April 2008 Archives
Hidden deep in the extended link of this entry you will find a short review of Marcus Buckingham's book "Now Discover Your Strengths".
I have to be honest - the review is a little odd. Primarily because we've been instructed to only read up to Chapter 4 as we're learning the rest at our MLS session next week.
Also, I've heard/seen Mr Buckingham speak on a similar theme several times, so much of what I've read has kind of amalgamated with the stuff I'd heard on the subject before.
Anyway, having said all that. I think the principles in this book are excellent. I'm more and more convinced that the idea of playing to our strengths is what transforms great teams to excellent teams. And if you want to know why, you'll just have to click the link (or even consider reading the book yourself.
So here goes...
Continue reading Now Discover Your Strengths - The Review....
I just completed the online strengthsfinder assessment, and I have to say I'm quite satisfied with the results.
I won't rabbit on now, cos there should be a review of the book "now discover your strengths" up on here within the next few days, so if you're interested, click the extended link and discover what (the internet says) my 5 top strengths are...
Continue reading My Top 5 Strengths!!.
Our team training at NSYFC today was led by Roy Crowne who'd come up to stoke to speak about "passion" (the attidtude/emotion, not the film or youth worship event).
Roy is one of those guys who it seems could talk to you about anything and you'd think it was the best idea in the world - he just has that... passion(?) about everything he speaks about. It was really good to see a large crowd from local churches turn up to hear him as well.
Anyway, after some AMAZING worship, Roy's talk and then a sandwich lunch, I had the privilege of taking Roy out for a starbucks in Hanley and stealing another hour of his time to discuss vision, plans and generally follow on from our meeting in Februaury where I interviewed him as part of the MLS course.
At the February meeting Roy had set me some "homework". Nothing major - just to decide what I was going to do with the next 5 years of my life!! And I had to report today that I'd pretty much fallen at the first hurdle.
The trouble is, that I have a good idea where my passions, giftings and strengths lie - the problem has always been knowing how best to utilize them. I do know that I'm still extremely passionate about seeing young lives impacted with the Gospel, and that for me that's always going to be achieved best by investing in TEAM. The question is, should that team be a team of church youth leaders, a team of interns (gap years) or something bigger/different?
I guess the key thing from today is to break it down more specifically into manageable chunks (i.e. 1 year at a time), and distinguishing between what I (or we as a family) would like to do, and what we NEED to do, so that would include things like "being in a better position financially etc, and working from there. Now that sounds slightly more manageable.
Anyways, My thinking on the whole "5 year" thing is much clearer now, so I really need to get this whole plan thing done and dusted -Roy's given me til mid May to get it to him and I guess we'll go from there.
Right, back to the MLS projects - to be posted here v.soon.
Ciao
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