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PL 101: The Big 5 (Discussion 3)

GlenM June 29th, 2020

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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:

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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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FrostyMonkey September 20th, 2020

1. i'm very messy and introverted and probably need to control my emotions better

2. I'm quite open minded, like personal one on one relationships, and i am a bit assertive

3. that I can think of creative solutions and be assertive

4. I can come up with new or better solutions to a given problem and be supportive of others

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Asher October 26th, 2020

@FrostyMonkey

Do you think being messy is helpful with coming up with ideas out of no where?

blitheEmbrace27 October 29th, 2020

I’ve enjoyed reading responses. Your answers and my answers were both very different. Which just shows that being a leader, it’s okay to have different strengths!! Thanks for sharing ! 😊@FrostyMonkey

SweetDreamer69 April 13th, 2021

Even I need to learn how to control my emotions. Sometimes it gets too much.

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WelcomeToChat September 21st, 2020

@GlenM

1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?

The test pretty much agrees with what I know of myself, so there were no surprises here, like in the previous MBTI personality test.

2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?

Open-Mindedness

Extraversion

Agreeableness

3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?

They help me relate and enjoy connecting with many very different people, cultures, and ideas, which I do. Practicing and hugely enjoying art and music. Living in love to my fellow human beings, and in wonder about reality and the whole universe.

4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?

According to the results of both tests, I have a strong drive to help people, which is a necessary condition for voluntary work at 7Cups, good persuasion skills, that could serve to make people see the brighter side of their life, creativity, which can be used to find ways to direct a conversation in useful ways, empathy, which helps to understand and better help Members, insightfulness, what can help spot and direct conversations to meaningful topics, open-mindedness, which serves to help people of different cultures, lifestyles, and very different situations in life, in a non-judgemental way.

Regarding careers. all people-oriented skills are crucial in the workplace of XXI century, were mechanistic tasks are being replaced by software and robots.

KatePersephone September 21st, 2020

1. Open mindedness: 59%

Conscientiousness: 5%

Extraversion: 30%

Agreeableness: 2%

Negative emotionally: 94%

2. I learnt that I am nervous and insecure, which I already knew but didn't know I was that badly. I also learnt that I am disorganized, undependable, introverted, critical and rude.

3. My top 3 strengths is that I'm curious, complex and creative.

4. They can help me by teaching me how to become a better person emotionally and physically, and they can teach me to be better towards other people, too.

5. They can help me by understanding where my low levels are and help me become a better leader and provide support to other people in a better way!

dancingMoment7201 September 21st, 2020

@GlenM

1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
- I'm somewhat not express myself freely and tend to worry, insecure.
2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
I'm agreeable, open to New Experiences and Conscientious
3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?

Help me know what area I'm good at and also make me realise what are the good nature that I'm keeping.

4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?

I'm agreeable and '

tend to consider the feelings of others.', make it easier in conversation and building trust. My career is involving taking care of others so it's a big pat on the back to know that I have these traits.

Vintagechoc September 22nd, 2020

@GlenM

1. The main things I learned about yourself :

I tend to be nervous. I am not really aware of it.

2. My top 3 strengths according to this test:

- Creative

-Original

-Curious

3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life

It will help me to be more aware of myself.

4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career

It will help me to have an open mind.

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Asher October 26th, 2020

@Vintagechoc

Do you think about any curious idea on here with things to be done?

SofiaT2000 October 26th, 2020

@Vintagechoc These are some great characterestics! I'm sure you'll do greatt as a leader.

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CintaBali September 23rd, 2020

1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?

Nothing - I've done this test before, too

2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?

This test does not identify the top 3 strengths. It identifies strengths in each category. Creativity, Dedication, Improvisation were the top three strengths in the other test and this test doesn't seem to contradict that.

3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?

Strengths help people in their personal life by being an asset that can be relied upon and by being an advantage that can help someone to get ahead. Weaknesses can be made into strengths with personal training and endeavour.

4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?

