From Frustration to Flow: How Tired Teams Become Energy Powerhouses

Systematically Discover Strengths

First, analyze what each team member does well. Objective measurement methods, such as scientific potential assessment or validated strength tests, reliably identify unique abilities.

Each team member then selects their 3-5 dominant strengths and creates a personal strength profile. When these key strengths can unfold, genuine enthusiasm, incredible energy, and peak performance emerge – often effortlessly.

Reflect on Strengths Within the Team

After individual analysis, the focus shifts to purposefully utilizing strengths within the group. In collaborative discussions or facilitated workshops, individual strength profiles are compared with each other.

Two situations often emerge: Either multiple employees have similar strengths – this facilitates collaboration since everyone thinks and acts similarly. Or the strengths are distributed differently. Complex projects in particular benefit enormously from different approaches and complementary abilities. However, collaboration must be more strongly coordinated.

Strategically Use Strengths In Daily Business

Activate Unused Strengths:

Promote strengths that are rarely used. If someone cannot contribute their creativity, expand or specifically adapt their tasks. Targeted job-crafting creates new opportunities here.

Balance Over-Dominant Strengths:

Even overly strong strengths can become problematic. An exceptionally self-responsible employee works with high motivation and reliability but unconsciously creates performance pressure. Colleagues with weaker self-responsibility may feel overwhelmed or stressed as a result. Teams or work tandems with complementary strengths help here – this balances out the different working styles.