S.H.A.P.E. Assessment Results

Thank you Elom Tsiagbe for taking the SHAPE Assessment. We encourage you to meet with a Church Leader that you respect, to go over your results, so that they can help you discover a place to serve in the church and/or community, and also to help you fine-tune your 5 Main Focuses/Priorities listed at the bottom of this email under the ‘Wrapping it up’ section. May God Bless You!

[S]piritual Gifts

Here is how your spiritual gifts scored:

93%

50%

75%

81%

71%

37%

59%

56%

71%

To see descriptions on the Spiritual Gifts and how you can use them to further Christ’s Kingdom on earth, visit this link.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I enjoy conceiving ideas which are innovative and creative and then implementing them. I have been told recently that I am quite resourceful.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I don’t love money too much to hold on to it, but I like to make more to use it to do things. I am generally quite bad at not-spending money, whatever moves me at the moment I will spend on it. I’m quite relaxed about where my next source of income will come from even if it is not clear at the point of giving.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
It is easier to show empathy to people in a similar position when you have recently dealt with, or are still dealing with a negative set of circumstances. I like to mentor young people to help them make better decisions – it is something I would have liked when I was younger.

[H]eart

1. Making positive change in how people live their lives.

2. Experiencing new cultures and environments.

3.

People who are equally ambitious and practical. Who wish to alter the status-quo of particular situations or environments – likely at the expense of maximising personal wealth or glory. Aged probably 25-45.

Making church more appealing to the masses without compromising our values. Use of technology in church. Building a commercially sustainable church model that however does not dilute the importance of sacrifice of giving. Leveraging off of worldly business principles for church benefit i.e. Isecuring a sponsorship from Nandos etc. to reduce food costs during services – two way transaction benefit.

Educational
At-risk children
Other – Entrepreneurialism

[A]bilities

Business Owner/Joint Venture Partner – Property Development

Various other freelance / contractor / consultant / business development roles in property development, investment and ‘proptech’.

Co-founder of NHS mentoring programme for 12-24 year old people with Sickle Cell. Currently devising report to seek renewal funding for expansion across East London.

Partner – London Early Years Group (childcare start-up). Lots of experience from formulation of initially a nursery business model, and now a pop-up creche model.

Financial Viability – from work at leading real estate consultancy.

Block Management

Football coaching (FA Level I certificate – form another mentoring programme started in 2011)

Mentoring young people (Enhanced CRB)
Commercial Strategy/Entrepreneurialism (business plan, financial modelling, investor pitches)
Acquisitions – buying anything from building materials to buildings themselves (identification, negotiation, due-diligence)

Residential Investment in the UK
@ Cass Business School

Conceiving and then actually implementing new/creative ideas.

[P]ersonality

Reserved

High Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

Leader

Solo

Variety

Your Primary was ‘The Lion’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Retriever’, and here are the descriptions of your Personalities, and how they can be used for God

Lion- This personality likes to lead. The lion is good at making decisions and is very goal-oriented. They enjoy challenges, difficult assignments, and opportunity for advancement. Because lions are thinking of the goal, they can step on people to reach it. Lions can be very aggressive and competitive. Lions must learn not to be too bossy or to take charge in other’s affairs.

Strength: Goal-oriented, strong, direct
Weakness: Argumentative, too dictatorial
Limitation: Doesn’t understand that directness can hurt others, hard time expressing grace

Golden Retriever- Good at making friends. Very loyal. Retriever personalities do not like big changes. They look for security. Can be very sensitive. Very caring. Has deep relationships, but usually only a couple of close friends. Wants to be loved by everyone. Looks for appreciation. Works best in a limited situation with a steady work pattern.

Strength: Accommodating, calm, affirming
Weakness: Indecisive, indifferent, unable to express emotional, too soft on other people
Limitation: Seeing the need to be more assertive, holding others accountable

[E]xperience

My wife (then girlfriend) invited me to CCBC. As in becoming a proper Christian and not just a tag-along with my parents when I wanted to.

N/A

Getting married and then becoming a father, changed my whole hierarchy of values for the better.

Being accepted to study a masters at a leading business school, just feels like a defining accomplishment for someone from my ‘background’. Being a exemplar member on the course and now being invited back to speak at a lecture. It encouraged me that I can do whatever I want irrespective of class or colour.

Failing at my first business when I was 22, it was a good learning experience and exactly 5 years later I’m having a go again with more experience.

Being expelled from primary school by a headteacher who also happened to be Ghanaian, in an unfair and dubious manner. Being labelled in prior years, and as a result the subsequent years of schooling and lost opportunities for a better education. The directly related process of nearly redefining my identify for the worse, hiding my talents and abilities and subsequent incidents etc.
So now I do not judge young people by their actions because so much is out of your hands at a young age and you are often left at the mercies of people without your best interest at heart unless you have very strong advocates backing you.

I and my older brother have SC anaemia, we grew up and continue to manage it without painkillers, medication, blood transfusions or complications. It built character and pain tolerance, but most importantly helps me to mentor those with the same condition.

Not living with my father in my formative years as he was working abroad due to visa restrictions, it led to loneliness and a lack of role models. Another trigger for understanding people who may not have a father figure at all.

Wrapping It Up

The Challenge: Based upon your S.H.A.P.E. Assessment above (the way God wired you), If you knew you couldn’t fail … and ‘lack of money, or time’ was not an obstacle… list your Top 3 Things you would ‘Focus’ your Life on, next to #1 Loving God & #2 Loving Your Neighbor (these would be your ‘3 God-Sized Dreams’ for your life)?

1. My Relationship with GOD

2. My Relationship with Others

• Putting Your Spouse First
• Your Kids Second
• Everyone Else After those

3. Build places of our own to worship, teach and reach out to the community without restrictions

4. Learn to exhibit my spiritual gifts

5. Read and understand the word better