00:00:00: Introduction
00:00:50: All about strengths
00:02:13: Forming an AI immediate
00:04:34: An AI instance
00:08:21: Increasing the insights
00:09:21: A staff dialogue
00:09:57: Last ideas
Sarah Ellis: Hello, I am Sarah.
Helen Tupper: And I am Helen.
dSarah Ellis: And that is the Squiggly Careers podcast. That is the primary episode of our Squiggly Profession Abilities Dash.
Helen Tupper: You had been attempting actually arduous to say that, congratulations!
Sarah Ellis: It is like, “Please do not get that fallacious!” And at this time, we’ll be speaking about strengths. Now, if you have not signed up for the every day dash abstract, this is perhaps the second to get that sorted; hyperlink within the present notes or simply e mail us, helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com. And the rationale that actually issues is the prompts, the instruments, the examples we’ll speak about at this time, all of that is going to be linked in there for you, simply to make your life simpler. You are going to have the ability to lower and paste these prompts, you are going to see examples of what a few of these strengths profiles we’ll speak about truly appear to be. We’ll do our greatest to carry them to life, in case you are listening in an audio method, however I do suppose a few of these issues are very nice to see similtaneously to listen to us speak about.
Helen Tupper: So, let’s begin with this ability of strengths, what it’s and why it issues. So, strengths are the issues that give us power at work, it is what we need to be recognized for. When your strengths stand out, it is truly a method that you may pull potentialities in direction of you. So, you resolve what it’s you need to be recognized for, after which as a result of these are standing out, they’re doing a little bit of the speaking for you, and also you get to do extra of the work that you just get pleasure from. It is usually confirmed to be a method that you’re extra impactful. And we did a little bit of analysis on some Squiggly stats. There’s an fascinating relationship between strengths and stress, which is that individuals who use their strengths at work are 36% much less careworn at work, which was a type of shocking perception, I assumed.
Sarah Ellis: It is all the time good for you and it is good to your staff’s strengths, is not it? As a result of we all know, from folks like Amy Edmondson’s work, in these excessive performing groups, folks’s strengths are helpful and utilised. Everyone recognises all people else’s strengths and we’re all utilizing them. So, I all the time simply really feel prefer it’s a type of areas the place if you may get it proper, it is simply good for everybody.
Helen Tupper: I additionally suppose, as a result of we speak about strengths quite a bit in our workshops, this is without doubt one of the areas that individuals suppose they’ve accomplished.
Sarah Ellis: Yeah, undoubtedly.
Helen Tupper: Like, “Oh, I’ve accomplished strengths”, and I am like, “No, we have to hold doing strengths”, as a result of Squiggly Careers, our roles hold altering. We’d resolve we need to be recognized for various issues. We have to hold stretching these strengths in order that they keep related to our position. So, I do not suppose we’re ever accomplished with strengths, which I feel means at this time’s episode is especially helpful.
Sarah Ellis: And so, we’ll begin at this time with an AI immediate about strengths, so what you’ll truly ask your AI instrument to do for you. I’d recommend maybe as at this time is day one, you might truly do that concurrently in two or three totally different AI instruments. And simply to begin, experiment with which instrument do you want, which one works for you. However at this time, I used Claude and I used the free model, so I simply used the non-public free model. Typically, there are ones the place you pay a bit each month, however I did not use that for this. I do like Claude, I did discover myself most likely hold coming again to Claude.
Helen Tupper: I really feel such as you’ve linked with Claude.
Sarah Ellis: I really feel like I’ve truly linked with Claude.
Helen Tupper: Seems like an individual to you.
Sarah Ellis: It most likely was my favorite total. And the opposite factor I did like, and it isn’t the one instrument that does this, is it does save your latest chats. So, if you happen to’re utilizing this over the dash, you may come again and be like, “Oh, what did that say?” and you’ll hold constructing, particularly if you do not have time to do all the things unexpectedly. So, the very first thing, as a part of your immediate, bear in mind to provide your AI instrument a job. So, I’ve mentioned, “Act as a Squiggly Profession coach”, clearly. So, I exploit that quite a bit all through the week. So, “Act as a Squiggly Profession coach. Be excessive care and excessive problem in your method”, so I used to be additionally telling it easy methods to behave. And that labored fairly nicely for me, as a result of in any other case I do discover typically the AIs are simply actually supportive.
