The Strengths Revolution with Steve Morgan | Strengths | Resources | Taking Risks

When building a picture of our strengths it is important to reflect back on personal achievements and events in our history that we can take some pride in. This episode showcases a hospital radio programme built around a sponsored parachute jump on 3rd May 1981.

A new skill involves the development of new brain synapses, but true talents and strengths are interwoven in the whole weave of the brain.

We need to focus more attention on what we can do, and less obsession with fixing weaknesses.

Focus on what you have control over.

It's about systems as much as it is about people.

Talent needs encouragement and direction.

Being aware of weaknesses is a part of helping us to build on our strengths.

Our talents run deep, they are not just superficial positive comments.

We are not always encouraged to identify talents, so for many people they are unaware of them.

They can often be discovered by accident, when we are least expecting something to emerge.

We need to be open and personally reflective to recognise when a talent is at play.

Everyone has talents the trick is how to discover them.

Don't waste time comparing yourselves to other experts, they had to start somewhere as well.

Once discovered we have a personal responsibility to make best use of our talents, for the benfit of ourselves and others.

It is the productive application of a talent that underpins the development of a strength.

We don't spend enough time identifying and working with our personal qualities and strengths, but we all have them.

We all have talents, abilities, capabilities, desires, motivations and wishes.

Our strengths underpin our abilitiy to take risks and make decisions.

As an approach in health and social care the concept emerged through Social Workers in the University of Kansas in the early 1980's.

As a focus for successful businesses worldwide the study of strengths has been a key programme for the Gallup organisation for several decades.

The approach applies equally to individual clients, employees, teams and organisation-wide.