Strengths in Teams Reflection.md

mod 2 - Using your Strengths as a Team Member

• Describe how you use your strengths in teams

• Describe how you might adapt your strengths according to team dynamics

• Discuss how to leverage each others' strengths to work even more effectively in your project

• How have you changed since you started at Turing?

  • Not a ton. I’ve tried to be comfortable with who I am and how I’m different. I’m slowly starting to not really care what other people think about me.

• How have your strengths helped you in that process?

  • By being able to confirm the positive things about who I am and why it’s OK to be who I am.

• How do you feel like you have used your strengths when you’ve paired with others?

  • I try to make sure everybody feels included. I try to contribute ideas that are exciting to the whole team. I try to validate others and be open to learning from others.

• How could you utilize these strengths more?

  • At the current moment, I’m not sure. I think I’m doing pretty good work but I always learn something new as time progresses.

• What gets in your way or keeps you from fully using your strengths?

  • My coding skill (or lack thereof, sometimes)

• What do you want to get better at by the end of Mod 2?

  • Being able to write a simple and complete Rails app on my own without any help.
  • Including
    • Setting up Spec
    • Setting up database cleaner for testing
    • Writing good tests
    • Excellent usage of MVC
    • Ability to do the bare essentials easily and by heart

• What things do you want to do in mod 3?

  • Be able to add new tools to what I’ve already learned
  • Start looking for jobs that require the same skills I possess
  • Fine tune skills that would make me more employable
  • Start looking for a job