Coaching practices for Via Character Strengths When Burned Out
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- The very thing I’m best at turns on me under pressure
- I spend so much energy trying to fix my weak spots that my days feel like a grind against my own grain
- I already know what I’m good at, but I only ever use those strengths in the same few familiar places
- There’s a part of my work that quietly wrecks me, but admitting it feels like confessing I’m not good enough, so I just grit my teeth and say nothing
- Carrying everyone else’s anxiety and conflict has hollowed me out
Practices that may help
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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. - Name frustrations without shame
Frustrations are not weaknesses — they’re a mismatch signal that the team can act on.
The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni) - Build sanctuaries for renewal outside the system
Maintain relationships and practices outside the organizational system that restore perspective and capacity.
Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical - 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 - 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 - 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 - Manage emotional energy
Cultivate positive emotional states deliberately, since they fuel performance and connection.
The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Character Strengths Exercise
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
- 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
- Via Character Strengths During A Big Change
Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
- Via Character Strengths In A New Job
Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
- Via Character Strengths On A Budget
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.
- Via Character Strengths When Starting Out
Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
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