Name your genuine strengths and how they show up.
A guided individual reflection where each person identifies their genuine strengths, shares them with a partner, and articulates how those strengths show up in their work.
Each participant has a clear articulation of 3 to 5 genuine strengths and has begun to understand how those strengths are perceived by someone else.
Help each person identify and articulate their genuine strengths through a short individual reflection, a paired conversation, and a group share. The paired conversation is where the real insight tends to happen, so keep the room warm and generous.
Give people around ten minutes of individual reflection, asking them to write down their answers to a few prompts: what do you find yourself doing when you feel most effective at work; what do people come to you for, and trust you with; what feels natural or effortless to you that seems harder for others; and when have you felt most energised by your work, and what were you actually doing?
Then pair people up. Each person shares their answers with their partner, and the partner listens and reflects back what they heard as strengths, bringing their own words and interpretation to it. Allow around ten minutes each way, and encourage partners to notice strengths that were not explicitly stated.
Bring the group back together and ask each person to name their three to five strengths in one or two sentences, capturing these visibly on a board. People frequently hear their strengths named by a partner more accurately than they had named them themselves, so let the share feel generous and keep the pace up.
Use My Strengths when people struggle to name what they bring and you want them to get specific about it. Guided prompts and a paired conversation help each person articulate three to five genuine strengths and hear how a colleague sees them.
Using this tool with a skilled facilitator means that discussions are focused, time is used efficiently, and the group moves toward consensus, making the session productive and impactful.
