Introduction
Until recently, I have been surrounded by ineffective leaders for my entire professional career. Prior to June 2016, I was employed by The Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) for eight years. During that time, a common problem for the leadership there was that they severely struggled with motivating subordinates. Turnover was also extremely high, and this was largely due to the ways that the leaders communicated with their followers. After witnessing such extreme levels of mismanagement, I made a personal vow to never be like that as a leader, but instead strive to learn how I can be an effective leader. Gauging leadership effectiveness can be accomplished by examining how a leader’s traits affect how he or she …show more content…
The dimensions of extraversion, agreeableness, and openness to experience (OCEAN), empathy, social skill, and Extraversion (MBTI) can explain how well a leader can manage social relations. I scored average on empathy, and above average on social skill, Extraversion (MBTI), agreeableness, and openness to experience. These results, together, suggest that I might be effective at managing social relations. My extraversion (OCEAN) score was, once again, anomalous. Individuals who manage social relations well generally score high on this dimension, but I scored below average. Overall, I enjoy meeting new people, am extremely self-confident, and love being around and interacting with others. For these reasons, I believe that my extraversion score is invalid. My other scores on each of the other dimensions provide strong support that I manage social relations very well. Finally, I love meeting new people and learning about other cultures. I am always quick to meet new people in my MBA courses, for instance, and genuinely enjoy learning about others. These behaviors also support that I manage social relations very …show more content…
My scores of the dimensions of Intuition and Perceiving (MBTI), as well as conscientiousness, could support this statement. I scored above average on conscientiousness, below average on Intuition, and average on Perceiving (yet “low” compared to the dimension of Judging). Individuals who are creative, instead, would score low in conscientiousness, high in Intuition, and high in Perceiving. In addition, openness to experience is related to creativity. I scored very high on this dimension, which is how a creative person should score. None of these results surprise me, though. The only creative thing that I know how to do is play the guitar. I have never really been good at coming up with novel ideas or approaching problems from an abstract standpoint. Also, I believe that my openness to experience score does a better job in explaining how well I interact with others instead of how creative I am. While I really enjoy going new places, meeting new people, and trying new things (like new foods), I do not enjoy approaching problems in new ways when I have already solved the problem successfully in the past. I prefer to stick to the “tried and true” method in those
Until recently, I have been surrounded by ineffective leaders for my entire professional career. Prior to June 2016, I was employed by The Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) for eight years. During that time, a common problem for the leadership there was that they severely struggled with motivating subordinates. Turnover was also extremely high, and this was largely due to the ways that the leaders communicated with their followers. After witnessing such extreme levels of mismanagement, I made a personal vow to never be like that as a leader, but instead strive to learn how I can be an effective leader. Gauging leadership effectiveness can be accomplished by examining how a leader’s traits affect how he or she …show more content…
The dimensions of extraversion, agreeableness, and openness to experience (OCEAN), empathy, social skill, and Extraversion (MBTI) can explain how well a leader can manage social relations. I scored average on empathy, and above average on social skill, Extraversion (MBTI), agreeableness, and openness to experience. These results, together, suggest that I might be effective at managing social relations. My extraversion (OCEAN) score was, once again, anomalous. Individuals who manage social relations well generally score high on this dimension, but I scored below average. Overall, I enjoy meeting new people, am extremely self-confident, and love being around and interacting with others. For these reasons, I believe that my extraversion score is invalid. My other scores on each of the other dimensions provide strong support that I manage social relations very well. Finally, I love meeting new people and learning about other cultures. I am always quick to meet new people in my MBA courses, for instance, and genuinely enjoy learning about others. These behaviors also support that I manage social relations very …show more content…
My scores of the dimensions of Intuition and Perceiving (MBTI), as well as conscientiousness, could support this statement. I scored above average on conscientiousness, below average on Intuition, and average on Perceiving (yet “low” compared to the dimension of Judging). Individuals who are creative, instead, would score low in conscientiousness, high in Intuition, and high in Perceiving. In addition, openness to experience is related to creativity. I scored very high on this dimension, which is how a creative person should score. None of these results surprise me, though. The only creative thing that I know how to do is play the guitar. I have never really been good at coming up with novel ideas or approaching problems from an abstract standpoint. Also, I believe that my openness to experience score does a better job in explaining how well I interact with others instead of how creative I am. While I really enjoy going new places, meeting new people, and trying new things (like new foods), I do not enjoy approaching problems in new ways when I have already solved the problem successfully in the past. I prefer to stick to the “tried and true” method in those