Unleashing Humanity's Greatest Potential Through Engaging Each Individual

As we discover more about ourselves and how the world works in the grand scheme of things and how we operate within that scheme, we also discover new strategies and ways to create different outcomes in our endeavours.

The Framework

The Strengths Quotient® is the framework we use to articulate qualities and talents of human beings that form the foundation for the development of their Unique Position of Strength™.

It is the awareness of, and the ability to create different possibilities, a departure from what traditional education provides and a breakthrough of limits to create something meaningful and fulfilling in our lives.

It is an alignment of what is important and who we are being, to design and create our lives as we are meant to experience it. It is creating results that are deliberate and predictable in personal and professional endeavours, and if we extrapolate it, to do the same in relationships, in businesses, and other pursuits.

It is doing less and getting more out of life.

Developing Human Potential

The Strengths Quotient® Institute was founded to forward the conversation on the development of human potential - what it is, how we can use it, and what difference it will make.

Like a vehicle that will take you on a journey from point A to point B, we are that vehicle that takes us from the start to the end. Understanding who we are is essential, acknowledging what we have is an epiphany, and knowing what we can create is liberation.

Life as an Adventure

Life is a series of experiences that we will get. Either by accident or we can create the intention.

However, it is recognising that each experience that, though we can create deliberately, will come with challenges, that we will need to navigate around and plan for, that at some level will require preparation.

Each experience will have both challenges and victories, occurrences that we will need to respond to, that in turn will create a series of consequences and start a ripple that might far exceed our own understanding.

These will be adventures that we will speak of, stories of triumphs, stories of mistakes made and lessons learnt, stories of growth and distinctions gained.

Those will be what we will trade our lives for.

The Strengths Quotient® Institute was founded to support such adventures.

And on this journey, in these adventures, we have identified and want to acknowledge The Five Pursuits.

Five core pursuits are key in these adventures. Pursuits that will contribute to our well-being to continue to move us forward.

We want to be useful

The first core pursuit is being useful - we need to know that we are creating value in what we do. It requires for us to show up authentically with who we are, and fully engaged in what we take on.

Given a choice, we will not want to watch on the sidelines. We will not experience life fully as observers of other people's experiences - there is only one way to get our own experience, which is to experience it ourselves.

We want to be fulfilled

The second core pursuit is finding fulfilment in what we do. In finding fulfilment, happiness follows.

Happiness is a desired context, an emotional state or well-being that is reflected by positive emotions. It is not the emotion itself.

It is a subjective measure and may differ for each of us, but it is also used to articulate the many concepts that are relevant to us defining our lives.

We want something bigger than ourselves

The third pursuit is finding something bigger than ourselves, a calling to take on a bigger game in life.  The game that we are meant to play in our lifetimes that will serve a bigger purpose.

It is finding that game what we can align our other pursuits with - when we are not just getting by, but fully living our lives.

We want meaningful relationships

The fourth pursuit is meaningful relationships.

We are social creatures and we don't live alone. Though the desire to relate to others varies, the desire is there nevertheless.

More than just relating, we want these relationships to be meaningful. Relationships that are positive and edify us. Relationships that bring people together for the experiences that become especially meaningful when shared - times of both joy and sorrow, through ups and downs, in sunshine and through storms.

We want to inspire others

The fifth and final pursuit is being able to share and move the human race forward. That our lives mattered and counted for something. That it inspired others.

To know that we matter more than just being a statistic, that we contribute to the world in a unique way that only we could.

To know that we will fall and we can stand up again and continue moving forward. To know that we will make mistakes and that we will learn.

And that it all made a difference.

When we are able to articulate for ourselves what each of these five pursuits means for us, we get clearer on what we will create in our lifetimes - and the adventures that will form the journey. They create opportunities for us to fully discover our gifts and explore these gifts.

The Strengths Quotient® Institute provides the foundation, framework and tools to support such an endeavour - both at work and in our personal lives.