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Devotional: Ways the Disciples Used Their Strengths, Part 1

April 15, 2014
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“Let’s Go” or “Let’s Make a Plan.” Which Are You? Ways the Disciples Used Their Strengths to Manage Change, Part 1 Jesus’ last days on earth can give powerful lessons about the value of different strengths in solving problems, processing information, managing change, and facing risk. During His last meal with His disciples, a conversation…

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Devotional: Two Kinds of Decisions You Make Each Day

April 7, 2014
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A devotional about valuing differences How many decisions do you make a day? The answer depends on your age, your life stage, and your circumstances, say researchers at USA Today. But on average, an American adult makes 35,000 decisions a day. Two Different Kinds of Decisions Those decisions fall into just two broad categories –…

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Ways a Certified Practitioner Can Help You, Part 5

April 1, 2014
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Now What? 3 Ways To Put Your Profile Data Into Practice Fifth in a series explaining how Certified Practitioners help you process profiles After you receive your Leading From Your Strengths profile assessment and review it with a certified practitioner, you discover your dominant strengths, particularly how you are most likely to respond in typical…

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Transitions: Canadian Leader Helps Midlifers, Teams Transition Well

March 28, 2014
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Dr. Dan Reinhardt and CREST Leadership use profiles to guide midlife leaders After eighteen years of pastoral leadership, Dr. Dan Reinhardt took a sabbatical to pursue a doctorate in ministry leadership. As he conducted his thesis research he discovered the absence of leadership training material for mid-life leaders. CREST Leadership is an outgrowth of Dan’s…

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Ways a Certified Practitioner Can Help You, Part 3

March 17, 2014
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Four Ways You Are Unique Third in a series explaining how Certified Practitioners help you process profiles Your Leading From Your Strengths Profiles presents four areas of strengths in which you are unique: solving problems, processing information, managing change, and facing risk. Each person operates within these four areas each day. They are inescapable. A…

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Ways a Certified Practitioner Can Help You, Part 2

March 10, 2014
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Are You Independent or Interdependent? A Practitioner Helps You Know Second in a series explaining how Certified Practitioners help you process profiles Leading From Your Strengths Profiles empower you to discover and use your God-given strengths and be stronger for it. Because the profile questionnaire can be completed and delivered in 10 minutes or less,…

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Ways a Certified Practitioner Can Help You, Part 1

March 4, 2014
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First in a series explaining how Certified Practitioners help you process profiles Often Christ-followers are unaware that their differences with others actually represent enormous strengths. The Leading From Your Strengths (LFYS) Profile is a tool that helps you discover your unique strengths and how to use them. This personalized, detailed 20-page report accurately describes your…

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Devotional: Don’t Be a Missing Jewel

February 24, 2014
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A devotional about valuing your strengths The United Kingdom’s Imperial State Crown is worn by the sovereign only once a year – at the opening of Britain’s Parliament – and very occasionally as part of the coronation of a new British monarch. It is adorned with several legendary jewels, including the Black Prince’s Ruby, weighing…

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Versatility: Pastor, Educator Uses Profiles Across Ministry Areas

February 19, 2014
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When the Leading From Your Strengths profile was released in 2001, a friend presented Dr. Greg Hibbins with a complimentary copy. Greg completed the assessment – and the personal impact was profound. “The profile data helped me to understand who I am in Christ even after being in ministry so many years,” says Greg. “I…

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Devotional: How to Set a Gemstone to Use It Best

February 17, 2014
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A devotional about valuing strengths In 1 Corinthians 12:18, Paul writes, “God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased” (1 Corinthians 12:18, NKJV). He explains that God has purposely placed each of us in specific settings to use our strengths. The word “set” used in this passage…

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