Comments on: Now, Discover Your Strengths: Using Your Strengths in a Faults-Oriented World http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/2007/06/now-discover-your-strengths-using-your-strengths-in-a-faults-oriented-world/ Frustrate. Educate. Motivate. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:01:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/2007/06/now-discover-your-strengths-using-your-strengths-in-a-faults-oriented-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5832 Tim Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:20:50 +0000 http://cms.bigbadcollab.com/?p=923#comment-5832 Has anyone seen the reliability and validity studies done on this test? If so, where are they available to peruse? Everything I've seen so far is simply anecdotal evidence. Has anyone seen the reliability and validity studies done on this test? If so, where are they available to peruse? Everything I’ve seen so far is simply anecdotal evidence.

]]> By: Dave http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/2007/06/now-discover-your-strengths-using-your-strengths-in-a-faults-oriented-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5831 Dave Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:50:14 +0000 http://cms.bigbadcollab.com/?p=923#comment-5831 If you liked this book, you might want to check out "Go Put Your Strengths to Work" or Tom Rath's book "StrengthsFinder 2.0" with the updated strengths finder survey. My strengths are: Maximizer Learner Positivity Arranger Strategic If you liked this book, you might want to check out “Go Put Your Strengths to Work” or Tom Rath’s book “StrengthsFinder 2.0″ with the updated strengths finder survey.
My strengths are:
Maximizer
Learner
Positivity
Arranger
Strategic

]]> By: Jesse http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/2007/06/now-discover-your-strengths-using-your-strengths-in-a-faults-oriented-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5830 Jesse Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:54:48 +0000 http://cms.bigbadcollab.com/?p=923#comment-5830 I took it recently, I forget what I am. But I wonder, can I even trust it? They ask me a few questions, most of which I don't know the answer to, and then they magically tell me who I am. That just seems impossible. But I want it to be possible. I want to know, I want to do something I love and excel at! Does anyone else have this question? I'm almost irritated the way everyone immediately embraces the results of these kinds of test for themselves. I LOVE Buckingham's ideas though. I totally agree we should operate in our strengths/gifts! I heard him at Catalyst and have seen his trombone player wanted dvd series, pretty revolutionary, pretty awesome. I took it recently, I forget what I am. But I wonder, can I even trust it? They ask me a few questions, most of which I don’t know the answer to, and then they magically tell me who I am. That just seems impossible.
But I want it to be possible. I want to know, I want to do something I love and excel at! Does anyone else have this question? I’m almost irritated the way everyone immediately embraces the results of these kinds of test for themselves.
I LOVE Buckingham’s ideas though. I totally agree we should operate in our strengths/gifts! I heard him at Catalyst and have seen his trombone player wanted dvd series, pretty revolutionary, pretty awesome.

]]> By: Brian Niece http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/2007/06/now-discover-your-strengths-using-your-strengths-in-a-faults-oriented-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5829 Brian Niece Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:59:02 +0000 http://cms.bigbadcollab.com/?p=923#comment-5829 Joshua-- The StrengthsFinder and Gallup's research truly is unique. It starts with a different paradigm: "What's right with you?" rather than "What's wrong with you?" I've been involved with this whole deal for over 8 months. I'm using it on a local level with the church I pastor (www.brunswickgracecommunity.org). I've been trained at Gallup's headquarters in Omaha and will be completing some leadership training for coaching in August. It is a powerful tool for "equipping the saints." Something people can get there heads around and begin to work toward and with quickly. There's a faith-perspective book using strengths-training from Gallup Press titled "Living Your Strengths." It's a bit weak on theology, but intensely practical. My top 5: Strategic Activator Achiever Maximizer Self-Assurance I'd love to share more about how this works in a local church setting with anyone who's interested. Shalom. Joshua–
The StrengthsFinder and Gallup’s research truly is unique. It starts with a different paradigm: “What’s right with you?” rather than “What’s wrong with you?”
I’ve been involved with this whole deal for over 8 months. I’m using it on a local level with the church I pastor (www.brunswickgracecommunity.org). I’ve been trained at Gallup’s headquarters in Omaha and will be completing some leadership training for coaching in August.
It is a powerful tool for “equipping the saints.” Something people can get there heads around and begin to work toward and with quickly. There’s a faith-perspective book using strengths-training from Gallup Press titled “Living Your Strengths.” It’s a bit weak on theology, but intensely practical.
My top 5:
Strategic
Activator
Achiever
Maximizer
Self-Assurance
I’d love to share more about how this works in a local church setting with anyone who’s interested.
Shalom.

