Strengthsbuilder™ builds strengths and minimizes and manages weaknesses. It optimizes effort to achieve a high impact and an accelerated path to personal and team leadership. It promotes personal growth, creativity, effectiveness, wellness and positivity; and builds confidence, resilience, employee engagement and sustainable happiness. Strengthsbuilder™ shifts people from ‘survive’ to ‘thrive’.
Why “thriving” is so important
Harvard published an article in January 2012 (Creating Sustainable Performance – Gretchen Spreitzer and Christine Porath ) with research on the competitive advantages where people thrive.
“Across industries and job types, we found that people who fit our description of thriving demonstrated 16% better overall performance (as reported by their managers) and 125% less burnout (self-reported) than their peers. They were 32% more committed to the organization and 46% more satisfied with their jobs. They also missed much less work and reported significantly fewer doctor visits, which meant health care savings and less lost time for the company.”
What is Strengthsbuilder™?
The programs teach practical and experiential processes which empowers people to have the skills and knowledge to
- Build on personal strengths
- Build positive energy
- Enhance resilience
- Improve cognitive and emotional functioning to support clarity in decision making
- Improve financial fitness
- Become more agility and adaptable
- Increase internal motivation and personal effectiveness
- Gain more vitality (energy)
- Improve life and work satisfaction and
- Become more happy – sustainably.
The aim of Strengthsbuilder™ is to create networks of positive energy and community and organizational cultures that are based on the science and practical application of optimum human functioning. miPATH enables individuals and organisations to understand, realise and harness strengths and minimise weaknesses.
Strengthsbuilder skills include
- Ability to stay realistically optimistic
- Maintain positive relationships
- Develop personal resources for improved coping during bad times
- Awareness of strengths and when they are being used effectively
- How to identify and minimize weaknesses
- Ability to live truthful purpose (meaningful life)
- Mental stimulation to overcome boredom and disengagement with active participation in life
- Cultivate sustainable happiness
Some of the personal strenghts we build using the Strengthsbuilder Programs
- Positive framing
- Purposeful intent
- Meaningful work and living
- Positive energy and time management
- Flow and mentally challenging work
- Connecting – Building value networks
- Personal branding – creating your own “luck” and promoting your success, finding and expressing your original own voice
Evidence based benefits
There is a wealth of evidence indicating that building on strengths, living purposefully and filling our days with stimulating activities drive life satisfaction, happiness and success.
Positive emotions have been demonstrated to improve health and increase longevity, enhance brain and mental functioning and creativity, facilitate coping, promote helpfulness as well as innovative problem solving. Positive energy can be spread through supportive networks and counteract negativity effectively.
