Podcasts about character strengths survey

In Episode 22 of The Gray Divorce Podcast, I look at our character strengths. Are we aware of what they are? And how can we use them to heal and thrive in the wake of mid-late life divorce? I discuss The VIA Survey of Character Strengths and how it can help gray divorcees move on with their lives. Thanks for listening! We'd be very grateful if you'd subscribe to the podcast and give us 5 stars! Please visit Transcend Retirement or Wiser Divorce Solutions. Follow Andrew on LinkedIn too!

We're talking all things burnout and chronic stress with the founder of The Anti-Burnout Club, Bex Spiller. Bex explains what burnout actually means and how it's not just reserved for city CEOs but can affect all of us juggling busy lives. She shares how to spot the signs (erm screen scrolling & bingeing anyone?) how to deal with burnout and most importantly how to prevent reaching overwhelm in the first place. She also shares her own experiences with burnout, which led to her completely changing her life. We discuss finding the things that bring you joy, learning to say no, and the difference between good and bad stress. Bex then challenges us to take a Character Strengths Survey (link below) to help us better understand where our strengths lie and how we can use them to increase happiness and reduce stress. If you want to take the free Character Strengths Survey head to: https://www.viacharacter.org/You can find out more about The Anti-Burnout Club at https://theantiburnoutclub.com/Thank you to our team:Music - Andrew GrimesArtwork - Erica Frances GeorgeIf you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. Thank you!Join the RUMP Club! Support the team and access exclusive content from as little as £3 p/month at: https://www.patreon.com/rightupmypodcast

A near-death experience inspired Brian Krolczyk, PhD, to shift his professional priorities. He not only became a health & wellness coach, he teaches others to become coaches and is on a mission to help people harness one of our most important health behaviors: our thinking.Brian Krolczyk, PhD, NBC-HWC, is the director of the Health & Wellness Coaching program at University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point (which I completed in 2020).In this episode, he shares some incredibly powerful strategies for recognizing unhelpful thought patterns and replacing them with healthy thoughts that inspire greater peace, ease and vitality. I love his tips and am putting them to use already!!One of the most important things I learned from Brian in the health coaching program is that thinking is a health behavior -- it's something we DO and it has a significant impact on our life and well-being.In this conversation, he mentions taking a values inventory.  Here's a sample to consider. We also did this Character Strengths Survey as part of the coaching program. Our affirmation this week is: I pause and choose healthy thinking.You can find Brian online at LinkedIn or at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.Please get in touch with me anytime! I'm on Instagram @YouKnowSandy or visit innerpeacetogo.com.Thank you Michael Kobrin for the music!Have a peaceful week.

Last year I sat down with my guest Dina Pozzo at Albert Park in Melbourne. If you would like to know more you can find Dina at http://insium.com.au/ or Email at dina@insium.com.au If you would like to understand your strengths better you can take the free Character Strengths Survey at https://www.viacharacter.org/

Why can't women be funny at work? And what drives our latest beauty obsessions? [15:57] This week, Joey, Jess, and special guest Katie talk about work playfulness, foraging, knee-slappers, Korean eyebrow masks, the beauty obsession pendulum, and Malala Yousafzai's perfect unibrow. They don't talk about the technical terms for 18th century "butt shelf" pads: "bums," "bumrolls," "rumps," or "culs." references HBR: "Making jokes during a presentation helps men but hurts women" The VIA Signature Strengths Test Yes, 'Rogaine for Eyelashes' brand Latisse in rare cases *has* turned eyelashes . Vogue: "100 years of brows." Tweezerman's lifetime guarantee of free sharpening.

Today on Momlight, I had the amazing opportunity to chat with Renee Jain, founder and Chief Storyteller at GoZen!. Renee is recognized as a pioneer in marrying technology and child psychology. Through her writing, product invention and development, masterclasses for parents, and children’s advocacy, she works to build the emotional intelligence of kids, including resilience, empathy, kindness, and critical thinking. Renee is a certified life coach, and holds a MA in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She's also a wife and a mom, and can often be found reading a comic book, doodling or sipping a cup of coffee in a quiet nook in LA. In this heartfelt chat, Renee shares valuable nuggets of wisdom and actionable advice to help us find more zen in #momlife. Whether it's taking a character strengths survey at http://www.viacharacter.org/www/Character-Strengths-Survey or repeating "I am enough" (and even potentially getting it tattoo'd on our arm LOL), this conversation gave me so much to ponder and work with as I try and find lightness of being in chaotic and beautiful momlife. You can learn more about Renee and her incredibly powerful work to combat anxiety in kids (and parents!) at www.gozen.com

