What's your fit?

Let's be brief this week.

After postponing your proposals for, well, the undetermined "near future" perhaps we can use this time/space for evaluation of the current proposal you all created.

 1. Let's get back to basics. 



Post your Top 5 Strengths from the Strengths Assessment you took last Spring Quarter.

Choose and describe one strength that you used really well last quarter in the challenge.





Then answer the following questions:

a. Why did you choose this strength and not any of your other four?

b. How did you use that strength?

c. What was the environment?

d. How do you know you 'used it well'?

e. How did using it impact your team?

2. Now stop and think:
what skills (not defined by Strengths) do you have which are unique to you?

You're thinking...

...Maybe it would be helpful to make a list.

Done?

Okay.

a. Pick your Top Three (3) skills, and list them out. (If they're ambiguous, please provide some context of situations in which you express them well.)

b. From those three (3), choose at least one (1) which you would like to use in this 'conference' challenge. What can you do, and what can others do to help you exercise this skill? You don't have to have any set idea at this point on specifically how it can be used, but be sure to provide suggestions on what scenarios, environments, etc would allow it to be used. 

3. Feedback. 
Remember the first 1:1 you had with Eddie and me? One of my questions regarded how you prefer to receive feedback.

If you don't remember, it's okay :) Here's how I probably described it:

"Imagine a feedback continuum. On one end, we have individuals who prefer to receive feedback very bluntly and without any feel-good, sugar-coating. On the other end, we have individuals who need some positive reinforcement with constructive feedback and some suggestions for how to improve the behavior in the future."

Remember that?

Where do you fall on that continuum?  Please describe where you fall, and include an illustration of your preference, if you find it beneficial :)

That's all for now.

Until next time:

Blog responsibly, my Fellows.