AI Skills Sprint: How To Discover Your Strengths Using AI (in 10 Minutes)

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. And you were trying really hard to say that, congratulations. Like please don't get that wrong. And today we're gonna 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 squigglycareers.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 gonna be able to cut and paste those prompts. Uh you're gonna see examples of what some of these strength profiles we're gonna talk about actually look like. Um we're gonna do our best to bring them to life if you are listening in an audio way. Um 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 back.

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 they're 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 a 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 thirty six percent less stressed at work, which was a kinda surprising insight, I thought. It's always good it's good for you and it's good for your team strengths, isn't it? Because we know from people like Amy Edmondson's work uh in those high performing teams, people's strengths are useful and utilized. You know 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. Like 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 role. 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. Um, I would suggest perhaps if as today is day one, you could actually do this simultaneously in two or three different AI tools. Yeah. And just to start, experiment with well, which tool Do you like, which one works for you? But today I used Claude.

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