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Discover Your Strengths

Knowing your own strengths can fast-track your journey to being a truly effective and visionary leader.

Why focus on strengths?

The workplace often focuses on the ways we fall short. But research shows that a strength-based approach is a more effective way to support development. Just some of these benefits include higher levels of performance, resilience, wellbeing, job satisfaction, engagement and reduced stress. The benefits to your organisation include increased performance*, better teamwork, higher team productivity, engagement, customer satisfaction, profit and lower staff turnover.

We don’t ignore weaknesses, but focusing on the resources someone already has builds confidence and maximises achievement. Providing an antidote to feelings of frustration, tiredness and disillusionment so often felt in the workplace.

Find your baseline

Using validated internationally respected tools we can establish a baseline of your current strengths.  You will be able to gauge how well you’re doing, what your leadership brand is and identify how to super charge your leadership effectiveness and success.

*A study of 19,187 employees from 34 organisations across 29 countries and 7 sectors by the Corporate Leadership Council (CLC) showed that focusing on performance strengths increased performance by 36.4%. Focusing on performance weakness caused performance to decline by 26.8%. 

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The Strengths Profile

(Individuals and Teams)

From strength to strength. A strength isn’t just something you’re good at. A true strength is something that also energises you. Using the science of Positive Psychology, discover your realised and untapped strengths, your weaknesses and learned behaviours.

The Strengths Profile uses the science of Positive Psychology (the science of wellbeing and optimal human performance and flourishing) assessing 60 strengths to discover your realised and untapped (unrealised) strengths, weaknesses and learned behaviours.   Everyone can benefit from the insights this profile bring, and it is especially helpful for anyone going through a work or life transition.

Outcomes:

  • You will be able to clearly identify what will help you be at your very best in your life and in your work. 

  • You will be able to identify which of your strengths you are at risk of ‘overplaying’ and how to avoid the possible negative impacts these could have on you and your team / organisation.

  • You will identify what ‘strengths’ may be putting you at risk of burnout and what you can do to avoid it.

  • You will discover more about your weaknesses and learn how to minimise the impact of them on your life and work. 

  • You will learn how to maximise your unrealised strengths and potential to benefit both you and your team

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