The spiritual gift of administration

What it looks like

You see the steps between an idea and the day it happens, and you quietly build the structure that lets everyone else do their part.

How GiftWell spots it

The assessment asks five statements for Administration. Each is answered from 1 (not like me at all) to 5 (very much like me), so the gift is scored out of 25. Most ask about things that have actually happened, because a gift shows up in what you do more reliably than in how you describe yourself.

1. When something is disorganized, I can see how to put it in order, and it bothers me until someone does.
2. I would rather build the plan, schedule or system that makes something work than be the face of it.
3. In the past year, I have set up a process, schedule or system that other people then relied on.
4. Because of how I planned or tracked something, an event or project ran smoothly that would otherwise have been chaos.
5. People have asked me to organize something, or told me things run better when I am handling the details.

Results come back as bands: every gift within three points of your strongest shares your lead band, and the ±2 margin is drawn on the chart. If Administration shares your lead band with another gift, your result describes the pair, like the combinations below.

What to watch for

Loving the system more than the people it serves. When a person does not fit the process, the process may be what needs to bend.