Post archive: May 2026
Posted on 28th May 2026
by Barbara Ormsby Why the suits in StrongSuits are no accident.Pick up a deck of cards and you are holding something that has been used to make sense of human beings ...
Posted on 22nd April 2026
by Barbara OrmsbyLet me be honest with you. When I first encountered strengths-based work, I felt a flicker of scepticism. It seemed a little too positive, a little ...
Posted on 24th February 2026
With the year in full swing and performance appraisals underway in many organisations, let’s consider two possible scenarios: one based solely on predetermined competencies, and one incorporating strengths and ...
Posted on 23rd May 2025
Where is my career going? What will my role be in 5 years’ time?
In the age of AI superintelligence and rapid technological change, it is hard to predict the right answer to these questions. A ...
Posted on 23rd April 2025
We're quick to say that StrongSuits is not a personality assessment instrument but rather a people and team development toolset which uses cards and games to get people talking about their strengths and how they work together. Let's take a look at ...Posted on 1st April 2025
In an episode of the 90's sitcom Seinfeld titled 'The Opposite', George's life is going really badly for him so he decides to do the opposite of everything. As a result, his life takes a turn for the better. At a job interview, instead of ...Posted on 21st February 2025
We’re quick to say that StrongSuits is not a personality typing model - it doesn’t aim to put people into boxes. Rather, we define StrongSuits as “a meta-model of human personality as applied to teams in the workplace”. But what do we ...Posted on 3rd December 2024
According to Gallup's State of the Global Workplace 2024 report1:
"On many wellbeing items (stress, anger, worry, loneliness), being actively disengaged at work is equivalent to or worse than being unemployed."
Yet according to the same ...Posted on 3rd December 2024
It's a wrap! The first ever StrongSuits Trainer Retreat happened in the London summer of 2024 and was a resounding success thanks to a passionate group of (facili-)trainers ...
Posted on 2nd December 2024
A common debate in the field of human change is whether it is more effective to focus on discovering and building on people's strengths, or to explore what is preventing them from fulfilling their ...Archive
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