Page 3 - Strength Cards Flipbook 2023

Introduction: ‘Know your Strengths’ Cards:

Why bother?

Time and again, we have met people who struggle to name their
strengths. Even successful people have found it hard to pinpoint

what is helping them to do well. Yet knowing one’s strengths can

make a big difference to a person’s life:

1. Knowing our strengths helps us to feel more capable
(Self Efficacy)

Feeling capable (the fancy word is ‘self-efficacy’)
is a key ingredient in:

▪ Good physical health

▪ Good mental health

▪ Learning and achievement

▪ Successful relationships

2. Knowing our strengths helps us to maximise them

Knowing our strengths puts us in a better position
to make the most of them.

By being aware of our strengths, we are more likely
use them as often as possible, to help us learn,

in our hobbies or interests and to support our

Family and community.

3. Knowing our strengths means we can let others know them so

they can help us maximise them too.

For example, if a science teacher knows we are great at explaining
but find it hard to write, they can give us the opportunity to create

a video of our science findings rather than write a report.