EXERCISES
Make the most of the Positive Traits Game, here are eleven value packed exercises to help inspire new and fun ways to play. Each of these exercises was created to offer an alternate way to practice the game in different settings and groups (such as one-on-one or team building).
Exercise 1 (Strengths Cards): Compare life domains
Identify inner traits you use in different parts of your life and reflect on how to make even more of them.
INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY TO BUILD SELF-AWARENESS
Exercise 2: Full Circle
Get a more rounded picture of your inner traits by asking a few of your colleagues, family, friends or customers for feedback.
INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY TO UNDERSTAND YOUR INNER TRAITS
Exercise 3: Team Builder
Open up the discussion in a team and focus them on what they do best collectively. Help them recognize how they can be at best more often.
GROUP ACTIVITY TO BUILD ON TEAM STRENGTHS
Exercise 4: Guess Who
Build positive connections between team members by sharing mutual appreciation of each others traits. Works best in a team that already knows each other.
GROUP ACTIVITY TO BUILD POSITIVE CONNECTIONS
Exercise 5: Project Success
Encourage someone to review a project or other experience and pick out the positive lessons. Valuable preparation for and interview or test.
ONE-ON-ONE ACTIVITY TO CREATE SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS
Exercise 6: Picture the Future
Help someone get greater clarity around their life goals so they can move forward with a greater sense of purpose.
ONE-ON-ONE ACTIVITY TO CREATE A BETTER UNDERSTAND OF GOALS
Exercise 7: Strengths Profile
Encourage better connections between team members and build appreciation for the diversity of traits in the group I deal for a team building activity
TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITY TO CREATE MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS
Exercise 8: Stories
Help people recognize their own positive traits and practice listening for traits in what others are saying. Enables sharing of feedback between others.
GROUP ACTIVITY TO FIND POSITIVE TRAITS IN OTHERS
Exercise 9: Quick-Fire Feedback
Strengthen relationships within a team and help individuals to better understand their strengths through sharing feedback and positive insights.
GROUP ACTIVITY TO SHARE POSITIVE FEEDBACK
Exercise 10: Planner
Take a planful approach to dealing with an upcoming challenge by considering how you might use your strenghts to best effect.
INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY TO PLAN FOR UPCOMING CHALLENGES
Exercise 11: Understanding Traits
Help young people understand the concept of positive traits by facilitating a discussion about strengths in practice.
GROUP ACTIVITY TO HELP YOUNG ONES FIND POSITIVE TRAITS