Transcript Welcome to Your Leadership Grip

Review of Day 1
 What key personal insights made the
greatest impression on you?
 What insights related to your Spiritual Gifts
were most helpful?
 What insights will help you in your role as a
relational steward?
A Picture Worth a 1,000 Words
Grid: Interests-Style-Needs- Stress
Foundational Colors: Natural value to an
organization
Spiritual
Gifts
Areas of Interest: Activities you prefer
Intellectual Styles: How you think and
process
Three angles on how
you are powerful
Team
Styles
Equippin
g
Functions
The Spiritual Gifts Triangle
The Lifestyle Grid
Your Baseline Personality
Getting a Grip #4
How does your Spiritual Gifts Combo
function in a Team Setting?
“Each one should use whatever gifts he or she
has received to serve others, as good stewards
of the multi-faceted grace of God.”
I Peter 4:10
Picture the Power
 Draw picture of what happens when
natural becomes energized by the
supernatural…
 Make several observations about God’s
empowerment…
 What do we learn about the nature of
God’s empowerment or of how God shapes
us through Gifts?
 Is the grace of God in you?
Grace
Grace is the empowering Presence
of the Holy Spirit, enabling me to…
…be who God created me to be and
…do what God has called me to do
Hal Burke
Critical Insight #4: “Gift Mooshing” is the
melding together of your spiritual gift
combination…describing how the Spirit
coordinates and compliments them on behalf
of others.
1.1 Team Styles reflect our SG combinations:
 the following verses indicate that we
may have
 One -- I Peter 4:10-11,
 Two -- Eph 4:11, or possibly
 Three -- II Tim 1:11, T Tim 2:7
Spiritual Gifts
 We recommend that believers consider
up to four Gifts, but no more…
Spiritual Gifts
GIFT “MOOSHING”
not separate gifts, but a melding
of gifts that God uses powerfully
in and through me...
gifts complement and coordinate
Gift “Mooshing”
1.2 How do my Gifts function when they are all mixed
together? i.e. “in combo”
E.g.: A recipe—
 Hard for us to comprehend “mooshing”
 E.g.: Hal: “I am a pastoring-teaching exhorter.”
 E.g.: Steve: “I am an encouraging-teaching exhorter.”
 E.g.: Jeannette: “I lead and influence by helping people
steward their Gifts through wisdom and exhortation.”
 E.g.: Keith: “I am an exhorter who encourages through
faith and discernment.”
 E.g.: Tom: “I equip others through listening, learning
and strategizing…”
 E.g.: Gary: “I pastor leaders to discern next steps to
follow God.”
Reflection…
Reflect on your gifts…make your first pass
on “MOOSHING”
them…describing how your
gifts complement and coordinate God’s
power in and through you.
Get in pairs and coach each other through
describing your “Gift Moosh”
Team Styles
God has prepared the individual Christian
to discover his or her ministry identity
in the context of Spiritual Gifts community
and the context of relationships
Reflect:
 Think of an incident in your life in which you
discovered for yourself that you needed
others…
 When was it?
 What made it memorable?
 To what extent was it life-altering?
How is Your Spiritual Gifts
Combination Expressed in a Team?
How “I” looks in a “We” setting
Spiritual
Gifts
Team
Styles
Primary
Function
s
1.3 Team Style Assessment
 Let me help you – desires to come
alongside to help or encourage
 Let’s go – desires to go somewhere
or pioneer something new
 Let’s be careful – often thorough or watchful, committed to rightness
 Let’s stay together – unity is issue one,
sensitivity close behind
1. The Second Angle:
How do “I” look in a “we” setting?
=Team Styles
Each of us has a combination of gifts,
when used together,
make a unique creation of God’s power
at work through us.
Team Styles
Are you more powerful
Upfront...
Alongside...
Or a combination of both?
Team Style “Mooshing”
GIFT “MOOSHING”
How could you “moosh” your team styles
(i.e., “Let’s Go Carefully” or “Let Me Help
You Go”)
...Gifts and Team Styles complement and
coordinate
Coaching 4.1
(In Pairs; 20” )
1. Refer to the categories in YLG pages 25-27 and
note the liabilities as well as characteristics
2. Share in pairs your primary and secondary
Team Style.
