Top 5 Themes Of My Strengths

My friends and co-workers have always told me that I was a “natural born leader” and just when I’ve begun to digest that I now have a “style” to go along with those skills. Finding out ones strengths and weakness is not always the easiest thing to swallow. At my age, I’ve spent years focusing on what I’m not, but now I can see who I am thanks to the Strengths Finder 2.0 and Gallup. (Gallup, 2007).
According to the Gallup survey, my top 5 themes are communication, belief, an includer, woo, and responsibility. All in all, I’d have to say I’m very pleased with all of these and they pretty much describe what I think my strengths are, as well as what my friends, family, and co-workers have stated. It’s great to know these are what I excel

Out of these values emerges a defined purpose for their life. Just in a simple conversation with you, Liz, and your sharing with the class my continuing education goals, I exhibited the belief talent in that I have a defined purpose for my life. I know where I am going and I am determined to get there. As an individual I am one that refuses to live a meaningless existence. I know what I want to do, and I love what I am doing. My education and my nursing degree are more than just a paycheck or a means to an end. My being a nurse, helping bring precious lives into this world, and being a support to help those parents cope with loss when tragedy occurs, is what compels me to be the person I am. Communication is key in being a great nurse leader. Without communication how can anything, anyone, or any situation be a successful one in the scope of

Obviously the Gallup survey that’s who! Wooers are people who are especially talented in the Woo theme, love the challenge of meeting new people and winning them over. They derive satisfaction from breaking the ice and making a connection with another person. As my husband puts it “honey, you can make friends anywhere and with anyone. It’s truly amazing”. Big thanks to my husband for being able to recognize the obvious and now, I can educate him that it is indeed a “gift” and it is called woo, winning others over. Again I can go back to the fact mentioned earlier that I have never met a stranger, and rightly so. According to Gallup, 2007, strangers can be energizing to wooers, I am drawn to them. I want to know their names, ask them questions, and I always find a way to strike up a conversation. Doing so builds a rapport. There is not a day that goes by that I don’t do this at work, and of course I did this at my senior practicum clinical. When I walk into a patient’s room with their new baby, I am not their delivery service, I am their momentary caregiver for their child. “Knock, knock, it’s Ellen and I’m bringing back Ethan. What a great name, so where’d you get the name? Is this your first baby? Oh hi Dad! How are you? Getting any sleep”? I do this all night, every shift, and by the end of the shift, I have friends and an overabundance of them. The love calling me asking for things, they bring me cupcakes to my desk, they