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Understanding Your Personality and Mindset

By taking this course, you will learn about personality and mindset theories, understand their importance, and learn how to apply them to personal and leadership development, team building, and conflict resolution.
Number of lessons: 15
Total length: 4 hours and 43 minutes
format: Video and Audio
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About This Class

In this course, you will gain knowledge and insights into personality and mindset. You will learn about the different personality theories, including psychoanalytic, trait, humanistic, and social-cognitive theory. You will also explore the two main mindset theories: fixed mindset and growth mindset. By the end of this class, you will have a better understanding of the importance of understanding personality and mindset and how to apply this knowledge to personal and leadership development, team building, and conflict resolution.

About the Professor

Chuck Coker

Dr. Chuck Coker, PhD, SPHR, is a renowned expert in personal and professional development, human capital strategy, and psychometrics. With over 30 years of experience, he has assisted Fortune 500 companies, regional organizations, and prestigious educational institutions with talent management. As a skilled public speaker and writer, Dr. Coker's extensive knowledge in theology, ancient philosophies, and personal formation makes him a valuable resource for fostering spiritual and professional growth.
Chuck Coker

Lessons

  • 1. Description of Personalities and Mindsets
    By studying this lesson, you'll learn the foundations of personality and mindset, explore major personality theories, understand the impact of mindset on personality, and apply this knowledge to improve self-awareness, relationships, and career satisfaction.
  • 2. Understanding Task Oriented Extroverts
    Through this lesson, you'll explore personality theories and mindset concepts, gaining insights on how to develop a growth mindset to positively impact your personality and overall well-being.
  • 3. Understanding the High Influencing Extrovert
    Through this lesson, you gain insight into personality theories, differentiate fixed and growth mindsets, and learn strategies to develop a growth mindset, fostering self-awareness and personal growth.
  • 4. Understanding People Oriented Introverts
    Through this lesson, you learn about the major personality theories and the role of mindset in personal growth, leading to improved resilience, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal relationships.
  • 5. Understanding High Compliance Individuals
    Learn about personality theories and the impact of fixed and growth mindsets on behavior, while acquiring strategies to cultivate a positive mindset for personal and professional success.
  • 6. Discovering Your Personality for Service
    Through this lesson, you explore various personality theories and learn to navigate between fixed and growth mindsets, enabling you to enhance your personal and professional life.
  • 7. Understanding Your Mindset for Effective Ministry
    This lesson teaches the significance of mindsets in ministry work, discussing how they adapt to different environments and help with spiritual growth. It covers three types of mindsets—objective, subjective, and belief—and emphasizes that there is no direct correlation between behaviors and mindsets.
  • 8. Working With Objective Mindset Individuals
    You will learn about different mindsets and how they impact people's approach to tasks and interactions, particularly the objective mindset, which focuses on learning and effectiveness and values quality over quantity in ministry settings, while understanding these mindsets can improve communication and collaboration.
  • 9. The Importance of Utilitarianism in Ministry
    Understanding the utilitarian mindset can help you maximize their strengths in ministry work, as they focus on practicality, efficiency, and achieving tangible results, while also addressing their spiritual needs and potential weaknesses, such as overlooking details and people's needs.
  • 10. Understanding the Subjective Mindset
    This lesson delves into the subjective, esthetic mindset, highlighting their emotional responsiveness, creativity, sensitivity to the environment, and expression. You will learn effective communication strategies, the challenges they face in relationships, and how to utilize their abilities in a church setting, ultimately gaining a comprehensive understanding of this prevalent mindset.
  • 11. Navigating the Social Mindset in Ministry
    In this lesson, you gain insight into the social mindset's role and challenges in the church and ministry, learning to recognize and support individuals with this mindset while maintaining a balance between self-care and caring for others to ensure a healthy and effective ministry.
  • 12. Understanding Leadership Dynamics
    This lesson delves into the individualistic belief mindset, exploring its characteristics, challenges, and roles in the church, while offering guidance on effectively communicating with these individuals and fostering their personal growth.
  • 13. Adapting Traditional Beliefs to a Changing World
    This lesson explores the traditional mindset, its characteristics, challenges, and how to effectively engage with those who possess it, as well as the implications of various traditional mindset scores, ultimately helping you understand and navigate relationships with individuals who hold strong convictions and beliefs.
  • 14. Finding Service Opportunities
    Gain insight into the importance of mindsets over behaviors, assess your thinking style and strengths, identify service opportunities based on personal preferences, and learn to better connect with others by understanding their hobbies and interests to effectively share the gospel.
  • 15. Identifying Your Mindsets
    Gain insight into your own mindsets and how they fit with others, reflect on your personal history, and enhance your emotional intelligence to build meaningful relationships through understanding yourself and others.

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