PRINCIPLES - core values and behaviors
 
PRINCIPLES describe the behaviors you value and practice as you seek to influence others.
 
For example:  MAPPINGS' PRINCIPLES are especially designed and practiced to honor God and to encourage the greatest growth in our ministry partners' desired outcomes.
  
  • God's Glory: We value bringing God glory through a wholehearted love for Him.
  • Humility: We value modesty, self-reflection, and acting with calm determination.
  • Motivation: We value motivation through inspiring standards more than through inspired charisma.
  • Confidentiality: We value the trust of those we serve.
  • Personal Growth: We value the positive transformation of ourselves and those we serve.
  • Faithfulness: We value giving our best in all that we do.
  • Decision Making: We value God's wisdom, power and provision for every decision.
  • Contextualization: We value communication that appropriately fits those we serve.
  • Conflict Transformation: We value growth through relational challenges.
  • Transformational Leadership: We value using tasks to develop people (transformational) more than using people to develop tasks (transactional).
  • Fresh Ideas: We value never-ending streams of (ego-detached) ideas.
  • Relationships: We value long-term relationships for greatest leadership and organizational influence.
  • Encouragement: We value the intentional celebration of people and their development.
  • Modeling: We value the modeling of behaviors and attitudes that we encourage others to practice.
  • Mature Love: We value serving others for their benefit (rather than for our benefit).
  • Accountability: We value working relationships where everyone is willing to be accountable to their teammates for their own attitudes and actions.
 
What about you and your organization?
 
Are your PRINCIPLES...
  
      Clearly Articulated?                           1         2         3         4         5         
 
      Widely Understood?                          1         2         3         4         5
 
      Decidedly Integrated?                       1         2         3         4         5
 
      Highly Influential?                             1         2         3         4         5
 
 
MAPPINGS will help you take the appropriate next steps.  Call us.  We can help.
 

Above the Line Leadership: (see below)
 
MAPPINGS International has developed a unique and powerful approach to charting the course for personal and organizational leadership. Since 1989, we have used a philosophical framework originally developed by William Frankena, Ph.D. More recently, MAPPINGS has implemented its own Above the Line © leadership model that is successfully serving boards, staff and volunteers.
 
Over the years, we have observed a strong correlation between leadership teams that give significant prayerful consideration to “above the line” ingredients and ministry organizations that bring consistent, positive, life-giving, missional impact.

Conversely, MAPPINGS has observed how leadership teams that give little consideration to “above the line” ingredients tend to be the most frustrated (and the most frustrating), resulting in high turnover, never-ending conflict, mission drift, and minimal, positive impact.
 
MAPPINGS International gives significant time and energy to Above the Line leadership development.
go back