Strength Profiling
- jessicaaqian
- Nov 4, 2024
- 2 min read
Find out your strengths and weaknesses through various tests
Introduction
Identifying your strengths can help boost your effectiveness and confidence in managing challenges
Understanding your strengths and weaknesses can help you appreciate your unique potential, equipping you to make more informed life decisions and lead a more energise and authentic life
Knowing when and how to use your strengths to tackle your tasks or manage problems is the key to enhancing your livelihood and well-being
#1 Values In Action (VIA)
Classification of character strengths and virtues (by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman)
The VIA Classification is a free self-report questionnaire that takes 15 minutes to complete, helping you gain insight into the degree of the 24 signature character strengths that you possess and thus the character strengths profile that is unique to you
A major aspect of positive psychology which draws interests from diverse disciplines – education, management, consulting, psychology, coaching etc.
#2 Wingfinder
Developed by Red Bull and a team of psychology professors from University College London and Columbia University New York, Wingfinder is a free personality assessment that can be completed in approximately 35 minutes
It instantly produces a 19-page feedback report detailing your strengths and a personalised coaching plan
Light-hearted approach to explore how 25 different strengths can be assessed in four influential ways to determine employability and career success – connections, drive, thinking and creativity
Wingfinder may perhaps be particularly engaging for students or those in the early stages of their careers as the assessment focuses on components of employability and career success for knowledge-based occupations.
#3 Strength Deployment Inventory
Popular self-development tool introduced by Elias Hull Porter (1971), a famous American psychologist contemporary to eminent theorists like Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
Widely used in individual counselling, life coaching and professional development programs.
Two core concepts: Motivational Value Systems (MVS) and Conflict Sequences
SDI probes the “why” of our emotions and actions, helping to:
Increase self-awareness
Understand internal motives and values – the underlying causes of our behaviour
Deal with conflict effectively – what results in individuals' different responses to pressure and hardships
Written by: Ayn Chuan | Designed by: Chia Miao Ting | Edited by: Jonathan Kuek
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