The Importance Of Personal Strengths

A talent is the innate ability to perform a specific task without any prior practice, while a strength is the integration of talent with knowledge, skill, and experience to allow an individual to consistently complete a task near perfect. Personally, my strengths (competition, achiever, analytical, focus and context) have guided me to become the person I am today, and I am not surprised with my ‘top five’ strengths. When utilized correctly, my strengths intermingle perfectly and play off of each other. For example, competition, achiever, and focus explain why I have the ability to set goals and achieve them, while analytical and context explain why I have the desire answers and how I look for them. Altogether, these five strengths impact me

For example, during my second semester of my senior year I set a goal, qualify for the National Leadership Conference (NLC) for Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA). Each one of these three strengths played a significant part in my ability to achieve the goal. Focus enabled me to set a three-month schedule that consisted of deadlines for which I needed to have my key concepts completed. This played into my achiever strength; due to the fact that I had set the schedule, I had a clear accomplishment that needed to be reached. Last, I utilized my competition strength in my preparation for the test. Knowing that there were other competent individuals competing in the same event, I studied with the end goal in mind, of which was to win the event. Additionally, in the future I can use this same process to set goals specific to the IOWA Challenge, and as long as I have specific goals set I am confident in my ability to achieve them. For example, I set the goal of attaining a 4.0 GPA my first semester. This goal is aimed towards the excel part of the IOWA Challenge which calls for academic excellence. As shown, these three strengths play off of each other each enabling me to do a specific action but they all mold together to enable me to

First, the analytical strength explains why I base most of my decisions off of data. I prefer data because it is unbiased and has no specific agenda. Knowing this, I decided to complete the choose aspect of the IOWA Challenge by joining HawkTrade, a finance club on campus. This club best suits me because I will be able to utilize my analytical strength through researching stock data to form opinions on those stocks. Additionally, I will utilize the context strength because I will be required to analyze the past to make informed decisions about the past. On the other hand, I have used these two strengths in the past when leading a team. For example, I was the leader of a team for Future Business Leaders of America and the group was responsible for creating a station that taught money management to elementary students. As leader of the group, I challenged team members not to be complacent rather to search for ways to improve our station. In doing so, I prompted members of the team to analyze our booths performance in the past; therefore, members’ were required to look at the past and analyze it in order to make changes for the future. Altogether, the analytical and context strengths explain how I decided to make