Corporate Spiritual Development: Discovering your purpose and identity
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In this presentation, Dr. Chuck Coker defines some key corporate team development goals. You'll see how: -To develop a clear sense of our corporate purpose and identity -To develop our understanding of our own unique purpose and gifting To provide empirical data to give us a ‘head start’ in moving more deeply into God’s purposes for us -To provide a structure in which to intentionally move into God’s purposes for us http://www.lifethrive.com/business-team-development
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Corporate Spiritual Development: Discovering your purpose and identity
- 1. Session 1 Discovering our Purpose and Identity Dr. Charles Coker Phd. D.Min Year 1 Undergraduates TH4911 Year 1 Graduates TH6927 Year 1 FdA TH4914 September Residential 1
- 2. Introduction to the Leadership and Ministry Module How Does All This Fit Together? Chris Pemberton & Chuck Coker 2
- 3. Objectives of this teaching unit • To develop a clear sense of our corporate purpose and identity • To develop our understanding of our own unique purpose and gifting • To provide empirical data to give us a ‘head start’ in moving more deeply into God’s purposes for us • To provide a structure in which to intentionally move into God’s purposes for us 3
- 4. Outline of Sessions Session 1 Discovering our Purpose and Identity Session 2 Seeing - DISC Profile Session 3 Knowing – Hartman Profile Session 4 Understanding – PIAV Profile Session 5 Creating a Personal Development Plan 4
- 5. Aims for this session • To explore our corporate purpose and identity • To explore our unique purpose and identity • To provide an overview of the psychometric test we are using and what your graphs show 5
- 6. Who am I? Why am I here? 6
- 7. Represent God to Do God’s the World Worship will Fulfil Great Glorify Commission God Purpose Child of God and Love God Identity 7
- 8. God, why did you create me? Then God said, “Let us make man (mankind) in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female He created them. 8
- 9. God, why did you create me? In His Image – tselem – meaning similar such as a mirrored image or a person’s shadow However, the same word is used in Daniel 3:1, Numbers 33:52, Ezekiel 16: 17; 23:14, Amos 5:26 and 2 Chronicles 23:17 for IDOL! Tselem Elohim is the image of God and is the same as the Mesopotamian phrase tsalam ili/ilani meaning idol or statue of the gods 9
- 10. God, why did you create me? • Remember, Genesis was written to differentiate the Hebrews from the other peoples of the earth and their pagan creation stories. • To the Gentiles, idols were considered to be a living being (included painted art) able to do whatever a human could do – it was equivalent (1 Samuel 5:2 / Isaiah 44:10). 10
- 11. God, why did you create me? • According to scripture (Exodus 33:17 – 23, Isaiah 6: 1-2, Ezekiel 1: 26 – 27) the one true creator God is a human shaped God who chose to incarnate Himself in humanity. • Therefore humanity is His living, breathing ‘idol’ or image on earth. • For us (as His living and breathing image idols) to create something to worship is stupid, ironic and tragic. 11
- 12. God, why did you create me? “the mind contemplates God … in beholding itself, it sees God in itself, since it is made in His image.” Gregory Palamas (1296 – 1359) 12
- 13. God, what did you create me for? 2 Thessalonians 1:11 “that our God may count you worthy of His calling, and that by his power He may fulfil every good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your faith.” 1 Corinthians 7: 17 “Nevertheless, each one should retain the place in life that the Lord assigned to him and to which God has called him. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches. 13
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- 15. What am I working with? We need to develop a clear understanding of our unique behaviours and capacities. We can do this by: • Asking others • Thinking about things we have done that have felt ‘right’ – when we are in our flow • Praying and listening to the spirit’s leading – ourselves and through other’s prophetic gifting • Using Psychometric Tests to help aid this process 15
- 16. What am I working with? 16
- 17. What am I working with? Understanding Knowing Seeing 17
- 18. What am I working with? Values Skills and Capacities Behaviours 18
- 19. Psychometric Tests Seeing Knowing Behaviors Skills DISC Hartman Understanding Values PIAV 19
- 20. Seeing – Behaviours The DISC Profile 20
- 21. Knowing – Skills and Capacities Hartman Profile 21
- 22. Knowing – Skills and Capacities Hartman Profile 22
- 23. Understanding – Values PIAV Profile 23
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- 25. The Personal Development Plan Process Part One – Analyse your results. Mostly completed in these sessions. This part IS NOT submitted or assessed. Part Two – Create a Personal Development Plan (word limit of 750 words, produced in the template provided) Part Three – Write a reflection on the implementation of your plan (word limit of 1250 words, written in essay form) 25
- 26. Outline of Sessions Session 1 Discovering our Purpose and Identity Session 2 Seeing - DISC Profile Session 3 Knowing – Hartman Profile Session 4 Understanding – PIAV Profile Session 5 Creating a Personal Development Plan 26
Editor's Notes
- For most people discovering our purpose and identity is critical point of development and maturing. Who am I and why am I are questions many people ask for all of their lives without ever really discovering a satisfying and fulfilling answer.When we are young the messages we receive from our parents begin to form our understanding of identity and can help or hinder our progress in emotional development and security. The reality is, by the time we reach adulthood most of us have many mixed messages about who we are and what our purpose is.When we become Christians we are given a clear identity and purpose.
