Strengths Discernment - Weekly

Submissions

Week 1
Your Name:NNATE UCHE ROSELINE
Your Top Five Talent Themes
1. Achiever
2. Empathy
3. Communication
4. Responsibility
5. Focus.

INTRODUCTIONS: Introduce yourself by responding to the following:

1.my name is Nnate Uche

2.i am originally from Delta State.

3.I have lived in this area for _24_years.

4.I have been a member of my parish for ___24_______years.

5.I am participating in this discussion group because I want to gain more knowledge in leadership skills.

6.My expectations for these sessions are improvement in leadership and administrative skills

7.If involved in ministries or volunteering, which ones? Singing

8.Something most people do not know about me is. I am very emotional.

Commitment
 Carefully read the following, if you agree then cut and post with your name and
date, to your WhatsApp room:
► Confidentiality – I agree what is shared within the group remains within the group.
► Attendance – I agree to attend each session.
► Participation – I agree to complete all activities and actively join in group discussions and sharing.

► On Track – I agree to stay on topic while respecting session time constraints.

► Develop – I agree to engage in daily spiritual practices so as to deepen my personal relationship

with God.

► Respect – I agree to honour and respect each member’s unique journey with God.

► Prayer – I agree to pray for group members that their personal relationship with God deepens.

► Listen – I agree to allow others to speak without interruption.

Sign and date here to show you read and agree.

Top Five Talent Themes

Achiever
Empathy
Communication
Responsibility Focus.

Most Prevalent, Least Prevalent and Unlisted Descriptions in each Talent Theme
Theme Most Prevalent Least Prevalent Unlisted

I love working in my
1 Achiever Am result oriented own pace. I work as a team

2. Empathy I love seeing people

Am emotional happy I hate distraction.

I work to achieve
results no matter the I create room for
3.FOCUS. challenges others I hate distractions

I take control and

make sure tasks are I need my pace to
4. Responsibility achieved work I determined
 I bring attention to
messages that needs I create a con friendly I talk when
5 communication attention atmosphere. necessary
My one-sentence descriptions within each of my five talent themes:

Achiever is:
My own one-sentence description of my talents in this theme: I am a goal
getter…………

Empathy is:
My own one-sentence description of my talents in this theme:I consider other people
feelings

Communication is:
My own one-sentence description of my talents in this theme:I relate messages to
people easily.

Responsibility is:
My own one-sentence description of my talents in this theme:I take control of tasks
given to me.

Focus is:
My own one-sentence description of my talents in this theme:No matter the distraction
I don’t give up until success is achieved
 Week 2
Holding up the mirror:

Name and date of session with first person:Oge Odil 6/8/2025.

From our conversations, I gained the following insights:

Achiever, she said am someone when assigned to do a task I go for it with ease. She
used instance like when I chaired the committee for mothers day,

Empathy, she choosed it for me because at the end of the mothers day event I had to
give out my food to members without food and came home with non.

Communication. She said that during the mothers day celebrations l was always
carrying the committee and the woman along.

Responsibility. She said that during the mothers day I took charge of the event both
positively and negatively.

Focus she said because I knew what I wanted I waived all distraction until I achieved
my goals.

Name and date of session with second person:Nnate Emmanuel. 7/7/2025.

From our conversations, I gained the following insights about my signature themes of
talent:

Empathy, he said that I always consider others before myself. He used insights as
committee chairperson at the end of every event I end up giving out my food to
committee members who didn’t get food.
Achiever, he said am someone who could humble herself to achieve her goals.He
sighted how I humble myself at every event in the church (cwo)soliciting for funds.and
at the end I get want I want.
Communication. He said that my voice is unique and sharp mostimes when I talk in
public people listen. Though I should watch lt because sometimes people might
misunderstanding me.

Focus he said that I don’t get distracted when am ready and given a task to do .

Responsibility he said that I always take control of tasks given to me.He sighted
instance after making sure that the mothers day event was successful and also took
blame for those committee members who didn’t get food.

