Learning objectives :

• Identifying your strengths: your professional skills and personal qualities
• Learn to talk about yourself authentically and to receive feedback to deepen your self-awareness
• Identify and prioritize short- and medium-term development priorities, along with concrete action steps
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Course :

Session 1: Mapping Your Strengths
People rarely know how to clearly identify and highlight their strengths. Participants explore two aspects of their strengths: their professional skills (hard and soft skills) and their deeper personal qualities. A partner exercise then allows them to speak about themselves authentically and receive feedback from others to complete and refine this self-assessment.

Example of a tool : The skills mapping matrix (Hard skills: technical and professional expertise / Soft skills: behavioral and interpersonal skills) + the 8 major categories of personal aptitudes (Emotional / Intuitive / Collaborative / Concrete / Physical / Creative / Communication / Conceptual) to identify one’s strengths beyond visible skills.

Case Study : talking about yourself to a peer in a one-on-one setting in an authentic way, asserting yourself without undervaluing yourself, and receiving feedback to validate or expand your strengths map.

Session 2: Analyzing Your Favorite Activities with the Flow Journal
Skills on paper don’t tell the whole story. It’s the activities in which you truly feel in your element that reveal your deepest strengths. Participants learn to recognize their own patterns of energy and engagement by analyzing their favorite activities.

Example of a tool : The Flow Journal (analyzing your favorite activities to identify the moments when you are most engaged and energized, and distinguishing your strengths "in action" from your stated skills).

Case Study : Review a selection of recent activities, identify patterns of what generates flow versus what drains you, and draw concrete insights about your true strengths and deep-seated preferences.

Session 3: Identifying and Prioritizing Areas for Development
Knowing your strengths also means knowing what you want to focus on developing first. Participants leave with a structured action plan: clear short- and medium-term development goals, and action items ranked according to their actual impact versus the effort required.

Example of a tool : The impact/effort matrix for prioritizing development initiatives (high impact + low effort: launch immediately / high impact + high effort: plan / low impact: deprioritize or delegate).

Case Study : Identify short- and medium-term development priorities, generate concrete action steps for each, and rank them using the impact/effort matrix to leave with a prioritized and realistic action plan.