Flourish and Thrive 1 - Identifying your strengths
Applying a positive, strengths-based approach to your life and work increases your fulfillment and helps you flourish and thrive.
We expect sports people and teams to play to (and develop) their strengths, but we often ignore doing this personally and professionally.
It is the first session in a two-part series to help you identify, use and develop your strengths.
Overview
This is an immensely practical session converting complex scientific research into simple advice and education on why you should be identifying, using and developing your strengths for optimal performance and personal fulfillment, and the opportunities and issues for individuals, teams and organisations in doing so.
We'll also introduce, compare and contrast 3 evidence-based strengths assessments. You'll complete one of these for use in the follow up session.
What we'll cover
We convert some of the latest positive psychology research and practices into simple and practive advice, tips and tools to help you identify your strengths and understand why this is important to your personal fulfillment, and the impact for teams, organisations and communities playing to their strengths.
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes include increased awareness and understanding, as well as a toolbox of practical tips, tools and advice, which are easily and quickly implemented to help embed learning and create required behaviour changes. The education and application build the capacity and skills for increase individual (and community) wellbeing and performance.
Flourish and Thrive 1 - Identifying your strengths
Workshop faciltator
Jenni is the founder of social enterprise, Greatest Good and consulting firm, Harbridge Optimal Performance.
She is driven to create opportunities for positive behavioural, social and systemic change in business and society. From working/consulting in the investment industry, to founding a social enterprise, she contribute to a world in which everyone can flourish and thrive.
Her approach to work and life is future-thinking. Through Harbridge Optimal Performance, she draws from positive psychology, neuroscience and emotional intelligence research and applications to help executives and teams cultivate positively deviant mindsets. With Greatest Good, she helps individuals and organisations do their greatest good by finding and supporting for-purpose organisations to help build capacity to tackle social and environmental challenges.
She is an experienced director, C-suite executive, entrepreneur, consultant and board advisor - working in the investment industry, combined with volunteering in the for-purpose sector. Jenni was also an Expert Mentor on the Boosting Female Founders Initiative mentoring future female leaders, and is a Mentor for Ember Connect.
She believes we are all capable of creating positive change and social impacts. Jenni founded Greatest Good to address the ongoing challenges she witnessed in the for-purpose sector, drawing on her experience providing volunteer and pro-bono/low bono consulting,
Jenni lives her values and plays to her strengths both personally and professionally. Above all, she focuses on her passions and purpose, acting with honesty, integrity and zest. She holds a Bachelor of Business (Bus Admin), an MBA (Exec) and a Master of Applied Positive Psychology.