Session Six

Explore Your PotentialStrengths & Talents

What is my unique contribution when considering my strengths and talents?

Insight

Your personality is about how you are wired, whereas your talents predict in what ways you will win, if you commit to developing these talents into strengths!

What activities have you participated in that feel deeply satisfying and give you a sense of accomplishment? When do you feel most alive? When do you feel successful? When others compliment you, what do they say?

The answers to these questions point to the second puzzle piece of your personal assessment: your personal talent/strength themes.

Introspection

When your family and friends offer you a compliment, what specific sentiments do they share? It is likely that your answer to this question is a great start in identifying your areas of greatest strength.

Instruction

The purpose of StrengthsQuest is to start you on the path to developing your strengths by helping you discover your most dominant talents. Talents, as they are cultivated over time, will often develop into strengths.

The more dominant the talent, the greater the potential for strength. The Clifton Strengths measures the presence of talents in 34 thematic areas. As the top five themes are identified in an individual’s life, this powerful insight will enable each emerging leader to focus their energy on their most dominant talents. The priority is to focus on developing strengths rather than reversing weaknesses. Through the lens of a strengths-based perspective, Phi Kappa Theta brothers are empowered to identify options and create opportunities where their talents can ripen into strengths.

Visit StrengthsQuest

Achiever
Activator
Adaptability
Analytical
Arranger
Belief
Command
Communication
Competition

Connectedness
Consistency
Context
Deliberative
Developer
Discipline
Empathy
Focus
Futuristic

Harmony
Ideation
Includer
Individualization
Input
Intellection
Learner
Maximizer
Positivity

Relator
Responsibility
Restorative
Self-Assurance
Significance
Strategic
Woo

Interaction

Step forward and add your name and five talent/strength themes to the master BBLA chart for your brothers to learn who is in the room.

The Four Domains of Leadership Strength

As significant as the identification of strengths themes in and of themselves, there is also great value in learning which of the four domains of leadership strength (executing, influencing, relationship building, and strategic thinking) hold your five talents/strengths.

Executing

Achiever
Arranger
Belief
Consistency
Deliberative
Discipline
Focus
Responsibility
Restorative

Influencing

Activator
Command
Communiation
Competition
Maximizer
Self-Assurance
Significance
Woo

Relational

Adaptability
Connectedness
Developer
Empathy
Harmony
Includer
Individualization
Positivity
Relator

Strategic

Analytical
Context
Futuristic
Ideation
Input
Intellection
Learner
Strategic

Special thanks to Dr. Donald Clifton for his fantastic contribution to helping human beings better understand themselves!

Introspection

Identify each of your five strengths within the Four Domains of Leadership Strength chart. What does this demonstrate to you about yourself?

Interaction

Share with the large group where each of your five talents land in the four domains. The facilitator will also share his strengths themes, his prominent domains, and field questions from the brothers about the significance of these findings and the StrengthsQuest exercise, in general.

Invitation

Wake Up

...to the reality that your unique you is a combination of both personality and strengths, and that this intersection of temperament and talents is the solid foundation on which to explore your potential.

Rise Up

...and stop comparing yourself to others in hopes of becoming like them. No more wishing that you had these other personality characteristics or those other strengths. Stated again, there is only one of you in the entire world, and your community and chapter would be blessed if you resisted the temptation to be preoccupied with your weaknesses… and instead, leveraged your strengths to serve others.

Step Up

...and focus your best energies on cultivating your innate talents, so that these natural abilities will mature into strengths that can be channeled to maximize your potential in every arena of life.

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