- Take examples from students…In Genesis, though, we see one clear purpose and intention for our creation…
- God reached into Himself to create us, called us by name and placed us on the earth.More than just looking like him we are literally meant to be God on the earth – not gods – but to fully represent God and exercise the divine authority given us in Genesis…Individually we cannot fully represent God. He has created each of us and we are unique representations of Him. This is where things can tend to get complicated for us. We all know we are children of God, we all know we are made in His image, we all know we need to fulfil our divine purpose as given us in Genesis…BUT we also know we have a unique purpose within that divine commission.
- We have a unique purpose. 2 Thessalonians 1:11.God wants us to work within that purpose and be fruitful… 1 Corinthians 7:17 (stay within our calling)
- Nelson Mandela – knew his purpose – life was not without difficulty, persecution, struggle, heartache, suffering – but because he knew he was working within his true purpose he was able to be fruitful even during those times. We need to understand that working within our purpose will not be without difficulty and struggle, at times maybe suffering and persecution but we are able to be fruitful when we know that we are working within God’s intended purpose for us.What we need to know is what am I uniquely designed for and purposed to do by God?We all know the drill – what is God’s will for my life? A question that seems to consume many to the point of atrophy – we end up doing nothing because we aren’t sure what it is we are meant to be doing, or we end up exhausted – doing everything because we aren’t sure of what we are meant to do…What we need is to develop self-awareness…
- God does not want us to be in the dark about our purpose. 2 Thessalonians 1:11He wants to bring order to our lives and make our purpose clear. Genesis 1.How do we discover our specific purpose? Being in God’s will…Cannot begin to understand our purpose if we are unaware of our skills and abilitiesOr we are not comfortable with them.How can we find out? - developing self-awareness:Asking othersThinking about things we have done that have felt ‘right’ – when we are in our flowPraying and listening to the spirit’s leading – ourselves and through other’s prophetic giftingUsing Psychometric Tests to help aid this processNeed ALL – each one of these approaches will help us but self awareness is key and we need to build up a picture of ourselves from a variety of perspectives and different sources of feedback.The tests you have taken will provide another perspective that is based in scientific research and can, therefore give you empirical data.Even our praying and listening and other’s prophetic words need to be tested (1 Thessalonians 5: 19-22)
- Joe Luft and Harry Ingham were researching human personality at the University of California in the 1950's when they devised their Johari Window. THE JOHARI WINDOWLuft and Ingham observed that there are aspects of our personality that we're open about, and other elements that we keep to ourselves. At the same time, there are things that others see in us that we're not aware of. As a result, you can draw up a four-box grid, which includes a fourth group of traits that are unknown to anyone:The public area contains things that are openly known and talked about - and which may be seen as behaviours, attitudes, strengths or weaknesses. This is the self that we choose to share with others The hidden area contains things that others observe that we don't know about. Again, they could be positive or negative behaviours, and will affect the way that others act towards us. The unknown area contains things that nobody knows about us - including ourselves. This may be because we've never exposed those areas of our personality, or because they're buried deep in the subconscious. Only God knows about this area of our lives.The private area contains aspects of our self that we know about and keep hidden from others – sometimes gifting or behaviours we are not comfortable with.The application of the Johari Window comes in opening up the public area, so making the other three areas as small as possible – as we do this we begin to use in the public area more of our unique gifting, allowing us to realise our potential and work fruitfully in the kingdom. This is done by regular and honest exchange of feedback/data, and a willingness to disclose personal feelings. People around you will understand what "makes you tick", and what you find easy or difficult to do, and can provide appropriate support. And of course you can then do the same for them. However we can also use a more empirical source of data.
