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Conformed Myers-Briggs Leadership Style

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My conformed Myers-Briggs Indicator Type was ENFJ. As a leader I think I tend to be empathetic and try to the best of my ability to understand where people are coming from. This helps me understand problems from the point of view of the person because I think looking at things from different perspective is the one of the factors for understanding. This has been pretty consistent both before and after the MBTI test, so I don’t see any changes as a result of the test. However, there are some factors that are different in my leadership style after some of the units in this course. I think, as a basis, recognizing different emotions and the categories on which they can fall under has become more clear. In other words, being alert and curious can …show more content…

This also helps is addressing other people's emotions. I think the SCARF and NVC tools can help me become the leader I want to be in a couple ways. First, by understanding emotions the NVC tool can help me address issues in a non violent way. An example of this can be in the workforce. If a coworker is not performing well and showing up late, rather than being directly judgemental I can displace that judgement on myself in terms of what I am perceiving. In other words, I could say, “I’m perceiving that certain things aren’t being taking seriously. Am I correct in that perception?” A second way these tool can help is recognizing status and how emotions play into that status. In this case, I would encourage ideas and being actively involved in terms of gaining higher status rather than simply because I’m a manager my status is higher than someone else’s. One of the more surprising things for me during this course and how it’s changed my leadership style is how small of a change I have to make. This doesn’t necessarily make it easy, but nevertheless is attainable. Often times these changes are simply just a rephrasing or preface to what my original thought would be. Simply stating, “I feel…” is simple enough, but can have a big impact in communicating

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