Find your Strengths-Here are mine
According to the book Now, Find your Strengths. here I think it is pretty accurate. I love the boss who had everyone on our team read the book and take the test. The idea that you should focus on areas you have natural talent is a very simple one, but effective.
Here are my "themes" as according to the test. What does a person like this love? A person like this LOVES to get ideas on collaborative testing, share ideas, and put them into practice NOW NOW NOW. Ha! I also love working on product interaction and feature integration because the way that code connects is interesting to me.
C O N N E C T E D N E S S
People strong in the Connectedness theme have faith in the links between all things. They believe there are few coincidences and that almost every event has a reason.
I D E A T I O N
People strong in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.
I N P U T
People strong in the Input theme have a craving to know more. Often they like to collect and archive all kinds of information.
A C T I V A T O R
People strong in the Activator theme can make things happen by turning thoughts into action. They are often impatient.
E M P A T H Y
People strong in the Empathy theme can sense the feelings of other people by imagining themselves in others' lives or others' situations.
Here are my "themes" as according to the test. What does a person like this love? A person like this LOVES to get ideas on collaborative testing, share ideas, and put them into practice NOW NOW NOW. Ha! I also love working on product interaction and feature integration because the way that code connects is interesting to me.
C O N N E C T E D N E S S
People strong in the Connectedness theme have faith in the links between all things. They believe there are few coincidences and that almost every event has a reason.
I D E A T I O N
People strong in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.
I N P U T
People strong in the Input theme have a craving to know more. Often they like to collect and archive all kinds of information.
A C T I V A T O R
People strong in the Activator theme can make things happen by turning thoughts into action. They are often impatient.
E M P A T H Y
People strong in the Empathy theme can sense the feelings of other people by imagining themselves in others' lives or others' situations.
Glad to hear you liked the strengths finder.
I agree with what you said about working on your strengths. I don't posses a strong theme for Empathy. No matter how hard I've tried this just doesn't come naturally to me. I've taken steps to mitigate the effect of this but if I were in a role that required this I would probably become very frustrated very quickly.
Knowing my themes helps me explain my reluctance to participating in certain efforts at my company or why I have made certain personal relationship decisions. More importantly I hope I will be more conscious of these things in the future causing me to be able to explain my thoughts better.
I thought I would share my profile with you
- Individualization
- Focus
- Arranger
- Activator
- Significance
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I would say that one advantage Empathy has as a test lead is that I care very much how my team is feeling and I notice the intricate changes in team morale even if they aren't communicated. I can sense that there is something wrong pretty naturally. I think I care more about retaining good testers as a result. The bad part is, when they move on, even if it is because they were so great that they got promoted (which they should), it hurts. I have to try not to take it personally because I feel very invested in that person. Having the Individualization theme would be so useful! I have to focus on using empathy to compensate for not having talent there. I have to focus my mind and think, "If I were an introverted person, would I be annoying me right now? Maybe he'd like me to stop asking him how he feels and for input and just let him tell me if he has any?" I think if I had that theme it would be natural and think, "That person does better with more factual information." That would be the end of it. We both have Activator as a strength, which isn't a very common theme among the 15 people who've taken the quiz that I've seen. Do you enjoy doing testing with fast cycles? I find that I love arranging testing for firedrills in a way. I think that is this theme in action. Thanks for sharing your themes. I've shared them in my personal life too and found them useful.
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#strongWoman; SWOT analysis. Have you taken the MBTI?
It's not the strongest that survive, nor the most intelligent but those the most adaptive to change. I try to put myself in the shoes of my counterpart: could probably be called empathy. Within boundaries. As always being overly intensive and extreme in all my undertakings; I've decided that there are also limits to empathy. Obviously as a team lead that is a great quality you possess.
My partner is the machine so I put myself in its place and wonder what is going on inside. Empathy with the machine, OS, software. Recently heard that James Bach read 5 books on Darwin and relating it to Software Testing. Survival of the fittest code. Very interesting.
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