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What are you good at? Think about everyone’s strengths, and explore the abilities and attributes you'd like to develop.

Resources

You will need:
Scissors
Pens or pencils
What am I good at and expand your skills sheet

Instructions

Explain the challenge:
Everyone should get into a circle.
The person leading the game should help everyone talk about and understand the purpose of the Personal Challenge Award.
You might want to talk about the importance of doing your best and challenging yourself – it helps us develop more skills, have more experiences, and become more confident. The Scout Promise and Law remind us that Scouts live by these values.
Anyone who wants to should share an example of how they’ve done their best, shown their Scout values, or challenged themselves.

Explore your strengths:
This isn’t the only way to choose Personal Challenge Awards, it’s just one option.

Split into small groups. Give each group a set of ‘What am I good at?’ cards.

If you are not able to print these, write them by hand on some scrap paper and share with the group. Alternatively, if you have a screen or projector, you can display this sheet instead for everyone to read.
Each person should carefully choose one card that says something they’re good at. Each set of cards has one blank card, so a group can add another strength in if they want to.
Most of us have more than one strength – and some of us have strengths in common. For this activity, every group needs to choose one strength, and everyone in a group needs to have a different strength.
Everyone should talk with their group about why they chose their card, what makes them good at that thing, and an example.
Everyone in the group should swap cards, so everyone is holding another person’s card. This is the strength they’ll try to develop with their Personal Challenge Award.
Everyone should think of a challenge related to that award – a task which would help them to learn, develop, or expand a skill.
We’ve included some ideas, in case anyone gets stuck. If anyone’s really struggling, we’ve also included some questions you could ask to help them narrow their choices down.
Give everyone a piece of paper. They should write their name and their challenge down.
The person leading the activity should check everyone’s challenges, and help people make sure their choices are sensible. Once they’ve checked an idea, they should fold them up and put them in a container.
Each week, the person leading the meeting should pull out a couple for everyone to talk about. How are they going? How are people finding their challenge? What have they learned?
It’s OK if some people don’t want to share their challenges, or how they’re doing. You could keep their challenges separate, or write them on different colours of paper so people know not to choose them. Make sure everyone knows they can change their mind and talk about it if they feel ready to.
The person leading the activity should choose how they’ll celebrate completed challenges. Maybe you could celebrate as a group, then stick the challenge on a poster to celebrate each person’s achievement.

Reflection:
You might want to reflect in smaller groups, or one on one, as well as in whole group. Make sure you celebrate people’s successes, and say well done.

This activity gave you a chance to persevere more. Did you have to work hard to complete your challenge? Did you stay focused? Did you have any setbacks? What did you go to overcome any difficulties?

This activity also let you think about well-being. How did you feel before you started your challenge? How do you feel now? Do you feel more confident, or happier? Do you feel satisfied? Was it worth putting the effort in to get better at something?

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Badge Links

• Central Badge - YouShape Award - Choose
• Personal - Leader Challenge