Personal Profile Worksheet Pros And Conscientiousness

PPS: The two traits of the personal profile worksheet where my scores were significantly lower were steadiness and conscientiousness. Demonstrating patience is one of the most challenging aspects of the steadiness category that I must improve upon to broaden my adaptability. With such a high dominance trait, my desire for immediate results often supersedes any patience needed in a given situation. Since opposites attract, my wife’s personality is much different than mine and many of my memories about disagreements we’ve had include the pressure I put on her to hurry up and get something done. If I can improve this area, perhaps some of those disagreements wouldn’t occur. With conscientiousness, adhering to key directives and standards …show more content…
As stated above this was a surprise since advancers also look to achieve directions by the most direct and efficient means. Alternatively, advancers are people-focused where my personality traits are more mission focused and that is where the differences lay. As an aircraft maintainer it’s often easy to get wrapped up in the focus of the mission and personal neglect is usually a high point of interest on unit assessment surveys. To improve this aspect I must forge a balance between the health of the fleet and the health of the unit, not allowing either to become singularly focused. I shared some executor traits, like pride in mission accomplishment and performing extensive follow through to ensure things are done correctly. Follow-up is a key maintainer trait. But I must maintain focus on the small details. Too often I find myself saying the following phrase to subordinates, “Just give me the bottom line.” This is a big picture focus and allows critical details to sometimes be overlooked. If I strive to become a more balanced leader, I must pay attention to all the details, not simply what I deem …show more content…
I also become annoyed with details, something that the team dynamics profile pointed out I must work on to improve as a leader. I was once in charge of the Thanksgiving Day feast hosted by our squadron, and while working out the initial ideas I found my strong personality and creative tendencies well suited for getting things going, but we had so many ideas we couldn’t nail any of them down to pinpoint our focus on the task. It wasn’t until my supervisor came into the room to evaluate our progress that it became clear how much we needed an adaptive personality to move our team toward success. The group consisted mostly of innovators and my supervisor quickly stopped the team and said he needed more structure with the plans. He made us right out each idea in order, evaluate the viability of each one, and then we began advancing each idea with more refined details. Without the structure and cognitive diversity he brought to our group, it’s unclear if we would have been successful. That was a strong learning lesson for me, knowing that a group must have both innovators and adapters to truly be