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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1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
I learned that I'm a warm hearted person that loves everyone and wants them always to be in a better place. I learned also that I have a lot of motivation to live this life and be amused as I can as I love to live. I have a lot of dreams and achievements that I want to reach and to help everyone through my career.
2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
1. Logic
2. Love
3. Motivation
3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
They help me a lot to he in a healthier life and to be happier than anytime before.
4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?
Being able to support and help every person in my community can be a good thing to allow me to be a leader on 7 cups. I'm always motivated and want to do something new for my community in order to make them happy and delighted.
@GlenM
1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
You enjoy having novel experiences and seeing things in new ways.
You tend to do things somewhat haphazardly.
You probably enjoy spending quiet time alone.
2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
- Creative – Advocate personalities enjoy finding the perfect solution for the people they care about. To do this, they draw on their vivid imagination and their strong sense of compassion. This can make them excellent counselors and advisors.
- Insightful – Advocates typically strive to move past appearances and get to the heart of things. This can give them an almost uncanny ability to understand people’s true motivations, feelings, and needs.
- Principled – People with the Advocate personality type tend to have deeply held beliefs, and their conviction often shines through when they speak or write about subjects that matter to them. Advocates can be compelling and inspiring communicators, with their idealism persuading even the hardest of skeptics.
3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
they can help because different strengths give you different options
@GlenM
1. "The Big 5" score
Open-Mindedness
You are relatively open to new experiences. (Your percentile: 73)
Conscientiousness
You are well-organized, and are reliable. (Your percentile: 76)
Extraversion
You are extremely outgoing, social, and energetic. (Your percentile: 88)
Agreeableness
You find it easy to criticize others. (Your percentile: 19)
Negative Emotionality
You tend to become anxious or nervous. (Your percentile: 65)
2. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
That I tend to find it easy to criticize others while I thought I am sympathetic.
3. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
1. Extraversion - I am extremely outgoing which makes it easier for me to make new friends and enjoy the conversation I have with people.
2. Conscientiousness - You are well-organized, and are reliable.
3. Open-Mindedness - You are relatively open to new experiences which makes me naturally curious and creative.
4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
Being open minded and curious opens a room for learning. It also being lots of excitement into my life since there is always something new and exciting to learn about and keeps my life dull-free and thrilling.
5. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?
Being open minded, extroverted, well-organized and self-disciplined, I think it helps me observe new things, acquire knowledge and share my ideas and creativity in helping to build the 7 cup site and it's community.
:)
@GlenM
My results....
Open-Mindedness : I scored 87 percentile which means that I tend to be original, creative, curious and complex. I enjoy having novel experiences and seeing things in new ways.
Conscientiousness: I scored 6 percentile. I tend to be disorganized .
Extraversion: I scored 38 percentile, which means that I tend to shy away from social situations
Agreeableness : I scored 50 percentile, I tend to be forgiving , courteous ,sympathetic but I'm neither extremely forgiving nor irritable.
Negative Emotionality: I scored 65 percentile, I tend to become anxious or nervous.
1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
Doing this test and seeing my scores I learned that I'm extremely disorganized, I knew it before taking the test but now I'm sure that I need to change that. The others things I was not surprised because they are all right and I know myself enough to be conscious about the aspects of my personality.
2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
In my opinion there are 2 top strengths which is Open-Mindedness that express my characteristics as one person with a lot of imagination and insights, which makes me feel a lot interested about the world, peoples, learn new things and enjoy new experiences
The second strength is Agreeableness, which I identify myself a lot because my personality is all about trust, altruism, kindness , affection and caring about others .
3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
Helps me to continue doing what makes me feel happy, also to be a better person each day, help others and myself and always be kind.
4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?
Helps and encourages me to improve even more my skills and continue being part of 7 Cups to continue with the mission to reach out to everyone in need, my strengths enables me to interact with many different personalities and be understanding, kind, to provide a space for them to be themselves without judgment and a bridge for them to become the best version of themselves.
@GlenM
1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
I actually found this very interesting because I was dead in the middle for four of them and only for ONE did I lean toward one side. I didn't realize my answers would give me a "neither nor" result. I suppose this might mean that for different situations I react differently and might adapt my personality?
