It is impossible for churches to perfectly balance all the opposing values in each personality quadrant. If this “perfect” balance could be found, then all churches would simply be clones of one another, and so would look alike, function alike, and serve alike. The goal of cultural modification is not to make every church alike. Rather, the goal is to allow diverse ministry temperaments to play appropriate and supportive roles within the ministry’s unique mission and organizational development. Those ministry temperaments that have been kept outside of positions of influence within the organization may indeed provide the exact values, insights, and resources the ministry requires to mature to the next level.

AssessMe.org offers a FREE Organizational Personality Assessment to help your ministry leadership assess its current organizational personality dynamics. This is a beta version and so is offered free of charge. The staff of AssessMe.org will continue to evaluate and refine this powerful assessment tool. While the assessment may be taken individually, it is best utilized within a leadership-team meeting where team members may “vote” on the assessment statements. By using the assessment tool in this manner, your ministry will be able to filter-out extreme views and personal bias which may otherwise skew your assessment results. It will also lay an outstanding foundation for staff discussion and planning.

The Organizational Personality Assessment reports will not only identify your organization’s current teambuilding strengths, it will also identify likely teambuilding weaknesses. Remember, your leadership can effectively address these weaknesses by bringing into key positions of influence, the people-types that possess the necessary profile traits. The AssessMe.org candidate search engine, found within your ministry’s AssessMe.org account, can then be used to identify the potential leaders your ministry organization may require. Once these new leaders have been empowered and begin applying their unique gift-mix within your ministry context, it may take as long as 6 – 18 months before a cultural shift become apparent within your organization. Your leadership may find it valuable to utilize the Organizational Personality Assessment on an annual basis to help guide the engineering process.

If your organization requires evaluation and strategic planning assistance, David Posthuma, founder of AssessMe.org and E-Church Essentials, is available to work with your leadership team.