I feel amazed to discover that any person can be a combination of thirty-four possible strengths. Each strength holds its own importance and having people with a diverse array of strengths in one team can make that team well-rounded. My top five strengths from Clifton Strength Finder Assessment includes achiever, responsible, restorative, futuristic, and learner. After discovering my five most dominant strengths, I grouped them into four main leadership themes including executing, influencing, relationship building, and strategic thinking.
Majority of my strengths including achiever, responsible, and restorative fall under executing leadership theme which describes a person who has the ability to put ideas into action. People under this leadership theme can be described as the hard-workers who work ahead of time so when they need to execute a plan, they are all prepared for it. I believe this leadership theme resonates with me because in today’s age and time, executing ideas is as much as difficult as coming up with them. In order to keep that balance, it is important to have people with such qualities who are able to transform ideas into action. Moreover, I have been using this leadership theme every day in pharmacy school and it has helped me survive two years of pharmacy school. In the program, there are multiple quizzes, exams, and assignments that need to be completed every week. In keeping up with the pace, I like to plan and work ahead of time in all classes rather than staying up all night the day before the exam because that creates more stress and less concentration during exams.
While comparing my leadership theme with the leadership theme of others in my class, the results are strikingly similar. My classmates also have similar dominant themes in the executing domain. Knowing these domains can serve as a framework for me and my classmates to see what strengths we already possess and where we need to improve upon. In other words, it can serve as a developmental tool while progressing through pharmacy school. With having a common powerful domain, we can all work together as a class to finish tasks successfully and can depend on each other to get done with things in a very precise manner as this domain is highly task-oriented. This affects work performance of the whole class and they can all progress towards achieving a common goal which could be graduating from pharmacy school, passing NAPLEX, or learning activities during rotations.
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While comparing my leadership theme with the leadership theme of my group mates, I came to know that my group is a combination of different domains. Three of my group mates had the same domain as mine, while one of my groupmates had relationship building domain. Interestingly, my fifth groupmate had the combination of two domains, executing and strategic thinking. No matter what fields we choose to pursue, having a well-rounded team hold more importance than having a well-rounded individual. I expect to have a high level of performance and valuable contribution from everyone in our team with three different domains. Having few groupmates with relationship building domain can be very beneficial. They have the ability to show care and concerns to others by feeling others’ emotions and connecting with them emotionally. They are highly sensitive to others and strongly believe that human relationships matter the most. Understanding the domains of each other in the group can allow a team to function better and make us aware of our strengths and weaknesses as a group. This way, our team can leverage and expand each person’s unique contribution in any tasks that we wish to excel in.
Aligning my personal strengths with my work as a pharmacist someday can increase my productivity, which can lead to better health outcomes in society. Therefore, it becomes crucial for me to have an awareness of my strengths because it can make me understand certain tasks that I am more likely to succeed in as a pharmacist. Knowing my strengths can also help me become an important asset in a health-care team someday. As a pharmacist, possessing dominant themes in the executing domain can help me get done with things at a faster pace with more accuracy and precision whether I choose to work at retail, hospital, long-term care or any other pharmacy setting. Someday, I will have multiple people including technicians working under my supervision.
As a health-care professional, I will be required to conduct multi-tasking, lead my team, and work under pressure every day. This doesn’t only require clinical knowledge and one year of rotation experience, but also skills that evolve only with time. Mastering these skills, making schedules, and working ahead of time can help relieve some pressure. This can help me divert main focus to more important things that need pharmacist’ attention including counseling patients, answering questions and concerns of health care professionals, and training pharmacy staff including interns, residents, or students.
If I encounter people in my health-care team who is categorized in the influencing domain, I would use different methods to work with them. They can be totally opposite of me; they can be described as an extrovert with a lot of energy, and someone who is more likely to rally people or team in a particular direction. While working in a team, I would first need to make myself aware of their strengths and rely on their extrovert personality to convey messages to patients and other health-care professionals. They can be a good asset to our team in conveying ideas during presentations and seminars. This type of personality can take a charge of leading a team if things go wrong since people listen to them and possibly obey them. Working with someone with influencing domain may certainly not be easy for me at first, but the idea of having a different personality than mine can definitely help workplace a little less stressful and more enjoyable.
Discovering my leadership theme helped me become consciously aware of my strengths. Knowing my strengths will help me become a good team leader in the future who can leverage unique personalities of each team member to build a strong team who can perform well under any conditions.
