Find Your Five - Surfacing your Strengths

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What makes you stand apart?

What unique strengths do you bring to the table?

Use this worksheet to help you name and explain 5 strengths that you specifically bring to your work & life. This question is often asked in interviews, is something clients, employers, and customers want to know when they have their choice of coach, therapist, practitioner, candidate: "Why should I work with you over anyone else?"

These are also great things to discuss with colleagues, partners, family members as a way to understand more about how you can work together from a strengths place to communicate, accomplish tasks, and problem solve.

I've created this worksheet to help you surface your answer to that question. It is my hope that these questions will guide you to reflect on your assets.

We all have things that we do with a natural ease that often times we may not even know to identify as a unique strength because maybe we think everyone can do what we do in the way that we do it. I want to help you highlight these things so you can find your fit in work that is fulfilling, energizing, and sustainable.

If you'd like an example of this, feel free to visit my Work With Me page at www.ExpansiveMindsetCoaching.com to find my five!

**This exercise is a tool for you to think through how you work and to self-reflect. This exercise does not provide results for you; your outcomes are the product of your own self-reflection. It is not designed to configure a strengths profile for you.

This exercise is based on my 15 years of working with people and assisting them to see the strengths and assets they already possess and to leverage those for better job fit, better communication, better boundaries, and better life satisfaction.

© 2022 Expansive Expressions - This exercise is for individual, personal, use and is not to be copied or distributed without explicit written consent from Jennifer Alumbaugh, MS. For licensing options contact Jennifer@ExpansiveMindsetCoaching.com.

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To begin: how clear are you on 5 unique strengths, assets, and skills you bring to your work? *

I got this no problem

I know some things I'm good at

Yeah I don't really even know where to begin

I know my strengths but don't really understand what is so special about them

Other:

Before completing this exercise, what do you identify are your strengths? *

What are some things that you are able to learn with speed and ease? Check all that apply *

Technical - computer, digital, technology, build your own computers, understand how things work on a technical level

Mechanical - you enjoy taking things apart to see how they work and putting them back together again; you successfully build furniture without instructions

Design - you are able to see a clear image of a desired finished product and draw or communicate that to others

Process - you are able to take an image of a finished product and reverse engineer it to create the steps someone else will use to complete it

Movement - you can easily pick up dances, yoga positions, other movements by watching

Managing People - you know who is the right person to do the job and enlisting them to do it

Motivating Others - you inspire people, connecting with them, drawing out their purpose

Overseeing a Project - you understand the big picture, tracking who is doing what, keeping people on track with deadlines,

Theoretical - you can imagine what could be possible based on data, experience, knowledge you have now

Other:

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Details vs Big Picture. Check all that apply

You notice the small details, you like looking for what might be missing or out of place, excellent with things like editing, auditing, collecting information that you observe

You see the big picture--how it will all come together, the main idea or concept, the end product

You see the interconnectedness of all the things how the small details are related and work together to result in the big picture

Other:

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What things get you excited to talk about, teach to others, and explain?

In what way do you approach a problem/matter that needs solving? Check all that apply

You have a method that you use to work the problem, move through possible solutions, weigh pros & cons, and find best option before beginning to work the problem

You jump in using intuition and experience to guide your process through the problem

You like to take time to think about it, journal about it, and then write out a plan

You research ways of dealing with the issue, consult others who have experienced it, and do a cost-benefit analysis before making moves

You are often able to arrive at a solution without having to work steps to get there

Other:

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How does your brain tend to think about things? Check all that apply

My brain plays a movie about an idea to help me understand it

I can see images related to ideas and concepts that help me understand

I think in words and use writing to help me understand something

I have a hard time imagining concepts without any visual aid--if someone describes an object, I can't picture it without a drawing or diagram to show me

My brain is like a slowcooker, I put things in to ponder about in the background and days or weeks later I know what I need to do or understand the concept

My brain is like microwave popcorn, I have a lot of different ideas right away and like to get them all out before I decide which one to do/use/follow

I think in concrete, literal, terms. I need metrics, dimensions, facts, data

I think in concepts, ideas, theoretical possibilities of what could be

Other:

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How do you best convey concepts & ideas to others? Check all that apply

I talk about it using imagery, analogies, and metaphors

I verbally explain the steps or the parts to someone

I draw it out in order to explain it (picture, graph, diagram, etc)

I am methodical about how I share information and in what order

I share different parts of an idea as they come to mind

Other:

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What are some things you are able to do without really thinking about them, that others around you find difficult to do or understand? Some examples below, check any/all that apply or write in your own.

Putting an object together without instructions (furniture, toys, appliances, etc)

Following complex instructions to build a thing, understand technical language

Strategizing about your moves and another persons' moves, several moves ahead (chess, video games, other games can surface this strength)

Organizing an idea into an outline with steps

Turning an internal process for thinking through something into an exercise others can complete

Organizing objects, concepts, documents, etc in a way that is understandable and user-friendly

Observing a system at work and evaluating it's effectiveness

Redesigning a program, a device, etc to be more efficient, more accessible, more user-friendly

Creating detailed and formulated spreadsheets that do the work of compiling data in easily accessible formats

Listening to the needs of different people and creating solutions to meet those needs

Building relationships with people

Helping people see themselves with fresh perspective

Helping people find the solution for themselves

Providing solutions to others who don't know where to begin

Other:

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In what way do you best connect with other people? Through activities, shared interests, teaching, working together on a project, written communication, other?

What do you prefer when presented with a task or project:

I love creating the process and steps to complete the project

I want others to complete the steps that I have designed

If someone else gives me the directions, I will follow them and get it done

If there are steps I usually find different more efficient ways of doing it and re-write the process

I can easily organize a group of people, assign different tasks, keep them motivated, through the completion of the project

I work best when left to myself to consider the project, the process, and then do the steps myself

I love collaborating with others on ideas about how to approach something, and then I like to implement the steps myself

I often know what needs to get done, but don't know how it should get done

Other:

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Have you ever been in a situation where you saw a need for a job role that didn't already exist? *

Yes and it's frustrating

Yes and I created a whole job description for that role and asked my employer if I could then fill that role

Yes, and I communicated the need to my supervisor/employer

Other:

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