Unit Four Leadership Assessment

Student Name

Strength Finder

Instructor Name

Month DD, 2014

Table of Contents

Learner 2

Individualization 3

Harmony 4

Futuristic 4

Focus 4

Strength Finder

The Strength Based Leadership assessment was designed to help define the strength in order to place people in position where they can thrive based on their leadership strengths in the four domains of leadership strength such as Executing, Influencing, Relationship Building, and Strategic Thinking (Rath & Conchie, 2008). While reading the assignments for this unit, I developed ideas of what my strengths may be prior to taking the Strength Based Leadership assessment. The assessment to determine my personal leadership strengths ended much as I suspected, and my five strengths are learner, individualization, harmony, futuristic, focus.

Learner

Learner is described as an individual who weigh all the facts in which something occurred by using knowledge acquired from reading, classes, seminars or conversations. The passion for education in several different areas is what sets this type of leadership strength apart from most. For the Learner, being left without the knowledge of a situation can be quite frustrating as this individual thrives on learning something new or gaining new skills in the current specialization field. Analyzing a topic or a situation is a great job for the learner as this individual will keep researching until the answer is found (Rath & Conchie, 2008).

As a Learner I enjoy reading, listening or hands on experience in my current occupation or a prospective career. The yearning for knowledge has been part of my life since I was in grade school. Reading has not always come easy for me, I did not learn to read until entering the fourth grade. Looking back as an adult, I believe I had an undiagnosed learning obstacle. I realized with the correct lighting or the use of an overlay on bright white paper seemed to help the words stay on the...