Frameworks
Clifton Strengths
Psychologist Don Clifton created the strengths-based development movement by asking a simple question "What would happen if we studied what was right with people versus what's wrong with people?” Through 2021, more than 26 million people have taken the assessment that have helped fulfill his goal to help people maximize their infinite potential while understanding not only who they are but who they can become.
Under the Gallup organization the assessment helps individuals uncover their unique combination of of 34 CliftonStrengths themes that sort into four domains. Together the themes explain a simple but profound element of human behavior: what’s right with people. Individual, each theme gives you a way to describe what you naturally do best or what you might need help from others to accomplish.
Design Thinking
According to ideo.com - design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation—anchored in understanding customer's needs, rapid prototyping, and generating creative ideas—that will transform the way you develop products, services, processes, and organizations. In short it is a process and way of thinking about tough-to-solve problems.
Stanford University professors Dave Evans and Bill Burnett embraced the design thinking to address the question of helping product design students “find jobs”. Today, they teach one of the most popular electives on campus called Designing Your Life. The course involves applying proven methods that are centered on the principles taught in the Product Design Program and the d.school at Stanford.
Positive Psychology
Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi define positive psychology as "the scientific study of positive human functioning and flourishing on multiple levels that include the biological, personal, relational, institutional, cultural, and global dimensions of life."[1]
Positive psychology is concerned with eudaimonia, meaning "the good life" or flourishing. It is focused on living according to what holds the greatest value in life and other such factors that contribute the most to a well-lived and fulfilling life. While not attempting a strict definition of the good life, positive psychologists agree that one must live a happy, engaged, and meaningful life in order to experience "the good life.” Martin Seligman referred to "the good life" as using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.[10]