My Students – Their Strengths

Arranger: Organizes items and resources

• The Arranger enjoys a challenge that requires conceptualizing the way things fit together. This potential to manage also applies to how people might work together as a team.
• As an instructor, provide the Arranger a multifaceted assignment, because this student is capable of handling multiple assignments at one time.

Belief: Holds to certain core values

• A student with Belief as a strength possesses a strong sense of purpose and seeks to live out this purpose, holding fast to values with conviction.
• As an instructor, help the student with Belief connect values with the course or assignment-at-hand.

Command: Takes control of a situation

• The Command strength enables this student to take charge and make decisions. This student is direct with dispassionate honesty.
• As an instructor, give the student with Command the latitude to be assertive, while encouraging the student to gain others’ opinions and input.

Communication: Puts thoughts into words

• A student with Communication as a strength easily puts ideas into words and learns by talking. The student’s expressiveness can emerge in presentations and writing.
• As an instructor, encourage the Communication student to translate course content into key phrases or improve in-class presentations for a group.

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