The effort you invest each day into working on your strengths is well worth it. You get a great return on strengths.
Life in 2017-2018 is full of demands and deadlines but, at the end of the day, YOU are your own greatest investment.
So, as long as you don’t feel like you’re drowning in narcissism, let’s build on another strength today by asking, by searching and by googling.
Choosing a different strength from the one you chose in the last lesson, how can you explore ways to build on that strength today?
Specifically, what can you ask for? What can you search for? What can you google?
DFQ #10:
Think of three things you can do today to build your strengths. Choose a strength and then complete these sentences and post your completed sentences below:
1. Today I can try building on my (name strength) by asking …
2. Today I can try building on my (name strength) by searching …
3. Today I can try building on my (name strength) by googling …
Today I can try building on my creativity by asking “How can I vary/change this”?
Today I can try building on my creativity by searching for other people’s interpretations/opinions.
Today I can try building on my creativity by googling Utube.
Today I can try building on my perspective by asking more questions of those around me to ensure I understand their point of view.
Today I can try building on my perspective by searching through memories for times when I have felt the same feelings as someone around me is feeling today.
Today I can try building on my perspective by googling randomly and seeing what I can learn!
1. Today I can try building on my love of learning by asking what do I want to learn. 2. Today I can try building on my love of learning by searching for the destination. 3. Today I can try building on my love of learning by googling how we learn.
Today I can try building on my strengh Open Mindness by asking more questions.
Today I can try building on my strengh Open Mindness by searching for the real meaning behind objections
Today I can try building on my strengh Open Mindness by googling Judgement & Critical Thinking
Today I can try building on my prudence by thinking before I speak.
Today I can try building on my prudence by thinking before I act.
Today I can try building on my prudence by not letting it go too far and become procrastination.
1. Today I can try building on my creativity by asking what can I apply it to that is most important or relevant today
2. Today I can try building on my creativity by searching for better ways to use my creative energies
3. Today I can try building on my creativity by googling job searches to fit my strengths.
1. Today I can try building on my ‘Citizenship’ by asking more often for people to outline their problems that I may be able to give guidance or assist with.
2. Today I can try building on my ‘Citizenship’ by searching for a better view of what Citizenship actually means.
3. Today I can try building on my ‘Citizenship’ by googling a topic that interests one of my team members.
Today I can try building on my kindness by asking more often what I can do to help people.
Today I can try building on my kindness by searching for different ways to show my kindness.
Today I can try building on my kindness by googling groups that I would like to help.
Today I can try building on my Citizenship by asking my other team members for feedback and what I could do differently.
Today I can try building on my Citizenship by searching for peers who excel at this strength and could provide mentoring or role modelling.
Today I can try building on my Citizenship by googling frameworks for successful teams.
1. Today I can try building on my gratitude by asking others how they like to feel appreciated.
2. Today I can try building on my gratitude by searching for a new new way to show it.
3. Today I can try building on my gratitude by googling how other cultures show gratitude.