Assessment Descriptions

Gallup StrengthsFinder™

Building your life around your strengths is far more rare than you might think. Most people focus on improving their weaknesses rather than harnessing their strengths. We will engage in a conversation involving the identification and harnessing of your strengths, while also learning to manage your weaknesses. The Gallup StrengthsFinder assessment involves 34 top themes (strengths), and after taking this assessment, you will discover your top five. These five themes will provide clarity around how you were uniquely designed, and will help focus your future choices.

Myers Briggs Type Indicator II™

Are you more structured or unstructured? Are you more people-oriented or task-oriented? Do you make decisions with your mind or your heart? These questions and many others will be addressed as we examine our personality preferences. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a psychological assessment that examines your personality preferences. Knowing your distinct personality can free you to thrive at your most optimal level in your career and relationships. We will utilize the Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator to assess four categories that are the context from which we make decisions, derive energy, process information, and organize our lives.

The Character Matrix™

Character fuels a life of conviction, passion, and focus. The Character Matrix will engage your value system and press against the core of what it means to be human. Stepping into this matrix will challenge who you are and how you understand influence. Without question, your character, good or bad, will drive your influence and determine the course of your future impact. The Character Matrix demands taking a second look at what you have always thought character to be. The Character Matrix and assessment are based on the book Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul by Erwin McManus (founder of Awaken Humanity and Lead Architect of Mosaic in Los Angeles)

APEST©

is a ministry assessment emerging from the most comprehensive statement of ministry structure, that of Ephesians 4:7,11-12. Within this passage, we find the fivefold ministry of APEST: apostolic, prophetic, evangelist, shepherd and teacher. All five ministries are needed to engender, call forth, and sustain a full ministry. In fact, all five ministries in dynamic relation to one another are essential to vigorous discipleship, healthy churches, and growing movements. Ephesians 4:7,11-12 assigns APEST ministries to the entire church, not just leadership. All are to be found somewhere in APEST – a leadership model characterized by a servant-inspired dynamic.

IDI™

The IDI is a 50-item instrument that measures intercultural sensitivity as conceptualized in Dr. Milton Bennett’s Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity. The instrument explains the reactions of people toward cultural differences in addition, it measures an individual’s (or group’s) fundamental worldview orientation to cultural differences and thus the individual’s or group’s capacity toward cultural competency. As a theory based test, the IDI meets the standard scientific criteria for a valid and reliable psychometric instrument.