As an assessment tool used to discover people's personality styles, skills, and preferences, the Keirsey Temperament Sorter helps students to improve their team-working skills, and other working skills in professional ways. Based on the Keirsey Assessment, I knew my temperament was guardian, and my type was supervisor. According to the Keirsey Assessment, I am comfortable working towards goals set by other people, which means that I am dependable, helpful, and hard working. I am also responsible for my job, because I want things to be reasonable and logical.…
Hilary Clinton throughout America has caught many people’s attention. She has been the senator, secretary of state for the United States, first lady in 1993-2001, under the Clinton administration, and the current democratic nominee for the presidency for the United States. Hilary Clinton in many instances attracts millions of viewers and supporters throughout her campaign. If you’re wondering right about now about the simple question of “how”? The answer is very simple and easy, Hillary Clinton attracts our attention by her ability to stay relaxed, quit, calm, and truthful in front of her viewers after being mistaken and insulted by trump.…
Project 2 contains information developed from the Pearson Higher Education Self-Assessment Library. A series of assessments were completed. The most significant information I learned is contained in step 1. Part I gave insights into my personality, that I am an agreeable person with a Type A Personality, and that my job satisfaction is overall low, even though I have high emotional intelligence and considered a leader overall. Part II shows that I need improvement in listening, faith in others, and disciplining skills.…
After taking the Keirsey Temperament test my results was Guardian. I believe that this is very true for all guardian. When I first started working I was in high school and entering into my senior year and my first job was customer service. I say that to say this the report lat sentence on the page was guardian genuinely care about the people you work with, your colleagues and your customers appreciate your unassuming kindness. This is perfect for customer service jobs.…
When I first took Keirsey Temperament Sorter II test I was not expecting the results to sound so much like me. The test result said I have a guardian temperament. One of the qualities are guardians are serious about duties and responsibilities. I am dependable because when I give someone my word that I will do something I do it. I do not like waiting till the last minute to finish a task or project.…
This paper explores the four personality preferences and the interrelation of those preferences to my job function. It will also explore the benefits and possible detriments to each preference. It will also explore the combined personality type and the interrelation of the personality preferences. Meyers-Briggs Personality Type I took the Jung Typology Test in an attempt to ascertain my personality type.…
Are you good or a bad student? do you have an active social life? are you type one or type two? it has been a long time that we have classified our students in types ; as an example, the nerd,the bully, the popular ones, etc… but is it the right thing to do with our students?. In the article “Fear of Heights: Teachers,Parents and Students are wary of Achievement” the author Bob Chase clearly classifies students into two main groups, the first group with straight A students with no social life and the second one containing students with a highly developed social life but unspectacular grades;in addition, he also discuss that the majority of the population seem to be concerned about the first type of student; in his opinion something erroneous.…
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a great tool used to discover your personality and to help you discover what will help you do your job better. However, according to Pittenger, David J from the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, TN, US the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is not flawless in detecting your personality it will often get it wrong. However, the way Pittenger tries to back up his flawed opinion by using confusing hypothesis, vocabulary, ideas and lacks longer counter sentences from others to argue against his opinion and uses longer sentences to back up his own opinion. This stops him from showing his opinion about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator being flawed. Pittengers opinion on The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator being flawed suffers from his confusing hypotheses used to try to back up his opinion being correct.…
Everyone Needs Fulfillment and Joy (ENFJ) If asked what the letters “ENFJ” stood for, many a passerby on the street could answer correctly, “Extroverted, intuitive, feeling, and judging,” a personality type based on the popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator questionnaire. Some disregard the growing interest in personality tests as a fad, but that does not dismiss the fact that America has become increasingly concerned with personality, specifically with that of the extroverted student. In the article “Bring On the Elites!”, Joel Stein argues that education should better prepare students for the future, and many teachers use this reasoning to justify a focus on nurturing communicative abilities key to extroverted personalities. However, despite…
The Keirsey Temperament Sorter is the most commonly used personality instrument in the world, and it is a tool that helps people better understand their personality. After taking the test, it was revealed that I belong to Guardian temperament. We are circumspection and cooperation. Seeking safety and a sense of belonging, we are concerned about the responsibility and obligation. There are four types of guardian: Supervisor, Inspector, provider and Protector.…
I have learned many things from the McGraw-Hill Connect Self-Assessment that will help me be a better employee, coworker, and or manager. I have to understand that there are people within the office that potentially may or will have differing personality characteristics than mine. By understanding and recognizing these differences I will be better suited to work with anyone in my organization. I tend to work well with anyone regardless, however I will be able to see what motivates my coworkers. If I am in a management role or the person in charge of a project I will be able to use personality differences to my advantage to where I can place employees where they are the strongest in order to help with team dynamics when we are forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning.…
Individuals and their personalities play a very key role in organizational behavior. In order for an organization to function at the highest level of productivity, managers must focus on empowering individuals in order to strengthen the group rather than enforcing autocratic leadership to force the individuals to serve the needs of the group. Managers themselves also need to know their own strengths and weaknesses based on their personality types as well as common strengths and weakness for personality types present in their employees. For instance, a people with an Introversion-iNuition-Feeling-Perception (INFP) personality type might be best motivated for the purpose of serving the well-being of others; however, these same INFP personality…
Career development is the most essential aspect of human development. According to Donald Super, career development is a life-long process that consist of multiple roles and transitions of career behaviors from birth to death. Moreover, career behaviors occur in different stages. For instance, Super identified factors regarding to career behaviors in adolescents and young adults. These factors include planfulness, exploration, information, decision- making, and reality orientation (Herr, 1997).…
During a journal article review, it is mentioned that the personality of a project manager can have a huge impact on the success or failure of a planned projects. The journal article study highlights many of the personality traits that would make for a better project manager, many of the traits, ironically are not related to those I strongly possess. This is why I consider growth through training and personally study to be paramount. Bevilacqua, et al (2014) research findings mentions “A person may simply need some training to become proficient at using a less preferred dimension of their personality. This training would allow them to better use another facet of their personality and thus to manage projects more accurately.”…
Objective: The main objective of the project is to analyse the big five personality traits of Great Lakes institute of management’s student community. And then to apply the results to predict the student behaviour and their competency levels associated with the student community. Introduction to big five theory: Big five personality theory is a commonly used personality model in psychology.…