GAP Leadership Assessment Report

Catherine Nanton

Generated: September 05, 2025

Introduction

Catherine Nanton, this comprehensive leadership assessment reveals your distinctive profile as a GAP Community Sponsor. You emerge as Extreme Owner Independent Anchor with Driven effort capacity. Your unique combination of extreme owner ownership, independent collaboration style, and anchor 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	3.33	4.55	5.8	Strength: 43% lower than general population (shows self-reliance)
Fate/Circumstance	2.0	4.21	6.4	Strength: 69% 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	7.33	6.23	5.8	Anchor style: 26% higher than general population (consistent focus)
Net Ownership	8.2	7.04	5.4	Drives Extreme Owner classification: High Net Ownership + High PR

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: Extreme Owner Independent Anchor

You take extreme ownership of outcomes - your high personal responsibility (8.4) means you naturally step up to solve problems without waiting for others
Your remarkable perseverance (8.7) means you stick with challenging community initiatives long after others might give up
You maintain consistent focus over time (7.3) while still being able to drive hard toward goals - this makes you especially effective at seeing complex projects through to completion

Development Opportunities

Key Development Areas

Your very low reliance on others (3.3) suggests you may bypass valuable collaborative opportunities and try to shoulder too much alone
Your independent style combined with high ownership can make you overly self-reliant, potentially burning yourself out rather than developing other leaders
Your anchor focus pattern may cause you to stick too rigidly to original plans when community needs evolve and require adaptation

Recommended Next Steps

Start delegating meaningful pieces of your key initiatives to emerging leaders - not just tasks, but real ownership and decision-making authority
Schedule regular check-ins with your most trusted community partners to pressure-test your assumptions and plans
Create specific moments to pause and reflect on whether your sustained drive is still aligned with current community needs

Spiritual Foundation: God designed you with remarkable capacity for faithful stewardship, but calls you to exercise it in community, not isolation

🌟 Your Calling

Your extreme ownership likely reflects God's heart for taking responsibility for others' wellbeing. He may be calling you to channel this gift toward developing other leaders rather than just doing more yourself.

🎯 Growth Challenges

Learning to trust God's work through others, not just through you
Balancing faithful stewardship with genuine partnership
Remaining both consistent and adaptable to the Spirit's leading

✨ Spiritual Insight

Your drive for ownership and consistency mirrors God's faithful commitment to His people. Yet His example also shows collaborative leadership through empowering others.

🙏 Personal Growth Prayer

"Lord, thank you for my capacity to take ownership and persevere. Help me trust you enough to share leadership, remain open to your redirections, and develop others while maintaining my focus on your purposes. Guide me in using these gifts to serve our community while growing in partnership with others."

Leadership Development Framework

Strengths

Natural bias toward taking action and solving problems independently
Exceptional ability to persevere through setbacks and challenges
Strong focus on completing what you start without getting distracted

Growth Areas

Tendency to take on too much personal responsibility rather than sharing the load
Difficulty truly collaborating when others have different approaches
Can be inflexible about changing course once committed to a direction

Opportunities

Leverage your drive and ownership to tackle complex community challenges others avoid
Use your consistency to build long-term trust with key stakeholders
Model focused execution while intentionally developing other leaders

Watch For

Risk of burnout from carrying too much responsibility without adequate support
Potential to alienate partners by not incorporating their perspectives enough
May miss emerging community needs by staying too rigidly focused on original goals

Conclusion

Your profile as Extreme Owner Independent Anchor — Driven creates a distinctive leadership signature that GAP community members will come to recognize and depend upon. Your extreme 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.