Lucero Garcia's Strengths

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Lucero Garcia's Strengths

Adaptability

Understand that you can balance academic demands with social commitments, extracurricular activities, and part-time jobs. Describe how you managed to make progress on all fronts last week.

Leverage your ability not to feel overwhelmed by multifaceted assignments. Document three to five instances during the day when you successfully juggled competing tasks.

Live in the moment. Calm yourself before an exam with positive self-talk. Recall your personal history of dealing with surprises on tests.

Gain part-time or seasonal employment in organizations where the demand for flexibility exists hour-by-hour and day-by-day. Record three to five ways your Adaptability talent benefits you in these settings.

Shadow employees who continually respond to the varied requests of their customers, tourists, guests, and patients.

Belief

Debate an issue like: “Money is the true source of happiness.” Argue for and against this proposition. Ask yourself, “How was my position strengthened when I could incorporate my beliefs into the argument? How was my position weakened when I had to defend the opposing point of view?”

Discover ways to weave your core values into routine classroom assignments. Write and speak about topics directly related to your beliefs.

Write an academic mission statement for yourself. Integrate your core values, such as a leaving the world better than you found it, curing AIDS, ending violence, or affirming the dignity of each human being.

Have a mentor, and be a mentor. Understand that this increases the chances for your behaviors, decisions, and beliefs to remain constant.

Research opportunities in helping professions such as medicine, law enforcement, social work, refugee relocation, teaching, and search-and-rescue. Talk with people who provide services to individuals in need. Interview those who supervise them

Command

Aim to be in a managerial or authoritarian role. Remember, you tend to be bossy. Avoid occupations where you are expected to blindly follow orders or be subservient.

Leverage your persuasiveness when choosing a career. Consider fields such as law, entrepreneurship, sales, politics, education, medicine, and ministry.

Use your Command talents to clarify rather than intimidate. Understand that some clear-thinking individuals may become flustered under pressure.

Challenge facts presented in textbooks, the media, and class presentations. Critique your instructors and classmates. Search for the truth.

Ask probing and pointed questions during discussions and lectures by professors. Realize that your questioning mind accelerates your learning.

Includer

Attend lectures or speeches by guest speakers of different nationalities. Introduce yourself to others attending the session, drawing them into a conversation with you.

Ask shy people to walk to class with you.

In small groups in class, try to get each student to participate. Ask him or her for opinions.

A career in the United Nations or foreign service may appeal to you. You appreciate and include all people and their ideas.

Choose a career where you can supervise or lead a group of people, because you will build a sense of team and belongingness.

Ideation

Your mind may wander. You can use this to your advantage by letting your thoughts flow freely in class, as long as you think about the subject you are studying

Take on an independent research project in which you can generate and explore numerous ideas.

Take on leadership positions in projects that will allow you to share several ideas and use your creativity.

Find a career in which you can work as hard as you want. Avoid work situations controlled by collective bargaining agreements that limit how much you can produce each day.

Build on your creativity to find a career that encourages you to think freely and express your ideas.