Coaching practices for Signature Strengths

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Signature Strengths, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• With the person closest to me I’ve fallen into playing a role, and the most real parts of me stay tucked away
• I know there are a couple of things I’m genuinely good at, but I use them just to get by
• I’ve got a list of my strengths but it reads like a flat personality quiz
• I want to know what my real strengths actually are
• If you asked me to name what I’m actually good at, I’d freeze

Practices that may help

1. Apply strengths consciously in your most important relationships
   Identify how your signature strengths are showing up — or failing to show up — in the relationships that matter most.
   VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
2. 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
3. Connect individual strengths to the broader virtues they serve
   Understand which of the six VIA virtues your signature strengths express, and what that reveals about your character.
   VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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.
8. Lead from the relationship building domain — hold the team together
   People strong in relationship building are the glue that holds a team’s cohesion under pressure.
   Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
9. Lead from the influencing domain — take charge, speak up, make sure others are heard
   People strong in influencing sell the team’s ideas inside and outside the organization.
   Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
10. 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

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