Finding the Leader in You

Finding the Leader in You: Self-Assessment / Johari Window

Le’Che Mayes

Professor: Dr. Joni Kurylo

Bus 520 – Leadership and Organizational

April 28, 2013

One of the most difficult tasks for anyone to complete is a self-assessment. Whether due to the difficulty of truly analyzing one’s own actions or just an unwillingness to acknowledge past failures, self-assessment can be a very difficult task. Even when we decide to be open and honest about who we are the Johari Window says that,” we may not be aware of everything there is to know about ourselves.”(Schermerdon, 2012, p. 310-312) Nevertheless, I found that the assessments I took in week one both affirmed some things I already knew about my personality and revealed some traits that I did not readily see when it came to how I resolve conflict.

In developing my initial profile of my characteristics and personality traits I find that I am a strong and decisive decision maker. I am not an extravert, but I am social and assertive. This may seem to be a contradiction; however I have discovered that several times I find myself between two traits. This theme continues when I compare myself to the personality dimension of agreeableness. I find that I am good-natured and cooperative, but not so trusting. I am responsible, dependable, persistent, relaxed, and secure but I do tend to worry. Within my personality is openness to experience, however I am at times cautious. (Levine, 1993)

A twenty first century manager assessment “offers a self-described profile of your management foundations PMF”. (Hirshberg, 1998) My PMF score for this assessment is an 8.5 which tells me that I need to strive continually to strengthen my managerial foundation. In this area my weakness is that I am inconsistent in my decision making. My results show that while I can be decisive, it’s not consistent and I need to make my personal presence known. As a result, others coworkers that may be trying to grasp my managerial style may...