Leadership

After reading Developing a Plan For Self-Evaluation, Leadership Do's and Don'ts, and Is Your Leadership Bicycle Broken? it has helped in evaluating both my strengths and weaknesses. This also made it easy for me to pick out some personal weaknesses that I need/want to work on. When taking the two tests I was also able to get a feeling for what my strengths and weaknesses when leading people may be. The emotional intelligence test portrayed me as having a high emotional intelligence. Overall this included that I keep working and do not take time out of my day to reflect on myself because I get caught up in my work. I find this extremely accurate as I often put work ahead of anything else until it gets done. Often times I am bad at giving myself time to relax or recoup on top of the time for reflection. When tasks are not done it bothers me. There are many times when it is difficult for me to sit and relax when I know that work, even if it is not due soon, is not done. The other personality test that I took revealed that I am an ENTJ type. This means my four dimensions of personality preferences are Extroverted, iNtuitive, Thinking, and Judging. In reading the conclusion for the ENTJ personality type it revealed that these types of people have a natural tendency to direct, need little encouragement when it comes to tasks, see what needs to be done and are good about assigning people to get tasks done, and have good analytical and planning skills. This is very accurate to me as these are what I feel to be some of my strong suits. Two weaknesses that I know I have that I would like to work on are (1) not easily trusting others which sometimes makes it hard to trust that tasks get done or people do what they say they are going to do. As a result of this I often catch myself wanting to micromanage just to make sure that what needs to be done gets done. (2) It is also easy for me to get tunnel vision when working on certain tasks. In getting tunnel vision I often try to accomplish tasks by myself and do not sit at rest until they are completed. This could be bad as my situational awareness could be effected. I felt that these leadership tools made me realize a lot about my personality in general. Although they are things I could pick out they aren't typically things that I think about. In conclusion, I learned a few things about myself and enjoyed the process.