Welcome to

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Welcome to Blueprint for LivingYour Leadership
Grip

• Enhanced by The Birkman Method
• Day2

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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?

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A Picture Worth a 1,000 Words
Grid Interests-Style-Needs- Stress Foundational
Colors Natural value to an organization Areas of
Interest Activities you prefer Intellectual
Styles How you think and process
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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?

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A Picture Worth a 1,000 Words
Grid Interests-Style-Needs- Stress Foundational
Colors Natural value to an organization Areas of
Interest Activities you prefer Intellectual
Styles How you think and process
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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 410

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Picture the Power

• Draw picture of what happens when natural
  becomes energized by the supernatural
• Make several observations about Gods
  empowerment
• What do we learn about the nature of Gods
  empowerment or of how God shapes us through
  Gifts?
• Is the grace of God in you?

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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

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• Critical Insight 4 Gift Mooshing is the
  melding together of your spiritual gift
  combinationdescribing how the Spirit coordinates
  and compliments them on behalf of others.

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• 1.1 Team Styles reflect our SG combinations
• the following verses indicate that we may have
  
• One -- I Peter 410-11,
• Two -- Eph 411, or possibly
• Three -- II Tim 111, T Tim 27
• Spiritual Gifts
• We recommend that believers consider up to four
  Gifts, but no more

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Spiritual Gifts

• GIFT MOOSHING not separate gifts, but a
  melding of gifts that God uses powerfully in
  and through me...gifts complement and coordinate

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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.

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Reflection

• Reflect on your giftsmake your first pass on
  MOOSHING themdescribing how yourgifts
  complement and coordinate Gods power in and
  through you.
• Get in pairs and coach each other through
  describing your Gift Moosh

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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

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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?

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How is Your Spiritual Gifts Combination Expressed
in a Team?
How I looks in a We setting
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1.3 Team Style Assessment

• Let me help you desires to come alongside to
  help or encourage
• Lets go desires to go somewhere or pioneer
  something new
• Lets be careful often thorough or watch-ful,
  committed to rightness
• Lets stay together unity is issue one,
  sensitivity close behind

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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 Gods
  power at work through us.

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Team Styles

• Are you more powerful
• Upfront...
• Alongside...
• Or a combination of both?

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Team Style Mooshing

• GIFT MOOSHING
• How could you moosh your team styles (i.e.,
  Lets Go Carefully or Let Me Help You Go)
• ...Gifts and Team Styles complement and coordinate

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Coaching 4.1(In Pairs 20 )

• Refer to the categories in YLG pages 25-27 and
  note the liabilities as well as characteristics
• Share in pairs your primary and secondary Team
  Style.
• How might you moosh your team styles?
• What Team Style(s) do you most need?

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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?
• Upfront Equippers lead powerfully from the
  front
• 2. Alongside Equippers lead powerfully from
  alongside
• Supporting Players powerfully support and
  follow the lead of others
• Its not about where you stand, but how the
  power of God works through you.

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Lunch Break

• 1230-130 p.m.

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Getting a Grip 5

• How do you Gifts function in Stewardship Language?

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Paul Ford Quote

• How do you respond to Pauls 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?

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• Most of what passes for community (in America)
  is actually user-friendly networking.
• Dr. Paul Ford

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How is Your Spiritual Gift Cluster Expressed in
Equipping/Influence Functions?
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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?

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An emerging Aha!

• Those designed by God to support and NOT lead are
  often powerful at two of these five
  functionsvalues keeper and active listener!

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• 1.2 Two essential questions
• How are you powerful?
• Encourager
• Enabling others to acts
• Sharing the vision
• Accountable checkpoint provider
• Active Listener

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• 1.2 Who do you need?
• Each of us also have intrinsic weaknesses
• I need you and you need me
• The Korean principle

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• 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.

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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)

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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?

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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?

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Assessment How do you function as an Equipping
Releaser?
Knowledge Focus Content-driven
Relationship Focus People-Driven
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• Critical Insight 5.2 There is a distinct bias
  to my Stewardship style. i.e. Am I knowledge-
  training, 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.

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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?

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Getting a Grip 6

• Checking Congruity
• Searching for the Integrity of the Corners the
  Dotted Diamond

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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?

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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

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• 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.

