This book review is on Strengths Finder 2.0. Written by Tom Rath, this book follows and elaborates on Donald Clifton's Strength Finder assessment created in 1998. Strength Finder 2.0 looks to dispel the outdated belief that only weaknesses need to be improved upon. The textbook Psychology Applied to Work describes this concept as positive psychology, "The aim of positive psychology is to shift the emphasis away from what is wrong with people to what is right with people" (Muchinsky & Culberson, pg. 384, 2016). With that premise on its head, Strengths Finder 2.0 looks to first identify the strengths of others and directs them to improve on what they already do so well. Even though the text can be applied practically, the book really focuses…
Strengths give a company a competitive edge by using the company’s resources to meet the needs of the company. Strength is the potential for funding by state, local, and federal funding. The company can develop a program for the children which will also helped the community and improve the lives of the children.…
Key points Strengths-based approaches value the capacity, skills, knowledge, connections and potential in individuals and communities. Focusing on strengths does not mean ignoring challenges, or spinning struggles into strengths. Practitioners working in this way have to work in collaboration - helping people to do things for themselves. In this way, people can become co-producers of support, not passive consumers of support. The evidence for strengths-based approaches is difficult to synthesise because of the different populations and…
Mad Men's Don Draper is exceptionally good at saving a deal gone sour. When a client dislikes an ad campaign, he can weave the perfect tale to change their minds. His storytelling ability is a gift that no one else at his agency has. To become a successful business leader, identify your own strengths and talents and foster them.…
The Strengths Finder is an assessment that measures your real talents. Knowing your best skills and investing time on practicing and developing those talents are the two main ingredients to building and improve your true strengths and shape your performance to perfection. As a result of taking the assessment, the final comprehensive and very practical report shows what are the best five talent themes, or “strengths”, which are identified out of 34 specific themes. The result also includes explanation and association of your themes, gives you recommendations on how to benefit from them and suggest an action plan for setting and achieving your goals. This allows you to recognize and appreciate each of your own strengths as well as those of your team members, employees, employers, and others in your work settings. The author Tom Rath includes strengths finding interviews with succeed people and how they use their strengths in their benefit. This makes the report more vivid and most of the time the reader can see himself or herself in the same or similar situation in life.…
Strength is a good or beneficial quality or attribute of a person or thing.When I took my Strengths Finder quiz, I got the strengths: deliberative, futuristic, relator, belief and context. These Strengths can be applied to my education in college and in my future career as a marriage and family therapist.…
As a writer, there are things that I do well, but there are also things I could improve on to make my writing better. I’m pretty good at getting my point across, and getting people to understand what I’m trying to say. Another thing I’m good at is just writing the paper. Once I get started on a paper it is very easy for me to just keep writing until I’m done with it. However, when doing this I tend to not use the best grammar and be too wordy with my writing. I can definitely fix these issues, and continue to build on the things that I do well.…
Strength based assessment is a tool that focuses on people 's strengths rather than their problems, with an aim to move away from categorising the person as the problem and to focus on their strengths and resilience by empowering the client to be the problem solver. It is important for the worker to assist in recognising, organising and enhancing existing strengths and resources. The worker needs to be optimistic about what people can achieve by focussing on the capacities of individuals to be resourceful in different situations. Dennis Saleebey states (Saleebey, 2002) I firmly believe that once committed you will be surprised even amazed, at the array of talents, skills, knowledge, and resources that you discover…
I was a late hire and was faced with some challenges adjusting to the new position being that my training was taking place at an expedited pace. It was at this time that I learned about StrengthsQuest. After taking StrengthsQuest I learned that my strengths, in order, include: Developer, Achiever, Input, Intellection, Individualization.…
Personal strength is more than just a physical word. It is a word of high stature and can only be defined by searching deep with in ones' self. All too often we do not think about our personal strength until a situation arises that causes us to use this natural attribute. We have all had situations in our live such as the loss of a loved one, which have tested our personal strengths. Personal strengths are only defined by incidents, or knowledge of incidents that surround our lives.…
After reviewing my strengths quest, I realized which described me as belief, learner, focus, responsibility and consistency person. Before I came to the United States, I’ve been terrified and has a lots of different experience due to poor living status. In Burma, as a third grade student, I had a dream that becoming a nurse badly when I grew up. Therefore, I always study hard and try the best as I can at school. Also, I believed, if I keep study hard, there is nothing that impossible, and knew that God also will grand me what I wanted to be in the future.…
I find writing a very neutral subject because I am not terrible nor excellent at it. I have always written enough for it to be satisfactory. Therefore, I believe that one of my strengths as a writer is being able to understand what I have to write about and knowing what I want to say. I question myself every step of the way, asking myself “ Is what I am writing, answering the topic that I am addressing?” However, with that said, I believe that my weakness lies in that fact that I cannot put my thoughts into words. I have a vast amount of ideas that never get a chance to come alive on paper. I feel that I am not very good at transitions and sentence structures. Another weakness is that it takes me an awful long…
This paper is a comprehensive self-evaluation, which integrates outcomes from many of the exercises and assessments you have completed in this course. It should be typed, double-spaced, in 12 pt. type, with 1” margins, and 7-10 pages long. Your paper should address the following issues:…
My three key strengths are communicating and working well with the public and in a team, taking control of situations and always being open to give my opinion and performing. The career I’d like to pursue would be to educate specific audiences through theatre, I believe that my key strengths will help my get to my goal. I show my key strengths in everyday life whether it be at work, at home or at university, an example of when I used my key strengths would be in college during Black History Month, I wanted to express my passion for this so I organised a group of people to perform and short piece on Black History relating to today’s issues. I advertised, directed and performed in this to show to my college with help from a few other students.…
Strengths will determine the traits of a business or people that give it an advantage over others. This can also identify what the business is good at doing. For example, a business may have a retailer in every town in the country as a result the business will be offering a good service and therefore the reputation of the business and the quality of product or products made will increase as a result this will increase the profit earned by the business and customers that visit the business will increase. In Joe’s case, he is trustworthy therefore he will be easily trusted by his co-workers in a sense that his co-workers may ask him to cover shifts for them and they would know Joe would be able to do it.…