Helen Tupper: Is that not your pure desire?
Sarah Ellis: No. And so typically, I used to be like, it simply acquired a bit too supportive.
Helen Tupper: Too good?
Sarah Ellis: Yeah.
Helen Tupper: “Properly accomplished, Sarah, hold attempting”.
Sarah Ellis: Oh no, there was a whole lot of exclamation marks. You understand how I really feel about exclamation marks?
Helen Tupper: Yeah, I do.
Sarah Ellis: However as quickly as I put, “Excessive care, excessive problem”, the exclamation marks decreased fairly dramatically. So, I requested it to behave in that method. “Ask me ten questions, one by one, to assist me discover what my strengths is perhaps. On the finish, use my solutions to create a abstract of what my high strengths may very well be”. And I feel the watch-out with all of these items, an AI doesn’t know you higher than you already know your self, however it might in a short time offer you some clues, some knowledge, some insights to work with, even when it is some knowledge to disagree with. So, please do not see these processes as like, “Oh, that is it, I am accomplished now”. However I do suppose after I have a look at them, the questions that it requested me, they had been all actually helpful. It did immediate me to kind of say, “Properly, do not simply use what you suppose the suitable reply is, be actually sincere”.
Only one instance of a query that it requested me, “Take into consideration a time when somebody got here to you with an issue, private, skilled, it does not matter. What was your intuition? Did you instantly need to give recommendation, ask questions to know higher, assist them brainstorm options or one thing else fully?” After which it prompted me like, “Be brutally sincere”. What do you suppose I mentioned in response to that one?
Helen Tupper: I do not know, inform me.
Sarah Ellis: I mentioned, “Oh, I need to give everybody concepts”, clearly.
Helen Tupper: That is simply Sarah.
Sarah Ellis: They had been like, “Oh, did you simply ask a great deal of questions?” I am like, “Properly, no, if I am being actually sincere, I simply need to provide you with concepts”. So, that is what I did. I went via these ten questions. Once more, as a reminder, the extra you place in, the extra you’ll get out. So, I truly did this a few instances on a few instruments, however I gave Claude probably the most to work with, and subsequently I acquired a greater visible and higher responses in consequence.
Helen Tupper: And I lower and pasted that immediate and put it into ChatGPT, and I discovered that the questions that requested me, it simply made me suppose. It was undoubtedly prompting me. I felt like, you already know, it is prompting me to suppose a bit extra deeply, and about my strengths from just a few totally different instructions. I discovered it simply helpful, helpful to kind of pause and suppose.
Sarah Ellis: So, on the very finish, I requested it to create me this visible, one thing that will be shareable. And it got here up with this concept of, “Your power’s constellation”. And on the high, it says, “Your core superpower”. So, mine got here up as, “The thought catalyst: you spark potentialities that others carry to life”. I used to be like, completely, I do not truly do the work.
Helen Tupper: “Here is an concept, Helen. Activate”.
Sarah Ellis: I used to be like, “Right here we go”. Yeah, I imply you get that, which I like the very fact it kind of distilled a core superpower. You have to resolve how you are feeling about it. However then it gave me, with emoticons, small descriptions of issues that may very well be my strengths, which I feel you’ll then must do some refining of. So, I truly acquired a listing of, what number of have I acquired right here, eight, which I used to be like, “Oh, that is fairly an extended record”. So, I feel I would need to refine that additional. So, that may very well be an additional immediate, “From the solutions that I’ve given, that are the three strengths that actually stood out?” otherwise you simply resolve that for your self. You may simply apply your personal essential pondering. Nevertheless it undoubtedly gave me some issues to consider like, “Drawback-centred innovation: you do not simply create for enjoyable, you are pushed by actual issues that want fixing. Your improvements have goal and which means behind them”. And I used to be pondering, truly, yeah, I do not suppose I simply create for no purpose. I am not a type of artistic one who would simply, inside a vacuum, create. I feel I’m fairly problem-oriented. I wish to know the issue that I am fixing.