3. How might you “moosh” your team styles?
4. What Team Style(s) do you most need?
Coaching 4.2
In the same pair: Share what you are learning about
your own strengths and weaknesses…
Where do your gifts “moosh” fit into the concepts
of Upfront, Alongside or both?
1. Upfront Equippers – lead powerfully from the
front
2. Alongside Equippers – lead powerfully from
alongside
3. Supporting Players – powerfully support and
follow the lead of others
“It’s not about where you stand, but how the power
of God works through you.”
Getting a Grip #5
How do you Gifts function in
Stewardship Language?
Paul Ford Quote
 How do you respond to Paul’s comment?
 What has influenced the American church toward
understanding leadership as an individual task, not
a group task?
 Why is it so difficult for Christians in churches to
admit weaknesses or woundedness?
“Most of what passes for community
(in America) is actually user-friendly networking.”
Dr. Paul Ford
How is Your Spiritual Gift Cluster Expressed in
Equipping/Influence Functions?
Spiritual
Gifts
Team Styles
Equipping
Functions
1. Discerning the Primary Functions
of Stewardship:
What primary functions are revealed in my “gift mooshing”?
1.1 Purpose and background of this assessment:
 These are the 5 essential Biblical leadership/
stewardship functions
 “After working with 20,000 leaders…”
 Which has been most popular among leaders’
self-perception?
 Visionary Leader
 The only problem found in eight cultures?
 Which has been the lowest rated function?
An emerging “Aha!”
 Those designed by God to support and NOT
lead are often powerful at two of these five
functions—values keeper and active listener!
1.2 Two essential questions:
How are you powerful?
 Encourager—
 Enabling others to acts—
 Sharing the vision—
 Accountable checkpoint provider—
 Active Listener—
1.2 Who do you need?
Each of us also have intrinsic weaknesses…
 I need you and you need me…
 The Korean principle:
Critical Insight #5.1: Team Styles and
Primary Functions focus on body life (we)
rather than individual assessing (me). That
helps each one of us discern how we fit into
the body, rather than simply evaluating our
individual strengths. It also forces us to think
about our gifts in three sets of descriptive
language: Gifts language, Team language and
Stewardship language.
Equipping Functions
 Team Builder: Encourager who builds unity
in the group (Barnabas)
 Equipping Releaser: Enabling others to
lead or serve (Paul)
 Vision Sharer: Sharing the vision & how
the people pieces fit (Nehemiah)
 Values Keeper: Accountable checkpoint
provider, setting standards (Luke)
 Active Listener: Those who hear the
hearts, minds and visions of others (John)
Personal Reflection: (10”)
 Take 5-10 minutes of quiet to soberly
estimate how your Primary Functions relate
to the Spiritual Gifts you listed as your top 4.
 Use the chart on page __.
 Do your Gifts fall in the same categories as
your top two or three Primary Functions?
 Why or why not?
Coaching #5
(15”)
1. What Primary Stewardship Functions do
your gifts reveal?
2. Which two or three styles are your weakest?
3. What happens when you combine those
Team Styles and Primary Stewardship
Functions?
Assessment:
How do you function as an Equipping Releaser?
Knowledge Focus –
Content-driven
Relationship Focus –
People-Driven
Critical Insight #5.2: There is a distinct bias
to my Stewardship style. i.e. Am I knowledgetraining, relational, or a combination?
(E.g: “CRM is a training-biased relational ministry.”)
Many leaders think they are relationally
sensitive when they are actually more
training-focused.
Large Group Debrief
 What are you learning about yourself?
 What are the new insights about which
equipping functions you need?
 What questions or clarifications do you
have?
Getting a Grip #6
Checking Congruity:
Searching for the Integrity of the
Corners & the Dotted Diamond
Who is a biblical hero for you?
 Describe the natural/supernatural qualities
of your favorite Biblical character that make
them a hero for you…
 How do you relate to them?
 How are you like your Biblical hero in
personality and/or Gifts?
