Discovering Gold!

Before I discovered the fascinating characteristics of different personality types, I was ready to fire some excellent, very effective team members. I was the Staff Coordinator of the First Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia, and had the responsibility for leading several ministry department leaders. Some of them had a serious problem. They were not like me! To be different from me was to be unneeded. I thought everyone should think, act, and function like me. (Now that would be a really sad world!)
These individuals did not march to the beat of my drums. They were not intense. They were not focused. Therefore, they had to be lazy.

Then, “eureka!” I was introduced to the study of personality types. My leadership, and I might add, my level of effectiveness as a leader, have never been the same since. Now, I never attempt to lead, or even serve as a member of a team, without seeking to discover and understand the various personality types of each team member.