Personal Narrative: Strengths Of Leadership

Throughout my adolescence and teenage years I would come across multiple opportunities to demonstrate a position of leadership, but I would be discouraged to do so. The reason for this is because during those years of my life I was fixated on other people’s strengths and less of mine own. Which influenced me to believe that I was neither a contributor nor a leader, so to speak. Triumphantly, this mindset of mine changed as I entered college and discovered a whole new identity of my self. This paper will discuss some of the strengths and behaviors that I possess, as well as interjecting the feedback from others in the survey process.
My Top 5 Strengths: Strengths Based Leadership (SBL) Assessment Based off the SBL assessment, my top five Clifton StrengthsFinder themes are: Discipline, Focus, Input, Activator, and Learner. Most of these themes I’m definitely not surprised of, and for the others I would have never guessed. For example, discipline is something that I learned growing-up. According to Rath and Conchie (2008), it’s very likely that I’d established a …show more content…
It’s likely that I’m comfortable with saying “I am a fine educator”, and conversing with others in my field about ideas, or concepts to gather the latest thinking (Rath & Conshie, 2008). I do in fact do this because I enjoy hearing the ideas of others and interjecting my own input to create more ideas. Also, I prefer talking with individuals who instantly grasp the meaning of my sophisticated words (Rath & Conshie, 2008). It’s because those individuals, who understand my vocabulary, are the same individuals who taught me how to talk out loud and theoretically. This strength allows me to insert intricate words into my everyday, academic, and professional conversations and writings. I find it powerful and insightful to have the ability to speak intellectually because it draws people to think more outside of the