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Assess for Success assessing Personal Strengths & Weaknesses

Assess for Success assessing Personal Strengths & Weaknesses. Instructor Course. Do Now. Answer this question in your Do Now journal: What are your greatest strengths? What are your greatest weaknesses?. Discuss: Why do you think employers ask this question?. Read.

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Assess for Success assessing Personal Strengths & Weaknesses

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  1. Assess for Successassessing Personal Strengths & Weaknesses InstructorCourse

  2. Do Now Answer this question in your Do Now journal: What are your greatest strengths? What are your greatest weaknesses? Discuss: Why do you think employers ask this question?

  3. Read Getting Personal (page 2) Discuss: What other examples of strengths and weaknesses in daily life can you think of?

  4. Read Read Page 3 Discuss: What would you consider the most important reason for assessing strengths and weaknesses?

  5. Strengths and Weaknesses We all have them. Did you know… • He failed in business five times before he finally succeeded. Henry Ford, Founder of the Ford Motor Company • He was fired by a newspaper editor because, "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas." Walt Disney, Chairman and CEO, Walt Disney Enterprises • He did not speak until he was four and did not read until he was seven, causing his teachers and parents to think he was mentally handicapped, slow and anti-social. Eventually, he was expelled from school. Albert Einstein, Nobel Lauriat, Physics

  6. Strengths and Weaknesses We all have them. Did you know… • He gave up on having a medical career and was often chastised by his father for being lazy and too dreamy. Charles Darwin, Scientist, Author of Origin of the Species • He was told that he was "too stupid to learn anything." Work was no better, as he was fired from his first two jobs for not being productive enough. Thomas Edison, Inventor • She was fired from her job as a television reporter because she was "unfit for TV." Oprah Winfrey

  7. Strengths and Weaknesses We all have them. Did you know… In his youth he went to war a captain and returned a private . He started a business and went broke. He ran for Congress and lost. He ran for the U.S. Senate and lost. Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America • Every cartoon he submitted was rejected by his high school yearbook staff. He was also rejected for a position working with Walt Disney. Charles Schultz, Cartoonist, Peanuts • When they were just starting out, a recording company told them no. The were told "we don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." The Beatles

  8. Strengths and Weaknesses We all have them. Did you know… • He was cut from his high school basketball team. He missed more than 9,000 shots in his career and lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions he was entrusted to take the game winning shot, and missed. Michael Jordan, NBA Star • He struck out 1330 times. In fact, for decades he held the record for the most strikeouts Babe Ruth, Baseball Hall of Fame, 714 career homeruns

  9. Read & Write Objective B: Read pages 5-8 Write in your Journal: • What do you consider your 3 greatest strengths? • What do you consider your 1-2 greatest weaknesses? • What strategy can you use to improve upon on minimize your weakness?

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