A Canadian global missions coach working in Ethiopia is looking for a simple but meaningful strengths/gifts assessment tool. The Gallup Strengths assessment is great, but its broad use there is not sustainable. What would you recommend? Please click comment to leave your best recommendation. Ethiopian banks don’t issue international credit cards to pay the $20 fee, plus internet bandwidth is limited and many don’t speak English.
1) Searching for a Strength Assessment Tool for the Global South
Searching “wagner modified houts questionnaire” brought up several web pages from churches using it. Most were PDFs, so should be easily downloadable and printable, and are self contained with the “scoring guide”, as well as scripture companions.
Note: this would be most useful in a Pentecostal/Charismatic context.
Assessme.org might be a good solution. They have an excellent online testing tool for spiritual gifts, personality type, leadership style, and more. They are very easy to work with, and the assessments are well done.
As a pastor and missionary I faced the same thing. The Spiritual Gifts Assessment is very simple and would not be difficult to translate as long as the publishers gave the okay. Try this link https://churchgrowth.org/product-category/spiritual-gifts/spiritual-gifts-surveys/
Depending on your clients you might consider the Humanitarian Worker Wellness Inventory. http://wellnessinventory.blogspot.com/
You might give Gallup another try. When I was a board member, we used the strengths assessment successfully with a large NGO in Central Asia—150 Internatonal workers and 500 local employees. We got permission from the publisher to translate it into the lingua franca. I don’t know what they charged. We had an org development consultant help make the connection. One upside of the tool is that it provided a common ‘language’ for those of different faith backgrounds to talk about individual dignity, value, giftedness, and how knowing our God-given wiring can help us as individuals and teams (they were discussed at the project team level).
I love it that a former board member of Gallup poll is a Brigada subscriber. : )
You could try VIA which identifies your 24 character strengths: https://www.viacharacter.org/character-strengths-via