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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)

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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. Team Style
3. Equipping Functions
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• 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

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Natural RelationshipsBetween Team Styles and
Equipping Functions

• Lets Be Careful ? Values Keeper
• Lets Go ? Vision Sharer
• Lets Stay Together ? Team Builder
• Active
  Listener
• Let Me Help You ? Equipping Releaser
• Active Listener

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• Coaching 6.1 (15)
• In pairs Help each other process the integrity
  of the corners.
• Compare your Spiritual Gifts with your Team
  Styles
• Compare Team Styles with Primary Functions of
  Stewardship
• How do your Primary Functions fit with your
  Spiritual Gifts?
• Note how they fit into the Body, rather than
  simply evaluating individual strengths

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Coaching Recap

• So, any fresh insights that came to you while you
  were coaching or listening?
• Any coaching tips you realized?

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• Critical Insight 6.2 Your Spiritual Gifts
  dynamically affect your Personality (Triangle 1
  and Birkman LifeStyle Grid).

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Whats the Difference Between...

• A bowling team...
• and
• A basketball team?

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So, happens when God moves powerfully
influencing your personality?

• The Dotted Diamond

(p.31)
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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).

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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

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Coaching 6.2 Discovering Your Dotted Diamond
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Getting a Grip 7

• Birkman Foundational Focus
• Intellectual Styles

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Getting a Grip 7

• Birkman Organizational Focus and Intellectual
  Style
• (Team Issues)

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The Grip/Birkman Blueprint

Grip Triangle
Organizational Focus
Birkman Lifestyle Grid
Areas of Interest
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Organizational Focus
Organizational Focus
Sales/Marketing
Operations/Technology
Admin/Fiscal
Design/Strategy
The Birkman Method
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Foundation Colors
What Do You Contribute to the Team or
Organization?
Bottom Line Color

• Natural strengths you bring to the organization

In other words what foundational value you bring
to an organization .
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Organizational Focus

• The Organizational Focus Report represents
• Fundamental Work Orientation
• Natural Approach To Problem Solving
• Means Of Engaging and Influencing Others
• Dominant Perceptual Filter

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Organizational Focus

• GET IT DONE

TALK ABOUT IT
DO IT RIGHT
THINK AND PLAN IT
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Foundation ColorsSM

• 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

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Foundation ColorsSM
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
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Foundation ColorsSM
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

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Foundation ColorsSM
Top
Two Bars

• Shorter than the other two
• Represent characteristics less often seen in
  function
• Represent areas that may be potential blind
  spots

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Organizational Focus
Blue Design/Strategy

• 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

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Organizational Focus
Blue Design/Strategy
People with a long Blue Foundation Color will be
drawn to

• One-on-One Relationships
• Strategic Planning
• Sensing Others Feelings
• Stimulating Change

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Organizational Focus
Blue Design/Strategy
People with a Long Blue Foundation Color May Need
Support With

• Time Management
• Implementation
• Holding Firm to Decisions
• Valuing Urgency

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Organizational Focus

• Green Sales/Marketing

• 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

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Organizational Focus

• Green Sales/Marketing

People with a long Green Foundation Color will be
drawn to

• Communicating Ideas Verbally
• Enthusiasm for New Projects
• Engaging Others
• Persuasion

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Organizational Focus

• Green Sales/Marketing

People with a Long Green Foundation Color May
Need Support With

• Staying Objective
• Follow Through
• Following Directions and Procedures
• Attending to Details

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Organizational Focus

• Red Operations/Technology

• 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

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Organizational Focus

• Red Operations/Technology

People with a long Red Foundation Color will be
drawn to

• Tangible Projects
• Implementing the Plan
• Hands On Activity
• Making the Tough Calls

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Organizational Focus

• Red Operations/Technology

People with a Long Red Foundation Color May Need
Support With

• Sensitivity to Emotions
• Handling Ambiguity
• Diplomacy and Tact
• Seeing the Big Picture

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Organizational Focus

• Yellow Admin/Fiscal

• 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

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Organizational Focus

• Yellow Admin/Fiscal

People with a long Yellow Foundation Color will
be drawn to

• Systems and Numbers
• Quality and Follow Through
• Focused Concentration
• Organization and Measurement

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Organizational Focus

• Yellow Admin/Fiscal

People with a Long Yellow Foundation Color May
Need Support With

• Speaking Up
• Dealing with Change
• Dealing with Ambiguity
• Staying Open to Ideas

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Organizational Focus

• Practice Share one experience from each color
  with your partner.

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Intellectual Styles a Major Team Insight

• Its how you (and your team members) process
  information
• Public Contact vs. Detail
• Global vs. Linear
• Conceptual vs. Concrete

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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

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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.