Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast. This is the first episode of

our Squiggly Career Skills Sprint. You were trying really hard to say that. Congratulations. It's like,

please don't get that wrong. And today we're going to be talking about strengths. Now if you haven't

signed up for the Daily Sprint summary, this might be the moment to get that sorted.

Link in the show notes or just email us, Helen and Sarah at Squiggly Careers.com. And the reason that really matters is the prompts, the tools, the examples we're going to talk about today. All of that's going to be linked in there for you just to make your life easier. You're going to be able to cut and paste those prompts. You're going to see examples of what some of these strengths profiles we're going to talk about actually look like. We're going to do our best to bring them to life if you are listening in an audio way. But I do think some of these things are really nice to see at the same time as to hear us talk about. So let's start with this skill of strengths, what it is and why it matters. So strengths are the

things that give us energy at work. It's what we want to be known for. When your strengths stand out,

it's actually a way that you can pull possibilities towards you. So you decide what it is you want to be

known for. And then because those are standing out, they're kind of doing a bit of the talking for you

and you get to do more of the work that you enjoy.

It is also proven to be a way that you are more impactful.

And we did a bit of a bit of research on some squiggly stats.

There's an interesting relationship between strengths and stress,

which is that people who use their strengths at work are 36% less stressed at work, which was a kind of surprising insight, I thought. It's always good for you and it's good for your team's strengths, isn't it? Because we know from people like Amy Edminton's work, in those high-performing teams, people's strengths are useful and utilised. You know, like everybody recognises everybody else's strengths and we're all using them.

So I always just feel like it's one of those areas where if you can get it right, it's just good for everyone. I also think, because we talk about strengths quite a lot in our workshops, this is one of the areas that people think they have done. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. I've done strengths and I'm like, no, no, we need to keep doing strengths because squiggly careers, our roles keep changing.

We might decide we want to be known for different things.

We need to keep stretching those strengths so that they stay relevant to our roles.

So I don't think we are ever done with strengths, which I think means today's episode is particularly useful.

And so we're going to start today with an AI prompt about strengths.

So what you will actually

ask your AI tool to do for you. I would suggest, perhaps as today is day one, you could

actually do this simultaneously in two or three different AI tools. And just to start experiment

with, well, which tool do you like, which one works works for you but today I used Claude

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