I'm going to keep working on this and hopefully I'll come up with some more. Let me know if you think of anything that you think would help. I'm sure that I've been really excited about things before, but just can't remember and maybe you can help. That's all for tonight. =)
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Strengths and Weaknesses
The day after Jon and I started talking about this whole job situation there happened to be an Oprah on with a career coach, so I taped it. The show was not that helpful, but there's a workshop online that I'm planning to work through www.oprah.com/workshop. The first step of the workshop is to take a week and assess your strengths and weaknesses. The way the counselor describes strengths is very interesting. Instead of focusing on the things that I'm good at I'm supposed to focus on the things that energize me. This should be helpful because I always hated looking at strengths before because there's several things that I can do well, but it doesn't necessarily mean that I enjoy them. So, my task for this week to really look at my work (I'm also considering other experiences too since my work is not especially challenging) and find those things that energize and drain me. So far I've had some difficulty. I'm not great at all this introspection. I know that I am energized by working with groups (mostly as a leader) and encouraging people. Besides that I'm kind of lost. I'm also enthusiastic about doing presentations, especially hands on as opposed to giving a lecture although I don't think I mind that too much either. On the weakness side I do remember that I was drained by doing counseling all day, so that is definitely not something I want to do. Sometimes I'm also drained by people, but I'm sure that this is true of everyone, especially when those people are uncooperative.
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You said you're energized by leading groups and "encouraging people," yet you're drained by extended one-on-one counseling. What's the difference between these two situations in your experience?
Great question Mr. Boggs. I was actually thinking the same thing when I wrote it. I think that part of it is that in the one-on-one situation the "client" is looking solely to you for answers. Obviously counseling isn't the counselor giving answers, but often the counselor is seen as the expert and needs to keep things moving by asking questions or encouraging a certain topic. What I enjoy about groups is the additional interaction between people. It's people working together for the good of everyone. I think that explains it. =)
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