{"id":858,"date":"2013-05-16T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.dminlgp.com\/do-you-know-your-strenghts\/"},"modified":"2014-07-17T03:25:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T03:25:43","slug":"do-you-know-your-strenghts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/do-you-know-your-strenghts\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Know Your Strenghts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a leader it is important to know your strengths and weaknesses.\u00a0 This allows you to develop your strengths and also seek jobs and tasks that play to what you are good at and are naturally inclined to enjoy. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This week I worked through Marcus Buckingham\u2019s Standout: The Groundbreaking New Strengths Assessment<\/em>, and took the online strength assessment.\u00a0 Buckingham has identified nine strength roles which are: Advisor, Connector, Creator, Equalizer, Influencer, Pioneer, Provider, Stimulator, and Teacher.\u00a0 My two main strength roles were Influencer and Provider, stating that the greatest value I can bring to a team is \u201cyou convince us of our faith in ourselves.\u201d\u00a0 I tend to agree with this assessment, and I also scored high as a pioneer and connector which have also been key tasks, functions, and enjoyable roles I have taken part in over the last years.\u00a0 I enjoy motivating people to action, joining a team, or taking part of a mission.\u00a0 I enjoy thinking about and casting vision to others, and working in teams and with individuals to get them from point A to point B.\u00a0 At the same time, I tend to have high sensitivity to other people\u2019s feelings and how they perceive group dynamics.\u00a0 I often find myself asking the question, \u201cis everyone ok?\u201d\u00a0 I want my co-workers to feel valued and part of the team, and most of all be in good emotional health.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is most valuable about Buckingham\u2019s book and assessment is his stress on how to maximize your strengths.\u00a0 He states: \u201cthe responsibility falls to you to apply your strengths consciously every day,\u201d otherwise, you can get pulled away from your natural strengths and into jobs and positions which can be draining (200).<\/span><\/p>\n

Buckingham makes a number of suggestions on how to stress your strengths in your working situation.\u00a0 For my skills, which are very subjectively people oriented, my biggest takeaway from the assessment was my need to connect more on a day to day basis with the people I am leading and ministering to.\u00a0 Recently, in my current job position, I have been spending a lot of time in administration and planning, but less and less time really attempting to address the real personal issues of the people.\u00a0 Buckingham\u2019s assessment calls me to begin to prioritize people again, and above all their feelings, heart, and well-being as humans, but also in their role in our movement.\u00a0 For me this means making a concerted effort to really address people where they are and schedule specific time to be with and interact with people. \u00a0Moreover, as an influencer I need to be with people.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are your gifts and strengths, how can you maximize them for the glory of God?<\/span><\/p>\n

Take some time to do an assessment and work on finding opportunities to utilize your strengths.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a leader it is important to know your strengths and weaknesses.\u00a0 This allows you to develop your strengths and also seek jobs and tasks that play to what you are good at and are naturally inclined to enjoy. \u00a0 This week I worked through Marcus Buckingham\u2019s Standout: The Groundbreaking New Strengths Assessment, and took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[305],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-buckingham","cohort-lgp3"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}