2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
The only one I got that was a significant percentile was Openness. I received a result that I am more open to new experiences. I find this valuable because I think it's important to try new things and be able to adapt/explore curiosities in life. Though these were indifferent, if we are going by percentile, the next personality trait would be Conscientiousness (percentile 58). Though it says I tend to not be one or the other, I feel that I am usually dependable and reliable. When given a task or responsibility, I make sure to fulfill them and put in my best efforts. The next indifferent score would be Agreeableness (percentile 57). I am surprised this was indifferent as I see myself as a very sympathetic person who has compassion for others and tries to understand their experiences and emotions, even if they are different than my own.
3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
As the only significant result was openness, I feel this can help me in my personal life to be able to meet new people, experience new things, and have an open mind to be willing to try new things and accept things I have not encountered before. I feel this makes me more cultured and in becoming more cultured, I will be a more well-rounded person.
4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?
As I got advocate on the personality test and openness on this test, I think that one big overlap may be creativeness. I am able to consider different types of options rather than the obvious one, and have a more open mind to think outside the box to approach things. I think this is an important quality to have as a leader here because many members and listeners are unique and no two situations will be exactly the same. It is good to be able to approach situations as a leader here with an open mind and brainstorm ideas or solutions depending on each problem.
1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
= Nothing new really.
2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
= Open to new experiences, extraverted and agreeable.
3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
= By understanding that not everyone is as flexible or open minded, so won’t expect them to be.
4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?
= By finding new ways to solve problems, curious to learn more and be better and open to listening to different opinions and mindsets.
1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
I found out some of my personal characteristic, which
I was not aware of.
2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
Conscientiousness- 93% very well-organized, and can be relied upon.
Agreeableness – 88% good-natured, courteous, and supportive.
Negative emotionality – 63%- tend to become anxious and nervous
3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal
life?
They help me to choose the activities I would like to be involved, and to choose which activities to delegate.
4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?
Increased awareness what to focus on.
@nlpinspiration i am agreeable as well ! however, i am more disorganized than conscientious, unfortunately haha. i hope to be more similar to you in this way in the future !
@GlenM
1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
That I scored highly on all of the Big 5 apart from Extraversion where I scored lowly.
The results didn't really make me learn anything about myself really, as I know I can be an anxious person and can worry alot, I can be supportive and can be relied on, I am very organised and can shy away from social situations.
2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
You are good natured, courteous and supportive.
You are very well organised, and can be relied upon
You enjoy having novel experiences and seeing things in new ways.
3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
The strengths that have been identified on both the tests can help me in my personal life as they can help to see where I can improve them and adapt them into specific situations.
4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?
I think the strengths of both the tests can help me in a leadership role and in my career, because I can show compassion and support to those around me who need someone to listen to, to feel like they can be relied on, I love to learn new things especially anything around psychology or counselling. Being organised will help me with my university course in psychology with counselling. I am very creative and love to help others.
@Kindwords2000 it's great that you have a lot of strengths and it'll be so helpful for you in life ! <3 you seem like a great person, reading through your results and like a great leader as well !
@Kindwords2000 very nice great qualities
@GlenM this was interesting !
1. i learned that i'm a bit unorganized and that i tend to become anxious and nervous !
2. my top 3 strengths are that i am creative, curious, original, and complex <3
3. it helps me motivate myself to be more organized and to do my work on time more often ! unfortunately, i tend to procrastinate on things a lot. i hope i can end this habit :)
4. my tests told me that i am a very empathetic person and i am open-minded <3 i will continue to be this way and to improve in order to help others better and make them feel cared for. i'm sure it will also help me in group settings even though i'm very introverted in real life ! it'll also help me procrastinate less which isn't a good habit !
@GlenM
1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
The main things I learned about myself is that I'm VERY open-minded and agreeable, and scored in the middle on everything else.
2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
- Open-Mindedness
- Well-Organized
- Supportive
3.How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
I believe that the strengths I identified on both tests will help me in my personal life because by recognizing my strengths, I can focus more on those abilities to help others, and use my best strengths instead of my more mediocre skills.
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 my strengths identified on both tests will help me in a leadership role on 7 cups in that by understanding where my strengths lie, I can focus on utilizing those specific skill sets to help other people here on 7 cups.
@Gnibellen wow that sounds amazing