Monday Tip Use your strengths at work - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Monday Tip Use your strengths at work - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog I talk to a lot of people who are struggling to find a sense of their contribution to the workplace. They keep wondering what their role is, how they create value and, in a certain sense, what their identity is at work. Do you know what youre really good at in your job? Where you shine? Do you have a good sense of your contribution to the workplace? Your mission this Monday is to learn more about your strengths at work by taking the VIA Signature Strengths Questionnaire. This test has been developed as part of Martin Seligmanns work in positive psychology and indicates what your top 5 signature strengths are out of a total of 24 potential personal strengths. Heres how you do it: Go take?the VIA Signature Strengths Questionnaire. Youll be asked to register as a user first but it is free. Take the test. It has 240 questions so this can take a while :o) Make a list of your top 5 strengths. For each of your top 5 signature strengths, try to write down some situations at work where you use those strengths. Take a look at your list. What strengths do you get to use often at work? These represent your main contribution to the workplace. What strengths do you rarely or never use at work? These represent untapped potential for you and your workplace. Is there any way you could get to use them more often? If you like, come back to this post and write your top 5 strengths in a comment so we can get to know each other a little better. I already wrote my top strengths in a comment :o) This is a great exercise because it helps you discover your personal contribution to the workplace and also to find out of you have strengths that you are not currently using at work. Using your strengths daily is an important factor in becoming happy at work and in life. It will also make you more successful at work. Finally, a strength-based approach where you look at your personal strengths and how you can use them more at work is a lot more effective and a lot more fun than looking at your shortcomings and problems. The Chief Happiness Officers Monday tips are simple, easy, fun things you can do to make yourself and others happy at work and get the work-week off to a great start. Something everyone can do in five minutes, tops. When you try it, write a comment here to tell me how it went. Previous monday tips. Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related