Observing my Talents in Action

Day 1- Today I watched for my talents in the Empathy:

The natural way of thinking, feeling, and acting that I noticed in myself was:

This is what I was doing when I noticed it: when I was coming back from church I saw a
madman eating and was appealing to passers-by for water I looked at him and then
gave him my daughters bottle water.

Day 2- Today I watched for my talents in the Achiever:

The natural way of thinking, feeling, and acting that I noticed in myself was

This is what I was doing when I noticed it: despite the heavy rain today I was able to
go to the market for the purchase of food items.

Day 3 - Today I watched for my talents in communication.

The natural way of thinking, feeling, and acting that I noticed in myself was:
This is what I was doing when I noticed it: I was able to communicate with my parish
president on how create awareness of our upcoming events to other Outstations.

Day 4- Today I watched for my talents in the responsibility:

The natural way of thinking, feeling, and acting that I noticed in myself was:

This is what I was doing when I noticed it:when my daughter’s school bus didn’t show
up, I had to take her to school myself.

Day 5- Today I watched for my talents in the focus:

The natural way of thinking, feeling, and acting that I noticed in myself was:

This is what I was doing when I noticed it:when I came back from the market there
was no power supply to blend my tomatoes for strew I had to use the grinding stone
to blend the tomatoes at the end my family was able to eat dinner untime.

Week 3
My Favourites
My favorite Job is (was):
Marketing

● What I like best about my favorite job: it help me ease stress.

● I worked mainly alone

● I was (am) give specific directions.

● I worked mainly with people, or objects or systems.

 ● How do (did) your greatest talents help me to be successful? Feel free to
structure your statements as you prefer or choose from the stems below:

● Achieve 1 helped me to take flexibility study of things.

● Empathy helped me.to consider people’s feelings and opinions.

● I used communication to relate messages to people at the right time.

● I used responsibility to balance the positive and negative effects of tasks given
to me.

● Focus helped me to be determined no matter the distraction.

My favorite hobby cooking

● What I like most about lt help me express my love to people around.

● My favorite hobby is mainly alone

● My favorite hobby does not take a great deal of my concentration.

● I consider my favorite hobby mostly manual and recreational.

● These are how my greatest talents apply to my hobby:

▪ Achiever helped me to prepare the family food at a given time.

▪ Empathy helped me during cooking to consider what is palatable

by everyone.

▪ I used communication helped me to know if my food is delicious

and palatable

▪ I used Responsibility to plan from the beginning to the end of every

meal.
 ▪ Focus helped me to…gives me clue on the type of food to
prepare at a meal.

My favorite way to spend my free time is:

I like to spend my free time alone.

Ranking (1 - 15 with 1
Activity being most favourite)
Read a book 5
Watch television 2
Work in the garden 6
Play cards with friends 8
Go to dinner with friends 7
Go to dinner with just a close friend or a significant other 1
Go to a movie alone 9
Go to a movie with a friend 3
Work on a crossword puzzle 10
Surf the web 15
Catch up on e-mail 12
Fix a computer 11
Repair a watch 13
Restore a classic automobile 14
Go to a concert 4

Discovering my Calling – The needs that tug at my heart.

1. This need is the one need that whenever I am out and about I wish I could help.
This need tugs the most at my heart and is: given

2. The population I care about the most related to this need is: widows and the less
privilege

3. The work of mercy that is most related with my need or issue of concern is
charity.
 4. The category of human need that is most related to my need or issue of concern
is:widows and children.

Finding my right Fit

Spend time each day of this week, praying over the following questions. How are your
talents related to the need? Ask God to reveal his desires for you.

1. I believe that the reason God has drawn me to this particular need is to use my
talents to win soul for him
2. .by showing love and care to people around me
3. By giving directions to achieve my tasks.
4. .by helping me to communicate well with my targets
5.by helping me to b independent.

5. This is how I believe my five top talent themes contribute to drawing me to this
particular need:
a. Empathy helped by understanding their pains.
b. Achiever when ever I set a target of giving food, clothes to the widows
and children I go for it.
c. Communication had helped because I realise that we are all equal
whether rice or poor.
d. Responsibility helped me to be independent of my actions.
e. Focus keeps me determined in achieving my goals no matter the
challenges.