In situational leadership, leaders are taught to identify alternative types of leadership qualities and improve the ones they don't already naturally have - For example both organisational ability and problem solving (improvisation) are skills that can be taught and practised and improved, even though some personality self-assessment tests seem to imply that these are mutually exclusive "personality traits".

TogetherForeverAlways September 23rd, 2020

@GlenM

1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?

That I'm really openned to new experiences, neither very disorganized nor conscientitious.

Also, I was scored pretty high on introvertedness, which is only natural but clearly contrasts with the previous personality test I took in the previous excercise here on the LDP. I dunno why this hapenned, but it sure is relevant and interesting...

2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?

I am good-natured, corteous, and supportive.

3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?

They can help me a ton, because self-knowledge is self-mastery. Knowing my strenghts allows me to better focus on them, until weaknesses become less and less relevant.

4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?

They can help me choose a suitable leadership role on 7 Cups apart from the ones I already have (ATL and PS), and in my career they can help me support my Data Scientist dream.

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PS - I found this Big 5 Test so fascinating that I decided to take it as for me and as I was my girlfriend as well, answering as if I were her, according to my perspections.

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September 26th, 2020

@WatchingOverYou

I like your idea of taking the test as if you were your girlfriend! Did she also take it, and then compared results?

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TogetherForeverAlways September 26th, 2020

@sunflower2480

Thanks. And no, she didn't take the test by herself, though that would be even more interesting!

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September 26th, 2020

@GlenM

1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?

These are my results:

Open-Mindedness : You are relatively open to new experiences. I find this correct!

Conscientiousness : You are well-organized, and are reliable. I agre!

Extraversion : You tend to shy away from social situations. Absolutely, although I am trying to work on this and become a little bit more extrovert.

Agreeableness : You find it easy to express irritation with others.

It may sound a weird thing to say, but I am actually happy about this. I believe I am fundamentally a very empathic person and the other test did pick up on this aspect. However, all my life I struggled with standing up for myself. This has been a major goal in therapy for the past two years. I am now maybe too much on the other side and too ready to express my unhappiness when someone crosses my boundaries, but as my therapist says, it is a process and I will eventually find the right balance.

Negative Emotionality : You are a generally anxious person and tend to worry about things. I agree. This is another aspect of myself I am working on.


2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?

My being open-minded, reliable, well-organised.


3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?

Being open to new experiences can make me more receptive to whatever comes into my life and help me live fully. Empathy is a key element when relating to others, to experience intimacy.

4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?

Being well-organised and reliable is very important both for a leadership role and within a career, especially when you are working with a team of people. My being emphatic can help me in developing and maintaining better relationships with my colleagues and can balance my natural introversion.

I enjoyed this, thank you!

amiablePeace77 September 27th, 2020

@GlenM

1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?

Other tests say I am more on the introversion site. Actually I do love mixing with others but only for a shorter time. (HSP)

2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?

Open minded: You enjoy having novel experiences and seeing things in new ways. 97

Conscientiousness: You are very well-organized, and can be relied upon. 98

Extraversion: You are extremely outgoing, social, and energetic. 80

3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?

Having an open mind allows me to explore more in life without bein held back by constraints on thinking established by a society. My conscientiousness helps me to get things done and the energetic part of extraversion makes me feel powerful. Unfortunately due to an illness related to heat (living in a hot country) I can get very tired and lose power if I am not careful enough with physical work.

4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?

I believe those strengths help me in being a moderator here and achieving goals for the community in general.

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ahealingEndoftherainbow22 September 28th, 2020

@amiablePeace77

Wonderful strengths!

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queenviebsonly September 28th, 2020

@GlenM

O: 88, C: 58, E:47, A:20, N:87

I learned that I can be quite hars sometimes and I do not tend to forgive people easy. Also I learned that I can sometimes seek for revenge and I can get easily irritated with other people.

My three biggest strengths are being original, creative and curious. And also being complex and enjoy having novel experiences and seeing things in new ways.

Being openminded can help be more open and overcome my shyness and closeness and being open to new possiblillities.

Being independend, determined and open-minded are really important qualities for every job and every oppurtunity. They can help you spot an oppurtunity and grab it, which is something that you need to have in mind.