Finding & Applying Your Strengths - Using VIA Character Strengths

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Leadership Guidance System: Character Strengths (aka Values) MORALLY VALUED WAYS OF THINKING, FEELING AND ACTING

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Leadership Guidance System:Character Strengths (aka Values)MORALLY VALUED WAYS OF THINKING, FEELING AND ACTING

What are Character Strengths?

http://www.viacharacter.org/resources/the-science-of-character/

Would you like toImprove team performance and successBe more engagedHave more energyExperience less stressBe happierHave more satisfaction Be more creative & agileBe more confidentExperience faster growth & development

Classification Project 3 year study.Primary researchers: Chris Peterson and Martin Seligman.40 contributing social scientists.The character strengths research was intended to counter-balance the depth of research we have on what can go wrong with the human system.Sought to identify the contributors to resilience.Global in perspective all cultures; ancient and contemporary writings.Database is now 1.3 million worldwide and continues to grow.Different from traditional strength assessments because it integrates the moral aspect; character strengths are your values in action, they are in fact, what you care most deeply about and are either integrated or dis-integrated in every activity you invest yourself in.

VIA Research Process and Conclusions

The Sweet SpotDeveloped by Dr. Scott Snook, Harvard

Character Strengths(Values)Personal StrengthsWhat Others ValueBurnoutStarving ArtistInconsistentVIA Gallup Strengths FinderWhat you can get paid to do

Making it Real

VIA at Work

http://www.viacharacter.org/resources/allied-health-organization-and-the-via-survey/

Insight to action, one without the other is either useless or destructive.Tom Hood and Gretchen Pisano, Co Authors of the i2a Strategic Thinking Process

Thank You!Rebekah Brown, CPA [email protected] - @RJBrownCPA Linkedin.com/in/RebekahBrownwww.blionline.org

Jackie [email protected] - @JEGBrown Linkedin.com/in/JackieBrownwww.blionline.org