- Seeing – behaviours – how people communicate, make decisions.Skills and capacities – strengths and weaknessesValues – why we do what we doTests that we have completed give us understanding in these three areas. Introduce tests why we use psychometric – empirical data, unbiased, headstart allow spirit to speak into
- Seeing – behaviours – how people communicate, make decisions.Skills and capacities – strengths and weaknessesValues – why we do what we doWe use a test called the TTI TriMetrix to measure these different aspects of a person’s make up.Behaviours – DISCSkills and capacities – HartmanValues - PIAV
- We use a test called the TTI TriMetrix to measure these different aspects of a person’s make up.Behaviours – DISCSkills and capacities – HartmanValues - PIAVOutline – what they can do v. what they can’t.DOES NOT remove responsibility for prayerful reflection on ourselves and our relationships or prevent spiritual insight of course we are always reliant on the Holy Spirit to bring harmony and unity to our relationships.However, do we rely on the HS to sort it out when we are ill – use doctor – medical science – psychological science.
- You have probably already taken a sneak preview at your results, which are in your black folders and wondered what all the graphs are…The first level of understanding is what we see. How a person behaves.This part of the test is called the DISC profile. When you were taking the tests you were asked to identify, from a list of four words, which you were most and least like. From this, the test determines how you prefer to communicate and make decisions.This is what we mainly see when we first meet a person – how do they communicate and how do they decide how to act and speak.You can see two graphs here. One on the right – our natural behaviour and one on the left – our adaptive behaviour. This is how we are adapting in the various environments we are in. Generally our workplace, whether that is working at home with children and family or working outside of the home.As you may remember from the beginning of today’s session – Session 2 will fully explain this graph.
- The next level of understanding comes from getting to know a person and what their skills are.What is this person good at. This is a really objective look at your skill set and you may have a few surprises. It will certainly help articulate your skills in a way that perhaps you haven’t been able to up to this point.You may recall the first part of the TriMetrix test asked you to order 18 statements this is then formulated into the Hartman profile, which is a two part profile or your skills and capacities. The order you put them in gives an indication of how to perceive value or quality and is used to identify your interpersonal skills (how you interact with others) and your intrapersonal skills (how you process information or use your mind). The first part is a list of your core skills. In your pack you will have received a blue print out that is quite thick that has a variety of breakdowns of your results. In that pack there are various sections. We are looking for this part of the TriMetrix at Section 1 – Personal Skills Hierarchy. This is a breakdown of 23 core skills – you can see this person’s top 7 here... You have a score next to each one and a graph that we will be looking at in Session 3 in more detail. They are in order so you can quickly see the order of your skill set.Then on page 9 and 10 of that report you have a personal skills feedback section which gives some details of your top 7 skills.
- The second part of the HartmanSkills and Capacities section that was also measured by the ordering of the 18 statements was something called your Dimensional Balance.These scores together are put together in graph form and show your external and internal factors.We will also be exploring this in more detail in session 3 but just as an overview…On the left you can see External Factors – understanding others (self explanatory), as is practical thinking – how clearly you think and process information, practically. Systems judgement is a measure of how you judge the system or organisation you are currently working in – how much you feel you contribute to and value that particular environment, whether or not you value working as part of a team with a common goal.On the right hand side there are three fairly self explanatory graphs of your internal factors. Just a word of caution here – lots of things can affect these scores, if you are changing role right now your role awareness and self direction may be low, if you have just suffered any kind of loss or difficulty you sense of self may be lowered. This is just an indicator of what is happening internally right now and if you have any concerns please don’t worry – come and talk to one of us about it.
- Finally, as we really get to know a person we begin to understand what makes them tick. What their values are. A person’s values will affect the way they behave and act so this is really the foundational part of the test. In Session 4 we will explore this in much more detail and you will be able to see how the PIAV, Hartman and DISC profiles work together and effect each other.But as an overview the third part of the test asked you to order 6 statements. This was to measure your personal interests, attitudes and values or the PIAV profile.It is a graph showing six values Theoretical – the value you place on knowledge and learningUtilitarian – the value you place on organisation, practicality and how you use time and resourcesAesthetic – how you value your environment, how it affects youSocial – the value you place on people Individual – how you view yourself as a leaderTraditional – the value you place on your beliefs.
- So what’s next for the week…You should have already purchased a copy of the book. We will be using it in all the sessions as some of the graphs and information do not translate well onto powerpoint and we want you to be able to use the book to begin to bring clarity to your own TTI report.£10.00 contains everything you need to know to understand this weeks teaching – Section 1 gives today’s teaching about image idol in much more detail so that you can review it, understanding the graphs Section 2 and how to take the teaching further by producing a Personal Development Plan – Section 3.
- The remainder of the sessions will be very practical and will focus on understanding the graphs and creating your own Personal Development Plan.
- The remainder of the sessions will be very practical and will focus on understanding the graphs and creating your own Personal Development Plan.