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Strength cards

Cards with things you can be good at. Choose the cards that fit you, or choose three for someone else.

Strength cards

Strength cards

Choose cards

Who are you choosing for?

Which cards fit you? Tap them. Not sure? Just choose the card. You can remove it again later.

Show

Showing 40 cards.Chosen: 0.

My strengths

No cards chosen yet. Tap a card if it fits you. It will then appear here.

All strength cards

Read the cards. Draw a circle around the strengths that fit you. For a few of them, write down when you showed this. Are you choosing for someone else? Then choose three.

together with others

  • Good listener. You let people finish talking and you hear what they mean.
  • Caring. You look out for others and you help when it is needed.
  • Funny. You can make other people laugh.
  • Honest. You say what you think, in a kind way.
  • Loyal. You do not let down the people you care about.
  • Friendly. You are nice to people, even if you do not know them.
  • Good at working together. You like doing things with others and you give them room too.
  • Welcoming. People feel welcome with you.
  • Standing up for others. You speak up when someone is treated unfairly.
  • Bringing people together. You make sure everyone feels included.

Doing with your hands and body

  • Keeps going. You do not give up easily.
  • Good with your hands. You can make or fix things.
  • Reliable. You do what you say.
  • Gets things done. You see what needs doing and you get started.
  • Brave. You do things, even when you find them scary.
  • Sporty. You like moving and you keep it up.
  • Creative. You like making things: a drawing, music or a story.
  • Good at cooking. You make tasty food, for yourself or for others.
  • Good with animals or plants. You take good care of things that live and grow.
  • Tidy. You keep your things and your home in order.

Thinking with your head

  • Curious. You like to know how things work.
  • Keen to learn. You like learning something new.
  • Problem solver. When something gets stuck, you think of a way out.
  • Good at planning. You know what to do first and what to do next.
  • Good at noticing. You see things that others miss.
  • Sensible. You think before you do something.
  • Good memory. You remember names, stories and appointments.
  • Good with words. You are good at talking, reading or writing.
  • Good with numbers. You find it easy to count and do sums.
  • Good with technology. You understand how devices and computers work.

Feeling with your heart

  • Calm. You stay calm, even when things get busy.
  • Positive. You also see what is going well.
  • Understanding. You can tell how someone is feeling.
  • Patient. You can wait and you give others time.
  • Flexible. You adapt when things go differently than you expected.
  • Bounces back. You get back on your feet after a hard time.
  • Open. You dare to say what you feel.
  • Grateful. You notice the small things that are nice.
  • Enthusiastic. Things can make you really happy.
  • Can forgive. You can let something go and start again.

When did you show this?

How it works

  1. First choose who it is for: for yourself, or for someone else.
  2. Tap the cards that fit. For yourself, you can choose as many as you like. For someone else, you choose three.
  3. Want to see fewer cards at once? Choose a group: together, doing, thinking or feeling.
  4. Your cards go to My strengths. Write next to them when you showed this, if you like.
  5. Print your cards, or copy them as text.

Using it together

The cards are also made for a conversation: with your client, with a coach or with your team. They work well when the talk has been about problems for a long time and you also want to look at what someone can do. A few ways to use them:

  • Let the other person choose first. Then say which other card you see in that person.
  • With a card, ask: when did you show this?
  • Choose three for each other, for example in a group or in a family, and read them out. At the end, print the chosen cards and hand them out. Then everyone has it on paper at home what they are good at.

Why strengths?

Some ways of working in care and support start from what someone can already do. One example is Krachtwerk, a Dutch method based on the Strengths Model. In it, you work out together with someone what that person is good at. Krachtwerk is recognised as well-founded. That means the makers have explained clearly how and why it should work. It does not yet mean that it has been proven to work.

In youth care, too, care workers look at what parents and children can do themselves, or together with the people around them. This is often called ‘eigen kracht’ (your own strength).

These cards are not a method. We wrote them ourselves.

Good to know

  • Do you find it hard to choose? Ask someone you know which card fits you.
  • Is a strength missing? Print the cards and write it in.

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