Welcome to the Know Your Strengths topic.
Here we explore a number of frameworks which help identify your key personality type and strengths - using the Myers-Briggs personality framework, Clifton Strengths finder and explore what makes life meaningful.
Use the workbook below to guide you through the resources on this page
Here we explore a number of frameworks which help identify your key personality type and strengths - using the Myers-Briggs personality framework, Clifton Strengths finder and explore what makes life meaningful.
Use the workbook below to guide you through the resources on this page
Myers-Briggs Personality Types
The Myers Briggs personality types, based upon research by Jung, is another useful area of self-analysis. Based on the answers to the questions on the inventory, people are identified as having one of 16 personality types. The goal of the MBTI is to allow respondents to further explore and understand their own personalities including their likes, dislikes, strengths, weaknesses, possible career preferences, and compatibility with other people.
According to Carl G. Jung's theory of psychological types [Jung, 1971], people can be characterized by their preference of general attitude:
Isabel Briggs Myers, a researcher and practitioner of Jung’s theory, proposed to see the judging-perceiving relationship as a fourth dichotomy influencing personality type [Briggs Myers, 1980]:
According to Carl G. Jung's theory of psychological types [Jung, 1971], people can be characterized by their preference of general attitude:
- Extraverted (E) vs. Introverted (I),
- Sensing (S) vs. Intuition (N),
- Thinking (T) vs. Feeling (F)
Isabel Briggs Myers, a researcher and practitioner of Jung’s theory, proposed to see the judging-perceiving relationship as a fourth dichotomy influencing personality type [Briggs Myers, 1980]:
Clifton Strengths Finder
Tapping into your natural gifts is foundational in creating a life aligned to your purpose. While everyone can be good at something with practise, people have innate capacities that are strongest in them and their results in life are going to be more successful if they focus on developing quality output in those areas.
There are a number of online tools for gauging your personal strengths and identifying the areas to focus on to leverage your natural strengths. One of the most popular is the Clifton Strengths Finder assessment. This assessment identifies particular types of output most aligned to your character type, like being inventive, social, well-organised, etc and by determining your relative strength in particular areas can start to craft life outcomes best aligned to those areas.
In the early 1950s Donald Clifton began a study to determine the most natural thoughts, feelings and behaviours of “the best of the best”. He quickly discovered that our talents do more than make us unique individuals. Our greatest talents also serve as our best opportunities for excellence and success when they are intentionally leveraged. He developed the CliftonStrengths as a means to identify what your core strengths are - so that you can create a life strategy around work aligned to making the best use of those strengths.
Once we discover the talents in individuals we begin to recognise where investing time and energy, skills and knowledge are best placed to develop that talent into a Strength.
There are a number of online tools for gauging your personal strengths and identifying the areas to focus on to leverage your natural strengths. One of the most popular is the Clifton Strengths Finder assessment. This assessment identifies particular types of output most aligned to your character type, like being inventive, social, well-organised, etc and by determining your relative strength in particular areas can start to craft life outcomes best aligned to those areas.
In the early 1950s Donald Clifton began a study to determine the most natural thoughts, feelings and behaviours of “the best of the best”. He quickly discovered that our talents do more than make us unique individuals. Our greatest talents also serve as our best opportunities for excellence and success when they are intentionally leveraged. He developed the CliftonStrengths as a means to identify what your core strengths are - so that you can create a life strategy around work aligned to making the best use of those strengths.
Once we discover the talents in individuals we begin to recognise where investing time and energy, skills and knowledge are best placed to develop that talent into a Strength.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
When people explain what makes their lives meaningful, they tend to describe four things: having rich relationships and bonds to others; having something worthwhile to do with their time; crafting narratives that help them understand themselves and the world they live in; and having experiences of awe and wonder.
Goal Planner
This planner helps you map out and clarify your strengths - which acts to identify worthwhile areas to pursue and form your personal mission statement.
