Week 2 – Strengths In Action

Strengths in Action

Leadership Lift – Week 2 Module

Strengths in Action

Module Overview

This week, we build on your intentional energy shift by activating a powerful leadership edge: your strengths.

Most leadership development starts by fixing gaps. We’re flipping that. Neuroscience and performance research show that sustainable, high-impact leadership doesn’t come from correcting what’s broken—it comes from amplifying what’s already strong.

This module helps you identify and use your strengths with purpose—not just for your own energy and confidence, but to increase trust, engagement, and influence in your team.

When you lead from your strengths:

  • You show up with more energy and clarity
  • Others experience you as confident and consistent

  • Influence grows organically through presence, not pressure

  • You create a leadership rhythm that’s energising, not exhausting

From a neuroscience lens, strengths use triggers dopamine, boosts resilience, and helps manage stress more effectively. It’s not about doing more—it’s about doing what matters most, with what makes you strong.

Sandpit Shift

From self-doubt to leading with strengths.

Neuroscience Insight:  Using strengths triggers dopamine, boosting confidence and energy.

This is about letting go of what drains you, and stepping into what already works — not just for ease, but for impact:

🧠 leading with presence by choosing what energises you,
💬 supporting others by showing up where you shine, and
⚡ creating clarity and momentum by using your strengths on purpose.

And that begins with activating one strength deliberately at work.

Key Takeaways

  1. Your strengths are strategic—not soft.

  2. Leading from strengths boosts trust, energy, and influence.

  3. Learned behaviours and weaknesses drain your energy.

  4. When you name and use your strengths, you model confident leadership.

  5. Purposeful strengths use supports sustainable high performance.

Workplace Experiment

Your challenge this week:

  1. Pick one Realised Strength — use it deliberately in a leadership context.

  2. Choose one Unrealised Strength — test it in a new space or stretch opportunity.

  3. Spot one Learned Behaviour — where you’re capable but drained. Make a micro-adjustment.

  4. Name one Weakness — manage it with a support system, boundary, or delegation.

🎯 The goal: Notice how strengths affect your energy, influence and engagement.

Resources

Reflection Quiz

This quiz helps you reflect on your weekly workplace experiment, evaluate your outcomes, and reinforce the key concepts. It’s designed to track whether you made the intended sandpit shift.