GAP Leadership Assessment Report

Bernard Duplessis

Generated: September 05, 2025

Introduction

Bernard Duplessis, this comprehensive leadership assessment reveals your distinctive profile as a GAP Community Sponsor. You emerge as Partial Owner Independent Experimenter with Driven effort capacity. Your unique combination of partial owner ownership, independent collaboration style, and experimenter focus pattern creates a distinctive leadership signature.

Your profile emerges from a careful analysis of your locus of control orientation—how you view the relationship between your actions and outcomes—alongside your grit characteristics, which reflect your capacity for sustained effort toward long-term goals. Together, these dimensions create a unique leadership signature that influences how you approach challenges, make decisions, and inspire others in the GAP community.

Your Leadership Profile at a Glance

Key Psychological Dimensions

Dimension Your Score GAP Leaders General Population What This Means
Personal Responsibility 7.2 8.29 7.2 Good: 0% higher than general population, 13% lower than GAP leaders
Powerful Others 4.0 4.55 5.8 Strength: 31% lower than general population (shows self-reliance)
Fate/Circumstance 6.0 4.21 6.4 Strength: 6% lower than general population (shows self-reliance)
Perseverance of Effort 8.67 7.94 7.4 Excellent: 9% higher than GAP leaders, 17% higher than general population
Consistency of Interest 5.33 6.23 5.8 Experimenter style: 8% lower than general population (flexible focus)
Net Ownership 5.6 7.04 5.4 Drives Partial Owner classification: Above average but room for growth

Scale Definitions: Personal Responsibility (PR) = ownership of outcomes | Powerful Others (PO) = belief that outcomes are controlled by other people/authorities | Fate/Circumstance (FC) = attribution of outcomes to external factors like luck or circumstances | Perseverance of Effort (PE) = persistence through challenges | Consistency of Interest (CI) = long-term focus

Your Unique Strengths: Partial Owner Independent Experimenter

Development Opportunities

Key Development Areas

Recommended Next Steps

  1. Start documenting which community projects energize you most - track where you naturally maintain focus vs where you tend to drift
  2. Build regular check-ins with key stakeholders even when things are going well - don't wait for problems to collaborate
  3. Create clear handoff processes for initiatives you decide not to continue - ensure others can carry momentum forward

Spiritual Foundation: God often works through persistent, adaptable leaders who aren't afraid to try new approaches (like Nehemiah rebuilding the walls)

🌟 Your Calling

Your experimental, driven nature may be God's way of helping communities break free from 'we've always done it this way' thinking while maintaining commitment through challenges

🎯 Growth Challenges

  • Learning to discern God's timing on when to persist vs when to pivot
  • Balancing independent initiative with humble dependence on God and others
  • Developing patience with slower-moving but necessary community processes

✨ Spiritual Insight

Your combination of experimentation and perseverance reflects God's character as both innovative Creator and faithful Sustainer

🙏 Personal Growth Prayer

"Lord, help me steward my drive and creativity while growing in consistency and collaborative spirit. Show me when to push forward independently and when to slow down and bring others alongside. Give me wisdom to discern which new initiatives truly serve your purposes for our community."

Leadership Development Framework

Strengths

  • Natural ability to persist through challenges while staying flexible
  • Self-motivated worker who takes initiative without needing external pressure
  • Quick to spot and test new approaches to community problems

Growth Areas

  • Tendency to attribute setbacks to circumstances rather than taking full ownership
  • Difficulty maintaining consistent focus on long-term initiatives
  • Reluctance to lean on others' authority or influence when it could help

Opportunities

  • Channel your experimental nature into testing new community engagement approaches
  • Use your independence to pioneer projects others might hesitate to start
  • Leverage your adaptability to help resistant stakeholders embrace change

Watch For

  • May abandon promising initiatives too quickly when faced with obstacles
  • Risk of taking on too many experiments without building sustainable systems
  • Could miss valuable partnership opportunities by working too independently

Conclusion

Your profile as Partial Owner Independent Experimenter — Driven creates a distinctive leadership signature that GAP community members will come to recognize and depend upon. Your partial owner foundation combined with driven effort capacity positions you for meaningful impact.

The development opportunities identified in this report are not weaknesses to overcome but rather areas where your leadership can become even more powerful. Your journey toward greater leadership effectiveness mirrors the transformation journey you're supporting in others—it requires sustained effort, strategic relationships, and the courage to take ownership of outcomes.

As you walk in the footsteps of biblical leaders who faced similar challenges, remember that your specific combination of traits creates a leadership approach that is uniquely yours. Continue growing in the areas identified while leveraging your natural strengths, and you will create an increasingly powerful impact in the GAP community, guided by timeless wisdom and divine purpose.