<section><h2><h2><strong>Reflecting on Strengths </strong></h2></h2><p><p><span style="font-size:14px;">This is a tool for leaders to reflect on how far they are taking the right steps to build and sustain a strengths-based culture in their organisation. The 12 question areas used have been identified from InspireChilli's experience of supporting and assessing the quality of organisations seeking to offer a strength-based service model. The tool should be used as part of a process for celebrating achievements, identifying insights for development, and recognising where you might need more help as a leader. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:14px;"></span><span style="font-size:14px;">The term 'strength-based' is used in the tool to refer to any asset-based, Advantaged Thinking style approach. By a </span><span style="font-size:14px;">focus on strengths, we mean behaviours such as: starting from what good looks like rather than what the problem is; working with people, not doing to people; seeing and believing in people's potential; promoting people's strengths - to themselves and others; investing in people so they can thrive, not just survive; recognising strengths from people's lived experience by giving those people power to shape solutions; and being prepared to take action to bring about systemic transformation beyond the talk of personal change.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14px;"></span><span style="font-size:14px;"></span><span style="font-size:14px;"></span><span style="font-size:14px;">InspireChilli offers this tool for free as part of Director Colin Falconer's passionate commitment to promote asset-based working. However, to get the most from the tool, we recommend purchasing a 1-1 support session with Colin to review findings, discuss next step actions, and receive a personalised report based on responses to advance your work. To take advantage of this unique service, please contact <strong>hello@inspirechilli.com</strong> with 'STRENGTHS' in the subject line and ask for a personalised link to the assessment tool before completing it. The price for this is £200.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14px;">More than a tick list, the strength-based behaviours listed above are about a way of thinking and being, so give yourself plenty of time to reflect as you consider the question areas used in the survey tool. For those who take up the paid option, you will have a chance to share any personal reflections in a text box at the end of the quiz which will be responded to as part of the subsequent support session and follow up report.</span><span style="font-size:12px;"></span></p><p> </p></p></section><section><h2><h2><strong>REFLECTION ONE: Have you made a personal commitment to be strengths-based? Is this reflected in how you respond to things in your life and at work? Are you encouraging staff to follow your lead by how you behave and present yourself?</strong></h2></h2></section><section><h3><h2><strong>REFLECTION TWO: Have you taken steps to ensure staff will be committed to strengths-based practice by embedding this focus into your HR approaches - from who and how you recruit, to how you develop, line-manage and appraise people?</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><p><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>REFLECTION THREE: Do you seek to collect, monitor, review and promote evidence, KPIs and stories that can demonstrate strengths-based practice, making this part of a culture of ongoing staff reflection in your organisation or team?</strong></span></p><h2><strong></strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>REFLECTION FOUR: Do you ensure that the policies being used to support people in the services you work with are strengths-based - from how people are assessed, to how they are supported, invested in and fully involved?</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>REFLECTION FIVE: Do you ensure that funding and communications (both plans and practice) express a strengths-based vision with a focus on investing in and promoting positives?</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>REFLECTION SIX: Do you ensure that risk assessment measures for management and/or governance decisions take a proportional approach to risk to help ensure that positive opportunities can be pursued?</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>REFLECTION SEVEN: Have you communicated how a strengths-based ethos connects with the organisation's vision and values and is thus core to the culture of what and how things get done?</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>REFLECTION EIGHT: Do you encourage others to understand, celebrate, use and share strengths at every opportunity, from staff meetings and projects to involvement processes?</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><p><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>REFLECTION NINE: Do you tap into the strengths of others by connecting with, learning from and supporting the external communities and networks around you, building positive relationships at all levels?</strong></span></p><h2><strong></strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>REFLECTION TEN: Are you always prepared to take action to influence any changes in the wider system that will impact on the ability of people and communities to develop strengths in their lives?</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>REFLECTION ELEVEN: Do you invest in the resilience and positive well-being required for your staff to sustain strengths-based practice?</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h3><h2><strong>REFLECTION TWELVE: Have you promoted strengths-based practice within your operational plan and future strategy to help ensure its consistency and ongoing sustainability?</strong></h2></h3></section><section><h2><h2><strong>Thank you for completing your relflections</strong></h2></h2><p>I hope you found these questions generated some useful thinking and insight. I will be using your answers from the survey to offer some initial reflections back on what they might reveal about you. If it brings up any other ideas, do please take time to make a note of your thoughts, however unstructured they may be. We will be able to discuss these further when we talk through your answers in more detail. </p></section>