For today, just read and review the DFQ comments left by other leadership trainees for the past week.
DFQ #11: Read and review these DFQ comments for Lessons 6 to 10:
DFQ#06 – http://www.schoolofthinking.org/about/training/10-dfq/l-mhg-06-what-are-your-strengths/>
DFQ#07 – http://www.schoolofthinking.org/about/training/10-dfq/l-mhg-07-tell-us-a-story/
DFQ#08 – http://www.schoolofthinking.org/about/training/10-dfq/l-mhg-07-tell-us-another-story/
DFQ#09 – http://www.schoolofthinking.org/about/training/10-dfq/l-mhg-09-build-on-your-strength/
DFQ#10 – http://www.schoolofthinking.org/about/training/10-dfq/l-mhg-10-build-on-another-strength/
This format for measuring strengths was indeed surprising. I some difficulty in separating them and seem connected threads. As I look back, citizenship which topped my list, parrallels with the community service, service to others which is sometimes my default position. Another introspective thought is that these strengths are heads that carry tails. Is a love for learning a proactive device or is it driven by a belief that I need to remove ignorance?
It would be interesting to see how these strengths reflect in my lifes timeline.
What is the most vauable things from the week’s training on “strengths”:
1. turning attention to my “strenghts” and “weaknesses”
2. productive questions about them
3. confirmation that every person is unique and inimitable one
I learnt that if I notice my strengths and apply them, i.e. take advantage of them, I can become more successful. I also learnt that I can improve existing strengths and gain new strengths by using simple techniques learnt in this course.
Reading about how others apply and use their strengths. Learning from the diversity of everyones experiences has expanded my thinking.
The ability to laugh at my own expense and experiences has enabled me to see the humourours side of life. It seems that we cannot always be all ‘doom and gloom’ otherwise, just like the boy who cried wolf, people will just stop believing.
I know now that I need to find a perfect balance between the person that I am and the person that people believe and/or perceive me to be. I wish to be taken seriously, but because of all my jokes and icebreakers, people have a tendency to perceive that I am this optimistic fun guy who is really outgoing and probably have no sense of seriousness at all, however, those who really know me, those closest to me, know exactly how much of a pessimist I am and how serious I can get and how short my patience can be.
The lessons last week enabled me to think a lot more clearly about myself, my strengths and my boundaries and also shined light upon my weaknesses and things in which I need to improve upon.
So much self-reflection cannot be good for you can it? Why do we care so much about what others think about ourselves? It’s unfortunate, but everyone is guilty of it, no matter whether they say otherwise.
Remind myself of my key strengths.
Concentrate on my strengths to improve how I use them to my advantage.
Use SOT techniques to think about ways to capitalize on my strengths.
that strengths are like mussels. you always have them however the more you use them and the more developed they become the more powerful and useful they are
By far, the most interesting thing which I received from this week’s training on strengths was the ability to single out a few key abilities of mine and hone in on them for the purpose of becoming as productive as possible.
Clarifying what my strengths are and the idea that it is more effective to build on strengths then focusing on fixing weaknesses.
the most interesting thing that i got from last weeks training is that in order to build on my strenghts on an ongoing basis i need to keep reminding myself of them when in challenging situations and putting the into practice.