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Top Five Signature Themes of Talent

            After completing the Clifton Strengths Finder Assessment, I learned that my top five strengths are developer, learner, achiever, harmony, and belief. As a developer, I see the potential in everyone and want to help others to become successful while also challenging them so that they can learn and grow. As a learner, I constantly want to learn new things, especially about subjects that draw my attention. The more I learn, the more my confidence in myself grows. As an achiever, I am productive and must accomplish my daily goals or I feel dissatisfied with myself. Being an achiever helps me face any challenges that come my way and gives me the drive to keep going. As a harmonist, I prefer to avoid conflict and keep my personal views and beliefs to myself and feel that others should too. When there is a disagreement, I try to find common ground so that everyone can get along and have productive conversations. As a believer, I am very family-oriented, dependable, and trustful, and I value responsibility and ethics, in my personal and work life.

Two Core Values

            To be an effective leader, it is important that you are aware of your core values and strive to be an authentic leader. Authentic leadership has four main principles: “balanced processing, relational transparency, internalized moral perspective, and self-awareness” (James et al., 2021, p. 2). Authentic leadership can promote a positive work environment and improve patient care. The two core values that are the most important to me are being a developer and an achiever. As a developer, I always see the potential in my coworkers and those in my personal life. If I see someone struggling at work, I try my best to help so that they can learn and be successful. I find satisfaction in watching others grow and improve and I like that my coworkers feel comfortable coming to me when they need encouragement or guidance. As an achiever, I always want to perform to the best of my ability. Each day at work, I set goals for myself, and if I do not reach every goal, I feel a sense of dissatisfaction with myself. Being an achiever helps me to be more productive and keeps me going even when I am tired or feeling burnt out.  

Two Strengths

            My top two strengths are developer and a believer. I am currently in a unit manager position, and I believe it is important to give others the tools and guidance that they need to be successful because I believe everyone has potential. I try to be a support person and mentor to staff, especially those that work on my unit, so they know that they can come to me for help and for words of encouragement when needed (Brunt & Bogdan, 2021). I feel my other value, belief, explains me so accurately. I am very family-oriented, strive for success, feel a sense of meaning and satisfaction in my life, and value responsibility and ethics in myself and others. Because of this core value, I feel that my team members feel that they can trust me and that I am dependable.

Two Weaknesses

            I believe two areas that I could improve upon would be the core values of activator and command. I struggle as an activator in my personal life because I oftentimes lack the energy or motivation that is needed to get things done. I have not always been this way, but recently feel that I sometimes push things off until the last minute possible. I think establishing a good routine and sticking to it and setting personal goals for myself will help me to become a better activator. I struggle with command in my work life because I do not like to come off as bossy, confrontational, or insensitive, however, there are many situations where I must take control and make difficult decisions (Lead Through Strengths, 2021). I believe because my core values include belief and harmony, that it makes the value of command difficult for me.

References

Brunt, B. A., & Bogdan, B. A. (2021, September 8). Nursing professional development leadership. StatPearls [Internet]. Retrieved March 29, 2022, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519064/

Gallup. (2022, March 28). Gallup.com. Your Signature Themes. Retrieved March 29, 2022, from 

James, A. H., Bennett, C. L., Blanchard, D., & Stanley, D. (2021). Nursing and values‐based leadership: A literature review. Journal of Nursing Management, 29(5), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.13273

Lead Through Strengths. (2021, April 26). Cliftonstrengths command – strengthsfinder 2.0 talent themes. Lead Through Strengths – StrengthsFinder. Retrieved March 29, 2022, from https://leadthroughstrengths.com/command/