...Finding the Leader in You: Self- Assessment/ Johari Window Abstract There have been many studies performed on how personality characteristics have an effect on us as individuals and within are environment. This paper will discuss my personality characteristics and traits and how those characteristics are manifested in my organization. This paper will also explore the development of my personality characteristics and discuss the results of my week one Self-Assessment and the Johari Window, as well the Quick Enneagram Sorting Test (QUEST). The results from these assessments have allowed me to focus in on my leadership style a how I can become a more effective manager. Also I’ll focus on how those attributes have guided my relationships and career choices. Key Words: Characteristics, attributes, assessment, Big Five Personality Dimensions (BFPD), Extrovert, Johari Window Finding the Leader in You: Self-Assessment/ Johari Window In my effort to develop and explain the characteristics that comprise my personality, I determined that there are many personality traits that help to form my personality. In our class discussion, it was addressed how Schermerhorn, Osborn, Uhl-Bien and Hunter (2012) discussed the Big Five Personality Dimensions (BFPD) of Extraversion, Agreeable, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability and Openness to experience and how they affect our personality positively and negatively. My profile of characteristics include extraversion...
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...Self-Assessment Analysis Liberty University April 15, 2013 Abstract Personality plays an important part in ones behavior in the work place. One’s behavior good or bad is influenced by personality and their value system (Robbins and Judge, 2009). We see the various personalities within a team or organization; personality test have become a great way to identify strengths and weaknesses of individuals. After taking the Prentice Hall’s Self-Assessment Library test I discovered that I scored highest for “how satisfied I am with my job”. I believe the economy and job market played a part in my answers and scored the lowest for “how involved I am with my job” (Pearson Education, 2008, I.B.2). My Jungian 16-Type Personality was revealed to be an ENTJ (Pearson Education, 2008, I.A.2) on the previously Typology test I was an INFJ. The assessment revealed that I am for diversity, and I have a flexible view of others. The survey did confirm my leadership style of me being task oriented, even with my concern for others I work in a metrics and customer service driven work environment so the goal is always about completing the task and satisfying the customers. Step 1 Part 1: What about me? The first part of the Prentice Hall’s Self-Assessment is titled “What about me?”. The assessment helped to provide insight into the various parts of my personality in the areas of values, attitude, motivations and decision-making (Pearson Education...
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...Understanding Personality Type and Leadership Style Kaplan University Abstract Understanding personality type and leadership style is very important for individuals pursuing leadership and management roles. Personality and leadership can affect individual’s professional and career development. There are many assessments online that can help you determine your personality type and leadership style. According to Ledlow & Coppola (2014), “To take the first step, gaining an understanding of your personality type, leadership style, and associated leadership skills is paramount. It matters what you know, who you know, and perhaps most importantly, what you know about yourself” (p. 24). True leaders should be able to discuss their leadership style to others. Rebecca Bauer (2012) presented four questions to use when trying to understand your personality type “What is your energy source? How do you perceive and understand? And how do you make decisions?”. How do you organize your life and interact with the outside world. I used several assessments from the text to determine my personality type and leadership style. Emotional Intelligence, Hemispheric Dominance, Type A, Type B, Type A/B Personality, Jungian, and the Leadership Style test. Using these assessments allowed me to understand the pros and cons of my leadership style and personality type. Understanding Personality Type and Leadership Style Many leaders do not understand how their emotional intelligence plays a...
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...Understanding Personality Type and Leadership Style Kaplan University Abstract Understanding personality type and leadership style is very important for individuals pursuing leadership and management roles. Personality and leadership can affect individual’s professional and career development. There are many assessments online that can help you determine your personality type and leadership style. According to Ledlow & Coppola (2014), “To take the first step, gaining an understanding of your personality type, leadership style, and associated leadership skills is paramount. It matters what you know, who you know, and perhaps most importantly, what you know about yourself” (p. 24). True leaders should be able to discuss their leadership style to others. Rebecca Bauer (2012) presented four questions to use when trying to understand your personality type “What is your energy source? How do you perceive and understand? And how do you make decisions?”. How do you organize your life and interact with the outside world. I used several assessments from the text to determine my personality type and leadership style. Emotional Intelligence, Hemispheric Dominance, Type A, Type B, Type A/B Personality, Jungian, and the Leadership Style test. Using these assessments allowed me to understand the pros and cons of my leadership style and personality type. Understanding Personality Type and Leadership Style Many leaders do not understand how their emotional intelligence plays a...
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...organizational performance will require managers and employees alike to understand the dynamics that are behind the effects of their behavior on themselves and others. Personality and Behavior Analysis Behavior analysis provides managers with tools they need to be more effective in developing relationships. Too often employers believe that the root cause of most employees’ performance problems is related to who they are (their personality) rather than what they do (their behavior.) They tend to communicate the belief -- often unintentionally -- that performance problems are related to personality. The solution is therefore to change the employee through some process or to get another employee. This not only doesn’t work but communicates blame to employees from a moral perspective. Personality Insight Big Five Model After completing the Big Five Model, the five-factor model of personality, results revealed my personality to be introverted, moderately agreeable, moderately dependable and responsible, possessed with negative emotional stability, and conventional in experiences (Robbins and Judge, 2007, p. 108). As an adult now, I often reflect on my personality and find certain characteristics that are a lot like those of my mother. According to Robbins and Judge, “The heredity approach argues that the ultimate explanation of an individual’s...