1. The Spiritual Gifts Triangle:
Examining your Spiritual Gifts from three
different angles (corners)
1.1 Spiritual Gifts in equipping a & supporting
Gift language
1.2 Team Styles: your gift mooshing in team
or “we” language
1.3 Primary Functions of Stewardship: your
Gift mooshing in serving, leading or
equipping language
Critical Insight #6.1: The inherent “Integrity
of the Corners” enables me to make sense of
my Gifts from three distinct vantage points:
Gifts, Team Styles and Primary Functions.
The “Integrity of the Corners”
(Examining Our Gifts from Three Different Angles)
 The equipping and supporting gifts God has
supernaturally given us (top corner)
--and--
 The most effective style He gives us to
motivate or encourage the team (left corner)
--and--
 The influence He brings out through us to
guide or encourage or enable or equip (rt corner)
2. Exploring the Integrity of the Corners
2.1 Rationale: If the three corners all reflect your
Spiritual Gifts, then there must be some/high consistency
from corner to corner.
1. Spiritual
Gifts
2.2 How My
Spiritual Gifts
Mirror my
Team Styles
2. Team
Style
How My
Equipping Functions
Reflect My
Spiritual Gifts
How My Team Styles
Parallel My Equipping Functions
3. Equipping
Functions
2.3 IF one of the corners does not seem to fit
with the others, there may be Gift
projection going on or a lack of clarity in
who you are or how a particular Gifts
operates.
 Could suggest a low self-awareness
 Lack of ministry experience
 Undeveloped Gifts
 Underutilized Gifts
Natural Relationships
Between Team Styles and Equipping Functions
 Let’s Be Careful  Values Keeper
 Let’s Go  Vision Sharer
 Let’s Stay Together  Team Builder
Active Listener
Let Me Help You  Equipping Releaser
Active Listener
Coaching #6.1 (15”)
In pairs: Help each other process the
“integrity of the corners.”
1. Compare your Spiritual Gifts with your
Team Styles…
2. Compare Team Styles with Primary
Functions of Stewardship…
3. How do your Primary Functions fit with
your Spiritual Gifts?
Note how they fit into the Body, rather than
simply evaluating individual strengths
Coaching Recap
 So, any fresh insights that came to you
while you were coaching or listening?
 Any coaching tips you realized?
Critical Insight #6.2: Your Spiritual Gifts
dynamically affect your Personality (Triangle
#1 and Birkman LifeStyle Grid).
What’s the Difference Between...
A bowling team...
and
A basketball team?
So, happens when God moves
powerfully…
influencing your personality?
The “Dotted Diamond”
(p.31)
“The Dotted Diamond”
 SEPARATE OUT: Discern the natural from the
supernatural. This will help you be free from
interpreting a natural ability as a Spiritual Gift.
 MOVEMENT: How does the Spiritual Gift (the
power of God) impact the movement of your Usual
style. Where does your diamond move?
 NEED: The underlying motivational Need does
not change between the use of the Gifting
(supernatural) and baseline (natural).
How Might Your Diamond Move?
(p.32)
 Equipping gifts will normally move upward
toward direct communication
 More action-oriented gifts (such as
exhortation or prophecy) may move left
toward task
 Supporting gifts often move toward task
(except helps and mercy, which moves
toward people)
 More indirect gifts such as administration,
service, or giving, will move downward
Coaching #6.2
Discovering Your “Dotted Diamond”
Getting a Grip #7
Birkman Foundational Focus
&
Intellectual Styles
Getting a Grip #7
Birkman Organizational Focus
and Intellectual Style
(Team Issues)
The Grip/Birkman Blueprint
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Grip Triangle
Organizational Focus
Areas of Interest
Birkman Lifestyle Grid
Organizational Focus
Organizational Focus
Sales/Marketing
Operations/Technology
Admin/Fiscal
Design/Strategy
The Birkman Method®
What Do You Contribute to the
Team or Organization?
Foundation Colors
Bottom Line Color
Natural strengths you bring to the organization
In other words what foundational value you
bring to an organization .
