1. Personality & Leadership
What is personality?
Using Taxonomies
Using the DISC (Personal Profile System)
Primary Orientation
Developing Teams
Leadership Development

2. What is Personality? Qualities given by God Responses formed by life
Controls how we see life
Controls how we respond
Useful in the kingdom
Beautiful in relationship When balanced

3. How many of us are there? 6 billion and growing 2 billion Christians
200 million faithful disciples
10 million leaders

4. Taxonomies Physical growth – Piaget Cognitive growth – Bloom, Meeker
Affective growth – Krathwold
Moral growth - Kohlberg
Social growth – Erickson
Personality – DISC, Myers-Briggs
Gifts – Wesley
Couples – Prepare, Taylor-Johnson

5. Using the DiSC Dominance DI ID Influence DC IS DS IC CI SD CD SI
Conscientiousness CS SC Steadiness

6. Primary Orientation Task vs People Assertive vs Responsive D, C I, S
D, I C, S

7. Developing Teams Decide goal of team Balance for success
Balance for gifts as well
Accountability to the group
Accountability for the goal

8. Personality & Leadership
God’s call, not personality or gifts
Build on strengths
Staff to weakness
Communicate!
Listen!

9. Leading a Team Together, define the call Focus on the functions needed
Balance the personalities and gifts
Communicate and listen
Practice accountability within and to the team
Solve problems in terms of the goal
Appreciate each contribution to the process

10. Helping Individuals Fit
You have strengths
You are part of a team
Your team has a goal
Doing your part adds value win/win
You can do anything as part of a team
Make the most of your days