The Evangel Dean Basic Training Resource Handbook

38 • T HE E VANGEL D EAN B ASIC T RAINING R ESOURCE H ANDBOOK

3. The Principle Explained

a. Identification is concerned with the division of labor on an effective team.

b. In identifying team members and their roles, we seek to help each member define her own special role on the team, and to find her “place” on the team which suits best her gifts, capabilities, and burdens. c. We facilitate identification by employing an array of methods and approaches designed to test and assess the overall gifts and aptitudes of the team member, and how such resources may be maximized within the team itself.

(1) Interview

(2) Experimentation

(3) Assignment

d. Its purpose: to take full advantage of each person’s individual uniqueness and strengths in such a way that the team is enhanced and is found to lack nothing essential for its overall effectiveness.

e. The opposite of Identification is haphazard placement.

f. The result of not identifying individual gifts is frustration among members.

4. The Golden Key: Take individual difference seriously; help members discover their niche.

E. Strategically plan and arrange team action and movement: The Principle of ORGANIZATION.

1. Key Scripture: 1 Pet. 4.9-11

2. The Definition of the Concept

a. “To determine the process by which the team will approach its tasks, manage its resources, and proceed toward its goal with as much efficiency and as little confusion as possible”