Welcome to

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Welcome to Blueprint for LivingYour Leadership
Grip

• Enhanced by The Birkman Method
• Day 1

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Getting Started

• Who you are
• What brought you here
• Something special about you
• What you want to take away

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Housekeeping Things

• Schedule
• Food
• Restrooms
• Phones, All rooms are wireless
• Password
• Parking
• Any Questions?

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Some Presuppositions

• Learning should be fun!
• Questions / Comments are critical to real
  learning
• This is a team learning experience
• We will leave no one behind

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Getting a Grip1

• The Big PictureUsing the Grip/Birkman Blueprint

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Consider these Five Quotes

• Mort Meyerson
• The Apostle Paul
• Dr. Paul Ford
• Paul Ford
• Paul
• Which statement stood out to you?
• Why?

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1. Understanding our Cultural Context
Critical Insight 1 Seven Western cultural
values critically impact team building.
1.1 Which of these seven cultural values
most affect your leadership or serving?
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Western Cultural Values

• Narcissism Its all about me, what I want
• Entitlement I deserve what I want
• Dissatisfaction but its not what I want
• Sarcasm I will pull you down to lift me up
• The Ladder Mentality I want to become more
  important, powerful, educated, beautifuland I
  will climb over you to get there.
• Rebellion glorified...and institutionalized!
• Blame Its their problem, not mine
• What examples from TV or commercials can you
  suggest to illustrate these values?

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Which of these values most affect your ministry
and churches?

1. Narcissism Its all about me, what I want
2. Entitlement I deserve what I want
3. Dissatisfaction but its not what I want
4. Sarcasm I will pull you down to lift me up
5. The Ladder Mentality I want to become more
   important, powerful, educated, beautiful
6. Rebellion glorified...and institutionalized!
7. Blame Its their problem, not mine

• Why is it so important to understand the
  values of our culture?

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Cultural Values vs. Healthy Biblical (Kingdom)
Values Table

• Study and reflect on the parallel similarities
  and differences between Cultural and Kingdom
  values

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2. Leadership 3-Step

• 1. Who I am as a leader or team member
• 2. Who we areas a ministry team or life giving
  cell
• 3. Who we are as groups of we the whole
  ministry body

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3. The Christian as Good Steward

• 3.1 We are each an Oikonomos
• As each one has received a special gift, employ
  it in serving one another, as good stewards of
  the manifold grace of God. (I Peter 410-11)
• 3.2 Relationship manager you are a steward
  of Spiritual Gifts in the framework of
  relationships (team) God has given you
• 3.3 And what of the building blocks God gives?
  (Ephesians 219-22)

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Nehemiah steward of the wall

• Take 5 and write on the bricks the names of
  those God has placed around you to steward.
• Who has God brought into your lives for
  stewardship purposes?
• What is God saying to you about stewardship?

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4. Overview Your Leadership Grip notebook
combined with the Birkman Method

• Make a sober estimate of who we are
• For by the grace given me I say to every one of
  you Do not think of yourself more highly than
  you ought, but rather think of yourself with
  sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of
  faith God has given you. (Romans 123)

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The Grip-Birkman Blueprint

• Your Leadership Grip
• combined with
• The Birkman Method
• A Brief Overview

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Tools for Making a Sober Estimate

• 4.1 Your Leadership Grip workbook
• Your Spiritual Gifts in gifts language
• Your Spiritual Gifts in team language
• Your Spiritual Gifts in stewardship language

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Dr. Paul Ford
Your Leadership Grip Discovering Your Ministry
Identity Knocking Over the Leadership Ladder
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Your Leadership Grip Triangle
Your Spiritual Gifts
Supporting or Equipping Gifts or a
Combination?
Do you lead most effectively Upfront or
Alongside?
Your Primary Equipping Functions (How your gifts
function in equipping language)
Your Team Styles(How your gifts function in a
team setting)
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Tools for Making a Sober Estimate

• 4.2 combined with The Birkman Foursome
• Lifestyle Grid
• Areas of Interest
• Organizational Colors
• Intellectual Style

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Dr. Roger Birkman
True Colors, p. xvii.
Dr. Paul Ford Knocking Over the Leadership Ladder.
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The Birkman Foursome
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Grip/Birkman Blueprint

• GBBs Value to Individual, Team, and
  Organization
• Who we are in the Body (gifts)
• How each of us approaches problem-solving
  and other issues in different ways
• What activities we do to be most effective

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The Grip/Birkman Blueprint
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4.3 Important Differences

• Natural versus Supernatural
• Personalityfrom Birth and Nurture
• versus
• Giftingfrom Conversion
• Intrinsic Skill Set versus Dynamic Power
  of God

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• Graphic Grip Birkman
• Grip/Birkman Blueprint

From Natural to Supernatural The power of your
spiritual gifts energized through and beyond your
personality.