Do you Know what your personal character strengths are? Can you identify how they have shown up in your life during a challenging times and not so challenging times? How can you connect with your signature strengths on a regular basis to live in alignment?   http://www.viacharacter.org/www/Character-Strengths-Survey

Do you Know what your personal character strengths are? Can you identify how they have shown up in your life during a challenging times and not so challenging times? How can you connect with your signature strengths on a regular basis to live in alignment?   http://www.viacharacter.org/www/Character-Strengths-Survey

Summary   The self-fulfilling prophecy describes how our expectations of others can lead them to act in a way that confirms those expectations. As leaders it’s time to reset our expectations so we can get the best out of our people and stop holding them back.     Transcript   Hello and welcome to episode 26 of the Leadership Today Podcast where each week we tackle one of today’s biggest leadership challenges. This week we’re looking at self-fulfilling prophecies, and why we get what we expect. It’s a sunny Wednesday in 1932 as the CEO of Last National Bank walks towards his desk. The bank is thriving and financially strong, and Cartright Millingville is rightly proud of the business he oversees. But as he continues past the tellers, he notices the queue of people lining up is much longer than usual - nothing to worry about at this point, but certainly different to most Wednesday mornings. As he takes a seat at this desk the noise and activity in the bank gradually grows, with people becoming increasingly unruly. And that’s because this is no ordinary day - hundreds of people are lining up to withdraw all of their funds from the bank, having heard a rumour of the bank’s imminent collapse. Despite the bank’s strong financial position, it could not survive the initially false, but ultimately true, perception that it might be at risk. The bank collapsed and closed its doors permanently the same day. The false perception became fact. The sociologist Robert Merton shares this example in his classic 1948 paper - The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. In the paper he describes how our expectations can influence the world around us. Thinking that a financial institution is at risk of collapse can ultimately lead to its collapse. In the same way, our expectations of others can lead them to behave in line with these expectations. Merton defines the self-fulfilling prophecy as “a false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour which makes the originally false conception come true.” And, of course, this outcome strengthens the original perception of the situation, as Merton continues “for the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning”. A common example of a self-fulfilling prophecy is the placebo effect. In drug trials, prospective new medications are put up against placebo pills. These placebo pills have no direct physical impact on the individual. But believing that a placebo tablet will have an impact is often enough for it to actually have that impact. For that reason, finding drugs that work better than placebos can be difficult. It’s not that a placebo is neutral - the expectation the person has of the placebo tablet actually makes that outcome more likely. More recent research demonstrates that the placebo effect is so strong, it can still work even when the person knows that they’re taking a placebo. By way of example, Dr Ted Kaptchuk treated patients with irritable bowel syndrome by giving them a tablet openly identified to the patient as a placebo. This group demonstrated significant improvement in their symptoms compared to a group that didn’t receive a placebo. As Dr Kaptchuck notes, this clearly can’t work for all medical issues. However he sees the greatest potential for so called ‘open-label’ placebo treatments in conditions that are largely measured through self-observation - conditions including pain, nausea and fatigue. Placebo tablets and treatments are a great example of the self-fulfilling prophecy. Classic experiments in schools have also shown the impact of the self-fulfilling prophecy. In the 1960s, Rosenthal and Jacobsen undertook a series of experiments with teachers and students. In one experiment, they chose a group of students at random and told teachers that those children had taken a test which showed they were “growth spurters” - that they had high potential and were likely to experience great progress in the year to come. The children weren’t aware of this finding - only the teachers knew. But the group was actually not special - they hadn’t taken a test and had no reason to advance more quickly than their peers. At the end of the year the evidence was in - the students identified as “growth spurters” to the teachers demonstrated significantly greater improvement across the year than their peers. Believing a student had greater potential led them to demonstrate greater potential. This research has been replicated many times and while some more recent research has questioned the size of the effect, the effect is still there. So how does this work? It’s believed teachers’ expectations impact the way they treat their students and this, in turn, changes the behaviour of the students, helping them to reach those expectations. If I think a student has high potential, I’ll treat them differently, by giving them more opportunities to develop and demonstrate this potential. Research has found this same effect alive and well in our organisations too, where supervisor expectations can modify performance. Which raises another point - having low expectations can also lead people to reduced performance. As a leader, findings like these should make us pause and think: What expectations do I have of my people? What evidence do I have for these expectations? Are my expectations limiting the performance and potential of my people? What if we wiped the slate clean as leaders and expected more out of our people? What impact might that have? What if we expect that people turn up to work wanting to do a good job. That people can and want to develop and improve. That if the conditions are right, people can deliver even more than what we expect of them. While we’re at it, what expectations do we have of ourselves? Are there limiting beliefs you have about yourself that lead people to treat you differently? Perhaps you don’t expect to get a promotion, and this leads others to see you as less worthy of a promotion. Perhaps you joke about being lazy, which leads others to see you as lazy. You might take some time this week to consider your strengths. One way to do this is to take a survey like the VIA Character Strengths which can help identify your unique strengths. Embracing your strengths will help you to present more confidently to others, and change the way they view you in line with the expectations you place on yourself. Let me know how you go, and have a great week.     References   The Self-Fulfilling ProphecyAuthor(s): Robert K. MertonSource: The Antioch Review, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Summer, 1948), pp. 193-210 https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-know-placebo-201607079926 Eden, D. (1984). Self-fulfilling prophecy as a management tool: Harnessing Pygmalion. The Academy of Management Review, 9(1), 64-73. VIA Character Strengths Survey - available free - www.viacharacter.org/www/Character-Strengths-Survey

