The challenge to define myself is imperative to a successful life and career. If I do not understand my natural personality traits, my ability to adapt, lead, and love others will always be lacking. The leveraging of personality analysis tools and real life examples are critical to the process. The process requires that I be self-critical to identify shortcomings and failures in life. The overall goal being to determine how each of my personality types interact with one another and how to integrate these with people of different personality types. In addition to civilian workplace demands, as a Christian, I represent God in all that I do. There is no room for excuses for why I fail, only opportunity to embrace the differences of others in order
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The use of intuition over sensing has allowed me to be a very adaptive, change oriented military leader. Sensing relies more on facts while intuition is oriented towards the abstract realm (www.personalitypage.com). In my life, the value here has been the balance of the two. For example, in personal and professional relationships, I rely on a Christian foundation in decision making (Fischer, 2012, Slide 6). Aside from the foundation, the abstract is possible in determining any number of solutions to life’s problems. Unfortunately, thinking outside of the box has put me at odds with Church leaders and entrenched business professionals with the attitude of that is how we have always done business. Additionally, the military and older firms I have worked with were committed to a negative reinforcement methodology to shape behavior (Judge & Robbins, 2009, p. 58). I attempted to create a positive reinforcement atmosphere, which put me at odds with management in both cases. I typically dismiss these individuals as inferior and narrow …show more content…
56). This is significant to remember in order to understand that my personality is most likely different than those I work with. Additionally, the personal habit I have developed of seeking or judging the competence of others is a part of my personality but should be managed to prevent the dismissal of others that are merely different (Kroeger et al., 2002, p. 57). Fundamentally, I must as a military and civilian leader leverage the differences of my team to accomplish the mission, remembering that our differences bring value to the organization (Kroeger et al., 2002, p.
The use of intuition over sensing has allowed me to be a very adaptive, change oriented military leader. Sensing relies more on facts while intuition is oriented towards the abstract realm (www.personalitypage.com). In my life, the value here has been the balance of the two. For example, in personal and professional relationships, I rely on a Christian foundation in decision making (Fischer, 2012, Slide 6). Aside from the foundation, the abstract is possible in determining any number of solutions to life’s problems. Unfortunately, thinking outside of the box has put me at odds with Church leaders and entrenched business professionals with the attitude of that is how we have always done business. Additionally, the military and older firms I have worked with were committed to a negative reinforcement methodology to shape behavior (Judge & Robbins, 2009, p. 58). I attempted to create a positive reinforcement atmosphere, which put me at odds with management in both cases. I typically dismiss these individuals as inferior and narrow …show more content…
56). This is significant to remember in order to understand that my personality is most likely different than those I work with. Additionally, the personal habit I have developed of seeking or judging the competence of others is a part of my personality but should be managed to prevent the dismissal of others that are merely different (Kroeger et al., 2002, p. 57). Fundamentally, I must as a military and civilian leader leverage the differences of my team to accomplish the mission, remembering that our differences bring value to the organization (Kroeger et al., 2002, p.