]]> By: Fred http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/2007/06/now-discover-your-strengths-using-your-strengths-in-a-faults-oriented-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5828 Fred Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:50:14 +0000 http://cms.bigbadcollab.com/?p=923#comment-5828 <b>Do not forget people as individuals.</b><br /><br /> The challenge with these tests is that managers get the answer and think they now fully understand their employees. I have been involved with many organizations and taken just as many personality tests. For several years I kept getting different results to my Myers-Briggs tests. I mention this because many people do not know themselves well enough to answer the questions. One commentator said he was surprised he did come back creative. Does that mean he is not creative? Maybe. I am a maximizer, strategic, developer, etc. Does that make my boss know what I am strong in? These tools are designed to get people and managers thinking in the compartments of individuals' giftings. The next step is to interact with the person and watch if the tests seem accurate. Give me a role where I take an idea to market and see if I am truly strategic. Put me in an underperforming department and see if I develop and maximize.<br /><br /> This is a good book because it points to areas where a person can flourish. Churches and businesses will benefits as they use their employees to their fullest potential. Do not forget people as individuals.

The challenge with these tests is that managers get the answer and think they now fully understand their employees. I have been involved with many organizations and taken just as many personality tests. For several years I kept getting different results to my Myers-Briggs tests. I mention this because many people do not know themselves well enough to answer the questions. One commentator said he was surprised he did come back creative. Does that mean he is not creative? Maybe. I am a maximizer, strategic, developer, etc. Does that make my boss know what I am strong in? These tools are designed to get people and managers thinking in the compartments of individuals’ giftings. The next step is to interact with the person and watch if the tests seem accurate. Give me a role where I take an idea to market and see if I am truly strategic. Put me in an underperforming department and see if I develop and maximize.

This is a good book because it points to areas where a person can flourish. Churches and businesses will benefits as they use their employees to their fullest potential.

]]> By: Jen Miller http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/2007/06/now-discover-your-strengths-using-your-strengths-in-a-faults-oriented-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5827 Jen Miller Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:10:00 +0000 http://cms.bigbadcollab.com/?p=923#comment-5827 What a gift to be able to clearly identify, articulate and deploy your God-given talents in your life! The SF is a well researched and accurate tool to get a handle on how you are naturally wired. This does not imply limitations on what you do, rather it describes how you do what you do. Having worked with hundreds of people's results, I am continually excited by the accuracy of the tool, and the uniqueness of each individual. Counterintuitively, if each person focused on and developed his/her strengths we would become much more community-oriented and interdependent which is how I imagine God designed us to live. (I have Relator, Command, Maximizer, Connectedness, Individualization in my top 5.) What a gift to be able to clearly identify, articulate and deploy your God-given talents in your life! The SF is a well researched and accurate tool to get a handle on how you are naturally wired. This does not imply limitations on what you do, rather it describes how you do what you do. Having worked with hundreds of people’s results, I am continually excited by the accuracy of the tool, and the uniqueness of each individual. Counterintuitively, if each person focused on and developed his/her strengths we would become much more community-oriented and interdependent which is how I imagine God designed us to live.
(I have Relator, Command, Maximizer, Connectedness, Individualization in my top 5.)

]]> By: Matthew http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/2007/06/now-discover-your-strengths-using-your-strengths-in-a-faults-oriented-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5826 Matthew Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:17:04 +0000 http://cms.bigbadcollab.com/?p=923#comment-5826 I heard Marcus Buckingham speak a couple of months ago on the whole idea behind it. I think the tests are great, but the extent that he wants to make society reflect the "only good" seems a little contradictory to my faith. I'm not one to over-analyze, and philosophize and theorize, but once I heard him speak more about a movement than a tool for better trainging/utilizing staff, I was kind of turned off to him and his materials. Looks like I should have read the book, b/c evidently you folks got some great stuff from it. Was anyone else out there turned off by had doctrine of "only the good?" I heard Marcus Buckingham speak a couple of months ago on the whole idea behind it. I think the tests are great, but the extent that he wants to make society reflect the “only good” seems a little contradictory to my faith. I’m not one to over-analyze, and philosophize and theorize, but once I heard him speak more about a movement than a tool for better trainging/utilizing staff, I was kind of turned off to him and his materials. Looks like I should have read the book, b/c evidently you folks got some great stuff from it. Was anyone else out there turned off by had doctrine of “only the good?”