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...PSY 202: Week Three Exploring My Personality Worksheet Purpose: Use this worksheet to document and reflect on Step One of the TypeFocus assessment. Items with a blue asterisk require completion (*). Prepare: To gain more insight into your personality, interest, and values, our Career Services department offers a personality assessment called TypeFocus. The information provided in this assessment can assist you in your search for the ideal career. Sign in to TypeFocus to take the assessments: 1. Log into your Ashford University Student Portal 2. Click on the My Career: Career and Professional Development Center under Career Services. 3. On the top center of the screen, click on Resources 4. On the left side of the screen under Self-Discovery, click on Career Self-Assessments 5. You will see a description of each assessment. Click on the TypeFocus link. Clicking this link will open up the TypeFocus website in a new window. 6. Click on the box that says New Users Start Here! 7. Complete the required information 8. Enter the organizational access code provided: a. Students: A8526545 9. Click Submit 10. Click on the FIRST step labeled SELF ASSESSMENTS and complete the first three assessments by clicking on the titles: Personality Assessment, Interests Assessment & Values Assessment. If you wish to print your results, you may do so from the website. 11. Logout using the Logout button at the top right of the...
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...The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a series of “two-choice items concerning preferences or inclinations in feelings or behavior” (Aiken & Groth-Marnat, 2006, p. 401). This assessment is scored on four scales: “Introversion-Extroversion (I-E), Sensing-Intuition (S-N), Thinking-Feeling (T-F), and Judging-Perceptive (J-P)” (Aiken & Groth-Marnat, 2006, p. 401). With these four scales the MBTI assessment can come up with 16 possible personality types. The MBTI searches for “preferences and does not measure trait, ability, or character” (www.myersbriggs.org). Once the questions are answered and assessed the respondent is assigned to a personality type that most fits the answers that were given during the assessment. This test...
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...Running head: ASSESSMENT TOOLS 1 Assessment Tools Paper Liberty University EDUC 307 June 1, 2016 Abstract The beauty in teaching is watching the brains of your scholars grow with knowledge. As educators we frequently use various tools to assess the gains that our scholars make. In order to successfully instruct intentional lessons, it is important to collect data about scholar interests, ability/intellectual levels, achievement levels, and personality types. Through the use of assessment tools like the Common Core Measures of Academic Progress (Common Core MAP), The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR), The Student Interest Survey for Career Clusters, The Brigance Early Childhood Screens III, The Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory, and The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Personality Indicator. Interests 1. The Student Interest Survey for Career Clusters assesses scholars interest through the use of a survey where scholars are expected to circle up to seven activities in each of sixteen boxes that describe what they like to do. This is an extensive survey that asks the same three questions in each of the sixteen boxes, however the list of answer choices provided varies each time. This survey takes around fifteen minutes to complete via paper and pencil. This survey is available in both English and Spanish and can be viewed and printed online. The...
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...career decision is based upon personality types. This assessment tool was used to further understand and interpret how my results related to different occupational paths. After verifying several activities, competencies, occupations, and self-estimates, the results concluded that the social, enterprising, and conventional personality themes were the most suitable for me. Social theme. Also referred to as “ the helpers”, social individuals are ethical, responsible, kind, understanding, and concerned with the welfare of others. These individuals enjoy activities that involve coaching, teaching, leading discussions and group projects. They have exceptional interpersonal...
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...Personality Assessment University of Phoenix CMGT/530 Personality Assessment Personality is defined as the visible aspect of one’s characters based on a combination of their physical, mental, emotional, social, and other behavioral patterns. Over the last few decades there have been numerous methods and tests that have been developed to assess ones personality. The more commonly known tests include the Meyer-Briggs Type Indicator (MBIT), the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, the Jung Theory of Psychological Types and The Keirsey Temperament Sorter II. The listed methods are all developed by different individuals; with their very own views and opinions; however; each method is based on the basic theory that a person’s behavior are the results of specific traits that can be measured and it is these measureable traits are what make up a person’s inner habits and tendencies. There are several kinds of assessment methods that have been created to help define and measure ones individual personality and traits. For this assignment; the one used to assess my personality was the Keirsey Temperament Sorter II. The Keirsey Temperament Sorter II personality assessment tool; developed by David Kiersey was first introduced in his book Please Understand Me, which was published in 1978. It is an objective test composed of 70 questions that helps to measure and indicate the personality types...
