Road to Joy

Bear with me for a moment while I bask in the glory of the cleverness of that title...

Ok, good, thanks!

Earlier this week we brought a gentleman named Ryan into our office at Impact Society for a team development session.  He is deeply trained in the Clifton Strengthfinder work and he was talking to us about leveraging our top 5 strengths as individuals and as a team.  As prep work we all had to buy the book and complete the online assessment.  It is very interesting work and a very valuable start to a fairly involved bunch of insight.  As part of my learning journey through my leave, I plan to make Jeff complete the assessment (he doesn't know this yet:) & there is a kid version that I know my boys could do (they don't know either:) - I think it will be interesting to do as a family to help with understanding each other.  (Stay tuned about that bit...)

Anyway, at the end of the session, Ryan invited us to try an interesting exercise.  He told us to put 2 headings at the top of a piece of paper 'Loved It' & 'Loathed It' and pay attention to the things that we do in a week and write them down under whatever heading they belong under.  This approach he suggested would give us some insight as to when we are really leveraging our strengths and when we are not.  I think this is an interesting approach to try out on my road to joy as I fundamentally believe that fully living in each of our unique strengths is the key to true, long lasting joy.

Incidentally, for anyone who has done the assessment, my top 5 are; strategic, ideation, activator, positivity and belief.  See you on the road to joy!