Living Your Strengths

………………………………. Strengths Based

Leadership

God’s Unique Design of Each Person…

OBefore I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.”

Jeremiah 1:5

O “For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works that I know very well.”

Psalm 139:13-14

The “Why” of Strengths Based Leadership“I’ve never met an effective leader who wasn’t aware of his talents and working to sharpen them.” Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Wesley Clark

OWinston Churchill OMahatma Gandhi

More Differences than Similarities: “…it is the differences that defined them and led

them to their success.”

Bible stories of Strengths Based

Leadership…• Moses• Jonah• David• Ruth• Deborah • Esther• Peter• Mary Magdelene

“A leader needs to know his strengths as a carpenter knows his tools, or as a physician know the instruments at her disposal. What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths-and can call on the right strength at the right time. This explains why there is no definitive list of characteristics that describes all leaders.”

StrengthsFinder 2.0

Strengths Based

Leadership

The Four

Domains of

Leadership Strength

OEXECUTING

O INFLUENCING

ORELATIONSHIP BUILDING

OSTRATEGIC THINKING

“…the most cohesive and

successful teams possessed broader

groupings of talents.”

Although

individuals

need not be

well-rounded,

teams should

be.

“…it serves a team well to have a

representation of strengths in each

of the four domains.”

“When teams are able to use a common language of strengths, it immediately changes the conversation, creates more positive dialogue, and boosts the team’s overall engagement.”

“…the leader must continue to invest in each person’s strengths and in building better relationships among the group members. When leaders can do this, it allows the entire team to spend more time thinking about the needs of the people they serve.”

“ The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts and

though all it’s parts are many, they form one body…But in fact

God has arranged the parts in the body, everyone of them, just

as God wanted them to be…there are many parts , but one body…Now you are the body of Christ,

and each one of you is a part of it.”

I Corinthians 12: 12, 14,18,27

“The most effective leaders get people to follow. Reaching the

level where your life’s work and mission continue into perpetuity requires not only being a leader

yourself, but developing the people who follow you to be

effective leaders as well.”

When they pulled in that catch of fish, awe overwhelmed Simon and everyone with him. It was the same with James and John, Zebedee’s sons, coworkers with Simon.Jesus said to Simon, “There is nothing to fear. From now on you’ll be fishing for men and women.” They pulled their boats up on the beach, left them, nets and all, and followed him. Luke 5:9-11

One more considerationfor you, your leadership,

and your team…

*Strengths & Health

“…the link between early self-confidence and physical health may be even more surprising…the group with low self-confidence…reported almost three times as many health problems

25 years later. Almost unbelievably, the group with high self-evaluations…

reported having fewer health problems than they did 25 years

before.”

The Four

Domains of

Leadership Strength

OEXECUTING

O INFLUENCING

ORELATIONSHIP BUILDING

OSTRATEGIC THINKING

“The leader of the future isn’t a person. It is a TEAM. It is a group of people gifted and

called by God to lead. It is a community drawn together by a sense of possible with in congregation and committed to making God’s kingdom just a bit more real in their

time and place. This fact alone changes the notions of leadership that pastors and

congregations have operated under for years. It breaks down barriers between professional and lay leades. It refocuses

our attention on gifts and call as being the basis for ministry.”

Jeffrey Jones, Exemplar Youth Ministry

For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead, do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully. Romans 12:4-8