ストレングス・ファインダー

超有名な「ストレングス・ファインダー」ですが実はやったことありませんでした。何となくいいや、と思っていたのですが、ふとやってみたくなり、トライしてみました。自分の強みが5つわかるというテストで、結果は以下の通り。

個人的には「個別化」とかは気付きでした。人の事を常に見てるし。「Hamony」とかはまぁそうだよね、と思うけど長所である一方で短所にもなる気がするのでどうかなぁ、、とか思いますが。

せっかくなので末尾に英語を併記しておきます。書きっぷりが勉強になる。(関係ないけど）

●Restorative（回復思考）
・問題を解決することが好き。
・物事に再び生命を与える事を楽しんでいる
・底に潜む要因を明らかにし、その要因を根絶し、物事を本来あるべき輝かしさへ回復させる事を素晴らしいと感じる。

●Empathy（共感性）
・周囲の人の感情を察することができる。
・言葉に表せない問いかけが感じられ、人々が必要としている事がわかる。
・人々が感じている事を表現するのを手助けする。

●Individualization(個別化）
・一人一人が持つユニークな個性に興味を惹かれる。そのため、人を一般化したり類型化したりすることに我慢ができない。
・本能的にそれぞれの人の性格、動機、考え方、関係の築き方を観察している。
・他の人の強みをとても鋭く観察するので、人の良いところを引き出せる。

●Harmony(調和性）
・同意点を求める。衝突や摩擦から得るものは無いという考えを持っており、争いを最小限にしようとする。
・他の人が自分の目標や主張や意見を声高に話すとき、あなたは沈黙を守る。他の人が自分の理論を語り始めると、全員が賛同できる、実用的で地に足の着いた事柄について話す事を取る。
・私たちは全員同じ船に乗り合わせていて、この船を目的地に到着させる必要がある、と考える。

●Adaptability（適応性）
・今この瞬間が最も重要で、将来をすでに決まっているものとは考えていない。
・それぞれの時点で進む方向を1つずつ選択する事によって将来を見出す。
・突然の要請や予期せぬ回り道を必然と捉え、それをむしろ待ち望んでいる。柔軟性がある。<英語>

●Restorative

You love to solve problems. Whereas some are dismayed when they encounter yet another breakdown, you can be energized by it. You enjoy the challenge of analyzing the symptoms, identifying what is wrong, and finding the solution. You may prefer practical problems or conceptual ones or personal ones. You may seek out specific kinds of problems that you have met many times before and that you are confident you can fix. Or you may feel the greatest push when faced with complex and unfamiliar problems. Your exact preferences are determined by your other themes and experiences. But what is certain is that you enjoy bringing things back to life. It is a wonderful feeling to identify the undermining factor(s), eradicate them, and restore something to its true glory. Intuitively, you know that without your intervention, this thing―this machine, this technique, this person, this company―might have ceased to function. You fixed it, resuscitated it, rekindled its vitality. Phrasing it the way you might, you saved it.

●Empathy

You can sense the emotions of those around you. You can feel what they are feeling as though their feelings are your own. Intuitively, you are able to see the world through their eyes and share their perspective. You do not necessarily agree with each person’s perspective. You do not necessarily feel pity for each person’s predicament―this would be sympathy, not Empathy. You do not necessarily condone the choices each person makes, but you do understand. This instinctive ability to understand is powerful. You hear the unvoiced questions. You anticipate the need. Where others grapple for words, you seem to find the right words and the right tone. You help people find the right phrases to express their feelings―to themselves as well as to others. You help them give voice to their emotional life. For all these reasons other people are drawn to you.

●Individualization

Your Individualization theme leads you to be intrigued by the unique qualities of each person. You are impatient with generalizations or “types” because you don’t want to obscure what is special and distinct about each person. Instead, you focus on the differences between individuals. You instinctively observe each person’s style, each person’s motivation, how each thinks, and how each builds relationships. You hear the one-of-a-kind stories in each person’s life. This theme explains why you pick your friends just the right birthday gift, why you know that one person prefers praise in public and another detests it, and why you tailor your teaching style to accommodate one person’s need to be shown and another’s desire to “figure it out as I go.” Because you are such a keen observer of other people’s strengths, you can draw out the best in each person. This Individualization theme also helps you build productive teams. While some search around for the perfect team “structure” or “process,” you know instinctively that the secret to great teams is casting by individual strengths so that everyone can do a lot of what they do well.

●Harmony

You look for areas of agreement. In your view there is little to be gained from conflict and friction, so you seek to hold them to a minimum. When you know that the people around you hold differing views, you try to find the common ground. You try to steer them away from confrontation and toward harmony. In fact, harmony is one of your guiding values. You can’t quite believe how much time is wasted by people trying to impose their views on others. Wouldn’t we all be more productive if we kept our opinions in check and instead looked for consensus and support? You believe we would, and you live by that belief. When others are sounding off about their goals, their claims, and their fervently held opinions, you hold your peace. When others strike out in a direction, you will willingly, in the service of harmony, modify your own objectives to merge with theirs (as long as their basic values do not clash with yours). When others start to argue about their pet theory or concept, you steer clear of the debate, preferring to talk about practical, down-to-earth matters on which you can all agree. In your view we are all in the same boat, and we need this boat to get where we are going. It is a good boat. There is no need to rock it just to show that you can.

●Adaptability

You live in the moment. You don’t see the future as a fixed destination. Instead, you see it as a place that you create out of the choices that you make right now. And so you discover your future one choice at a time. This doesn’t mean that you don’t have plans. You probably do. But this theme of Adaptability does enable you to respond willingly to the demands of the moment even if they pull you away from your plans. Unlike some, you don’t resent sudden requests or unforeseen detours. You expect them. They are inevitable. Indeed, on some level you actually look forward to them. You are, at heart, a very flexible person who can stay productive when the demands of work are pulling you in many different directions at once.

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さあ、才能(じぶん)に目覚めよう―あなたの5つの強みを見出し、活かす