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Devotional: Give Thanks for Your Strengths

November 16, 2015
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What do you give thanks for as you gather around the Thanksgiving table? Food … a warm home … a loving family … freedom … clean water … financial provision … health … Consider adding one more item to your list this year: give thanks to God for your strengths. You may hesitate to do…

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Profile Tip: Use a Time Sheet to Track Your Strengths

November 16, 2015
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Profile Tips help you put your strengths profile to work Brandon shook his head in frustration. This day had turned out completely differently than he had planned. He had been busy nearly every minute – but in ways he had not expected. But thinking he had been unproductive was a mistake. A simple time sheet…

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Profile Tip: How Your People-Oriented Strengths Can Be Productive

November 2, 2015
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Profile Tips help you put your strengths profile to work It’s easy to name reasons you and your team members are not productive at work: endless meetings. Email overflow. Tardiness. how to change mobile number in yahoo mail without loginNo deadlines or clearly-established goals. Distracting work environment. How about this one? “My strength in building…

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Profile Tip: Don’t Let Strength Tags Throw You

October 26, 2015
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Profile Tips help you put your strengths profile to work Matt studied his profile report. He was impressed at its accuracy, but one thing confused him. Was he truly Aggressive when it came to solving problems? Matt saw himself as enthusiastic and friendly – the kind of person that was good at solving problems that…

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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: 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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