strengths Tag

04 Mar

Posted at 14:32h in Events, PhD Life by

          In response to the continuing failure of many research-based interventions to create systems change at scale, I am happy to announce a new initiative – The Change Lab – I’ve co-founded with Michelle McQuaid and Michelle Etheve.The Change Lab hosts conversations that challenge and amplify frameworks, tools and best practices which increase our confidence, motivation, and impact as change-agents working powerfully together in beloved community. We will re run the Certificate In Creating Positive Change – a twelve-week online experience beginning March 17. If you’ve been trying to help people, teams, workplaces, schools, or entire communities to create positive changes and feel that...

09 Sep

Posted at 11:44h in Events, PhD Life by

            This summer I attended the Sixth World Congress on Positive Psychology in Melbourne, Australia. I gleaned many insights, strengthened old and made new connections, spoke on several panels, won the positive organizational intervention challenge award. Colleagues and I created a high-tech and high-touch system called “Feedforward” to help organizations step up how they have development conversations that actually work. I also got clearer on my own research agenda for the PhD I’m working on to build systems-informed positive psychology. My research serves to enhance the efficacy of positive interventions and increase our collective social impact. Social impact is anything that improves...

29 Dec

Posted at 11:58h in Uncategorized by

Prepared by Louis Alloro, M.ED., MAPP The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths, making our weaknesses irrelevant. –Peter Drucker Last week, we introduced the foundations of strengths-based development to help your team understand their individual strengths profiles. Remember strengths are not the same as talents which Gallup defines as natural ways of thinking, feeling, or behaving -- themes. Talents include activities that provide satisfaction and delight and therefore more engagement, productivity and even happiness. Talents are neutral, but how we choose to apply them can turn those talents into a positive--which we call a strength. Remember, though there’s always...

01 Oct

Posted at 12:59h in abundance, Relationships, strengths by

This fall when you see geese heading south for the winter flying along in a "V" formation, you might be interested in knowing what science has discovered about why they fly that way. It has been learned that as each bird flaps its wings, it creates an uplift for the bird immediately following. By flying in a "V" formation, the whole flock adds at least 71% greater flying range than if each bird flew on its own. People who share common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier, because they are traveling on...

03 Mar

Posted at 12:07h in abundance, Character Strength, Coaching, gratitude, Happiness coach, Life Coach, Meaning, Positive Psychology, strengths by

➢ Use your VIA Strengths (measure them free by clicking here) to build energy and create momentum for how you be in the world. If you’re high on gratitutde for example, find innovative ways to use your gratitude, express your gratitude, be your gratitude. This will fuel your fire. ➢ Try not to let the pressure of time be against you. Time is highly paradoxical. It is not linear the way we have set it up to be. Love exactly where you are. After all, where else can you be? ➢ Remember the importance of clearing space to gain clarity and enlightenment - ending your...

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