This assessment measures your personal multiplication leadership capacity. The content is based on Exponential's 2018 Hero Maker theme and on the book Hero Maker: Five Essential Practices for Leaders to Multiply Leaders by Dave Ferguson and Warren Bird.
Your results will be most accurate if you understand the context of what is (and is not) being measured in this assessment. Click here to read our definition and description of "personal multiplication leadership capacity."
Often our self-awareness is either overly optimistic or overly critical. In this assessment, it's especially important that you answer questions based on your actual attitudes, behaviors, and practices and NOT simply on your good intentions, desires, and aspirations.
Think about one person in your life that you've invested in that best represents the collective average of all the people you intentionally invest in.
This person represents the average person that has experienced your typical practices and behaviors for investing into others. Don't pick the best examples of extreme impact. Think across all the domains of life in selecting this average person. This might be a co-worker, a subordinate, a neighbor, a friend, or the member of a team or group you lead. Avoid the temptation to select people who are the above average exception to the norm.
NOTE: Writing this person's name down is only for your internal use and will not be included in your report or used in any other way.
It's often our tendency to see ourselves through the lens of "best case" rather than "average or normal case."
In this assessment, its important that you focus on the average person you identified above.
As you read each assessment question, think about the attitudes, behaviors, and practices that characterize your relationship and investment into this person. Avoid the tendency to answer questions based on your ideal or best case person.
You are about to begin the actual assessment. It is based on five essential practices from the book Hero Maker by Dave Ferguson and Warren Bird. There are several questions for each of the five practices.
We want this to be both a learning AND assessment experience. We've included a short description and summary video (typically 7 to 10 minutes in length) for each of the five essential practices.
Although you can complete the assessment without reading the summaries and watching the summary videos, we strongly recommend against it.
The assessment itself will take about 30 minutes. The additional training materials can be completed in less than an hour. Hence, the full training and assessment experience takes less than 90 minutes. The tool is designed so that you don't have to complete it in one sitting, making it easier for you to also work through the training material.
Multiplication thinkers move from thinking that the best way to maximize their impact is through their own efforts to embracing the truth that multiplication happens through mobilizing the leadership capacity of others. Multiplication thinking is a shift from the scarcity paradigm that impact happens through my own leadership to the abundance paradigm that impact happens by developing and releasing the potential of other leaders to the third and fourth generations into the future.
Think about the average person you invest yourself into. Think across the various domains of your life including family, work, church, community, neighbors, and friends. Which question below captures your actual attitudes, behaviors and practices the best?
Optional Training Material: Click here to read a short overview of Multiplication Thinking and to watch a short 7-minute summary video.
Permission givers take the focus off their own leadership and instead see more fully the vast leadership potential God has put around them. "I see what God can do through my own leadership" shifts to "I see what God can do through the people he's put in my life."
Optional Training Material: Click here to read a short overview of Permission Giving and to watch a short 7-minute summary video.
Disciple multiplying is a shift in sharing. Disciple multipliers do not rely on programmatic approaches to making and growing disciples. Instead, they follow Jesus’ relational approach to investing directly and substantially into others.
Disciple multipliers focus on making disciple-makers (those who make disciples who make disciples who maker disciples) rather than just disciples who do not reproduce themselves. Disciple-makers who make other disciple-makers are the fuel of multiplication.
Optional Training Material: Click here to read a short overview of Disciple Multiplying and to watch a short 8-minute summary video.
Gift activating is a shift in blessing. Instead of asking God to bless the use of our own gifts, we learn to ask God to bless leaders that we’re sending out.
Optional Training Material: Click here to read a short overview of Gift Activating and to watch a short 8-minute summary video.
Kingdom building is a shift in counting and how we measure success. Instead of counting the people who show up at “my thing,” I begin to count the leaders whom I send to go out and do “God’s thing.”
Heroes primarily measure success by the accumulation metrics inside the local organization. Hero Makers build on these important measures and give equal priority to Kingdom multiplication measures beyond the local organization.
Optional Training Material: Click here to read a short overview of Multiplication Thinking and to watch a short 9-minute summary video.
IMPORTANT: The questions on the following page ask you to identify the number of people you are "intentionally and substantially investing" yourself into. Be careful in these questions not to answer based on your good intentions and aspirations. "Intentionally" refers to identifying specific people to come alongside and then prioritizing them on your calendar. "Substantially" refers to a level of investment far greater than the normal relational interactions we have throughout a week. Be careful not to simply count the number of people in a small group or a team you lead, or the people you supervise.
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NOTE: The Hero Maker Assessment is currently in public beta testing. The current version is stable, but we need to know if you experience any difficulties or confusion taking the assessment. Please send an email to todd@exponential.org with any feedback you have.
