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PACO 500 SMPP Questionnaire 7

Solving My People Puzzle Questionnaire

As a place of frequent relational turbulence, your interpersonal arena could be described as a puzzling bumper-human world, wherein, various behavioral pressures frequently bless, bother, and/or bruise participants. Interestingly, understanding how these “behavioral pressures” become felt experiences, often reveals what makes participants tick and get ticked off with one another. During the process of this learning activity, you will discover truths, insights, and techniques useful for the development and management of your relational style’s behavioral pressures.

This Solving My People Puzzle Project provides you with a means to describe, develop, and manage your relational style’s influence (e.g., immature & mature patterns of thinking, feeling, decisioning, and communication). In this learning activity, you will begin to understand more about the ins-and-outs of your style’s behavioral pressures through research-informed responses to 5 questions. The first question is the game-changer as it challenges you to develop a crystal clear eternal perspective. More specifically, it requires you to articulate a “tight and bright” Guiding Purpose Statement (GPS). Much like a global positioning system’s ability to provide mapping coordinates (i.e., way points), a clearly defined GPS will help you navigate subsequent relational engagements. As s result of learning how to become attentive to GPS and your relational trajectory, you will grow in favor with God and others.

So what’s the bottom line of this learning activity?! The purpose of this exercise, irregardless of your personality, is to discover helpful knowledge, skill development, and meaningful support, in order to become relationally-wise. Get this! It really does not matter what your personality is. What matters most is that you learn how to control it through the Holy Spirit and wisdom strategies rather than allowing your personality to be in control. Consider this exercise as an opportunity to help you be and become more Christlike in every relational context.

With these notions in mind, CLICK HERE and

· Complete the preliminary tasks in “How to Prepare to Complete the Solving My People Puzzle Project?” Then,

· CLICK HERE and familiarize yourself with “What does the Solving my People Puzzle Project Need?” (p. 7). Afterwards, return here!

Now that you have completed the preliminary tasks and caught a glimpse of what is expected, set up your Solving My People Puzzle Project .docx template and thoughtfully respond to the following questions within that word document. Make sure to noticeably use the project’s required sources (7) as you give attention to each question’s considerations and TIPS.

Solving My People Puzzle Questions:

1. What Guiding Purpose Statement will govern your relationship with God in the midst of every relational context? (See Considerations)

Considerations: A tight & bright Guiding Purpose Statement is needed to govern the process of being and becoming like Christ in a specific way in a specific relational context.

· For example, if you are a project driven person with a tendency to hyper-focus on tasks, and at times, inadvertently overlook people, something like the following might help you become more relationally wise: “Seeking to be an imitator of Christ, I am committed to become a considerate supervisor.”

· Or maybe your mate says something like “It seems, more often than not, that you don’t hear me!” Your GPS might be crafted as follows: “Seeking to be an example of Christ, I am committed to become an attentive husband.”

· Use one word descriptors. In light of feedback received from the Word of God, Spirit of God, DISC insights, specific people, and your thoughtful reflection, one of the following words might describe who you want to be in your relationship with Jesus:

example, imitator, follower, representative, reflection, beacon, fragrance, etc.

If any of these do not work for you, find one that does.

Additionally, one of the following words might describe a specific way you need to become more like Christ in a specific relational context:

attentive, considerate, flexible, spontaneous, winsome, approachable, etc.

If any of these do not work for you, find one that does.

· With these considerations in mind, respond to this question by filling in the blanks below with one word descriptors. Afterwards, concisely explain how this GPS will help you grow in favor with Christ and this relationship.

“Seeking to be a/an [ ] of Christ, I am commited to become a/an [_______________] [_______________].”

2. Can you describe “Who I am”? (Review Professional/Leadership DISC Profile. Use that DISC information and the following bullets to describe your current relational style. Responding to this question in concise, thoughtful fashion will help you satisfactorily answer Question #3.)

a. This is Me! (Graph 2) –

b. This is Expected of Me (Graph 1) –

3. In light of your DISC style, can you point out how you would shift your style (i.e., build common ground; 1 Cor. 9) in order to align with each of the four primary styles? (See TIPS)

More specifically, thoughtfully integrate insights from Masterpiece, your DISC assessment, How to Solve the People Puzzle, and Why Don’t We Listen? as you point out how to shift your particular DISC index to align with each of the D.I.S.C. behavioral patterns. For example, how would you respond to the first bullet below if your base line style (Graph 2) is predominantly DC (above mid-line)? In other words, explain how would you shift your “DCness” in order to align with someone who has a predominate D style.

Responding to the following bullets in concise, thoughtful fashion will help you satisfactorily answer Question #4. Point out how you would shift your style to align with a D, I, S, and C.

· [Your Style] aligned with a D

· [Your Style] aligned with an I

· [Your Style] aligned with a S

· [Your Style] aligned with a C

T.I.P.S. (To Insure Personal Success): Alignment should:

· Not be exhausting! Do not over-think it, get into action as quickly as possible!!

· Noticeably use language that describes your behavioral patterns (e.g., strengths, shortcomings, blindspots: overuse of a strength or an unmanaged shortcoming, etc). Be mindful that Graph 2 (This is Me) is a description of your behavioral patterns “at ease”. Conversely, Graph 1 (This is Expected of Me) may reveal immature and/or mature behavioral patterns.

· Include pertinent insights and techniques from the project’s 7 required sources.

