-annual team meetings approaching for my department and this time around one of the sessions we're doing is being lead by our VP of Org Dev and revolves around identifying our strengths as individuals and as a team.
To further this exercise, we've all been given a copy of a book called "StrengthsFinder 2.0" and directed to do the assessment that you get a code for with the book. The assessment is a set of paired statements that you are directed to select which more closely applies to yourself. You get 20 seconds per pairing, so obviously they want gut reaction.
I did the assessment yesterday morning, sent off the report to the event coordinator and then didn't really think about it until last night when I pulled it up to look at the strengths I was assessed as having.
Every one of them points to one conclusion - my strength is that I'm a nerd.
Collecting information, communicating information, fascination with ideas, exercising intellect, learning new things...
Granted, it's not like I didn't know these things. Of course, thanks to those very traits, I'm now curious enough to read what the book has to say about leveraging those elements. I'm also a bit nervous about how they're going to play into the team meetings - after all, none of those is exactly "driven", "organized" or "inclined to advancement"...
To further this exercise, we've all been given a copy of a book called "StrengthsFinder 2.0" and directed to do the assessment that you get a code for with the book. The assessment is a set of paired statements that you are directed to select which more closely applies to yourself. You get 20 seconds per pairing, so obviously they want gut reaction.
I did the assessment yesterday morning, sent off the report to the event coordinator and then didn't really think about it until last night when I pulled it up to look at the strengths I was assessed as having.
Every one of them points to one conclusion - my strength is that I'm a nerd.
Collecting information, communicating information, fascination with ideas, exercising intellect, learning new things...
Granted, it's not like I didn't know these things. Of course, thanks to those very traits, I'm now curious enough to read what the book has to say about leveraging those elements. I'm also a bit nervous about how they're going to play into the team meetings - after all, none of those is exactly "driven", "organized" or "inclined to advancement"...