Turn strengths insight into a practical plan.
A closing exercise where the team captures the key insights from the day and makes a practical plan for how to use their strengths more effectively going forward.
Each participant leaves with two specific commitments: how they will use their own strengths more intentionally, and whose strengths in the team they will draw on more and for what.
This exercise turns the day's insights into specific personal commitments and a shared team plan. Give people a few minutes to write privately, bring the room together to share and capture what they say, then close by summarising what has emerged across the day.
Give everyone five minutes to write down two things on their own. First, one way they will use their strengths more intentionally in the work they do. Second, one person on the team whose strengths they want to draw on more, and how.
Bring the team back together and go around the room, asking each person to share their two commitments. Capture the second one visibly as a team resource: who to call on, and for what. The individual commitment, using my own strengths more intentionally, tends to get less attention than the team-facing one, so make sure both are written down and shared. A simple prompt helps: how specifically will you do that, and when might the first opportunity arise? The more concrete the commitment, the more likely it is to happen.
Summarise what has emerged across the day: the strengths in the room, how they complement each other, and one or two observations about how the team can work together more effectively. Keep this brief and specific. The visible board of who to call on and when is a genuine asset, so encourage people to take a photo of it or move it somewhere they will actually see it.
Use Strengths into Action when you want to turn a session's insight about strengths into a practical plan. Each person commits to using their own strengths more intentionally and names whose strengths they will draw on, building a shared map of who to call on.
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.
