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Understanding Your Personality and Mindset - Lesson 7

Understanding Your Mindset for Effective Ministry

In this lesson, you will learn about the importance of mindsets in ministry work and how they can be more significant than natural behaviors. Mindsets are fluid and can change over time, adapting to different environments and helping both you and others in various situations. The lesson covers three types of mindsets: objective, subjective, and belief mindsets. You will discover that there is no direct correlation between behaviors and mindsets, and that any combination of mindsets can be present within a specific behavior. By understanding and applying mindsets, you can improve your path to implementation and spiritual growth in a ministry setting.
Chuck Coker
Understanding Your Personality and Mindset
Lesson 7
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Understanding Your Mindset for Effective Ministry

Understanding Your Mindset for Effective Ministry

I. Introduction to Personality and Mindset

A. Defining Personality and Mindset

B. The Importance of Understanding Personality and Mindset

C. Nurture vs. Nature

II. The Role of Mindsets in Ministry

A. Adapting to Different Environments

B. Identifying Mindsets for Improved Implementation

III. Types of Mindsets

A. Objective Mindsets

B. Subjective Mindsets

C. Belief Mindsets

IV. Understanding and Applying Mindsets

A. High and Low Scores

B. No Direct Correlation between Behaviors and Mindsets

C. Identifying Mindsets through Personal Interests


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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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.

Dr. Chuck Coker
Understanding Your Personality and Mindset
pc312-07
Understanding Your Mindset for Effective Ministry
Lesson Transcript

[00:00:00] Well, welcome back. We're going to move into a section now that is going to be very unique and very different. And I want to tell you this a little bit cautiously, because what we're getting ready to cover the mindsets is actually more important than the behaviors. So what I'm telling you is that the nurture is more important than the nature. Because as we grow and as we develop, we learn that certain characteristics that we possess can actually be overridden and help us succeed when our natural behaviors and that nature aspect could do us harm. So let's think about this. Mindsets, and they could be referred to as attitudes, values, motivators, things that cause us to prioritize some things more importantly than others, are very, very critical to us working in a church and ministry environment.

[00:01:17] So let's let's look back. What our mindsets really, and why should we even consider them? Well, first of all. God positioned you in a family and environment for such a time as this. And we know that from Esther 4:4. But yours and my mindsets are more fluid than behaviors, and they can change over time, and let me give you an example. We're not going to change our behavior. God knitted us together in the womb with a certain personality, but he placed us in a family and in an environment and in an educational system that would school us for his work in a certain specific way. So those nurturing aspects will at times override our behaviors and cause us to have self-control which as we know, is the final aspect to the fruit of the spirit that kind of summarizes all the other things. So as we develop an understanding of our mindsets, we also have to learn to adapt our mindsets because they can help you and others in any given environment. Because each environment is different and some mindsets are more effective in those environments than others.

[00:02:54] So we want to identify the mindsets because they're actually going to help you improve your path to implementation and spiritual growth. We need to identify the differences in these priorities that both you and the other staff or people that you work with in ministry possess because God's gifted them uniquely and he's put them in a position with these mindsets to help you minister through the channels that he has ordained before the foundation of the Earth. Now. We're going to talk about three particular groups of mindsets.

[00:03:46] Before we get started, I'd like to help define mindsets just a little bit more. Nature behaviors are what we're stuck with unless there's trauma in our lives. Mindsets are fluid because they help us do the job that we've been called to. But they are also variable because some jobs require more task. Other jobs require more subjectivity. So the longer we stay in an environment, the more those things can change. So let's look at the three different aspects of mindsets so that we can clarify what we're going to focus on.

[00:04:34] The first group is objective the very logical, unemotional aspects that cause us to do our jobs. And this is what most companies and ministries hire us for us to do a specific job. The subjective aspects are how people and circumstances impact us in our everyday walk in life. Now, here's the key. Only about 32 to 33% of the populations are "Marthas" or more objective task oriented people. About 68% are subjective. In other words, people in their environments have a huge impact on the way they feel and their emotional state. But we have one other group that's critically important, and that's called our belief mindsets. And those belief mindsets talk to us about how we see ourselves and how God has called us versus how we see the structure of the world and how God has created it and how open we are to that.

[00:05:56] So as we move through these next three sections, we're going to subdivide each section down in the objective, the subjective and the beliefs into two subcategories that will help us define how we apply these principles. So here's what I want you to know is that even people with the exact same behavioral types can look very, very differently because of their nurture, because of these belief mindsets. Remember we said our objective is much more logical, task oriented, subjective, much more emotionally based and subject to situations and circumstances. But beliefs, on the other hand, has a massive impact on the way that we express ourselves and what we talk about and what value and importance we put on that.

[00:07:09] So let's look at your mindsets, and I want you to remember, just like the behaviors, you're going to have some that are high in their scores and you're going to have some that are low. And here's what I'd like you to think about with the mindsets. You want to go to your highest, your next highest, and your next highest, because this is literally a mind map for you on how you see what is important and what you will prioritize before you actually dig in to any type of task or relationship. One last thing before we leave the introduction here. I want us to understand that there is no correlation between behaviors and mindsets. We talked about nature. We talked about nurture. And any behavior can possess any of the mindsets. And any of the mindsets can fall with any particular behavioral combination. There is only one correlation that is common not every time, but common, and that is the high dominant can often be aligned with the high individualistic. Why? Because they are control people. They want to make sure that things get done. And so therefore, they're willing to lead and make the way through the process.

[00:08:48] But just remember, you can have any combination of behaviors and mindsets. So we can't quickly assign a high I S to a highly subjective mindset. And let me give you an example. I have two daughters that are very similar in many ways. They are both high I S's. They are very optimistic and systematic about the way they approach things. But they are also very objective. Comes from fifth generation military parent. I can't help it. They couldn't help it. But what they learned to do was focus on the task at hand. They came home and did their homework when nobody asked them to. So they enjoy being around people, they enjoy communicating, and they need a bit of that to get by in life. But they are very task focused. One doctorate in astrophysics, the other doctorate in mathematics. So you can't assign a specific behavior to a specific mindset. Any combination works. So I'm going to give you a question that will help you deal with this so that you can know with an 80% accuracy where their mindsets are. Because remember, when I first started this little clip, mindsets are more important. And the question is simple. What do you like to do when you get off work? What's your hobby? How do you spend your time when it's your time? The answer to that will tell you whether they're objective, subjective or belief oriented. Now let's get on with the mindsets.