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Coaching 1

• Setting the Foundation

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Welcome to Blueprint for LivingYour Leadership
Grip

• Enhanced by The Birkman Method
• Day 1

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Getting a Grip 2

• Your Baseline Personality

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Mr. Hollands Opus
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Mr. Hollands Opus

• What was the sunset?
• In what way was the student empowered?
• In your context, what would it mean to play the
  sunset?

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Birkman International, Inc

• Myers-Briggs
• DISC
• Keirsey
• 16 PF
• Kolbe
• Strong
• Wilson
• CPI
• FIRO-B

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1. Birkman Lifestyle Grid

• Interests
• Usual Style
• Underlying Needs
• Likely Behavior Under Stress

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1.1 Movement and Focus
Direct Communication
People
Task
Indirect/Non-directive communication
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1.2 Birkman Lifestyle Grid

Red - Implementers
Green - Communicators
Do it!
Talk it!
Blue - Planners
Yellow - Administrators
Organize it!
Plan it!
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1.3 Four Categories, Three Grid Points
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Asterisk Interests

• What you want to see happen or want to accomplish

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Interests Goals - Outcome

• logistics
• technology
• engineering
• enforcement
• project management

• sales
• teaching
• coaching
• lawyer
• politician

TASK
PEOPLE

• accounting
• numbers
• policy writing
• systems developing
• tax work

• writing
• designing
• counselor
• artist
• architect

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Diamond Usual Style

• How you do things to fulfill goals
• this is your preferred and
• usual, effective style.

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Usual Style How you do it

• practical
• assertive
• decisive
• logical/factual
• direct

• friendly
• outgoing
• competitive
• motivating
• enthusiastic

• precise
• thorough
• orderly
• careful
• analytical

• thoughtful
• creative
• low-key
• intuitive
• strategic

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Circle Needs

• WhyYou will be effective in your Usual style
  IF the underlying needs are met

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Needs Support/Motivation You Need to be Effective

• results
• speed
• direct
• matter-of-fact
• action

• variety
• flexibility
• approval
• recognition
• talk about it

• orderliness
• procedures
• structure
• predictability
• clear guidelines

• sensitivity
• time to think
• creative input
• autonomy
• to be valued

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Square Stress Reaction

• Why not
• If your underlying needs are not met, you will
  move into stress style
• Trying to meet your needs in an unhealthy and
  unproductive way.

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Stress Reaction When Needs Not Met

• impatience
• insensitive
• argumentative
• unsupportive
• overly directive

• restlessness
• scattered
• manipulative
• distrusting others
• easily distracted

• legalistic
• resist change
• overly adhere to rules
• withdraw

• withdrawn
• pessimistic
• indecisive
• quietly rebellious
• fatigued

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Interests Usual StyleNeeds Stress
Reaction
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Places Please!Floor Exercise
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2. Using the Grip Birkman Report

• Cover Page
• Two pages on each category of the four symbols
• Summary
• 2.1 Practice getting a grip on the Lifestyle Grid

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2.2 Key Interpretive principle Distance and
Direction
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Significance of Movement

• Watch for the movement...Distance and Direction
  Anything more than half a quadrant away is
  noteworthy.
• Communication Direct vs. Indirect or
  Non-directive
• Task (get the job done) vs. People
  (relationships)
• Asterisk to the diamondWhat I want to do and
  how I do it.
• Diamond to circle/square...How I do it and what
  I need to do it.
• The closer to the middleyou can use all styles
  or you need all three5 probably represent this

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Debrief Our Lifestyle Grids

• Draw your Lifestyle Grid on your profile sheet.
• What stood out to you from our find your place
  exercise?
• What new insights did the check the distance and
  direction approach give you?

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Critical Insight 2

• Most assessments identify Usual Style and Stress
  Style behaviors.
• The Birkman Method is the only assessment that
  provides insight into why you move into stress.

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3. Areas of Interest

• The asterisk pulled out by itself and amplified.
• 3.1 What you like to do
• 3.2 Birkman discovery

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3.3 Color Key Words

• Artistic (Blue) Aesthetics
• Clerical (Yellow) Details
• Literary (Blue) Write/Create
• Mechanical (Red) Hands-on
• Musical (Blue) Music

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Color Key Words

1. Numerical (Yellow) Analytical
2. Outdoor (Red/Blue) Hands-on Outdoor
3. Persuasive (Green) Motivating - Sales
4. Scientific (Blue/Red) Research
5. Social Services (Blue/Green) People

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A Preview of Interest in Deeper Terms Related to
Color Bars/Scores
The ASTERISK symbol is plotted by taking the 10
Interests from the Areas of Interests and putting
them into a weighted formula and plotting the
result on an XY axis. Symbols will move toward
the noted quadrant when the scores are high.
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Interpreting Profiles Practice

• Interpreting Profiles Practice... (5 each)

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Coaching 2

• Lifestyle Grid Areas of Interest
• In pairs (10)
• Share with your partner the answers to questions
  1-4
• Then move to the last two questions re
• Areas of Interest

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Getting a Grip 3

• How do you serve powerfully?
• Through your Spiritual Gifts

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Consider these key quotes

• David Mains
• Ray Stedman
• Jeannette Slater
• Howard Snyder
• Steve Weldon
• Share a time when God empowered you to do
  something beyond your natural wiring and
  ability.