4. Point out how will you communicate and connect with a predetermined care-seeker from the case study?

Your answer will inform a “practice people-helping relationship” in this course’s counseling scenario.

· Choose a care-seeker from case study (i.e., Bruce, Josh, Brody, Melissa, or Justin)

· Make an informed guess and briefly describe care-seeker’s DISC relational style

· Describe at least 1 interpersonal communication technique that will overcome one of your communication traps and increase your ability to actively listen with empathy, genuineness, and graciousness? As a means to train-in this new approach, secure and support this process with at least 2 helpful insights from pertinent course material and 1 related Scripture.

· Point out how you will shift your relational style to align with your careseeker’s style (i.e., apply Q#1, 2, 3 insights)

5. Can you point out how will you communicate and connect with your mentor?

Your answer will inform a practice “mentoring relationship”.

· Solicit someone to be your practice mentor and ask them to complete 2 assessments. Assessment information should be emailed promptly; request results to be returned by email within 2 days:

· Mentor’s 360° Interview Worksheet (see Assignment Instructions/Solving My People Puzzle Instructions and Rubric)

· A free abridged DISC personality test. Ask mentor to copy/paste this link into Chrome or Firefox browser: https://discpersonalitytesting.com/free-disc-test/

· Use insights from previous questions, your mentor’s 360° Interview Worksheet, and Mentor’s primary DISC style to point out how you will shift your relational style to align with mentor’s style.

APPENDIX

How to Prepare to Complete the Solving My People Puzzle Project?

Completion of Preliminary tasks:

1. Complete your DISC assessment from Uniquely You

Self-Administer the online Professional/Leadership DISC Profile (Expanded Version-Standard) from Uniquely You Resources, Inc.

· If you purchased the e-book and online assessment code bundle from MBS, follow instructions below.

MBS purchasers, go to https://uniquelyyou.org/ (last accessed 07/24/2019). 

· Click on Register in the top right hand corner of your browser and supply a user name, password, and LU email. Remember that data!

· Once a user name and password have been created, click on the top of the page“Activate Code”

· Enter your 8 or 12 digit code and Confirm it.

· Go to “My Account” and click the green “Begin Questionnaire” button.

· Complete the profile. 

· After completion, see *How to Download PDF below.

· Make sure to give careful attention to assessment instructions. Typically, the directions ask that you answer only two descriptions for each set of four statements: what you are MOST often like under pressure, and what you are LEAST often like under pressure.

· For example, as a Masters in Pastoral Counseling student handling responsibilities in the midst of life, describe what you are like most of the time and what you are least like most of the time. Do not answer based on what you want to be or what you think others want you to be; just answer according to what you are like most of the time and least like most of the time. See example questions below and notice you must choose one response in each column.

· If you purchased the e-book and code directly from Uniquely You, the code automatically shows up in your “My Account” page (no need to activate it). Simply go to the My Account page and click “Begin Questionnaire”. After completion, see *How to Download PDF below.

· *How to Download a PDF of your Report

1. Put a check in the box next to name column of assessment completed

2. Click the “Download Report” (2nd blue button under Profile List)

· If you have any questions or problems, please contact Uniquely You @ 800-501-0490, Monday-Friday, 9-5 EST.

· Place graphs in the Appendix via a screen capture tool (e.g., Snip-it) or the free Jing software ( https://www.techsmith.com/jing.html ) to capture a screenshot of the Dot or Bar Charts for Graph 1 “This is Expected of Me” and Graph 2 “This is Me”. Use it as a resource when answering questions. For the reader’s benefit, include the charts as an appendix in the paper. See example snapshots of Dot Graphs below:

2. Identify a “practice mentor” (relates to Question # 4)

3. Ask practice mentor to complete three simple tasks to help you complete this project (relates to Question # 4):

· 360° Interview Worksheet

· Free abridged DISC assessment

· Return results ASAP

What does the Solving My People Project need?

Essential Elements of the SMPP Project:

· Correct .docx file name – e.g., PACO500_SMPP+YourInitials

· Title page

· Table of Contents

· Introduction is optional – do not use a heading as first paragraph is assumed to be the introduction

· SMPP Project Questions/Answers (5). Use headings and an annotated outline approach; i.e., bulleted, full-sentence explanations noticeably grounded in required resources through citations/References.

· Conclusion. The conclusion should present a “So What? of it All!” In sum, this is a thoughtful recap of this learning activity which concludes with a clear, convincing “what’s the point the reader should get” type of argument.

· References (at least these 7 sources must be cited; place References on its own page)

· Professional/Leadership DISC Profile

· How to Solve the People Puzzle (2008)

· https://discpersonalitytesting.com/free-disc-test/

· Masterpiece (2017)

· Why Don’t We Listen Better? (2015)

· Mentor’s 360 Interview Worksheet

· Case Study – Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness

· Appendix:

· Screenshots of DISC Graph 1 & 2 Comment by Rice, Dwight Cecil (Community Care and Counseling): Required appendix document

· 360 Worksheet Comment by Rice, Dwight Cecil (Community Care and Counseling): Optional: Though helpful to the assessment of the paper, it is not necessary to include as long as student noticeably integrates insights from the 360.

· Mentor’s DISC Comment by Rice, Dwight Cecil (Community Care and Counseling): Optional: Though helpful to the assessment of the paper, it is not necessary to include as long as student noticeably integrates insights from mentor’s DISC report.

· Body of paper double-spaced, typed in 12 pt Times New Roman font, and within the scope of 5 pages. Follow current APA or Turabian guidelines.