Student’s Name: Kevin-Jay Ovejera

Student ID #: 00258734T

Institution of Affiliation: Torrens University

Date:08/07/19

Worde count: 520

 Introduction

I believe that life is a learning experience and being able to recognize our own strengths and

weaknesses can help us become better individuals in anything we choose to do, whether it is

positive abilities and skills that can help achieve our goals or negative personal areas that need

improvement. Knowing yourself and what you can do, can help you recognize and overcome your

weaknesses.

To be able to identify my strength The Clifton StrengthsFinder (CSF) which an online tool to

measure of personal talent that identifies areas where an individual’s greatest potential for

building strengths exists (Rath & Conchie, 2008). According to CSF my top 5 themes are 1.

Adaptability; 2. Harmony; 3. Belief; 4. Arranger; 5. Positivity.

Adaptability

My top strength is adaptability. People who show adaptability prefers to go with the flow which

means whatever situation comes in their way they can respond to the demands of the moment. I

can relate much with regards with this theme because as an ER nurse back then for 3 years, I

was able to show flexibility for every different situation or cases that are being brought to the

emergency room. This experience helps me to be calm and always think the rule of thumb in a

whatever the circumstances may arise.

Harmony

My second strength is harmony in that I look for consensus and seek agreement. I am that

person who avoids conflict and want to maintain peace. This strength applies to my current

life because I do try to be the mediator between disagreements and work to diminish arguments

before they even occur. I hope to utilize harmony to achieve my future goal of working well with

others especially in teams.

Belief

An individual who are outstandingly talented in the Belief theme have certain core values that

are unchangeable. It is true in my circumstance, I have always viewed myself as a person that

has strong belief. I was brought up in a religious environment wherein my life, ethics and

principles are guided by the Bible, these knowledge affects my behavior in many ways and have

also helped me in decision making.

Arranger

People who are organize and flexible falls to the Arranger theme. They could determine how all

the pieces and resources can be arranged for maximum productivity. When I was younger I

cannot see myself as an arranger since I was an easy-going person, unagonized and as the

previous theme I have mentioned I tend to go with flow. But living out of my comfort zone

especially in a foreign land, I was able to develop this theme and has helped me respond to the

unexpected and figure out quickly how to make everything works.

Positivity

A person with the strength of positivity has an enthusiasm that is contagious. I cannot

quite tell whether if my enthusiasm is at a contagious level, but I have confidence that I
am more positive than an average person. However, I believe if a work or a project have

done properly you will reap a positive result.

Conclusion:

When we identify our strengths and focus on them, we are more productive, perform better, are

more engaged, and have greater joy in work and life.

Reference:

Rath, T., & Conchie, B. (2008). Strengths-based Leadership : Great Leaders, Teams,
and Why People Follow. New York: Gallup Press.
Appendices:
 CERTIFICATE OF TALENT FOR

Kevin-Jay Ovejera

SIGNATURE THEMES

Adaptability

Harmony

Belief

Arranger

Positivity
Kevin-Jay Ovejera

Your Signature Themes

SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 07-03-2019

DON CLIFTON

Father of Strengths Psychology and

Inventor of CliftonStrengths
Kevin-Jay Ovejera
SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 07-03-2019

Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people
are those who understand their strengths and behaviors. These people are best able to develop
strategies to meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families.

A review of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilities, but
an awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core reasons
behind your consistent successes.

Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant themes of talent, in the rank order
revealed by your responses to CliftonStrengths. Of the 34 themes measured, these are your "top five."

Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the talents that lead to your successes. By
focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in combination, you can identify your talents, build
them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career success through consistent, near-perfect
performance.

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.

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.

Belief
If you possess a strong Belief theme, you have certain core values that are enduring. These values vary
from one person to another, but ordinarily your Belief theme causes you to be family-oriented,
altruistic, even spiritual, and to value responsibility and high ethics—both in yourself and others. These
core values affect your behavior in many ways. They give your life meaning and satisfaction; in your
view, success is more than money and prestige. They provide you with direction, guiding you through
the temptations and distractions of life toward a consistent set of priorities. This consistency is the
foundation for all your relationships. Your friends call you dependable. “I know where you stand,” they
say. Your Belief makes you easy to trust. It also demands that you find work that meshes with your
values. Your work must be meaningful; it must matter to you. And guided by your Belief theme it will
matter only if it gives you a chance to live out your values.

Arranger
You are a conductor. When faced with a complex situation involving many factors, you enjoy managing
all of the variables, aligning and realigning them until you are sure you have arranged them in the most
productive configuration possible. In your mind there is nothing special about what you are doing. You
are simply trying to figure out the best way to get things done. But others, lacking this theme, will be in
awe of your ability. “How can you keep so many things in your head at once?” they will ask. “How can
you stay so flexible, so willing to shelve well-laid plans in favor of some brand-new configuration that
has just occurred to you?” But you cannot imagine behaving in any other way. You are a shining
example of effective flexibility, whether you are changing travel schedules at the last minute because a
better fare has popped up or mulling over just the right combination of people and resources to
accomplish a new project. From the mundane to the complex, you are always looking for the perfect
configuration. Of course, you are at your best in dynamic situations. Confronted with the unexpected,
some complain that plans devised with such care cannot be changed, while others take refuge in the
existing rules or procedures. You don’t do either. Instead, you jump into the confusion, devising new
options, hunting for new paths of least resistance, and figuring out new partnerships—because, after all,
there might just be a better way.

Positivity
You are generous with praise, quick to smile, and always on the lookout for the positive in the situation.
Some call you lighthearted. Others just wish that their glass were as full as yours seems to be. But either
way, people want to be around you. Their world looks better around you because your enthusiasm is
contagious. Lacking your energy and optimism, some find their world drab with repetition or, worse,
heavy with pressure. You seem to find a way to lighten their spirit. You inject drama into every project.
You celebrate every achievement. You find ways to make everything more exciting and more vital. Some
cynics may reject your energy, but you are rarely dragged down. Your Positivity won’t allow it. Somehow
you can’t quite escape your conviction that it is good to be alive, that work can be fun, and that no
matter what the setbacks, one must never lose one’s sense of humor.