Personal Development - 2. Strengths & Areas for Growth

Personal Development

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Strengths & Areas for Growth

Strengths & Areas for Growth | Cryferdau a Meysydd Datblygu

• Understanding Strengths & Areas for Growth
• Growth Mindset
• Passions & Talents

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

• In the movie Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle the characters have different but complimentary strengths and weaknesses.
• If you touched your left pec, what strength would appear for you?

Understanding Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths & Weaknesses

Activity 1:

This activity will help you to explore different strengths and weaknesses and how they manifest in real life.

• You will be given a card with a strength and a weakness.
• In pairs, you will play out a scenario, and try to embody the card.
• Your partner must guess what your strengths and weaknesses are.

Time to reflect...

• In the roleplay scenario, how hard was it to put yourself in the mindset of those strengths and weaknesses?
• Did you recognise yourself in any of the scenarios?

• A growth mindset encourages you to learn from failures and to improve every day.
• A fixed mindset believes "you've either got it or you haven't".
• Consider why having a growth mindset can be helpful in your career and your learning.

Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset

Try, Try, Try Again

Activity 2:

This activity explores how a Growth Mindset can help to complete tasks that might initially seem difficult or even impossible.

• You will be put into groups and given sheets of paper and some tape.
• You will have 5 minutes to build the tallest tower possible.
• After the time is up, you will reflect on what you could have done better, and what skills or resources could help you.
• Based on your reflections, you can try again and see if you can beat your record.

Time to reflect...

• Why do you think employers value a growth mindset?
• How do you think adopting a growth mindset might be useful in real-life situations?

Passions and Talents

• Everyone has passions and talents that are unique to them.
• These might not be immediately obvious for us to identify, and sometimes, having a talent or a passion can feel like an embarrassing thing to admit.
• But understanding your passions can help you to identify career opportunities that align with your interests, so that you can hone your talents in these areas.

Passion Stations

Activity 3:

In this activity, we'll be creating a time capsule, full of items specific to the cultural and social identities of everyone in the group.

• You will be asked to visit five different stations around the room, completing a challenge in each one.
• There will be a leaderboard and a space for you to rank your enjoyment at each station, to help see if you have talent or passion in any of these areas.

Time to reflect...

• What is one thing you learned today that you didn’t know before?
• How can you use this information to make informed decisions about yourself and in your life?

Strengths & Areas for Growth | Cryferdau a Meysydd Datblygu

• Understanding Strengths & Areas for Growth
• Growth Mindset
• Passions & Talents