GAP Leadership Assessment Report

Marla Neighbour

Generated: September 05, 2025

Introduction

Marla Neighbour, this comprehensive leadership assessment reveals your distinctive profile as a GAP Community Sponsor. You emerge as Extreme Owner Independent Experimenter with Driven effort capacity. Your unique combination of extreme 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 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 3.5 4.21 6.4 Strength: 45% lower than general population (shows self-reliance)
Perseverance of Effort 8.0 7.94 7.4 Excellent: 1% higher than GAP leaders, 8% higher than general population
Consistency of Interest 5.33 6.23 5.8 Adapter style: Similar to general population (balanced focus)
Net Ownership 7.45 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 Experimenter

Development Opportunities

Key Development Areas

Recommended Next Steps

  1. Schedule regular check-ins with key community partners where you mainly listen and ask questions - fight your urge to drive the agenda
  2. Before starting any new initiative, document specific completion criteria and share them with your team to keep yourself accountable
  3. Identify aspects of current projects you can fully hand off to emerging leaders - let them truly own the outcomes, even if they do it differently

Spiritual Foundation: God calls us to both individual faithfulness and body ministry - your independent strength must be balanced with interdependence

🌟 Your Calling

Your ownership and drive likely reflect God's heart for taking responsibility to serve others. He may be calling you to pioneer new approaches to community transformation while raising up other leaders.

🎯 Growth Challenges

  • Learning to trust God's work through others, not just through you
  • Balancing bold action with patient relationship-building
  • Surrendering control while maintaining commitment

✨ Spiritual Insight

Your experimenter nature reflects God's creative character, while your drive for ownership mirrors His commitment to His people. Yet He chooses to work through community, not just individuals.

🙏 Personal Growth Prayer

"Lord, thank you for my drive to take ownership and pioneer new solutions. Help me balance this with genuine openness to others, patience with your timing, and trust in your work through the whole body of Christ. Guide me in using these gifts while growing in the areas where I need your transforming grace."

Leadership Development Framework

Strengths

  • Natural problem-solver who takes full responsibility rather than blaming circumstances
  • Highly self-motivated with strong internal drive to achieve results
  • Comfortable challenging status quo and testing new approaches

Growth Areas

  • Can be dismissive of others' perspectives when they conflict with your vision
  • Tendency to abandon initiatives when newer ideas capture your interest
  • Difficulty truly sharing leadership and developing others' capabilities

Opportunities

  • Channel your experimental nature into testing new community engagement approaches
  • Use your strong ownership orientation to model accountability for other leaders
  • Leverage your independence to tackle difficult community challenges others avoid

Watch For

  • Risk of burning out partners who can't match your intense ownership level
  • May lose credibility if too many initiatives remain incomplete
  • Could create dependency on yourself rather than building sustainable community leadership

Conclusion

Your profile as Extreme Owner Independent Experimenter — 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.