Personal Reflection

After completing the LSI assessment, my results in the highest percentile were: achievement, self-actualizing, humanistic, affiliative, conventional, oppositional, and a perfectionist. My second highest results were: approval, power, competitiveness, and avoidance. In this passage I will discuss how my high profile results and second highest profile results tie into my life/ work and expound if the traits describe who I actually am.

On 08/20/2017 at 1002 hours FTO Wheeler #4361 and I responded to St. Luke’s Hospital emergency room entrance, on 3555 Cesar Chavez St., regarding a women in a hospital gown trying to break the caller’s vehicle window with a brick. Officer Wheeler and I were in full police uniform driving a marked patrol unit when we responded.

My Achiever strength helps me build trust with others. This is helpful with managing because they see my hard work ethic and dedication to get the job done. I have been told that I am the “rock” of my department. The dedication I possess to consistently improve our cancer center by setting goals to increase our patients’ care is respected and relied on to keep our standards high. I am enthusiastic and my energy is contagious to motivate others to get on board.

Category 8 is very similar to Category 7, and further reveals my strength in working with others and considering the input of others. I always value and seek out the insights of others, and encourage others to express their opinions. The area of Category 8 where my score is weak is “I am creative in searching for new and better ideas and solutions.” I do have difficulty thinking outside the box for alternative solutions to problems, which makes my openness to the input of others especially important. I often benefit from seeking the advice of others and listening to others, as ideas that I have not previously considered are presented to me.

Immediately, I continued to the next part of the Self-assessment section, values. The three options I most valued were altruism/helping society, creativity, and helping others. These values emphasize results I have found in previous sections. I truly value being someone who helps others and

In this category I scored a 16 out of 18 points. The first statement is I show kindness and consideration towards others. I demonstrate this statement by taking into consideration each persons needs and concerns. My coworkers believe that I am an extremely helpful person and do the most to assist with helping them find solutions to the consumers issues that they are facing. The second statement is I keep promises and honor commitments. I demonstrate this statement at work by always keeping my word when I get assigned a task or volunteer for special project within my unit. I abide in all my duties that I am assigned too. I have created instructions to be able to process certain types of cases, also have created special task guides by the assigned due dates. I give my all to make sure I honor all commitments I have been assigned as a worker. The third statement is I do not speak negatively of others when they are not present. I demonstrate this statement at work by always keeping a positive outlook on each day and difficult situation that arises with my job. Working for a large agency that services the public is challenging. It has its ups and downs and can take a toll on a worker. It is important to always stay positive and not think negative because the attitude can reflect on the work that is assigned and customers will react negatively back. It is important to keep everyone that you make contact with in a positive space to be able to do a successful

This reflection will discuss personal diffidence and how it has influenced my academic studies, including my practice within placement settings. Gibbs reflective cycle (Gibbs, 1998) has been utilised as it illustrates a clear structure for the process of reflection. To conclude this reflection will draw together the themes which have emerged and highlight a clear action for future learning that will be used in order to enhance my future practice.

The process of working with a team has helped to shape my character and has influenced the way I approach social situations. Through experiencing groups that have worked together with varying levels of success I have acquired numerous positive attributes. The first being patience. Patience with the other people in the group, patience with oneself, and patience for the group to begin to work functionally. Most things are not discovered, created, or perfected at first glance or attempt so one must learn to be capable of waiting. Furthermore, I enhanced my communication skills. I was a reserved child, but through being placed in situations where teamwork was present I was provided with the tools necessary to fluently and efficiently communicate. Finally, I learned to have confidence in myself. Teamwork revealed to me the power all individuals hold within them and that other people are understanding. I will forever be grateful to the marvelous individuals that composed the teams and groups that exposed me to teamwork because they taught me valuable life

On the My Personal Vision Self-Assessment, I answered eight of the ten questions as “mostly true,” which was above the cutoff score of more than seven “mostly true” answers that indicate that I am currently in “great shape” when it comes to the development of my personal vision. As the textbook mentions, coming up with an individual vision or mission is often a difficult challenge, although the work that goes into the actual achievement of one’s vision may be even harder. However, I’m already ahead of most people on this assignment since I have been continually working on my personal vision statement since I first started getting into patient advocacy and blogging. Below is an updated version of the vision that I have for both myself and for

My next highest score was in category one, which once again ties back into respect for others. I always try to listen to what people have to say without judgment. I also feel it’s very important to keep promises

B. Do you agree with assessment? Why or why not? I like my number one value, however I do not agree with it being number one. I would say that mental challenge would be my number one. Due to I need to keep telling myself that I can do anything I put my mind to. Staying positive is what gets me through. Because a positive mind brings

Growing up I was always encouraged to push myself towards my goals and aspirations in life, not only does that motivates me but it also shapes the person I have grown to be. I am an enthusiastic learner that always want to broaden my learning, while becoming wise and overcome different obstacles that will arrive in my future. These great factors are why team collaboration is important to me, I believe that when everyone progresses and collaborate with one another great things will happen.

Category 2: Life Balance is how I manage work, school, and relationships. I am actually surprised that I got a twelve on this section. I feel that my life balance could be much better. I have always been careful with burnout. As a dance teacher prior to medical school, I would make my summer’s sacred. This means that I would do non-dance related activities so that there would be balance and rejuvenation. If my life had been all about dance all the time, I would have become stagnant as a teacher and been ineffective in teaching my students. I struggle currently with making time for friends outside of work. In elementary school, we had a lesson on this. The teacher had a glass jar, walnuts, and sand. The walnuts represented major tasks that had to be accomplished, the sand were little tasks that could wait, and the jar was time. If you fill your time with the

What strengths do you bring to a team? According to the Team Interpersonal Style Evaluation survey, I fall into the “M” quadrant. The characteristics that apply to me are; I like planning and task focus, I tend to analyze problems, and I focus on team analysis, facts, and detail. I never start a project or an assignment without planning it out and focusing on the task right in front of me, first. For example, when I was in 9th grade, world studies I had to portray the company, Lowes to my class. I had to look like I was a professional worker of the Lowe's team and discuss what Lowes sells to its customers. Before I even started the project I focused on the materials I needed to buy, what needed to be on the tri board, and thoroughly reading

Career =2, Family = 5, Leisure = 5, Community = 4, Religion = 5, Self-development = 5,