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Sunlight Middle 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.
Your Sunlight is in the Relational Pattern. 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.
As a Relational, 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 Jimmy Carter, Princess Diana, and Gandhi were Relational leaders. President Carter called for “a government that is as honest and decent and fair and competent and truthful and idealistic as are the American people.” In helping the nation be whole and healthy, Carter modeled emotional and spiritual health. He portrayed himself as an openly religious man, even calling himself “born again,” a new term for an American President. Relationals are motivated by harmony and see the team as crucial, and so it is fitting that in his inaugural parade, Carter walked down Pennsylvania Avenue. His fireside chats were an authentic part of his persona, as were the radio call-in shows. As one person said, “Carter tried to set a high moral tone. He stressed human rights in international affairs and opposed ‘pork barrel’ legislation at home.” Relationals know the rightness of their crusade and the moral imperative in their agenda.
Princess Di said, “I wear my heart on my sleeve. I don't go by the rule book … I lead from the heart, not the head. I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.” The decisions of the Relational Pattern are guided by deep-seated values and personal connections to others. This is often called “heart.” Relationals want to help others be whole and healthy. Diana said, “Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back … I’d like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.” Decisions for Relational people are guided by deep-seated values and personal connections to others. Diana put her care into action. She was not content to merely speak about love, care and concern. She was impelled by an inner force to put her words into actions.
Jesus said, “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.”
The Relational Pattern has a component of teambuilding and harmony among people. You will want to read that section about Carter, Diana and Jesus, as many people can miss the unique leadership style of the Relational. And, consider how to use your middle areas and Shadows! As the German philosopher Goethe said, “Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.”
One of your Middle Grounds is the Overseer Pattern. With some concentration and effort, you can focus on strategy.
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.
All these Overseer qualities are within your grasp and will come with moderate effort.