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Eric Liddel

• China

When do you feel Gods pleasure?
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Reflect on what you heard

• What were some of the common themes?
• How do we know that things were more than just
  naturalwhat was supernatural about them?

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Sober EstimationWhere the Holy Spirit rises up
powerfully through your spiritual gifts
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1. Stewardship of Gods Power Through Me

• 1.1 Christians who are good stewards lead/ serve
  most powerfully through their Spiritual Gifts
• The Kazak Principle
• The Western mentality of strengthening your
  weaknesses
• The Body Life questions Where are you powerful?
  Where are you weak? Who do you need?

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1. Stewardship of Gods Power Through Me

• 1.2 What does it mean to be a good steward of my
  Spiritual Gifts?
• Spend 65 of your time in your Gifts and
  ministry/passion area
• Spend 35 in ministry where you are NOT powerful
• Continuing to live outside this ratio is to be a
  poor steward or to sin!

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1. Stewardship of Gods Power Through Me

• 1.3 Body Life Issues at stake Power, Fruit and
  Joy
• Implications

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A Picture Worth a 1,000 Words2. Overview of the
Gifts Triangle
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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• Critical Insight 3 You have Equipping Gifts,
  Supporting Gifts or a Combo that God has designed
  for you to fulfill a unique role in your team and
  community of faith.

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3. The First Angle I Peter 411

• 3.1 Equipping Spiritual Gifts
• pastor...leadership...evangelism...teaching...wisd
  om....exhortation prophecyfaith
• Some would include knowledge and discernment
• More verbal in function
• Listen to my words
• Equip or Leadfrom Upfront or Alongside?

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Stewardship Ministry of Equippers

• Ephesians 412
• Equipping katartidzo
• Equipping for their God-designed purposes
• NOT to do all the ministry, but
• The leadership problem in Western Christianity

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The First Angle - cont

• 3.2 Supporting Gifts
• Helpsservicemercyadministrationgiving
• More action-oriented
• Watch my actions
• Supporting, do not lead effectively

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3.3 Assessments Heights Gift Questionnaire and
the Heres What I Think of You Summary
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3.4 Three Essential Insights about Equipping and
Supporting Gifts

• Watch for power in their WORDS
• Supports must be freed to support and NOT
  lead
• Be aware of the tendency to hold on to
  ministry functions and not release them to
  others Why?
• Those with a combination of equipping and
  supporting gifts have the greatest challenge
  when it comes to equipping and releasing.

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Types of Spiritual Gifts

• Gifts growing out of prayer and worship
• Tongues, interpretation, healing, miracles...
• Likely to be more situational

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Insights...

• Equipping Primary function release
• Supporting Primary function support
• Combination Primary function release
• There is an internal struggle on being willing
  to equip and release

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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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Coaching 3

• Confirming Your Spiritual Gifts
• In pairs, each of you will have 20 to talk
  exclusively about what Spiritual Gifts you
  believe you have. The other person will be the
  sober estimator, listening critically and ready
  to ask clarifying questions to help you discover
  more accurately what Gifts you have and in what
  order of strength
• Use the Coaching Questions on p. __
• Reverse roles and repeat the process

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Optional Coaching Practice

• Interpreting Sample Gifts Triangles
• Refer to the sample Gifts Triangles listing three
  Gifts (p._ )
• Read alone for 5-7 minutes from your YLG booklet
  to refresh your memory about Spiritual Gifts
• In pairs Process what liabilities you might see
  in the person represented in Triangle A then
  talk about the person in Triangle B.

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Full Group Debrief

• What new insights do you have about your gifts?
• What questions of clarification do you have?
• How do your gifts and passion fit together?
• How do your gifts benefit your team...and the
  Body?
• Where does the power of God show up in and
  through you?
• What it means to have a combination of equipping
  and supporting gifts...what needs attention?
• With what gifts do your fulfill your ministry
  roles?
• Challenge the gift of leadership if you say you
  have it...think of how you equip rather than
  whether you areleading.
• How did your coach help you go deeper and get
  better clarity about your gift moosh?

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• Equipping Spiritual Gifts
• Some with equipping gifts lead most effectively
  from....
• the FRONT .
• Some with equipping gifts lead most effectively
  from
• ALONGSIDE
• Up front or alongside the purpose is to
• EQUIP and RELEASE

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Welcome to Blueprint for LivingYour Leadership
Grip

• Enhanced by The Birkman Method