One of the factors that your NCD ministry most depends upon is the quality of your own empowering leadership. Whether you are building up your own team, working with denominations or coaches, or directly supporting local churches, your capacity to empower and lead will have an enormous influence on the fruitfulness of your overall ministry. In particular, the wing traits evaluated by the NCD Empowerment Test all contribute to your ability to improve the Expansion, Progress and Consistency within your ministry.

Beyond using the Empowerment Test to improve your own skills within the ministry, think about the multiplied effect of encouraging key denominational leaders, other NCD coaches and pastors to make use of the test to increase their own fruitfulness.

The Empowerment Test is not only based on universal principles, but the wing traits are even directly related to the stages of the NCD Cycle. This means that it can be used as both a diagnostic and remedial process for improving the ability of a leader or team to fulfil the concerns behind each stage of the cycle when addressing their NCD Survey results.

• When will you take your next Empowerment Test?
• When will you encourage your team members, denominational leaders, NCD coaches or pastors to take the test?
• When will you introduce it to some of the churches you are working with as a way for them to make further progress in NCD (usually sometime after the second survey is recommended)?

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