These 24 strengths cards are an essential tool for coaches, managers, teachers – indeed, anyone who is interested in helping people fulfil their potential. Based on the 24 character strengths that define what’s best about people, they can be used as a positive resource to understand personal strengths; to develop new ones; to get to know other people and to enhance relationships. Your choices are endless!

How our Strengths Cards work

Our Strengths Cards are extremely versatile and due to their visual nature, suitable for all ages. See our handy 10 Top Tips for some ideas on how to get started.

FREE DOWNLOAD: How to use the Strengths Cards

Why Strengths Cards

At Mindspring, we believe in techniques that go beyond the printed word or black and white psychometric report and enable us to explore a subject in a tangible, pragmatic and enjoyable way.

Our Strengths Cards have been designed to offer just that! Highly visual and easy to use, these versatile cards provide a more holistic approach to discuss strengths coupled with the opportunity to explore the full range of strengths. These 24 strengths cards are an essential tool for coaches, managers, teachers – indeed, anyone who is interested in helping people fulfil their potential. Based on the 24 character strengths that define what’s best about people, they can be used as a positive resource to understand personal strengths; to develop new ones; to get to know other people and to enhance relationships. Your choices are endless!

The Motivation Scale is a useful continuum to share with clients when discussing goals and motivation. Use it as a visual aid to explore how an individual talks about their goals, whether they are completely turned on or off, feel they ‘should’ go for it or perhaps have no choice and just ‘have to’.

With our unique Jotter Pads you can show how the Motivation Scale relates to an individual, writing over it with their input as appropriate. At the end of the session, tear off the sheet and they get to take away a professional, personalised handout.

Each Jotter includes 25 sheets in one pad.

How The Motivation Scale Jotter works

You’ll find a whole range of uses for the Motivation Scale. Download the attached for some ideas and inspiration.

FREE DOWNLOAD: How to use Motivation Scale Jotter

Why Jotters?

After years of scrawling a model on a piece of paper, we wanted to adopt a more professional approach and provide a meaningful handout that our clients could take away. As there was nothing suitable on the market, we decided to create our own and we’re now making them available for others to use too.

Innovative, practical and professional, the Jotters are totally unique to Mindspring.

Developed by the Mindspring Team for coaches, trainers, managers, leaders and teachers, these unique cards translate the science behind motivation and provide an accessible and pragmatic way to explore an individual's goals and motivation.

The pack includes 15 scientifically proven ways of understanding and enhancing motivation, divided into three categories of Direction, Progression and Connection. Additionally, there are 10 ‘Red Flag’ cards – typical de-motivating situations with tactics to help avoid them and minimise their effect.

Motivation Cards

Developed by the Mindspring Team for coaches, trainers, managers, leaders and teachers, these unique cards translate the science behind motivation and provide an accessible and pragmatic way to explore an individual’s goals and motivation.

The pack includes 15 scientifically proven ways of understanding and enhancing motivation, divided into three categories of Direction, Progression and Connection. Additionally, there are 10 ‘Red Flag’ cards – typical de-motivating situations with tactics to help avoid them and minimise their effect.

How they work

Just like our Strength Cards, these Motivation Cards are highly visual and suitable for a range of ages. They work in conjunction with the Jotter and Motivation Scale – download our Top Tips to find out more.

FREE DOWNLOAD: How to use the Motivation Cards

Why Motivation Cards?

We’re a little obsessed with motivation at Mindspring! It’s what gets us out of bed in the morning; keeps us going through the day; enables us to achieve; makes us happy or sad. No one performs at their best without great motivation so it’s a fantastic and useful subject to discuss with any team or individual.

We’ve designed these highly visual cards to help individuals to discover how they can increase their motivation, whilst providing coping tactics to deal with a whole range of de-motivating situations.

Great for coaches, managers and trainers, The Strengths Jotter provides you with a visual aid to record and develop your client’s strengths and is ideally used in conjunction with the Strengths Cards.

With our unique jotter pads you can confirm chosen signature strengths, detail feedback and lead a discussion as to how to develop strengths further into useful action. At the end of the session, tear off the sheet and your client/s get to take away a professional, personalised handout.

Each jotter includes 25 sheets in one pad.

Ideal for coaches and trainers, the Mindspring Jotter provides a visual aid that will help when discussing an individual's emotions or motivations. With our unique Jotter pads you can indicate how the model relates to the individual, writing over it with their input as appropriate. At the end of the session, tear off the sheet and they get to take away a professional, personalised handout.

Each Jotter includes 25 sheets in one pad.

How the Emotions in Action Jotter works

The Emotions in Action grid can be used with an individual or in group situation, and is ideal for discussions based around: positive or negative emotions; energy; resilience; stress; burnout; rest and renewal (including the need for it!).

You’ll find a whole range of uses for the Emotions in Action grid.

FREE DOWNLOAD How to use the Emotions in Action Jotter

Why Jotters?

After years of scrawling a model on a piece of paper, we wanted to adopt a more professional approach and provide a meaningful handout that our clients could take away. As there was nothing suitable on the market, we decided to create our own and we’re now making them available for others to use too.

Innovative, practical and professional, the Jotters are totally unique to Mindspring.

The MaPP Jotter details Mindspring’s unique motivation model that has helped 100’s of managers and leaders understand, simply, how to lead a motivated team.

The jotter specifies the (evidence-based) 12 factors that we know drive motivation and peak performance, and the reverse side enables you to evidence how each of these factors can be improved. Ideally used in conjunction with the Team Motivation Healthcheck Cards but can also be used as a stand-alone worksheet.

At the end of the session, tear off the sheet and your client/s get to take away a professional, personalised handout.

Each jotter includes 25 sheets in one pad.

You’ve asked for these, so we’ve developed them! Great for coaches, managers and trainers, these cards can be stand-alone or used in conjunction with The Emotions in Action Jotter. The tin comprises 32 separate emotions cards, exactly matching the emotions listed on the jotter.

Use to help people identify, use, understand and manage their emotions.

How healthy is your team’s motivation? Do you know how to increase morale and lead your team towards 'Peak Performance'?

Developed by Mindspring for coaches, trainers, managers, leaders and teachers, these unique cards translate the science behind motivation and provide an accessible and pragmatic way to explore and measure a team’s motivation.

The pack includes 12 scientifically proven ways of understanding and evaluating a team’s motivation, divided into three categories of Direction, Progression and Connection. Written from the perspective of a team member, each card helps you understand how to aim for peak performance.

Use in conjunction with The MaPP Jotter or as a stand-alone resource.

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