Monday, January 25, 2010

STRENGTHSFINDER

Our pastoral staff had a half-day seminar with a consultant today based on the TOM RATH book, 'STRENGTHSFINDER 2.0.' We had all read it and then took an online evaluation that gave each of us our top 5 strengths.

Some of the general categories were TRACTION, DRIVE, SEEING, LIFESTYLE, INTERPERSONAL, PROBLEM DETECTING, PROBLEM SOLVING and WILD CARDS. Within each category were several strengths.

It's great to have a team that is well-balanced overall. We need that. Not each individual was necessarily balanced (also OK), but as a team we were. Our strongest categories as a TEAM were LIFESTYLE and INTERPERSONAL qualities, which would affirm our staff's strong connection with people as well as our commitment to strong ethics and responsibility.

My own top 5 were: Achiever (TRACTION category), Focus (DRIVE category), Intellection (PROBLEM-DETECTING), Input (PROBLEM-SOLVING) and Learning (WILD CARD category).

It was a great morning developing team chemistry, finding out how we operate and discovering how to do ministry better with our church.

And be blessed.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I think it would be good for church elders and leaders to take these kinds of team building trainings. Maybe down to the level of small group leader. Would show how internally consistent the structure really is.