Strengths Finder 2.0 and the Like

[frokey]

Did a search on this and didn't find anything, so...

A while back, a friend told me about Strengths Finder 2.0, a book and online test to help identify personal strengths and give insight in dealing with others possessing particular strengths. I did it and found it pretty accurate and insightful. I've since thought about using this or something like it in our media team and possibly other ministries within the church. I think if we begin to capitalize on our individual strengths within a team, and are assigned tasks that fit us better, much of the external pushing and prodding to get things accomplished will be done away with because we're more "in place" and more self motivated.

Have any of you heard of this or implemented something like it within your team/church? What's worked for you?

[riafekim]

We did this at my regular job. I don't remember which test we did but my boss used it as part of her review process a couple of years back. She said it really help her to position people in places where they woud succeed.

[rev_65]

Here's the link:

http://strengths.gallup.com/110659/Homepage.aspx

[jksbc]

I agree completely. I haven't tried that method but we do something similar at our church. It's called Growth Track. The third class involves a personality assessment as well as a spritual gifts assessment. It helps people realize their strengths and weaknesses and helps us place them in the right ministry for them to grow. Not everyone is cut out to serve in the 3-4 year old class and yet everyone is not cut out to serve on the media team either.


At my former church we were very committee driven. We would railroad about seven individuals each church year to nominate people to fill the committee positions. If you had trouble saying no you would end up on every committee at the church. By the middle of the church year most committees were either dormant or operating with less than half of the original committee members. We would always blame it on non-commitment when the real problem was not fitting the right people in the ministries they are meant to serve in and are compassionate about.

[zactommo]

Our who youth leadership team (including myself) did strength finder. The idea behind the whole thing is very good; that you shouldn't beat yourself up about what you can't do, or what your not great at, but instead work in your area of strength, and give your area of weakness to someone who has that strength.

For me personally it was just a case of "Oh thats interesting, thats a nice way of deescribing me" I can't say it has had any long term effects on me at all, and I couldn't name my top 5 strengths off the top of my head, but I think I was working pretty well in my strength areas pre doing strength finder, so it could be a different story for someone who isn't working in their areas of strengths