Maegan's Post 1

Based on the Strengthquest assessment, my top five strengths are input, intellection, learner, strategic, and achiever. When I found out that four out of my five top strengths fell under the category of strategic-thinking, I was not surprised because I consider myself to be a very critical thinker. I think that having the majority of my strengths in a single category presents both strengths and weaknesses. For example, I think that I will be able to bring many new and innovative thought processes to the table, both in my board experience and in other aspects of life. In addition, my strength as an achiever signifies that the ideas that I present will likely be pushed for implementation. At the same time, having all of my strengths centered around idea formation leaves the potential to become dissociated from the people for which my ideas are targeted toward and can possibly lead to over analysis. For example, I wonder if my strengths would actually be strengthened if they were more spread out and incorporated things like empathy or connectedness.

I see all of my strengths contributing greatly to my board immersion experience. I hope that my strength in input will allow me to combine ideas ands and factors to present new strategies to the board with confidence. I hope that my ability to learn as well as to intellectualize problems will enable me to absorb the information that other board members share with me and apply it to knowledge that I have obtained from the classroom and other services experiences.  I hope that these two strengths will work with my third strength, strategy, to develop ideas and projects. Finally, I hope that my strength as an achiever will enable me to actualize the proposed project in some meaningful and effective way as well as maximize my learning experience. The strengths that I expect to apply the most are probably learning and strategy, simply because those are the ones that I notice most regularly. However, I would like to bring out my strength as an achiever through the board immersion program.

I am still curious to know the order of the rest of my strengths, because I think that it is equally valuable, for the board immersion program as well as other areas, to understand where my weaknesses lie.