You will be equipped with the following tools:
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A Family Tree of Strengths
Help your client identify strengths, facilitate positive discussions, and enhance bonding within their family.
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A Reflected Best Self Portrait
Give your clients a better understanding of their strengths to see which of these strengths are broadly useful in many different settings.
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A Strength-Based Resume
Rather than selecting and applying for jobs based on previously acquired skills, this exercise allows clients to match jobs to their strengths.
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Crafting Team Tasks Around Strengths
Improve the performance of a team by allowing team members to use their strengths more effectively at work.
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Daily Strengths Awareness
Increase the client’s knowledge of his/her strengths by promoting daily introspection.
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Find the Person Behind the Strengths
Allow group members to look at other group members through the lens of strengths.
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Inward and Outward Strength Expression
Help people examine the extent to which they express a given social strength outward (to others) and inwardly (to themselves).
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Personalizing Strengths
Gain insight into the specific ways in which the strengths of your client are manifested in his/her life.
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Strength Collisions
Help clients identify a strength collision that is contributing to a current interpersonal problem and work towards resolving the problem.
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Strength Journaling
Help clients develop character strengths by acknowledging and celebrating their strengths via journaling.
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Strengths in Significant Moments
Increase awareness of personal strengths by analyzing crucial moments in life.
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Strengths Interviewing Guidelines
Guidelines to help the practitioner conduct a strengths interview more effectively.
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Strengths Spotting in Groups
Help participants practice listening for strengths and giving strength-based feedback.
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The Freelancer Approach
Help clients considering themselves from a perspective of autonomy to reveal insights about their work preferences.
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The Strengths of Inspirational People
Learn to look at others, especially those who are inspirational, through a lens of strengths.
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VIA Signature Strengths Scoring Sheet
Create a structured overview of the different sources of information that can be used to identify the strengths of a client.
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Writing as a Metaphor for Strength and Weakness
Introduce the concepts “strengths” and “weaknesses” in a practical way that allows discussion.
Chad Spangler –
I think most of the exercises are great and have applications for a wide variety of people and circumstances.
Clara Kennedy –
These tools are an invaluable resource. As a new coach, they have helped me shape my coaching process and given me more confidence.
Marina Rodríguez Conesa –
These tools have helped me a lot to inspire my daily job. You can use them as they are, or just the part that you think suits a single client best. They have also helped me to create further actions or interventions. It is completely worthwhile.