GAP Leadership Assessment Report

Bill Loften

Generated: September 05, 2025

Introduction

Bill Loften, this comprehensive leadership assessment reveals your distinctive profile as a GAP Community Sponsor. You emerge as Strong Owner Partnering Experimenter with Steady effort capacity. Your unique combination of strong owner ownership, partnering 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	8.4	8.29	7.2	Excellent: 1% higher than GAP leaders, 17% higher than general population
Powerful Others	5.33	4.55	5.8	Strength: 8% lower than general population (shows self-reliance)
Fate/Circumstance	5.5	4.21	6.4	Strength: 14% lower than general population (shows self-reliance)
Perseverance of Effort	7.67	7.94	7.4	Good: 4% higher than general population, 3% lower than GAP leaders
Consistency of Interest	4.67	6.23	5.8	Experimenter style: 19% lower than general population (flexible focus)
Net Ownership	6.45	7.04	5.4	Drives Strong Owner classification: 19% higher than general population

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: Strong Owner Partnering Experimenter

You take strong personal ownership (8.4 PR score) - when you commit to something, you follow through even when it's difficult
You naturally build authentic partnerships while maintaining accountability - your balanced PO score (5.3) shows you can both lead and collaborate
Your high perseverance (7.7 PE) means you stick with important work even when progress is slow, which is crucial for community change

Development Opportunities

Key Development Areas

Your experimenter style combined with lower consistency (4.7 CI) means you may start many initiatives but struggle to maintain focus on key priorities
You sometimes take on too much personal responsibility rather than developing others' ownership (shown by high PR vs moderate PO)
Your balanced fate/circumstance score (5.5) suggests you may occasionally use external factors as an excuse when things get tough

Recommended Next Steps

Before starting new initiatives, gather input from key community partners about which existing projects need your sustained attention
Identify areas where you're carrying too much load and intentionally coach others to take ownership
Create regular reflection time with trusted advisors to evaluate whether your experiments are advancing core community priorities

Spiritual Foundation: God calls us to be both faithful stewards and collaborative kingdom builders

🌟 Your Calling

Your combination of strong ownership and partnership orientation reflects Christ's model of servant leadership - taking responsibility while empowering others

🎯 Growth Challenges

Learning to trust God's timing rather than constantly seeking new solutions
Balancing personal responsibility with humble dependence on God and others

✨ Spiritual Insight

Your experimenter style reflects God's creative nature, while your steady effort shows faithfulness. This combination positions you to innovate with persistence in building God's kingdom.

🙏 Personal Growth Prayer

"Lord, help me steward my drive for ownership and innovation while growing in patient faithfulness. Guide me to empower others as you've empowered me. Grant me wisdom to know which initiatives to pursue and which to release. Amen."

Leadership Development Framework

Strengths

Natural ability to build authentic partnerships while maintaining clear accountability
High personal ownership that drives consistent follow-through
Innovative problem-solving that generates creative community solutions

Growth Areas

Tendency to spread attention across too many new initiatives
Difficulty maintaining long-term focus on established priorities
Over-functioning in roles others should own

Opportunities

Leverage your partnership style to build coalitions around key community needs
Use your experimenter mindset to find innovative solutions to persistent challenges
Channel your strong ownership into developing other community leaders

Watch For

Burning out by taking too much personal responsibility for outcomes
Losing credibility by not following through on too many concurrent experiments
Missing deeper impact by changing direction before initiatives fully mature

Conclusion

Your profile as Strong Owner Partnering Experimenter — Steady creates a distinctive leadership signature that GAP community members will come to recognize and depend upon. Your strong owner foundation combined with steady 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.