VIA Survey of Character Strengths

  The survey that I chose was VIA Survey of Character Strengths, this measures 24-character strengths. I have chosen this survey because I believe that it is closely relevant to me being an entrepreneur. Below are the results of the test.

The ranking of the strengths reflects your overall ratings of yourself on the 24 strengths in the survey, how much of each strength you possess. Your top five are the ones to pay attention to and find ways to use more often.

Your Top Strength

Judgment, critical thinking, and open-mindedness -

Thinking things through and examining them from all sides are important aspects of who you are. You do not jump to conclusions, and you rely only on solid evidence to make your decisions. You are able to change your mind.

Your Second Strength

Hope, optimism, and future-mindedness -

You expect the best in the future, and you work to achieve it. You believe that the future is something that you can control.

Strength #3

Leadership -

You excel at the tasks of leadership: encouraging a group to get things done and preserving harmony within the group by making everyone feel included. You do a good job organizing activities and seeing that they happen.

Strength #4

Creativity, ingenuity, and originality -

Thinking of new ways to do things is a crucial part of who you are. You are never content with doing something the conventional way if a better way is possible.

Strength #5

Honesty, authenticity, and genuineness -

You are an honest person, not only by speaking the truth but by living your life in a genuine and authentic way. You are down to earth and without pretense; you are a "real" person.

To answer the three questions required for this week’s written assignment, below are my responses.

The qualities that I need to develop to realize my full potential as an entrepreneur are leadership, creativity, ingenuity and originality. These qualities are essential in building my own business as an entrepreneur and based on the scores provided above, they ranked third and fourth as my strength. Therefore, there are still a lot of room for me to improve these qualities and ensure to bring these qualities to the first ranked of the twenty-four strengths listed in the survey.

I make my conclusions based on my understanding to the facts provided, it is very important that you have a full understanding to the context for you to be able to provide an accurate and relevant conclusion. When I create my conclusion, I always make sure to highlight the issue and provide recommendation and state the facts to support the argument that I wanted to established. It is very important that the conclusion will impact the understanding and the decision of the reader.

Providing feedback is harder than receiving the feedback; however, when I provide feedback, I always make sure to provide and highlight good things that I observed first to set the mood of the receiver and boost their esteem. Then, provide what could have been done to make it better, this means that instead of just providing what was missed – I always make sure to provide what could have been done to ensure that the receiver will not only realize that there were misses but also help them understand how it can be done better. On the other hand, me – as a receiver – I would want the same structure when feedback is given to me. This is also to ensure that I understand the giver and what is it that s/he want to observed in my work. But nonetheless, I am open to any type of feedback regardless of the structure but I prefer to follow the same structure as I am practicing.