Using My Strengths

In my second six weeks of senior year, I have worked on assignments within my extracurricular activities, including Red Jackets, which is a group of 32 senior students that are chosen each year as the "face" of Coppell High School. In our monthly meeting in October, we used the book "Strengths Based Leadership" to which strengths we all possess. Specifically, we took one of the most well-known personality tests online, called Strengths-finder where we each went through a series of multiple questions evaluating our personality types and how we favored certain things or not. At the end, it evaluates your answers and presents you with the top 5 strengths you have. Not completely shocked, my top 5 strengths were Achiever, Discipline, Strategic, Developer, and Responsibility. Although some of these were not a surprise, some of them did come as a shock. In addition to finding these out, we worked all day on understanding our strengths, where and how we use them, how they are beneficial and sometimes also work against us, and most importantly, how to work together and compare our strengths to those of others. It was an assignment I had never done before but thought was very interesting and cool to figure out, since most of the time we, as people, focus primarily on our weaknesses. We then took it a step further and developed a mission statement for our lives that entailed using our strengths. Below I have attached the definitions of my strengths and my mission statement. I encourage everyone to take the test at strengths.gallup.com to uncover the traits they may not have ever realized they had.

Strengths Based Leadership