Lead Your Team through the Profile, Part 4: Value to the Team This exercise is part of a series to use as you guide your team through understanding their profile reports. For You To Think About In what way does each member bring value to your team? Your team members fulfill two different functions: (1)…
Lead Your Team Through the Profile, Part 3: Process Your Team Members’ Strengths This exercise is part of a series to use as you guide your team through understanding their profile reports. For You To Think About Each person has natural strengths. Natural strengths are an individual’s unique ways of going about the tasks of…
By Gary Warkentin, Effective Ministry Teams We often hear of teams dealing with adversity, particularly athletic teams. Interviews with sports figures describe how their team overcame hard times to win. The responses generally include sticking together as a team, not giving up, and not losing sight of the goal. Many say that adversity has also…
Lead Your Team through the Profile, Part 2: Activity to Understand Differences This exercise is part of a series to use as you guide your team through understanding their profile reports. For You To Think About When you are first introduced to a new co-worker, you may recognize a strength set and style different from…
Lead Your Team through the Profile, Part 1: Group Devotional God Made Us to Complete Each Other, Not Compete With Each Other For You To Think About In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul uses a word picture to describe healthy relationships: the human body. Like He does elsewhere in scripture, God provides us with…
Insights are short, biblical truths to equip you to lead from your strengths. A know-it-all: it’s that irritating person who claims to know everything. And because he knows everything, he cannot learn new things from others. When it comes to individual differences, you might be a know-it-all … and not know it. What separates a…
Jesus met with his disciples in The Upper Room for a last meal before His arrest, trial, crucifixion, and death. He knew what was coming. They did not. Jesus explained to His disciples that He was going away; He was leaving the Holy Spirit with them; He would come get them later. So when Jesus…
As you may know, Ministry Insights helps people understand biblical truth about God’s divine design for differences. We provide biblically-based tools to help you build healthy relationships, including free resources on our website. This content offers biblical teaching and practical ways you can discover and use your strengths in your relationships. Here is a brief…
Insights are short, biblical truths to equip you to lead from your strengths. The two other articles in this series have addressed how you can learn to value others’ strengths with your head and your heart. This one looks at how you can make that decision with your hands. The Law of Differences holds that there…
Insights are short, biblical truths to equip you to lead from your strengths. The Law of Differences holds that there are just two paths you can take as you observe others’ differences. You can judge another’s individual differences (you see another’s differences as weaknesses) You can value another’s individual differences (you see another’s differences as…