Personal Strengths Improvement Identification and Improvement of

¶ … Personal Strengths improvement Identification and Improvement of Strengths from High Performance to Excellence for Life Skills The analysis of the quote by speaker and author Peter Drucker, "One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence," (Drucker 1999) requires deep personal self-reflection.

The influence of self-assessment on improvement and eventual success is not a static single event, but as the article discusses, is a continuous process of feedback and critical internal evaluation. Self-assessment and feedback is applied to understanding the talents for an individual, "A" in a case study written as a semi-impartial observer with critical feedback and analysis. Evaluations of decisions and outcomes help to confirm those talents and direct the improvement toward strengths and eventual success in college courses and eventual career performance.

Talent Evaluation, Case Study "A" Student "A" is enrolled in information management systems courses at INSERT COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY NAME HERE and will graduate with a degree in INSERT STUDY INFORMATION HERE in INSERT DATE HERE. Preparation for graduation and a career within a traditional academic program has built a strong knowledge and skills base for "A." Through formal and informal education, "A" has learned a broad base of specific information including math, science, literature, writing and communication, and humanities including sociology, history, and psychology.

In addition, "A" has held non-career jobs that allow performance measurements in tangible areas such as customer service, supervisor-employee interactions, time management, and completion of tasks to the specifications of "A's" employer. The base of knowledge and skills for "A" should now form the underpinnings of support for her talents and eventual strengths. 1) Review Gallup's Strength's information and determine "A" s top 5 strengths? "A" has reviewed the literature and information associated with Gallup's strengths finder and Strengthsquest.

Although she has not formally taken the examination through Tom Rath's Strength's Finder 2.0, (Rath 2007) she was able to make a reasonable evaluation of her core strengths: A) Activator-"A" Characterizes herself as a person who makes things happen.

She prefers not to discuss general thoughts and high level concepts but to develop a plan and act on that plan Her typical and most comfortable focus when faced with a problem is to list her resources and potential outcomes then immediately form an action plan and move forward in a stepwise fashion. Her problem solving is often routine and methodical but the tasks are always accomplished and she finds satisfaction with checking off each individual task.

Along with this strength, she is often impatient and rather inflexible about outside of the box thinking toward projects and problem solving. B) Arranger-"A" gains satisfaction.