Different Self Assessments Of Our Leadership Styles And Personality

The author’s personal strengths are compassion, fairness, kindness, integrity, gratitude and open mindedness. These personal

I have taken a number of personality tests and surveys throughout the years for one class or another. I’m usually not very impressed by the results because I rarely feel that they truly capture who I am. When I took the Strengths Finder 2.0 quiz I wasn’t expecting very much. I ended up being pleasantly surprised. I have never had a more accurate synopsis of how I operate and communicate as a person and a leader. My top five strengths according to Strengths Finder 2.0 include: Adaptability, Relator, Intellection, input, and restorative.

I’ve taken strength-based surveys before and I am always fascinated with what they allow me to learn about myself. Rarely have I’ve taken a strength-based where I didn’t learn something new about myself. There was a point in my life where I had wished I paid more attention to what the information told me; if I had paid attention my school career would’ve gone a completely different route. I eventuality got to the point where I feel like I was on the right path, there was just added bumps in the road that I learned from. This was the first time where I’ve taken a strength-based survey that listed my strengths out the way it does. It was interesting to read each character strength and see how it really relates in my life.

My three greatest strengths as indicated by the Via Character Strengths Profile are leadership, hope, and creativity, respectively. Using the Via Character definitions provided in the downloaded pdf report, the following three traits are defined as follows:

Similarly, my results from the Leadership Style Assessment survey labeled my strongest characteristics as being a people mover and truth-seeker (Your Leadership Legacy, n.d.). The VIA Classification of Character Strengths, the last personal survey I took, classified Wisdom and Knowledge, Courage, Justice, and Temperance as my universal core virtues (VIA, n.d)

After reading these results of the VIA Survey of Character Strengths I believe it reflected what I also thought of myself. It is not only important to be assessed to have these traits, it is also necessary to let them be incumbent in my personality so as to really captivate the people I have to lead to success.

Last strength, I want to mention is my desire to serve and help. This skill implies sensitivity to the needs of others, their problems, interests, joys, sufferings, hopes and illusions; I am able to accept even the deepest and painfully human problems, misfortune, and loneliness. I try to deliver to the task and above with the people whom I work. I try to provide a warm welcome to everyone, so there is no opening of misinterpretation of discrimination.

The five strengths identified by taking the Gallup Strengths Finder Survey were; Relator, Consistency, Learner, Responsibility and Individualization. Each of these strengths are different in their own right and give a solid base as to the type of leadership style and personality type I possess. It is the combination of these strengths and how they are utilized that will determine the type of nurse practitioner I will become in my practice.

For this assignment, I have decided to use the leadership trait, skills and style questionnaires. For this questionnaire, I asked 5 different people that know me in different contexts in life, such as personal, school, and work environments. For the majority, I rated myself higher on the traits than my fellow colleagues. On some of the traits however, I was rated higher than what I thought. Overall, I averaged a 4/5 which means that everyone agreed with the traits that were given. For the style questionnaire, I found out that I place more emphasis in building relationships rather than completing tasks. Finally, the skills questionnaire, my leadership skills are in the high range for technical skills, and my human and conceptual skills are in the moderate range.

There are many leadership styles and is important to know which style you are. There are many ways one can learn their leadership style, for example, through assessments. Knowing your leadership style will help you become a better leader. Although there are many leadership assessments our text discussed four assessments that can give insights into building blocks of personality most commonly identified by peers, subordinate employees, and supervisors (Ledlow, et al, 2014). These assessments include: Hemisphere Dominance assessments; Jungian assessments; Vark test; Struder Group; Price Group; and many

In the leadership style self-assessment I learned that I have a high people-oriented leadership style and a low task-orientated leadership style I don’t agree with the scores I received in this assessment because I believe that I am more task-orientated and less people-orientated. In the LCP score self- assessment I scored a 38 and learned that my leadership style is more task-orientated based off my score. Task-oriented leaders are more likely to be successful under situations of high and low control, while people-oriented leaders are more likely to be successful under situations of moderate control.

My 5 strengths are as followed: Integrity, Loving, Appreciation, Hope, Forgiveness. After completely the survey, I applied these five strengths to my daily life. I realized that being conscious of my strengths and using them for a good cause not only helped myself but I helped others as well. My integrity shined this past week when I was placed in a situation where I was placed in a position where I had to be brutally honest with a dear friend, regardless of the pain that it may have endured her. As in individual, I like to be spoken to with the truth and nothing less than that, as I will speak to someone with nothing but pure honesty. If I was in the wrong doing or if I was in the right mindset, I will be honest of my actions and sayings. I believe there is no reason to lie, a lie told is an ongoing fairytale that will never end. One lie told leads to a thousand others in order to justify one lie, when it could have all been prevented if you had just told the truth. That lesson, is what I learned recently, and I couldn’t be more grateful

In strengths quest there is about thirty four strengths.The top five I had were Consistency, Responsibility, Futuristic, Relator, and Harmony. These do describe me but, in very different ways. This gives you the revolutionary approach to achieving your goals. Some people may wonder how does taking a simple test describe my top strengths. Especially without testing them physically. I encourage many people to take the strengths quest test. This will show you your strengths and also help you with everyday struggles.

My Assessment identify my strength as being an independent person who likes to access and figure things out for myself. I am able to learn at my own pace. I am self-sufficient. I am capable of completing a research project independently. I am able to function in an environment with mild noise. I have good study habits and capable of retaining information from studying.

The VIA Survey of Character Strengths described my top signature strengths as Honesty and Fairness. I believed that I have well demonstrated these aspects of my personality immediately before the assessable