To increase Positive Identity, 15Five recommends...

  • Discover your top strengths.

    Take strengths assessments, such as VIA Character Strengths or Gallup’s CliftonStrengths, and discover your top strengths.

  • Leverage your top strengths

    Find one way to leverage one top strength in a new way at work or at home.

  • Envision your best possible self

    Complete the Best Possible Self exercise and take 15 minutes to write about an ideal future life.

Additional resources

Questions adapted with permission from Dutton, J. E., Roberts, L. M., & Bednar, J. (2010). Pathways for positive identity construction at work: Four types of positive identity and the building of social resources. Academy of Management Review, 35(2), 265-293.

Pathways For Positive Identity Construction at Work: Four Types of Positive Identity and the Building of Social Resources

Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career by Herminia Ibarra (2004)

Bigony, C. (2019). 15Five: Technology aligned to the science of thriving. (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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