The Reflected Best Self Exercise (RBSE) has helped thousands of people discover new potential and activate it more powerfully in their lives. Developed by researchers at the University of Michigan’s Center for Positive Organizations, this strengths-based, story-based personal development tool reveals who you are when you’re at your best.
The RBSE enables you to gain insights into how your unique strengths have positively affected others, detect patterns in your strengths, and use those patterns to see yourself and your most influential strengths—what we call your “impact strengths”—more clearly and accurately.
Unlike most other feedback tools, the RBSE doesn’t include negative feedback and isn’t limited to self-assessment. Instead, it invites people from all parts of your life to share stories of moments when they’ve seen you at your best.
But the RBSE isn’t just a collection of stories about you when you’re at your best. It’s also a powerful tool for using your strengths more often, more confidently, and in more areas of life. Putting what you learn into practice strategically and regularly is key to doing this.