Our CARDS - some powerful exercises

The cards are intuitive, and you can get creative with how you can use them.

Each of the 100 Beyond the Skills cards contains a picture, which is matched to a personal strength or characteristic. We believe that it is far more powerful to focus on our own, and each others’ strengths and what makes us brilliant - than continually scrutinise our blindspots and spend all our energy there.

Personal Development Pyramid - Individual Exercise

Beyond the Skills can be used to explore what are your stand out characteristics. Self-awareness is one of the most useful areas of our lives to spend time with, it can help us understand our own emotions, our behaviour and our preferences - of communication and in relationships. One of the most powerful ways to use the cards, is to select your top 10 characteristics, and build them into a pyramid - giving you a wonderful visual insight into who you are today. Of course, they can also be used to understand who we are becoming - by selecting our aspirational top 10 cards too.

Gift Giving - Team Exercise

Beyond the Skills are also used within teams - and one of the most powerful ways of doing this is through giving each member of your team a gift! Depending upon the number in your team, you are allocated an equal amount of cards, whereupon you will distribute each of the cards to members of your team, explaining why, how or when you have perceived that particular strength in them. It is a fun, and evocative exercise that stimulates great conversation and powerful memories - where we learn how we are perceived by others.