Helen Tupper: So, I attempted just a few various things. I acquired ChatGPT to do the identical factor with the visible. I discovered it a bit much less efficient than Sarah’s truly, however I feel it is value attempting it. I additionally copied and pasted the solutions of what it mentioned my strengths had been into Canva. Canva has an AI instrument and that created me a unique visible. So, I feel a little bit of that is enjoying, however I did discover that each one wanted a little bit of enhancing. To your level, I feel it will get you a bit extra conscious.
Sarah Ellis: You get midway there.
Helen Tupper: Yeah, undoubtedly, perhaps much more, however I feel there is a little bit of tailoring wanted.
Sarah Ellis: I additionally acquired on the finish what this implies to your profession, and I did not ask it to do this. And I used to be like, “Oh, okay”. You understand, there’s all the time a little bit of ‘what’, like what my strengths is perhaps, then there’s the ‘so what now’. And truly, with out prompting, it did a little bit of the ‘so what now’. And so, it was saying to me, “Collaborate with individuals who can construct in your concepts”. I used to be like, “Achieved”. “Have area for reflection and inventive pondering”. After which, it gave me somewhat quote on the finish as nicely.
Helen Tupper: Go on?
Sarah Ellis: “You are not simply somebody who has concepts, you are somebody who creates the situations for breakthrough pondering to occur”.
Helen Tupper: Did you find it irresistible?
Sarah Ellis: Clearly! I do suppose the strengths one, I am like, you will really feel higher due to this.
Helen Tupper: Yeah.
Sarah Ellis: As a result of this AI is mainly telling you what you might be greatest at. So, I used to be like, if you happen to want a little bit of motivation…
Helen Tupper: For those who begin speaking that quote to me, “I create the situations”, I will be like…
Sarah Ellis: “For breakthrough pondering”, I feel you may discover.
Helen Tupper: Yeah, certain. I stay up for listening to that. On the ‘so what’ level, an additional factor that you are able to do, if you wish to take this additional, is take the insights into LinkedIn. So, if you happen to’ve already acquired a LinkedIn profile, or perhaps you have not acquired one in the intervening time, you may say, “These are the strengths I need to be recognized for, create a LinkedIn profile that’s clear and assured and may construct my model”. And you may both do this from scratch, or I put my present one in and I mentioned, “Enhance this profile with these strengths in thoughts”, and it was truly fairly efficient.
Sarah Ellis: And since you’d accomplished that, I then did that as a result of we had been kind of sharing as we went, and straightaway it wrote one thing quite a bit higher.
Helen Tupper: Yeah.
Sarah Ellis: And you already know if you suppose, “Properly, I put effort into writing within the first place”.
Helen Tupper: That is the factor. I used to be like, “That is so significantly better”.
Sarah Ellis: It is a lot simpler. I nonetheless suppose, clearly you have to undergo, and there have been some bits the place I used to be like, “Properly, I would not say that phrase or I would not fairly write in that method”. However to your level, it is fairly an fascinating query, is it, “How far did this get me out of 10?” And perhaps with the strengths, I may need gone, “Oh, it acquired me to six out of 10″ and then you definitely want extra work. I discovered with the LinkedIn one, I feel it acquired me to eight out of 10”.
Helen Tupper: Yeah, I used to be like, It is a is a tiny little bit of tweaking I’ve accomplished.
Sarah Ellis: Yeah.
Helen Tupper: And so, last item for at this time’s episode is, how are you going to speak about this collectively in your staff? So, we’d love you to take these conversations into your groups. So, 3 ways wherein you are able to do that. Initially, share one of many strengths that actually linked with you. So, perhaps it was the concepts, or for me it was artistic management, no matter these issues are. Then, provide to assist somebody who can profit from what you might carry. So, does anybody else want that power, and you might say, “I would like to make use of it with you that can assist you”. After which, the third factor is ask for concepts of how you might use it extra. If we’ve these strengths conversations, they may actually begin to stick and all people can be stretching their strengths at work.
Sarah Ellis: So, that is it for the dash at this time. We hope you have loved getting began, and also you’re experimenting. I feel we have each acquired a whole lot of power from simply having a play. So, I feel do not put any strain on your self to do that in — there is no proper method. I feel simply when you get began, it simply will get simpler and simpler. And in tomorrow’s dash, we’ll be speaking about values, so what motivates and drives you, and the way AI can speed up each your consciousness, but in addition the actions you are taking about your values.
Helen Tupper: See you tomorrow, everybody.
