IPSAT Next – Share Your Identity Profile

by | Jan 3, 2019 | Coaching, IPSAT

We want the IPSAT to bring as much value to you as possible.

How is your Identity Overview Statement (re)Crafting?

Here’s how you can tell if you have a top shelf, 100% statement: Would you use your Identity Overview Statement, as it is currently written, on a resume you submit for a job you really want?  If the answer to that question isn’t an enthusiastic “Yes,” you aren’t there yet.

Your Identity Overview Statement is meant to be shared others. It should be viewed as something you would post in your office, not hide in your journal. If you don’t refine it, you won’t be motivated to share it. That defeats the entire purpose. You need to get your statement as close to 100% as possible.

In another post we shared a webinar resource on how to improve your Identity Overview Statement.  Here is another resource: Identity Overview Statement worksheet. (You may have utilized this worksheet in the onboarding process)

It’s time to Share Your Identity Profile

The refined version of your Identity Overview Statement reflects your internal self-awareness. Now it’s time to grow your external self-awareness by inviting feedback from a few people who know you well and want to help you optimize and unleash your potential.  Typically, this will include a member of your family, and several people from your friendship network.

The IPSAT creators have simplified the process of inviting feedback by creating a sharable link available on the dashboard of your IPSAT Report page. Just login to your account, click on the view report link, then the share report button on the righthand side of the page. The share report button will generate a URL you can use to allow others to view your IPSAT results.


The sharable report doesn’t include any IPSAT scores. It simply summarizes the results of the five pre-IPSAT assessments and includes your latest IPSAT overview statement.

Consider using an email like this to invite feedback:

Hi (first name),

I’m on a journey to discover, optimize and unleash my potential using the Identity Profile Self-Awareness Tool (IPSAT). One of the key results of this experience is a less than 100-word statement I’ve created, with input from my coach, explaining how my personality, strengths, skills, spiritual gifts, and passions work together in my life.

Would you be willing to read my Identity Overview Statement and give me top-of-mind feedback?

You can see the results of assessments that are part of the IPSAT experience along with my Identity Overview Statement here. (Be sure to make “here” a hyperlink to your shareable IPSAT Report.)

After reflecting briefly on my Identity Overview Statement, just click reply with your answer to these three questions:

  1. On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being “this isn’t you” and 10 being “this is totally you,” what number would you apply to my statement?
  2. What part of the statement do you agree with most?
  3. What in this statement, if anything, do you find confusing, missing or inconsistent with your understanding of me?

Thanks in advance for considering this. I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
Your name

Make it your goal go obtain feedback from at least three people. 

Focus on people who know you well and want to help you grow. If one of the people in your feedback group is a spouse or significant other, you may want to talk about it in person before you send the email.

Review the results from your feedback group and make any edits or updates to your statement. If the numerical scores average six or lower, you may want to invite additional feedback, especially if the information shared in response to the third question is incomplete (anything confusing, missing or inconsistent with your understanding of me?).

Get even more feedback by scheduling a meeting with the person you report to at work to talk about your IPSAT. People with high self-awareness know who they are, what they do best, where they have gaps, and they take the initiative to share this information with others. Remember, your Identity Statements, including your Overview Statement, are not just for you. They are also for the people around you.
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IPSAT Next – Specific Action Plan

by | Jan 2, 2019 | Coaching, IPSAT

Two powerful next steps you can take after growing your self-awareness are 1) creating a personal growth plan informed by your developmental priorities and 2) designing a mitigation strategy for a potential derailer in a specific vulnerable setting.

Your highest Return-On-Investment personal development (developmental priority) will be informed by your IPSAT results, and focus on taking some combination of your personality, strengths, skills, values and passions to the next level. Similarly, when you know how your identity predisposes you to self-defeating behaviors (potential derailers) and where or when that is most likely to happen (vulnerable setting) you are strategically positioned to design a mitigation strategy.  Have a big vision for this, because God has good works planned for you to do (best contribution) as Ephesians 2:10 reminds “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

Try this next action step:

Contact 2-3 people that you trust and who know you well in different areas of your life (family, work, etc).  Ask:

  • What do you agree with most from these five statements I have composed (Identity Overview, Best Contribution, Development Priority, Potential Derailers, Vulnerability Setting)?
  • What is missing?
  • What do you recommend I give extra attention to?  Do you have any recommendations to me for how I should go about identifying and improving this area?

You can’t expect anyone to do this for you. Follow through on the commitment you made to yourself by taking ownership of your developmental journey.

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