GAP Leadership Assessment Report

Sarah Chien

Generated: September 05, 2025

Introduction

Sarah Chien, this comprehensive leadership assessment reveals your distinctive profile as a GAP Community Sponsor. You emerge as Extreme Owner Authority-Oriented Experimenter with Steady effort capacity. Your unique combination of extreme owner ownership, authority-oriented 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	8.8	8.29	7.2	Excellent: 6% higher than GAP leaders, 22% higher than general population
Powerful Others	7.33	4.55	5.8	Development area: 26% higher than general population (reduce external dependency)
Fate/Circumstance	2.0	4.21	6.4	Strength: 69% 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	5.67	6.23	5.8	Adapter style: Similar to general population (balanced focus)
Net Ownership	8.4	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 Authority-Oriented Experimenter

You take extreme ownership of outcomes - your high personal responsibility score (8.8) shows you naturally step up to solve problems rather than making excuses
You're comfortable exercising authority and making tough calls - your elevated powerful others score (7.3) indicates you don't shy away from using positional influence
You maintain steady effort over time (7.7 perseverance score) while being willing to experiment with new approaches - this makes you resilient yet adaptable

Development Opportunities

Key Development Areas

Your high authority orientation combined with extreme ownership can make you overly directive - you may need to actively create space for others' leadership to emerge
Your experimenter style paired with moderate consistency (5.7) suggests you sometimes chase new ideas at the expense of following through on existing commitments
You may struggle to truly share power - your scores show you prefer to maintain control rather than develop other leaders' decision-making capabilities

Recommended Next Steps

Start each community meeting by asking others to share their views before stating your position - this helps balance your natural tendency to direct
Keep a running list of your active commitments and review it weekly with a trusted partner who can help you stay focused rather than chasing new ideas
Identify promising leaders in your community and gradually delegate real authority to them - start small but give them true ownership

Spiritual Foundation: God's authority flows through relationship and invitation, not control and force

🌟 Your Calling

Your natural drive to take ownership and exercise authority can be transformed into shepherd leadership that empowers others to fulfill their calling

🎯 Growth Challenges

Learning to trust God's work through others rather than controlling outcomes
Balancing your action orientation with spiritual listening and discernment
Developing genuine humility while maintaining appropriate authority

✨ Spiritual Insight

Your leadership pattern reflects God's heart for taking responsibility and exercising authority for others' good - but must be tempered by Christ's example of servant leadership

🙏 Personal Growth Prayer

"Lord, help me use the leadership gifts you've given me to empower others rather than control them. Transform my drive to own outcomes into a deeper trust in your work through the community. Guide me in balancing appropriate authority with genuine humility and care for others' growth. Amen."

Leadership Development Framework

Strengths

Natural problem-solver who takes full responsibility rather than blaming circumstances
Comfortable making difficult decisions when needed
Maintains steady effort while being willing to adapt approaches

Growth Areas

Can be overly controlling and struggle to truly share power
Sometimes abandons initiatives prematurely when new ideas arise
May overwhelm or discourage emerging leaders through dominant style

Opportunities

Channel your ownership drive into developing other leaders rather than doing everything yourself
Use your comfort with authority to create protected spaces where others can safely learn and grow
Leverage your experimental mindset to test new ways of sharing power and decision-making

Watch For

Risk of burning out key volunteers by not truly delegating authority
May lose community buy-in by being too directive rather than collaborative
Could damage long-term impact by changing direction too frequently

Conclusion

Your profile as Extreme Owner Authority-Oriented Experimenter — Steady creates a distinctive leadership signature that GAP community members will come to recognize and depend upon. Your extreme 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.