]]> By: Big Chris http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/2007/06/now-discover-your-strengths-using-your-strengths-in-a-faults-oriented-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5825 Big Chris Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:30:03 +0000 http://cms.bigbadcollab.com/?p=923#comment-5825 StrengthFinder is IMNHO the best thing out there right now, but that is ONLY when it can be read and interpreted by someone who has been trained (and practiced) to do so. I took SF twice in a 6 month period while in school at Bethel Seminary. my top 6 were all the same with a slight order adjustment the second go around. This reinforced for me that it was an accurate test. It gave me some nice insight into who I am, but more so reinforced much of what I already knew about myself. I then had the opportunity to have Brian Schubring interpret my results for me, and he blew my mind. Brian knew very little about me, so I consider it to be an accurate reading. He asked me questions for about 30 minutes and took notes, and then spent the next 30 minutes telling me how God had hard wired me. He told me all sorts of things about me that he should not have known from our limited conversation and interaction. He rocked my world with his depth of insight and ability to make sense for me the results of the test. So take the test, it's worth your time, but if you really want to get the full advantage get someone to interpret it for you who really knows what they are doing. I should also say I had another person who was less skilled and experienced at the interpretation do my first interpretation and it really didn't add much. The right person is key to a great reading. Significance Command Context Learner Achiever Activator Big Chris StrengthFinder is IMNHO the best thing out there right now, but that is ONLY when it can be read and interpreted by someone who has been trained (and practiced) to do so. I took SF twice in a 6 month period while in school at Bethel Seminary. my top 6 were all the same with a slight order adjustment the second go around. This reinforced for me that it was an accurate test. It gave me some nice insight into who I am, but more so reinforced much of what I already knew about myself. I then had the opportunity to have Brian Schubring interpret my results for me, and he blew my mind. Brian knew very little about me, so I consider it to be an accurate reading. He asked me questions for about 30 minutes and took notes, and then spent the next 30 minutes telling me how God had hard wired me. He told me all sorts of things about me that he should not have known from our limited conversation and interaction. He rocked my world with his depth of insight and ability to make sense for me the results of the test.
So take the test, it’s worth your time, but if you really want to get the full advantage get someone to interpret it for you who really knows what they are doing.
I should also say I had another person who was less skilled and experienced at the interpretation do my first interpretation and it really didn’t add much. The right person is key to a great reading.
Significance
Command
Context
Learner
Achiever
Activator
Big Chris

]]> By: kevin beale http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/2007/06/now-discover-your-strengths-using-your-strengths-in-a-faults-oriented-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5824 kevin beale Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:25:07 +0000 http://cms.bigbadcollab.com/?p=923#comment-5824 I have: Communication Developer Empathy Strategic Belief 1. View the strengths finder results as a "this is the way i am wired" report. 2. Get involved in anything that will use and develop those strengths. Once the test illuminates your strengths, do the things that make you the most effective and fulfilled--the things that maximize the use of those strengths! If nothing else, you can have truly amazing conversations with others who have taken the test! I have:
Communication
Developer
Empathy
Strategic
Belief
1. View the strengths finder results as a “this is the way i am wired” report.
2. Get involved in anything that will use and develop those strengths.
Once the test illuminates your strengths, do the things that make you the most effective and fulfilled–the things that maximize the use of those strengths!
If nothing else, you can have truly amazing conversations with others who have taken the test!

]]> By: Joshua http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/2007/06/now-discover-your-strengths-using-your-strengths-in-a-faults-oriented-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5823 Joshua Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:28:36 +0000 http://cms.bigbadcollab.com/?p=923#comment-5823 I guess I should have included this, but to get in on the fun, I'm: Ideation Futurist Activator Learner Self-Assurance I guess I should have included this, but to get in on the fun, I’m:
Ideation
Futurist
Activator
Learner
Self-Assurance

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