Organizational Focus
The Organizational Focus Report represents:
 Fundamental Work Orientation
 Natural Approach To Problem Solving
 Means Of Engaging and Influencing Others
 Dominant Perceptual Filter
Organizational Focus
GET IT DONE
TALK ABOUT IT
DO IT RIGHT
THINK AND PLAN IT
Foundation Colors
SM
Foundation Colors refer to your fundamental
approach to any work situation. Each color
represents functions needed by every
organization:
Design/Strategy
Sales/Marketing
Operations/Technology
Administration/Fiscal
Foundation Colors
SM
Bottom Line Color
Longest bar exerts strongest influence on
approach to any situation...the second bar
influences the foundational bar (watch its length).
The longer the bar, the more likely we are to
resonate with the characteristics of the color
Foundation Colors
SM
Supporting Color
 Adds greater breadth and depth to bottom line color
 Provides information on the secondary (back-up)
approach
 When bars are similar in length, the second bar offers
a more complete picture of overall approach
Foundation Colors
SM
Top
Two Bars
• Shorter than the other two
• Represent characteristics less often seen in function
• Represent areas that may be potential ‘blind spots’
Organizational Focus
Blue – Design/Strategy
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Focuses on Strategy and Innovation
Generates Ideas and Concepts
Values the Welfare of People
Operates with Idealistic Outlook
Engages in Research and Development
Provides Vision
Sensitive and Creative
Organizational Focus
Blue – Design/Strategy
People with a long Blue Foundation Color will be drawn to:
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One-on-One Relationships
Strategic Planning
Sensing Others’ Feelings
Stimulating Change
Organizational Focus
Blue – Design/Strategy
People with a Long Blue Foundation Color May Need Support With:
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Time Management
Implementation
Holding Firm to Decisions
Valuing Urgency
Organizational Focus
Green – Sales/Marketing
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Focuses on Sales and Marketing Efforts
Influences and Motivates People
Seeks Recognition
Supports and Manages Change
Actively Communicates with Others
Acts Independently
Outgoing and Enthusiastic
Organizational Focus
Green – Sales/Marketing
People with a long Green Foundation Color will be drawn to:
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Communicating Ideas Verbally
Enthusiasm for New Projects
Engaging Others
Persuasion
Organizational Focus
Green – Sales/Marketing
People with a Long Green Foundation Color May Need Support With:
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Staying Objective
Follow Through
Following Directions and Procedures
Attending to Details
Organizational Focus
Red – Operations/Technology
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Focuses on Operations and Production
Values Tactical, Short-Term Goals
Takes Action on Objectives
Communicates Candidly
Produces Tangible Products
Makes Decisions Quickly
Practical and “Hands On”
Organizational Focus
Red – Operations/Technology
People with a long Red Foundation Color will be drawn to:
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Tangible Projects
Implementing the Plan
“Hands On” Activity
Making the Tough Calls
Organizational Focus
Red – Operations/Technology
People with a Long Red Foundation Color May Need Support With:
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Sensitivity to Emotions
Handling Ambiguity
Diplomacy and Tact
Seeing the Big Picture
Organizational Focus
Yellow – Admin/Fiscal
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Focuses on Organizational Process/Systems
Values Accuracy and Detail
Analyzes Data Thoroughly
Cooperative when Working with Others
Uses Plan when Acting on Objectives
Appreciates Stability in Environment
Cautious and Consistent
Organizational Focus
Yellow – Admin/Fiscal
People with a long Yellow Foundation Color will be drawn to:
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Systems and Numbers
Quality and Follow Through
Focused Concentration
Organization and Measurement
Organizational Focus
Yellow – Admin/Fiscal
People with a Long Yellow Foundation Color May Need Support With:
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Speaking Up
Dealing with Change
Dealing with Ambiguity
Staying Open to Ideas
Organizational Focus
 Practice: Share one experience
from each color with your partner.
Intellectual Styles…
a Major Team Insight
It’s how you (and your team members) process information
 Public Contact vs. Detail
 Global vs. Linear
 Conceptual vs. Concrete
Intellectual Styles:
How You Process Information
 Public Contact : Concern on being with people
 Detail: Concern over facts, details, figures
 Global : Big Picture in a non sequential pattern
 Linear : Needs a step by step progression of big
picture
 Conceptual : Enjoys the world of ideas
 Concrete : Moves objectively to immediate results
Critical Insight
Different intellectual styles is a major factor in
discord on teams.
If we understand how each other processes
information, approaches and makes
decisions, we can work toward
complementary styles.