For this week’s post, I just wanted to give a quick tip about a powerful tool that is available for team leadership. It’s a personality test called Talentoday. It’s free to sign up and use, and has some great features that will allow you to manage your college ministry leadership team with more insight and clarity this coming year.
I first stumbled upon Talentoday.com a few months ago via a Facebook post by one of my students. Since I’m a sucker for personality tests, I decided to jump in and see how accurate the results would be. After about 10-15 minutes worth of simple questions, the results were pretty astounding. I feel as though the test captured my personality really well. After I took the test, the site gave me a series of metrics on several of my different personality characteristics. It even gave me some suggestions on what my key motivations are, and some improvements I could make on my weaknesses.
Another great feature about this personality test is that it’s based on personal work ethic, motivation, and personality within a team. This would be a super helpful tool for college ministry workers everywhere. What I really love about this tool, is that it allows you to connect with other users, and compare personality trates with this. Here is a comparison between myself and a prospective student leader:
I plan on sending my entire team of student leaders over to take this test before the coming semester starts. Here’s a few benefits that can come from using this tool:
- Discover strengths and weaknesses of individual team members
- Compare team members’ personalities with eachother
- Discover overall personality strengths and weaknesses of your team
- Reveal “personality holes” that need to be filled in your team
- Pair off team members for projects
- Assign students to roles that they’d flourish in
- Reveal blind spots in your leadership style
- Know where to place new leaders on your team
- Lead your team better, knowing how they are motivated
Talentoday is super simple to set up through Facebook integration, even easier to use, and the price is right (free)! Simply visit Talentoday.com to get started. If you use this tool, look me up so we can compare personalities, and please let me know what you think!