Assignment 1: Finding the Leader in You

Assignment 1: Finding the Leader in You

Self-Assessment / Johari Window

Mark Farley

Dr. Nicole Ortloff

Business 520 Leadership and Organizational Behavior

11/19/2014

I will be discussing and evaluation the self assessment we took in Week One of this course. I will share my personality characteristics of my leadership style and abilities. I will summarize the results of this test and analyze the attributes of these results and opportunities for improvement I have gained from the exercise.

Personality Characteristics

This assessment described profile of my management foundations. (PMF) The first assessment centered on being a Twenty-First Century Manager. My PMF score was 8 out of 10. The characteristics reviewed were; Resistance to stress, Tolerance for uncertainty, Social objectivity, Inner work standards, Stamina, Adaptability, Self-confidence, Self-objectivity, Introspection, and Entrepreneurism. I will describe more in the summary and the analysis. This shows that I have the characteristics of a self driven, responsible leader who can adapt to most situations while keeping my focus on my team and our business goals.

The Transformational and Transactional (TT) Leadership style assessment scores were 37 for Transformational and 13 for Transactional. This shows me that I have the characteristics of a Transformational Leader in a conservative, yet forward thinking and visionary company. The Intuitive Assessment score was 8. This shows characteristics of needing to develop my abilities to allow others to be disorganized and not see it as unprofessional. My Conflict Management Strategies Assessment scores were; Yielding tendency: 10, Compromising tendency: 14, Forcing tendency: 16, Problem-solving tendency: 9, Avoiding tendency: 9 This means that I have the characteristics that struggle with give and take at times and I could use coaching to help me to see past strict steps at times to see end result. The Time Management...