PL 101: The Big 5 (Discussion 3)
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Hello Leadership Crew!
I am having a blast with you all. This leadership program is a lot of fun and Im glad we are doing it. I think itll help across many fronts. Shout out to @aleks2 and @quietmagic for their help looking at the first batch of results on our leadership composition. ÃÂ
Here is a summary:
Here is a summary from @quietmagic on what our collective - all of us together - strengths and weaknesses might be:
Leadership Crew Strengths:
Altruism/motivation: Having a deep passion for helping people that drives all we do and creates a feeling of purpose and meaning
Idealism: Having inspiring dreams and visions of just how unbelievably powerful and beneficial this site can be: imagining all of the good we might be able to create, all of the suffering we might be able to help heal
Kindness: Being able to create a kind, cooperative, culture that is gentle and considerate with people's feelings
Compassion: Being able to understand, connect with, and feel an urgency to resolve the needs, concerns, or problems of the people that we serve
Relationship: Feeling a yearning for deep, meaningful connections with others, creating a community where people are able to be authentic and feel a sense of belongingness
Leadership Crew Weaknesses
Practical implementation: Developing and optimizing systems, managing the fine details for concretely achieving our broad goals
Risk-taking: Being willing to take risks or make drastic changes to existing systems/practices where needed
The above analysis feels/seems right to me. This new leadership program in fact can be seen as one way that we are attempting to address a growth area by optimizing our leadership systems! And, zooming back, if there was going to be a team of people that was going to try to pull off the impossible (a free emotional support system), then I think itd be with the leadership composition described above under strengths. Itll take a lot of optimism and kindness to make this a reality!
Okay, lets transition to the next exercise and discussion.
Begin by taking the Big 5 test and answering the following questions. You can also read more on the Big 5 here ÃÂ and below.
1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?
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@GlenM
I learned that I’m not particularly social or introverted and I think that depends of who I am speaking in that moment, that I remain calm even during tense situations which is true, is really interesting to see all of that.
My strengths would be a open minded person, open to new experiences and be supportive.
Those things are really helpful to apply in my daily life because it helps me to do a better job. And this also can apply to a leadership role.
@GlenM
1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
I learned that I tend to be more nervous/high strung.
2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
My top three strengths are open-mindedness, extraversion, and conscientious.
3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
I think these strengths can help me best in my personal life when it comes to meeting other people and getting to know them.
4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?
These strengths such as extraversion and being open-minded can help me in a leadership role on 7 Cups with talking to and helping other members/listeners and in my career as well when I work with others.
@GlenM
1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
Ans: i don't like long tests .
2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
1. Open-minded
2. Extraversion
3. Agreeable
3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
Ans: gonna stop negativity thinking about myself.
4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?
Ans: I'm more agreeable on 7cups but in reality I'm not ! I tend to be more kind here than in reality. Many personalities in myself.
@GlenM
1. I learned that I was both talkative and shy
2. My strengths are that I am well organized, open minded, and friendly.
3. Being organized can help prevent stress in work.
4. Being open minded is useful in a leadership role because I can understand different things and people. Also being organized means I have things under control.
@GlenM
1. I am conventional and enjoy quiet time alone
2. Reserved, sympathetic and critical
3. They can help me to interact better with peers and non peers
4. In 7 cups, It can help me to be organized, opened minded to help people.
Hello everyone,
1. One main thing that I learned about myself was that I was neither organized or disorganized.
2. Some strengths that I have according to the test are that I am a very relaxed person, very outgoing & really supported.
3. After completing both tests I can say that I am a very strong person with a lot to offer others & I can handle any situation that life brings me.
4. I believe that you have to be a strong person & have something to offer others in a leadership role. I also believe that you have to have a purpose, you could even say that doing these activities reinstates my purpose.
@GlenM
1. The main things I learned about myself that Im independent, creative, sensitive, emotional and sympatheic
2. The top 3 strengths of mine are Open minded, good natured and fun loving
3. It can help be to identify in my personal life by acknowledging from social circle of ours and accepting my mistake and learn to grow.
4. being Self-awareness, Situational awareness, Excellent communication skills, Effective negotiation skills, Conflict resolution skills and Delegation can help me strengths my indentity for leadership in 7cups
@GlenM Thanks
@claj333
I'm open to new experiences, well organised and relaxed
This should help to get on with people and achieve great things in my personal life and on the site
@GlenM
What were the main things you learned about yourself?
It confirmed my suspicion: I'm neither introverted or extroverted, I'm somewhere in the middle. Another thing is, I do tend to be very skeptical of people. One thing that I wasn't aware of before is that I'm somewhat conservative. It's good to know all of these new details about myself.
What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
That I'm dependable, achievement oriented, and orderly.
How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
I've been feeling the benefits of my strengths even when I wasn't aware of these tests to begin with. One thing I know is I'm very structured and can't stand it when things are out of order. I'm big on planning things out and so far it's helped me stay accountable.
How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?
I'm efficient, a goal setter, and tend to simplify an existing system to maximise its results with less effort. I'm a believer of working smarter, not harder. So I think one of the things that would be deemed helpful in this case is the fact that I love structure and implementations. I both plan and execute—these are my biggest strengths.
@GlenM
What were the main things you learned about yourself?
I learned that I am almost exactly the OCEAN model except that I am missing the N. I learnt that I am open to new experiences, conscientious, an introverted extravert, agreeable and not very nervous or high strung and instead very calm/relaxed. I think it runs very true to who I am.
What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
My biggest strengths are that I am open minded to different ways of seeing the world, making me more understanding.
I am well organised and reliable, thus making me very dependable.
I am good natured, and supporting which is very necessary in 7cups!
How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
Being open minded, conscientious and agreeable helps me not only to have friends who enjoy my company but to be a good friend to others, being open minded about their situations and supportive in tough times.
How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?
In 7cups, it is very important to be open minded. Many situations are very unusual and to truly understand, it requires a sense of being open minded. Also, being conscientious and agreeable means that in the case I as a listener, can be dependable when they need me and supportive always.
