Purpose: This assignment is meant to help develop your self-understanding. In order to better understand yourself, you must know yourself at a deeper level. Part of developing your executive skills is developing the specific skill of deeply thinking about how your behaviors and motives. Just asking you what motivates you isn’t enough, that’s only surface level. Taking a personality test like the StrengthsQuest can provide you with a deeper and richer understanding of what is really driving your behavior and what you can do to improve yourself. The purpose of this assignment is to assist you in developing your Executive Edge in all aspects of life, college, and beyond.

Task: Analyze yourself. You’ll need to think about what the results of your StrengthsQuest mean and how you identify (or not) with them. In addition, you’ll need to interview at least three individuals (ideally: one supervisor, one co-worker, and one subordinate). You’ll interview them about your strengths, do they see a strength that was identified in the report in you? Ask them to give you an example of when they have seen it in you. Be as detailed as possible. You can use the questions listed in the Strengths Text Handout (Chapter 6, found in Canvas Modules) to aid in your analysis.