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REFLECTED BEST SELF PORTRAIT: ONLY POSITIVE FEEDBACK

Length 1-Pages double- spaced, title page not included, Times new roman 12 point

OBJECTIVE

When going through change you may have more to gain by developing your gifts, skills and natural talents than by trying to compensate or repair your weaknesses. This assignment is a systematic way to discover who you are at your very best. It will provide you with an insightful image that serves as a reminder of your competence in the past and as a guide for future action.

ASSIGNMENT

Carefully read the article ‘How to Play to Your Strengths’ by Laura Morgan Roberts et al. This assignment follows the steps as described in the article.

STEP 1: Identify respondents and ask for feedback

The first step in this process is to collect feedback from family, friends, teachers and colleagues, to develop a broad understanding of yourself. You will develop a list of potential respondents and draft an email to ask for their feedback. You’ll need at least five people to respond, so you might want to send it out to 8-10 respondents.

STEP 2: Recognize Patterns

Analyze the feedback you receive from your respondents and come up with common themes, based on the observations your respondent shared with you and integrated with your own observation.

STEP 3: Compose Your Best Self- Portrait

Based on common themes and pattern from step two, you’ll write a brief, two to three paragraph( 1 page), description of yourself that summarizes who you are at your best in the first person, using ‘I’-statements. The description should integrate the feedback from your respondents and your self-observation. Length 1 pages, double-spaced, time new roman 12 pt. only positive feedback

In addition to the 1-2 pages of your self-portrait, include one page with a list of respondents and quotes from the emails with the feedback you received. Just copy and paste; do not worry about formatting these.

Example-

“I am a conscientious hard-working individual who is very focused on a goal. I show passion and perseverance with all the things that I pursue. I know what I want and do everything to get it. I have an eye for details and bring order in chaos.

I am a creative and caring team player, who prefers to work with others. I am considerate and always pay attention to what other people think and feel, even in the most difficult circumstances. I like to come up with new and creative ideas and I like to think outside of the box. I often am the leader in a group who gets people to buy in and join new ideas

Rubric – 50 points

Evaluation Criteria Best Self Portrait
	Exceeds Expectation (100-90%)	Meets Expectations (89-70-%)	Below Expectations (<70%)
Situation description (45 points)	Describes a clear self- portrait of their best, providing an appropriate level of detail and integrating respondent’s feedback with self-observation. (90-61)	Describes a self- portrait of their best, providing too much or too little detail. Somewhat integrates respondent’s feedback with self-observation. (60-31)	Somewhat describes a self- portrait of their best. Provides too much or too little detail. Does not integrate respondent’s feedback with self-observation. (30-1)
Professionalism and presentation of paper (5 points)	Professional presentation including headings and subheadings. Draws extensively from Bridges; book. Excellent use of citing and referencing. Excellent grammar, word choice, spelling and punctuation. (10-7)	Professional presentation including headings and subheadings. Draws from Bridges; book. Good use of citing and referencing. Good grammar, word choice, spelling and punctuation. (6-3)	Little or no use of headings and subheading. 1 or 2 quotes from Bridges book. Flawed citing and referencing. Flawed grammar. Word choice, spelling and punctuation. (3-1)