Your strengths
All the skills you have can fall into four categories:
Realised Strengths
Learned behaviours
Weaknesses
Unrealised strengths
This short card sort exercise will help you to identify your 'Realised' and 'Unrealised' strengths.
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Apprentice level career mastery.
*unlocks stage two*
Unlocked by completing stage 1
Adept level career mastery.
*unlocks stage three*
Unlocked by completing stage 2
Expert level career mastery.
*unlocks primo understanding*
Creating and combining things in imaginative ways, to produce something original.
Anticipating and preventing problems before they happen.
Listening to and focusing on what people say.
Maintaining a positive attitude and outlook on life.
Delivering a positive and sustainable impact by creating things that will outlast you.
Being well-organised in everything you do.
Achieving success by keeping going, particularly when things are difficult.
Using setbacks as springboards to go on and achieve more.
Looking for ways that things can be improved.
Acting immediately and decisively learning as you go.
Helping others to believe in themselves and see what they are cabable of achieving.
Advocating for change and making it happen
Caring, helping and sympathising with others.
Motivating and inspiring others to make things happen.
Having an inner composure and self-assurance, whatever the situation.
Taking risks and stepping outside your comfort zone.
Looking for ways to grow and develop.
Taking ownership of decisions and being held accountable for promises.
Being the focus of attention and speaking up.
Making the most of whatever time you have available.
Forming deep, long-lasting realtionships.
Paying attention to the wider context and bigger picture.
Understanding and connecting with other people's feelings.
Being true to yourself, even in the face of pressure from others.
Solving problems, the more difficult the better.
Taking hardships in your stride and recovering quickly.
Establishing rapport and relationships, quickly and easily.
Striving to produce work that is of the highest standard and quality.
Presenting things in a way that others can easily understand.
Providing fair and accurate feedback to others.
Competing to win, wanting to perform better than others.
Bringing a different viewpoint, whatever the situation or context.
Overcoming your fears and doing what you want to do in spite of them.
Focusing on the small details to ensure accuracy.
Pushing yourself to achieve what you want out of life.
Creating the conditions for people to grow and develop.
Ensuring everyone is treated equally, paying close attention to issues of fairness.
Looking for ways to help and serve others.
Telling stories as a way to help convey messages, values and insights.
Following processes, operating within rules and guidelines.
Being thankful for the positive things in life.
Making the right decision, quickly and easily.
Changing to meet demands, finding the best fit for your needs.
Knowing yourself and understanding your own emotions and behaviour.
Thinking deeply, eventually arriving at the best conclusion.
Acting in accordance with what you believe is right.
Pursuing things that give you a sense of meaning and purpose in life.
Making connections between people, making links and introductions.
Coming up with new and different approaches.
Making plans by taking a deliberate approach to everything you do.
Bringing others round to your way of thinking, winning their agreement.
Noticing the subtle differences in people, recognising their uniqueness.
Putting a lot of effort into everything you do.
Accepting people for who and what they are, without ever judging.
Being aware of the emotions and feelings of others.
Seeing the funny side of a situation, making a joke of it.
Showing an interest in new things, seeking out new information.
Giving others credit for your contributions.
Conveying thoughts and ideas through the written word.
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You can click on the trash if you want to recover a lost strength, or click below to continue .
In step 2 you will need to decide which things you're good at (and bin the rest!).
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Think about how you can further develop your Realised Stengths, & watch out for those you've over used.
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You might like to consider the opportunities available to further develop your Unrealised Stengths.
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You can download a copy of the 'Strengths Definitions' and note your Strengths on the sheet.
You may also like to recap on the strength definitions and use this to note your Learned Behaviours and Weaknesses.
Save this to your portfolio and when researching potentional job ideas, try and think how these jobs might play to your strengths - and avoid your weaknesses!
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Having now gained a clearer understanding of your personal strengths, learned behaviour and weaknesses, the advice in relation to your Strength Profile Model is:
Use you Realised Strengths wisely
Use your Unrealised Strengths more
Use your Learned Behaviours when needed
Try to use your Weakness less
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