Coaching practices for How to Use Your Strengths
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I already know what I’m good at, but I only ever use those strengths in the same few familiar places
- I spend so much energy trying to fix my weak spots that my days feel like a grind against my own grain
- I want to know what my real strengths actually are
- I know there are a couple of things I’m genuinely good at, but I use them just to get by
- The very thing I’m best at turns on me under pressure
Practices that may help
- Use a signature strength in a new way each day for one week
Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical - Use your signature strengths in a new way
Identify your top character strengths and deploy one of them differently each day.
Positive Psychology, Made Practical - Identify your core strengths through your own history
Find the recurring threads in your best moments to name the strengths that are actually yours.
Life Review and Reminiscence Therapy - Bridge from signature strengths to purpose
Identify the top two or three things you do better than most people and trace how they can serve something larger.
The Life Crafting Intervention: Scripting Your Future Self - VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
Peterson and Seligman’s VIA Classification identifies 24 character strengths organized under six virtues, and multiple randomized trials find that using your top "signature strengths" in new ways reliably increases well-being and decreases depressive symptoms. The effect is most robust when strengths are deployed in engaged, relational ways — not just recognized but actively applied. - Map how your strengths distort under stress
Identify the "overuse" and "underuse" of each signature strength — how they show up when you’re at your worst.
VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical - Take the VIA survey and identify your signature strengths
Discover your top five to seven character strengths using the validated VIA survey.
VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical - Set goals that build on your signature strengths
Design goals that let your top strengths be the primary vehicle rather than your weak spots.
VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical - Identify your dominant leadership strengths — and lead from them
Know which of the four leadership domains you naturally operate from and amplify it rather than trying to be equally strong in all four.
Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical - Spot and name character strengths in others
Notice and explicitly name the character strengths you observe in people around you.
VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Using Your Strengths
Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
Use a signature strength in a new way each day for one week
- Character Strengths Exercise
Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
- Finding Your Strengths
Find the recurring threads in your best moments to name the strengths that are actually yours.
Identify your core strengths through your own history
- Signature Strengths Exercise
Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
- Signature Strengths Intervention
Identify the top two or three things you do better than most people and trace how they can serve something larger.
Bridge from signature strengths to purpose
- Via Character Strengths
Understand which of the six VIA virtues your signature strengths express, and what that reveals about your character.
Connect individual strengths to the broader virtues they serve
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