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We here at Mohawk Valley Community College are dedicated to student success and providing
access to higher education to everyone
regardless of race, gender, social status, income or other factors.
We believe that every student comes to us with the ability to succeed
Academically.
We believe that if students understand the unique talents that inform the ways
they think and feel,
they'll be able to unlocked their fullest potential.
This is why MVCC utilizes Gallup StrengthsQuest Strengths Finder
Assessment
to help our students and our employees better understand their strengths and
apply them to their lives with a philosophic foundation that is grounded in
positive psychology.
It's a simple tool to use: First take the thirty-minute online assessment, the
Clifton Strengths Finder.
Once you complete the assessment you'll receive a customized report that lists
your top five talent themes along with action items for development
and suggestions about how you can use your strengths
to achieve academic, career and personal success.
My personal experience with Strengths Quest has been quite enlightening.
I can see myself using my achiever strength every day with the to-do lists I
Make,
as well as my maximizer and arranger strengths in my role as president of
MVCC.
And I can see how my strategic and ideation strengths combine to help me play out
alternative futures
going out years at a time to help me continually rethink what I'm planning
for the short term.
Well Strengths Quest is
so potentially transformative for students in the way in which we
introduce it to them when they first come here
because being grounded in positive psychology
it identifies for the students a set of natural talents that they bring
to everything that they do.
And when they practice and then utilize those strengths and those talents in
areas where they may have traditionally struggled academically
they're able to turn those struggles into successes
so the StrengthsQuest assessment is a very powerful tool
In that it shows the students that they come here with the tools necessary to
succeed and it sets them on a path to academic excellence
regardless of how they may have struggled in the past.
Well the college has for the past couple of years offered StrengthsQuest
as something that each individual faculty or staff full-time or
part-time to be able to take to kind of do a little bit of learning about
Themselves, also learning about the colleagues that we work with. We'd like to
I guess provide this context for the culture with which we work to help
us understand each other and be able to work together a little bit better
to provide that that kind of common language to help us understand the needs
and the processes of other people that we work with.
Strengths Quest is used at more than six hundred schools and universities in
North America.
More than one million people have used it to gain insight into how to use their
talents to achieve success in their classes, careers, relationships and life.
Working with strength here at MVCC provides us with a common language for
us to connect in more meaningful ways with one another.
I hope you take the time to learn more about your own strengths and apply them
to help you reach your full potential as well.