Strengthening potential - tools & techniques

Each of us has a unique set of skills, experiences, and traits that form the foundation of development. Enhancing potential involves consciously discovering, developing, and utilizing these resources in practice—so that they become a source of professional success and personal fulfillment. In mentoring and coaching, this stage of work helps the mentee recognize their strengths, understand how to use them in everyday activities, and build on them for further development.

In this category, you will find mentoring and coaching techniques that support the development of potential by strengthening self-awareness, motivation, and agency. These are tools that help discover talents, strengthen competencies, and translate natural predispositions into concrete results. Thanks to them, the mentee can develop self-confidence, better understand their own capabilities, and take actions consistent with their values and aspirations.

If you want to learn how to develop your competences and discover directions for further development, check out the article "Competencies for leaders and women-leaders of the future - take the right direction" . It is also worth reading the text "Mentoring that works - how Mentiway supports development in companies, foundations and universities" , which shows how effective mentoring programs help strengthen the potential of participants and organizations.

The following techniques will help you develop what already works best—identify your strengths, enhance them, and consciously translate them into success. These are practical tools that support development based on the resources, energy, and potential that already reside within you.

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Appreciative Approach Technique

Improving self-confidence Motivating to act Focusing on potentials Strengthening potential

This technique promotes working with potential. Using it, we focus on areas for development and on positive developments. It helps us focus on the future.

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#appreciation

#recognition

#self-confidence

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#self-belief

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#future

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Beliefs - Recognizing your automatic thoughts

Improving self-confidence Analysis and drawing conclusions Broadening perspectives Strengthening potential

This technique allows you to identify beliefs that limit your growth. By using this technique at a deeper level, you can begin to work on changing your beliefs and ways of thinking.

#development

#beliefs

#automatic thoughts

#limitations

#working with limitations

#emotions

#working with emotions

#working with beliefs

#self-confidence

#self-awareness

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Creating Well-Being

Improving self-confidence Motivating to act Broadening perspective Focusing on potentials Strengthening potential

This technique promotes working with potential. It allows for the definition of areas that lead to a sense of wholeness, good mood, and mental balance.

#balance

#mental balance

#emotions

#positive emotions

#potential

#flow

#resources

#wealth

#good mood

#well-being

#material resources

#intangible resources

Description of the technique

Know your resources

Improving self-confidence Organizing your own development Systematizing and organizing Focusing on potentials Strengthening potential

This technique promotes working with potential. It serves to strengthen and motivate the person being worked with. It allows for defining areas of energy and maintaining a balance between positive and negative energies.

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#searching for resources

#working with potential

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#empowerment

#motivation

#self-confidence

#increasing self-confidence

#success

#talents

#flow

#development

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The wheel of values

Improving self-confidence Expressing your own opinion Improving engagement in the mentoring program Motivating to act Organizing your own development Setting priorities Systematizing and organizing Broadening your perspective Getting out of a stuck situation Focusing on potentials Strengthening potential

The values wheel is a technique that works well when you need to examine your level of satisfaction in the most important areas of your life and values. The visual nature of this exercise allows you to easily identify what's truly important at a given moment. This tool can be used in either the first or last session to measure changes in your level of satisfaction with the area(s) you've chosen to work on.

#satisfaction

#lack of satisfaction

#values

#what is important

#meaning

#ordering

#systematization

#priorities

#prioritization

#self-awareness

#circle

#circle of values

#harmony

#development goals

#life goals

Description of the technique

Socratic dialogue

Improving self-confidence Analysis and drawing conclusions Broadening perspectives Strengthening potential

Socratic dialogue is a working technique, a questioning technique that supports examining and challenging irrational thoughts and beliefs. It involves discussing and questioning what arises in our minds as a result of a given event or situation.

#beliefs

#non-supportive beliefs

#limiting beliefs

#blockage

#broadening perspective

#new options

#self-confidence

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Energy balance

Improving self-confidence Improving engagement in the mentoring program Organizing your own development Analysis and drawing conclusions Systematization and organization Overcoming frustration with current work Focusing on potentials Strengthening potential

Energy balance is a technique that allows you to identify what brings you satisfaction and what causes exhaustion at work. By practicing mindfulness, you can examine the tasks that bring you joy and consider what you can do to increase your engagement in such activities.

#satisfaction

#lack of satisfaction

#frustration with work

#fatigue

#exhaustion

#energy

#mindfulness

#what I like

#balance

#harmony

Description of the technique

Coaching Questions - Working with Limiting Beliefs

Improving self-confidence Analysis and drawing conclusions Broadening perspectives Strengthening potential

Addressing limiting beliefs is a key part of development work. These questions are designed to explore the underlying causes of these beliefs and encourage the mentee to transform limiting beliefs into supportive ones.

#development

#beliefs

#automatic thoughts

#limitations

#working with limitations

#emotions

#working with emotions

#working with beliefs

#self-confidence

#self-awareness

Description of the technique