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Sunlight One of your Middle Grounds is the Mentor Pattern. With some concentration and effort, you can coach and develop others.
Mentors are people who like to come alongside you and develop you to be your best. They hone who you are, fanning the flame of your ability. Mentors build into you and help you realize your potential. They coach and guide you to help you discover your whole self. As trusted allies, they are friendly faces who encourage you to grow, develop and change.
All these Mentor qualities are within your grasp and will come with moderate effort.
One of your Middle Grounds is the Administrator Pattern. With some concentration and effort, you can be good with tactics, details, and following the plan.
Administrators help establish the plan and then follow it as it is laid out. They like policy and structure, and are good with details and budgets. Administrators focus on management and tend to be averse to taking risks. They are good with procedures and like to follow the rules.
All these Administrator qualities are within your grasp and will come with moderate effort.
One of your Middle Grounds is the Catalyst Pattern. With some concentration and effort, you can be an innovator.
Catalysts are people who will challenge you, and so take you to new ground. They innovate and experiment in life, motivating you to change. Catalysts seem to light fires under people, spurring them on to unconventional or entirely new methods. They can be revolutionary, stirring up people. As trusted critics, we know their words are speaking truth as they speed up change in our lives.
All these Catalyst qualities are within your grasp and will come with moderate effort.
One of your Middle Grounds is the Relational Pattern. With some concentration and effort, you can be a great team builder.
Relationals are people who are motivated by harmony and see the team as crucial. They want people to be whole and healthy, and so are good team builders. Relationals highly value grace and mercy, and can be quite loving and warm. People deeply matter to them. Decisions are guided by deep-seated values and personal connections to others.
All these Relational qualities are within your grasp and will come with moderate effort.
Your Sunlight is in the Overseer Pattern. Overseers like to see the big picture. They work best with principles and concepts as their guiding force. Overseers prefer to work on strategy, aligning people with their right places to work. They think in terms of the vision and direction of things, tending to look at the horizon rather than at what is immediately in front of them.
As an Overseer, you do these things with relative ease, like using your dominant hand to sign a check. You won't have to give these things much thought as they flow naturally from your giftedness. President Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were Overseer leaders.
President Reagan said, “We’ve gone astray from first principles. We’ve lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we've accomplished. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.” Overseers think in terms of vision. Reagan had a folksy charm and ability to weave in everyday elements that reinforced his principles. Reagan said, “All great change in America begins at the dinner table … If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under … Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.” Overseers concentrate on vision, purpose and steering whatever organization they happen to be in. One person said of Thatcher, “Her strong points were her iron will … anything that required guts and will she could do for you. Anything that required sensitivity, she couldn't, – she had none.
Margaret Thatcher was a tough woman, called the “Iron Lady.” Thatcher served longest as Prime Minister of Britain since 1827 and changed the course of that nation with her politics. She said, “Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing. There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top … Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.” Thatcher used whatever tools she had at hand to bring her ideas and plans into reality. Overseers like to focus on the big picture.
Jesus said, The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” Here Jesus presents the big picture of his life—from good news to proclaiming God’s favor. Overseers marshal their resources, keeping people focused on their tasks.
Carefully read that section on Reagan, Thatcher and Jesus, as Overseer leaders can be prototypical leaders. And, they need to remember to use their middle areas and Shadows. As the German philosopher Goethe said, “Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.”
