Does your role in the organization help you fulfill your own personal vision or dream that is important to you?

Are your personal work goals aligned with the organization’s specific goals?

Are you highly committed to the organization? Are you energized by your work? Do you labor with passion and give your very best ideas and performance?

Are you so enthusiastic that your energy and zeal spread to your coworkers?

Instead of passively waiting for or merely accepting what the leader tells you, do you personally identify which activities are the most critical for achieving the organization’s goals?

Do you actively develop your own competencies in those critical activities so that you become more valuable to the leader and to the organization?

When starting a new job or assignment, do you immediately begin to build a record of successes in tasks that are important to the leader?

Can your leader give you a difficult assignment without the benefit of much supervision, confident that you will accomplish it with timely and high quality work and that you will “figure it out” as necessary?

Do you take the initiative to seek out and accomplish assignments that are beyond your normal job responsibilities?

When you are not the formal leader of a particular group project, do you still contribute at a high level, often doing more than your share?

Do you independently think up and promote creative new ideas that will contribute significantly to the leader’s or organization’s goals?

Do you give your very best effort to solve the tough problems with God’s help, rather than look to the leader to do it for you?

Do you look for opportunities to help your coworkers, making them succeed, even when you will not get any credit?

Do you try to help the leader or group see both the potential benefits and risks of ideas or plans, constructively playing the “devil’s advocate” as necessary?

Do you consciously try to understand the leader’s needs, goals and limitations, and work hard to meet them?

Do you try to anticipate upcoming problems to solve them in advance, rather than waiting for the leader to tell you what to prepare for?

Do you actively, openly and honestly acknowledge your own strengths and weaknesses rather than avoid evaluation and accountability?

Do you internally question the leader’s decisions when necessary, rather than just doing what you are told?

Do you act on your conscience according to biblical standards, rather than the leader’s or group’s standards?

Do you humbly and kindly assert your views on important issues, even though they might not be received by the leader or the group?