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...Personality Assessment Abstract The personality type assessment measures an individual’s personalities and characteristics. The assessment is also helpful in the areas of growth and self development and can be a gateway to ideal career aspirations and relationships. Assessment The personality assessment properly portrayed some of my characteristics accurately by indicating that I was a long-range thinker that pursues excellence and I have a strong need for autonomy and achievement, with faith in my own original ideas in pursuit of my goals. The assessment described me as an introvert, which I tend to see myself somewhere in between introvert and extrovert. There are times when I like to work alone for long periods, but still I am willing to work within a team environment. I like to spend hours at a time brainstorming ideas, in contrast, the assessment profile indicated that my type has an original mindset with good insight and displays good vision. The assessment categorized my type as a perfectionist. This label may be a goal that one tries to achieve, but as an individual who pursues excellence in most tasks that I do, I do not see myself as a perfectionist. This personality type assessment accurately describes my basic actions and attributes, but it does not consider how real life situations can affect the results of the assessment. The assessment indicates specific characteristics that I have, but even those are subject to change. The outcome of this assessment...
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...Myers-Briggs assessment critique Abstract This critique will cover personal observations and analysis of the Myers-Briggs assessment. The assessment helps describe personality types according to Carl Jung and Isabel Briggs Myers typology. After completion, there are two different descriptions along with a career identifier based on the type of personality the test described. Myers-Briggs assessment critique When I originally completed the test about 10 days ago, I was very skeptical of this assessment because I felt that my answers or my train of thought might change based on how I feel today or this week. I decided to take this test today to see if there was any difference on the personality type it would present. I want to point out that I did not remember, nor did I care to remember my previous answers when I originally took this personality assessment. I was not amazed, but definitely surprised when I saw ENTJ (Extraverted, Intuitive, Thinking and Judging) code again; although extraverted and thinking blocks were significantly higher the second time I completed the assessment. This gave me a better idea and positive perception about this typology test, as I do not remember taking this type of an assessment in the past. Reading ENTJ type description by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss made me ask more questions than understanding simply because of generalization aspects. Yes, many things in the psychological description fit my personality type, but they are describing many...
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...Career Assessment One of the most popular personality tests in the world is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a psychological-assessment system based on the work of psychologist Carl Jung. The MBTI asks a person to answer a series of ‘forced-choice’ questions, where one choice identifies you as belonging to one of four paired traits. The basic test takes twenty minutes, and at the end you are presented with a precise, multi-dimensional summary of your personality. The MBTI test classifies people into types based on four opposing dimensions, Extraversion-Introversion (E-I), Sensing-Intuition (S-N), Thinking-Feeling (T-F) and Judging-Perceiving (J-P). Based on the answers to the questions on the inventory, people are identified as having one of 16 personality types. The goal of the MBTI is to allow someone the ability to further explore and understand their own personalities including their likes, dislikes, strengths, weaknesses, possible career predilections, and compatibility with other people. Taking the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator can provide a lot of insight into your personality, which is probably why the instrument has become so enormously popular. Each opposing aspect of the MBTI test helps to explore personality a little more. The Extraversion-Introversion (E-I) helps show a preference for focusing attention on, and drawing energy from, the outside world of people and things rather than the inner world of ideas and impressions. Sensing-Intuition (S-N)...
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...mirror. Personal reflection involves looking into the depths of one and giving an honest assessment of what is seen. Understanding what one can do and knowing limitations can lead to maximization of abilities in other aspects of life. This paper will analyze and explain my personality. Topics will include a definition of personality, concepts that explain my personality and features, and personality tests. Several measurements, such as money or religion, divide humans and place them into different categories. The uniqueness of personality is that it separates people by whom they are and their actions. Personality is the ever evolving totality of characteristics, behaviors, and traits that distinctively define a particular person. Some personality traits are hereditary and others evolve as a person develops depending on their exposure to different aspects of life. The subconscious, biology, level of interaction, and environment of an individual all help shape a personality. Many of the key personality features that define me come from my biology and my interaction with my environments. Athletics are a feature that comes from my parents. My mother played basketball and my father ran track, wrestled, played basketball, and football throughout high school and college. Playing or discussing basketball is a dream job along with a general like for almost every sport. Many of my attitude traits come from service in the United States Army. After four years of service...
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...The Stress-free Pursuit of an MBA Anonymous Student MGT/521 March 27, 2011 Phoenix Instructor The Stress-free Pursuit of an MBA The decision to pursue a postgraduate degree can turn into a decade-long odyssey. In my case the competing factors of time and finances always seemed to have the upper hand. In fact, it would be significantly easier to present all of the arguments against going back to school at this time. One could argue strongly that several significant life-changing events experienced recently would be reason enough to delay the initiation of the Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) program. Issues related to family loss and job change could be used as evidence in favor of postponement. Financial strains could also be presented as yet another reason that the time, effort, and expense required for an MBA would not be a necessary use of resources. However, despite all of the very valid arguments supporting a delay or abandonment of this goal, now is the time to begin my pursuit in earnest. In presenting the rationale for my decision, particularly related to all of the major life change I am going through, I am confident that the reader will concur that I am prepared to face the challenges of a postgraduate degree. According to The American Institute of Stress (n.d.), Dr. Hans Selye defined stress in 1936 as "the non-specific response of the body to any demand for change” (para. 2). Whereas the causes of stress and the responses to it...
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