The Discovery Session
Unlike most professional development, which focuses on your skill and knowledge gaps, the Elevate360 Discovery Session begins by identifying your distinctive strengths. Through the session, we will map your approximate character strength profile. The session includes a questionnaire designed to measure five orientations — The Anchor, The Bridge, The Driver, The Explorer, and The Synthesiser — that shape how we think, act, decide, connect, and recover under the pressures of professional life. At the end of the discovery session, participants will leave with a personalised learning path tailored to their strengths and the areas where their development will have the greatest impact. While we recommend the Elevate360 Discovery Session to anyone planning to take any of our lifelong learning classes, it is a critical starting point for intentional growth.
How the Elevate360 Discovery Session Works
72 Smalldive Elevate360 Discovery Session follows a structured sequence designed to surface your strengths through a questionnaire and an interview. In addition to identifying your strengths, we use the findings to develop a clear, motivating learning path for you.
Why Know Your Strengths?
The Theories
The science of character strengths has been one of the most significant developments in applied psychology over the past three decades. It primarily focuses on identifying and measuring the positive dimensions of human nature rather than merely fixing weaknesses. Two commonly used strengths-based assessments, the Character Strengths Survey and CliftonStrengths, emerge from the movement.
The Rationale
The central argument is that people who understand and intentionally deploy their natural strengths are more engaged, productive, and resilient than those whose development is organised around deficit correction alone.
The Benefits
Knowing your strength profile allows you to strategise your development path and engage efficiently with coaches, managers, and peers about how you work and what you need to become more productive. Elevate360 Discovery Session also surfaces your overreached strengths that often lead to shadow behaviours.
The Results
With your strength profile, you will possess greater confidence in contexts where you previously felt uncertain, as well as the awareness and skills needed to reduce friction in professional relationships. and therefore a clearer sense of your learning and development.
The Five Strength Profiles
Each strength profile describes a natural orientation — a way of showing up that is genuine, valuable, and present in your professional behaviour. At the same time, each strength profile carries a shadow: a characteristic that emerges when the profile overreaches and is not examined. Understanding both is a
crucial starting point for us to map our changes and growth.
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When others bend to pressure or convenience, you hold the line.
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You process emotional and relational dynamics naturally. That capacity to attune may habituate to accommodating beyond boundaries.
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Where others wait, you initiate and drive momentum, though that promptness of action may override thoughtful planning and consideration.
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You remain functional, curious, and effective in ambiguous conditions. Sustaining focus during routines and acquiring complex skills may be a
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You draw observations and connections that others often miss. Frequently, it also fosters an inertia to genuine inquiry and learning.
About Elevate360 Strength Profile
Elevate360 Strength Profile is built around a different focus: not just on what strengths you have, but on how well you apply them. It is designed to approximate the shadow index — a dimension that distinguishes our profiling from both VIA and CliftonStrengths. The index measures the degree to which each strength is regulated rather than simply activated. This dimension is important for understanding how we can improve our ability to relate and collaborate with others.
Curious about your strength profile? Take our short version of the Elevate360 Strength Profile Discovery Questionnaire for preliminary findings and recommendations on self-development and growth.
Discover Strength Profile