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Love & Money: Audio Interview with Rodney Cox and Don Blanton

September 1, 2015
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Rodney Cox and Don Blanton explain how love and money intersect in marriage — and how couples can blend their strengths to build a strong marriage — in this 30-minute interview with wealth managers and radio personalities Terry and Deborah Owens on their NPR show, “Love and Money.” Rodney and Don explain how their book,…

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Insight: Can Your Team Blend to Go Both Fast and Deep?

September 1, 2015
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Insights are short, biblical truths to equip you to lead from your strengths. How a Team’s Strengths Blend in Quick-Moving Circumstances Think of a time when things changed quickly for you. Maybe it was a news report … a telephone call … an accident … a life-changing event … If you look carefully, you’ll notice…

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Insight: Lean In or Lean Out? How to Be a Team When Facing a Threat

August 24, 2015
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Insights are short, biblical truths to equip you to lead from your strengths. When your team faces a threat, do they lean into each other for help to navigate the uncertain waters – or lean out and away from each other in fear? All of you may be anxious … but each of you has helpful strengths…

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Insight: Rock the Boat – Use Your Strengths to Challenge the Status Quo

August 17, 2015
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Insights are short, biblical truths to equip you to lead from your strengths. You’ve heard it before: “Let’s not rock the boat.” It’s a common refrain when you or those around you are opposed to change. The goal is maintaining the current state of affairs, sometimes called the “status quo.” That is all well and good…

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Insight: Task-Oriented or People-Oriented? God Uses Both on Teams

August 10, 2015
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Insights are short, biblical truths to equip you to lead from your strengths. Are you task-oriented or people-oriented? Each of us has a natural way we interact with your environment. This God-given inclination falls into one of two different orientations. The task-oriented among us are interested in “getting the job done.” They’re list-makers and sequential thinkers…

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LifeWay Consultant Finds Profile’s Impact Is Like a “Divine Revelation”

August 5, 2015
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Doug Akers Uses Profiles in Church Consulting “LifeWay deals directly with over 40,000 churches,” says Doug Akers, speaking of the Nashville-TN-based leading provider of Bibles, curriculum, books, audio/visual and Christian resources. That’s a lot of churches. Doug serves as Lifeway’s lead church consultant, helping to equip teams across the U.S. to maximize their ministry. Leading…

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Insight: Flip the Switch. Use Your Adapted Strengths to Resolve Conflict

August 3, 2015
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Insights are short, biblical truths to equip you to lead from your strengths. No matter what your natural strengths, they remain stable over time. Yet your environment changes regularly. Periodically you must adapt to your environment. In doing so, you exercise your “adapted strengths.” In a conflict, God may call you to flip the switch from…

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