As a leader knowing your strengths and your employees will help increase productivity, improve patient and family satisfaction and employee morale through an enhances understanding of how to work together successfully and respectfully. Since each individuals strengths vary, it is ideal to pair them up as they will each bring something different to the table.
As an employee it is also important to know your strengths. You can learn a lot from others and be a inspiration to others as well. Each individual will approach things based on their strengths and it is a good idea to be aware of others strength around you.
3 reasons why you should know your strengths
- Saves time
- Enhances self confidence
- Allows for further growth
I think being aware of our individual strengths will help us stand out in an interview, especially if we can give examples of how we use our specific strengths. I needed to work on my list of strengths, so after attending a discussion at the Denford Center at the University of Minnesota with director Dr. Dan Pesut, I went home and complete a FREE online strengths assessment. I went to strength insight to complete the assessment. After completing the questions it gave me a list of my top 3 strengths, my middle strengths, and my least valued strengths.
The description of my strengths was:
You are in control of your thoughts, actions, and emotions.
Taking unnecessary risks in life does not appeal to you.
When making decisions you carefully analyze how those choices will affect you.
You are not prone to outbursts or erratic behavior; you take care not to say or do something that you may regret at a later time.
People respect and trust the decisions and choices that you make.
Rash decisions often have poor results.
Practicing prudence ensures that you have carefully examined the potential outcomes of your actions. This trait is often possessed by people that are known for being very balanced.
I found this assessment to pretty accurate and extremely helpful. It helps focus your strengths and explains how to apply them. I encourage you to go to this website and answer the questions.
StrengthsInsight. (2012). Discover your strengths. Retrieved from http://strengthsinsight.com/?gclid=COSryYHxqrUCFe9aMgodFVAAVA
Knowing your strengths absolutely helps gain confidence. I am currently brainstorming a list of my strengths, being that I graduate in just a few months and will be job searching in the near future. Knowing your strenghts will help in job interviews. It is also important to know, because you can utilize the strengths that you already have to become a exceptional leader. It will also help you learn your weaknesses and improve in those areas.
ReplyDeleteI really love this website. I think my results were very accurate. I believe this website can help us in our interviewing process. It believe knowing these really helps gain confidence especially in the strengths that show up as the three most valued strengths.
ReplyDeleteThese are my results:
My three most valued strengths are:
Relating
Teamwork
Gratitude
"You show a great sense of empathy to people around you. Relationships are very important to you, and you put in a great effort to foster the relationships with those that are close to you. People appreciate your caring nature - you make others feel very comfortable when they are around you. When someone has a problem or concern they know that they can turn to you for support. You value friends and family, and you always make time for them."
I also was really liking the videos they had of each strength!
Great post Jamie. I highly suggest others to find out their strengths as well!!