Dependable Strengths is a powerful, time-tested tool for identifying your skills and strengths developed by Bernard Haldane, Ph.D. This process enables participants to gain a sharper sense of their own abilities, develop strategies for overcoming obstacles, and practice ways to articulate “the best” they have to offer.
Each person has a unique combination of core skills, abilities, qualities and traits that he or she enjoys using and can use easily. Identifying Dependable Strengths can lead to a career pathway and occupations that people will enjoy and do well.
The Dependable Strengths Articulation Process (DSAP) helps participants:
- Own more of their potential, “hidden” talents
- Cope realistically with change, today and tomorrow
- Gain respect for their own uniqueness
- Refocus their strengths on future needs of employers
- Create contacts, improving interviewing and salary negotiation skills
Incorporated into the workshop design are support processes that reduce stress, increase one’s resistance to depression, and assure encouragement even through a job search. Virtually all people who participate in the DSAP workshop say: 1) They learned new things about themselves; and 2) They’ll get along better with others. They have more influence over how their work and life develops.
