Five Greatest Strengths

After completion of the Strength Finders survey, I found that my five greatest strengths are Harmony, Context, Realtor, Individualization, and Futuristic. I read the description of each strengths and talked to several people about the strengths. Harmony is my greatest talent. Harmony is described as someone who does not like confrontation and looks to work together as team to accomplish a task or goal (Clifton, Anderson, Schreiner, 2006). As a former supervisor of 12 years at an Emergency Medical Service (EMS) agency, the description of Harmony described my management style. I am not a manager that looks for confrontation with my employees. Listening to my employees talk about ideas for improvements for the EMS agency was an important goal. The employee that complained and stated how they were able to the job better always concerned me. The confrontational employee needed to be heard and then redirected in their process that did not upset other employees. Best description of my style of management, “We are all in the same boat, and we need this boat to get to where we are going” (Clifton, Anderson, Schreiner, 2006, p.50). …show more content…
The talent of Context shows that I do look to the past for answers in the present (Clifton, Anderson, Schreiner, 2006). The talent of Relator demonstrates that I do form few close friendships with people after sharing ideas and feelings to create a strong trust with one another (Clifton, Anderson, Schreiner, 2006). The talent of Individualization demonstrates that I can see people have different talents that can be brought together to accomplish a task (Clifton, Anderson, Schreiner, 2006). The talent of Futuristic demonstrates my ability to be enthusiastic, see away, and achieve a task or goal that improves my organization in the future (Clifton, Anderson, Schreiner,