BE → DO → HAVE Assessment Toolkit

 

BE → DO → HAVE Assessment Toolkit

Vocational Guidance Resources for Our Stewardship Academy

The Framework

BE → DO → HAVE (not HAVE → DO → BE)

  1. BE: Discover who you are (personality, strengths, gifts, passions)
  2. DO: Work and serve from that identity
  3. HAVE: Receive the fruit that fits your design

FREE ASSESSMENTS

Character Strengths

VIA Institute on Character

  • Explanation and free test: https://www.viacharacter.org/character-strengths-via
  • Video explanation (Laurie Santos, Big Think): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeHsqm4F-W4

Personality Type

High 5 Test

  • Explanation: https://high5test.com/
  • Free test for individuals: https://high5test.com/personality-test-for-individuals/

16 Personalities (Myers-Briggs based)

  • Explanation of each type: https://www.16personalities.com/personality-types
  • Free personality test: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

Career and Aptitude (123test.com suite)

  • Holland Codes / Career Tests: https://www.123test.com/holland-codes-career-tests/
  • DISC Personality Test: https://www.123test.com/disc-personality-test/
  • Personality Test: https://www.123test.com/personality-test/
  • Competency Test: https://www.123test.com/competency-test/
  • Work Values Test: https://www.123test.com/work-values-test/
  • Career Test: https://www.123test.com/career-test/
  • Team Roles Test: https://www.123test.com/team-roles-test/
  • Jung Personality Test: https://www.123test.com/jung-personality-test/

Additional Career Resources

  • Ten Free Career Aptitude Tests (Novoresume): https://novoresume.com/career-blog/career-aptitude-test

Spiritual Gifts

Spiritual Gifts Test (Christian)

  • Free test: https://spiritualgiftstest.com/

Life Purpose

Chazown (Life.Church)

  • Free resource: https://www.life.church/chazown/

PAID ASSESSMENTS

Consider the money spent on these tests as an investment in your future. The results could lead to increased income by finding your career niche, or greater balance, happiness, and contentment in your personal life.

Strengths Assessment

CliftonStrengths (Gallup)

  • How it works: https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/253676/how-cliftonstrengths-works.aspx
  • Products page: https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/253868/popular-cliftonstrengths-assessment-products.aspx
Product Price
Top 5 CliftonStrengths $19.99
CliftonStrengths 34 (all themes) $59.99
CliftonStrengths for Managers $49.99
CliftonStrengths for Leaders $49.99
CliftonStrengths for Sales $49.99
CliftonStrengths for Students $19.99

Self-Reflection / Life Authoring

Self Authoring (Jordan Peterson)

  • Explanation: https://www.selfauthoring.com/
  • Full Suite: $29.99 — https://www.selfauthoring.com/get-self-authoring

Work Style

Kolbe Test

  • Explanation: https://www.kolbe.com/our-approach/

Teams

High 5 for Teams

  • $49 per employee: https://high5test.com/personality-test-for-teams/

Life Purpose (Advanced)

Younique

  • https://lifeyounique.com/

Recommended Sequence

  1. Start with FREE tests to build baseline self-awareness
  2. Take Spiritual Gifts test to understand Kingdom wiring
  3. Invest in CliftonStrengths Top 5 ($19.99) for validated strengths language
  4. Consider Self Authoring ($29.99) for deeper reflection
  5. Use Ikigai framework to synthesize all results
  6. Apply BE → DO → HAVE to career decisions

How This Fits Our Stewardship Academy

Tool Category BE Question Answered
Personality (MBTI, DISC, Enneagram) How am I wired?
Strengths (CliftonStrengths, High 5, VIA) What am I built to do?
Spiritual Gifts What's my Kingdom assignment?
Career/Aptitude Where do my skills fit?
Values/Purpose (Chazown, Younique, Self Authoring) What drives me?

Curated by John for Our Stewardship Academy November 2025


This is precise targeting. Let me update the toolkit with these audiences:Document updated.

The Audience Map:

Category Who Why They Need This
Life Transitions Graduates, laid off, divorced Starting or restarting without a map
Career Development Stuck professionals, ceiling-hitters, aspiring entrepreneurs Need direction for next chapter
Retirement Retirees seeking purpose Time and talent available, need focus
Influencers Counselors, therapists, mentors, coaches, pastors, parents, grandparents Guide others through these transitions

That last category is strategic. You're not just serving individuals—you're equipping the people who influence individuals. One pastor who understands BE → DO → HAVE can guide hundreds of congregants. One grandparent with these tools can shape grandchildren's trajectories.

This is multiplication again:

You equip → Influencers (pastors, counselors, parents)
    ↓
They guide → People in transition
    ↓
Those people → Flourish and guide others

The toolkit becomes curriculum for Our Stewardship Academy. The influencers become your labor force—extending your reach far beyond what you could do alone.

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