Play to your strengths with StrongSuits

Every 2-3 months, we invite the community to a free session to discuss a theme on having better conversations. These sessions are part of our efforts to give back to the community.

If you know someone who might find this session interesting, invite them or bring them along!

The topic of this session is: Play to your strengths with StrongSuits.

This workshop will use the StrongSuits virtual cards to help you gain a better understanding of your strengths and of the cognitive diversity in the group. 

StrongSuits is based on 4 insights from modern psychology:

• We are most effective at work when we play to our strengths
• Cognitive diversity makes teams stronger
• We work and interact in different ways
• We sometimes overplay our strengths and become limited by them

In this workshop we will play Your Winning Hand, one of the 6 flagship StrongSuits exercises to help you and your team play to your strengths. You can find out more about StrongSuits at strongsuits.com .

Pre-requisites:

• Please only attend this workshop if you are able to join from the start and stay for the full duration (75 minutes) as your teammates will depend on your full participation in the game.
• The remote tools that we will use are Zoom and Miro. Miro can be used on any of the major web browsers and no installation is needed. 
• Please only use Zoom and Miro on a desktop (NOT a tablet or mobile). 
• Please join from a quiet place and have your video camera turned on if at all possible so that you can see each other as you’re interacting.
• This workshop will NOT be recorded.

About the facilitator: Ryan Behrman

For the past 15 years, Ryan has worked with managers and teams to help them improve how they work together, navigate change, and deliver better outcomes.

Much of his work sits at the intersection of management development, team effectiveness, facilitation, and organisational change. He helps people make sense of complexity in their environment and improve the way they collaborate, communicate, and make decisions.

He is the CEO of StrongSuits and the Founder of Systemic Ability, where he supports organisations through management development and team effectiveness work. This includes coaching, facilitation, workshops, and development programmes designed to strengthen how teams and managers operate in practice.

Share your ideas

We invite you to share your challenges, we can use them as themes for future sessions. We will bring our knowledge, experience, and understanding to the session and invite everyone to do the same. That way, you'll find out how you'll have better conversations and have an opportunity to practise your skills.

Themes can touch the basic training modules: state, assumptions, context, listening with curiosity, and feedback, or they can be independent of them, introducing new aspects or skills for better conversations.

Technical setup

We use Zoom for our online sessions. For best performance, we suggest installing or updating the Zoom desktop application or app on your device to the latest version available. Our sessions are usually very interactive, so having a (private) place where you can freely talk and stay unmuted most or all of the time would be best.

Stay informed

We will send out an email 24 hours and one hour before the sessions to those who have signed up here. If you want to be on our mailing list, please indicate during sign-up or provide your details on our signup page:

Book your free spot now!