Tim Coleman, pastor of First Baptist Church Winfield, said God doesn’t create humanity with cookie cutters. Everyone is different.

“God wired us uniquely, and we all must live and function as who we are,” he said. “Today, let’s work on us!”

Coleman is a certified trainer for the Biblical DISC Assessment. He directed a session of the Intentional Leader Series on July 23 at the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions office facility in Prattville. Church leaders who attended completed the DISC assessment beforehand and brought results for analysis and discussion.

The DISC assessment asserts that “the most effective people are those who know themselves, recognize the demands of the situation and adjust or change their behavior so as to have the best chance to meet the needs of any given opportunity.”

Coleman said the goal for the day was to identify specific personality strengths and weaknesses, to build interpersonal skills and to improve relationships.

“The completed assessment is a snapshot of you today,” he said.

Types

Coleman explained the four main personality types. He said that the dominance style represents a leader with strong vision who enjoys a challenge. These leaders don’t like long meetings and projects that require many months of planning.

“These leaders are hard-charging,” he said. “They see impediments as a challenge to overcome. They can press the organization to effective change. But they can also be seen as blunt and move too fast in the perception of others.”

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This article was originally published at TheAlabamaBaptist.org.