In this episode Khloe and Hilary discuss what it means to be highly sensitive, and how you can recognize it in yourself or in others. Follow us on Instagram & Twitter: @TwinFlamesPod Email us: twinflamespod@gmail.com Send us a Voice Message: https://anchor.fm/twinflames/message Episode Info: •Elaine N. Aron website: https://hsperson.com/ •Elaine N. Aron book list: https://www.amazon.com/Elaine-N.-Aron/e/B000APOABU/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1546290283&sr=8-2-ent •Character Strengths Survey: http://www.viacharacter.org/www/Character-Strengths-Survey# • Strengths Finder Book: https://www.amazon.com/StrengthsFinder-2-0-Tom-Rath/dp/159562015X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1546290163&sr=8-1&keywords=clifton+strengths • Sensitive-The Untold Story Documentary: http://sensitive-theuntoldstory.vhx.tv/ Find Khloe: YouTube: http://youtube.com/koffeeyt Twitter: http://twitter.com/koffeeyt Instagram: http://instagram.com/koffeeyt Blog: http://kozykale.com Find Hilary: Hilary currently does not have any social media profiles open to the public, but you can always email either of us at twinflamespod@gmail.com *Hilary is an MFT Trainee supervised by Avis Attaway --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/twinflames/support

What are your strengths? How do you understand them about yourself? In knowing your strengths how are you a better person for them? Sukh explores what he believes is a distinction between being good at something and having strength in it. You can learn more about strengths and your own by completing the VIA survey here http://www.viacharacter.org/www/Character-Strengths-Survey. You can also check out more resources on the University of Pennsylvania website https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/testcenter. Towards the end, Sukh talks about understanding your signature strength. You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.

יהודית כץ, מתמחה בפסיכולוגיה חיובית, ענף פסיכולוגי שמתמקד בתפקוד האנושי הטוב ושואל איך אפשר ללמוד לחיות חיים מלאים יותר.    בשיחה שאלנו איך אפשר ליישם פסיכולוגיה חיובית בארגון? מהי הדרך הנכונה לתת פידבק לעובדים? איך מתחזקים יחסי עובד-מנהל טובים?   אותי באופן אישי ריתק במיוחד שאלון לזיהוי החוזקות של כל אחד. מה קורה כשאנחנו עובדים מתוך זווית של חוזקות? מה נותן השימוש בשאלון כזה בעבודת צוות?   יהודית כץ, למדה פסיכו-ביולוגיה (מדעי המוח) באוניברסיטה העברית ועסקה במחקר מוח נוירופסיכיאטרי בבית החולים הדסה עין כרם. בהמשך למדה אימון פסיכולוגי וטיפול קוגניטיבי התנהגותי. היום היא מלווה תהליכים אישיים, מדריכת קבוצות, מייעצת לארגונים, מרצה, כותבת שבועית ב"הארץ" ובעלת הפודקאסט "חושבים טוב".    לאתר של יהודית -http://www.judithkatz.me/ לפודקאסט של יהודית - https://judithkatzpodcast.simplecast.fm/ לשאלון החוזקות - http://www.viacharacter.org/www/Character-Strengths-Survey