The Power to Serve

By Mary Brady


I’m a heart thinker. Focusing on my Strengths influences my motivation to achieve and builds my confidence thereby empowering this timid heart thinker to take risks. I yearn to create peace and order in my environment and for those I serve. I feel powerful when I am able to support my team as a servant leader. I listen and work to promote an atmosphere where all individuals are respected and their ideas heard. I lead with the Strength, Harmony; a consensus builder. I believe positive words and actions coupled with Empathetic listening are superpowers that strengthen servant leaders. My Strengths are equally divided between relationship building themes and executing themes. The influencing theme, Maximizer, infuses my Strengths with perfection.


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Strong Students – Strong Campus

By Mary Jean Billingsley


The water was coming in. Half asleep, I could hear the dryer in the basement. That meant my husband was drying towels. It had been raining for days, and water was coming into a corner of the basement. We had rolled up towels and put them on the floor to soak up the steady drip. When the towels were soaked we put them on the spin cycle of the washing machine. Then, into the dryer. The dry towels would be rolled up to replace the wet ones. As an Arranger I had made sure the towels were in place, just in case. We’re both Maximizers, and we went to work to figure out how to stop the water in the shortest time possible. My husband, who also has Strategic, created a kind of trough from a plastic sheet taped to the wall to direct the trickle of water into a square bucket that fit against the wall but not quite into the corner.


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Embrace Your Super Power Pose!

Did you know that we all have super powers? Our super powers are our Strengths! But, before we use our strengths it is important to strike our super power pose. That’s because our body language affects our confidence. Dr. Amy Cuddy explains in this video clip.

Gaining Power by Striking a Pose