6. This is how my five top talent themes will help me fulfill this calling:

a. Empathy
b. Communication
c. Responsibility
d. Focus
e. Achiever
 7. This is how I can best use my top five talents to help meet the need I have
identified:
a. Empathy . By showing compassion to others
b. Communication: passing the necessary information which helps to
understand one other.
c. Responsibility .it keep me on check.
d. Focus .Help me to overcome challenges and distractions
e. Achiever ,Makes me map out strategy on how to produce results.

Week 4
Researching Opportunities to Serve – My best Fit

My Work life balance calculation:

Activity Hours Per Week Hours Per Month
Commuting to and from work 6 24
Time spent at work. 10 40
Official working at home or elsewhere 5 20
Unofficial work (private business etc) 7 28

Sleep, how much do you need to feel at your best?

35 140

Get ready to go to work and get ready for bed 7 28

Eating meals (preparation, eating and cleaning up) 20 80
Physical exercise 8 32
Recreational activities 4 16
Spiritual activities - Public and personal devotions 4 16
Personal development 3 12
Spouse and friends 7 28
Children 4 16
Parents and dependents 2 8
Shopping 3 12
Cleaning 15 60
Chores and errands 20 80
Volunteering in parish and community (all) 8 32

Total of Hours 168 672

Summary
Work 28 112

Other Activities 33 132

Significant People O 0
Current Volunteering 2 20
Available for Additional Volunteering 0 0

Discerning My Best Fit Roles

Fit with my Fit with
Number of Greatest developing Fit with
Current Volunteer Activity Hours Per Talent greatest time and
Month talents schedule

Knight 6 Excellent ok Average.

cwo 4 Excellent ok Average.

My best fit, based on my top talents and time availability at this stage in my life is: is to
work more towards self salvation and helping the needy.

Because I am not currently serving in any volunteer role, I opted to research

options as follows:
● I researched these existing ministries in my parish that might be able to use my
talents to further its work:

● The ministries I found to be a good fit with your greatest talents and time
availability are:

[Optional]
I think my talents lend themselves to starting this ministry that does not currently
exist in the archdiocese or parish:

1. This is how my top five talents can be best used in this ministry:
a. Talent 1
b. Talent 2
c. Talent 3
d. Talent 4
e. Talent 5
 2. I need to share my vision with the following people to make it happen:
a. Person 1
b. Person 2
c. Person 3
d. Person 4, etc
3. These are the steps I can take to begin working in this area:
a. Step 1
b. Step 2
c. Step 3 etc

4. This is how I will begin:

a.
5. This is when I will begin:

Putting it all together:

1. The calling of my family is:
To build more prayerful homes and to evangelize through love and charity to the
needy.
2. The calling of my parish is:
To promote evangelism through the love of God and humanity.

3. The calling of the parish group I belong to is:

To build a community filled with love and unity.

4. This is how my top five talents contribute to the fulfillment of:

 a. My parish’s calling:
a. Empathy,it helps me to understand people better.
b. Achiever ,it helps me carry out my tasks accordingly.
c. Communication, helps me to be a good listener.
d. Responsibility, helps me not to reject any task assigned to me.
e. Focus, it help me to handle difficult situations and people.
b. My parish groups’ calling:
a. Empathy helps me consider people’s feelings and opinions.
b. Communication, helps me understand the people am dealing with
better.
c. Focus, gives me confidence to do my assigned tasks knowing that we
are of different backgrounds
d. Responsibility, helps me to have sense of purpose and to be
accountable for my actions and deeds knowing am in control.
e. Achiever, helps me believe in myself that I can get my tasks done no
matter what and who.

c. My family’s calling:
To build prayerful families filled with God’s love and happiness.

5. If I can dare to dream, If time and money were not barriers for me, this is the type
of service or work or occupation I will do for God: To empower young widows
and help the indigent patients.

6. This is what I have a passion for and love to do:

Charity/Helping the needy.

7. This is how I can combine my top five talents and my passions to fulfill my
calling: By combining all the factors together to evangelize through the
promotion of love, peace and unity.