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Name what you uniquely bring to the team.
A creative reflection exercise in which participants identify what they uniquely bring to the team. They map their strengths and working style, share with the group, and connect their individual contribution to the team's collective performance.
A clearer, more confident sense of individual contribution, a shared understanding of what each person brings to the team, and a personal commitment to how each participant will contribute to the team's development priorities.
Print one worksheet per person, covering their strengths, their best self, and their contribution, and keep the team's shared canvas visible with the agreed priority dimensions marked. Frame the exercise as a celebration of what each person brings, then move through individual reflection, a sharing round, a short look at the team as a whole, and a commitment linked back to the canvas.
Frame the exercise as a celebration as much as an assessment. Something like: we have spent time looking at the team as a whole, and now we are going to focus on what each of us individually brings; every person here has something genuinely distinctive, and this exercise is about naming it. Encourage specificity, and avoid words like hard-working or reliable unless you can give an example of what that looks like in practice.
Give people twelve to fifteen minutes to complete the worksheet in silence. If someone is stuck, offer a prompt: think about a moment in the last six months when you felt you were genuinely contributing; what were you doing, and what were others saying to you?
Ask each person to share the highlights of their worksheet, roughly two minutes each. After each person shares, invite one brief observation from the group: what stood out, and what do you recognise in them that they have not mentioned? If someone is being modest or vague, invite colleagues to fill in what they have seen.
Ask the group: looking at what each person has described, what does this team have that is genuinely distinctive? Note three or four observations on a flip chart. This short moment shifts the exercise from individual reflection to collective identity and matters more than its length suggests.
Bring the team canvas back into view and ask each person: given your strengths, which of our priority dimensions do you have the most to offer, and what is the one specific thing you personally commit to doing differently to help us improve there? Ask them to write their commitment on a sticky note and place it on the canvas. These commitments are the raw material for the action plan, so do not skip this link even when time is tight. It is what carries individual reflection through to team priority.
Use Super You when you want each person to name what they uniquely bring to the team and own their part in it. A worksheet and a sharing round surface each person's strengths, then each commits to how they will contribute to the team's priorities.
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.
