Coaching practices for Via Character Assessment

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

• If you asked me to name what I’m actually good at, I’d freeze
• I’ve got a list of my strengths but it reads like a flat personality quiz
• I’ve done a bunch of those fun online personality quizzes and the labels never quite fit or tell me anything useful
• I’m about to meet someone important for the first time and I have no read on them yet
• I catch myself scanning everyone around me for what’s wrong with them, and I want to flip that lens

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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.
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. Take a validated Big Five measure
   Use a psychometrically validated instrument — not a viral quiz — to get a reliable trait profile.
   The Big Five Personality Model
5. Read assertiveness and responsiveness quickly
   Observe whether someone talks more than they listen (assertiveness) and whether they show emotion openly (responsiveness).
   Social Style Matrix: Adapting to How People Communicate
6. 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
7. Assess readiness task by task, not person by person
   Rate competence and commitment for the specific task in front of them, not the person overall.
   Situational Leadership, Made Practical
8. Track character, not just outcomes
   Evaluate your decisions by who they made you, not only by what they produced.
   Phronesis: Aristotle’s Practical Wisdom
9. 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
10. 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

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