Personal Reflection Paper

Lecture 1: Self Awareness

Lecture 2: Personality and Type

Lecture 3: Perception

Module 4: Leader as an Individual

• Define “Personality”

• Explain the “Big 5 Personality Dimensions”

• Discuss your assessment of your personality

• Explain your assessment of your MBTI type

Lecture 2 Objectives

“Know Thyself”

Who are You?

Self ‐ Awareness

Being conscious of the internal aspects of one’s nature

Personality traits Emotions  Values Attitudes and perceptions

Personality

Set of unseen characteristics and  processes that underlie a relatively 

stable pattern of behavior in response  to ideas, objects, and people in the 

environment

Personality

Set of unseen characteristics and  processes that underlie a relatively 

stable pattern of behavior in response  to ideas, objects, and people in the 

environment

Big Five Personality Dimensions

Extroversion Agreeableness Conscientiousness Emotional Stability Openness to Experience

Big Five Personality Dimensions

Extroversion: Degree to which a person is outgoing,  sociable, talkative, and comfortable meeting and talking to  new people

‐ Characteristic of dominance: High degree of dominance could even be detrimental to effective leadership

Agreeableness: Degree to which a person is able to get  along with others

‐ Being good‐natured, cooperative, forgiving, compassionate,  understanding, and trusting

Big Five Personality Dimensions

Conscientiousness: Degree to which a person is responsible,  dependable, persistent, and achievement‐oriented

‐ Focus on a few goals 

Emotional stability: Degree to which a person is well‐ adjusted, calm, and secure

‐ Emotionally stable leader can:  Handle stress and criticism well, and does not take mistakes or failures  personally Develop positive relationships Improve relationships

‐ Leaders with a low degree of emotional stability can become tense,  anxious, or depressed

Big Five Personality Dimensions

Openness to experience: Degree to which a person  has a broad range of interests and is imaginative,  creative, and willing to consider new ideas

‐ Important as leadership is about change

Self‐Assessment “The Big Five Personality Dimensions”

Complete:

Leader’s Self‐Insight 4.1

MMPI 16PF DiSC CPI260 TKI Hogan Assessments Bar‐On EQi MBTI

Assessments

MMPI 16PF DiSC CPI260 TKI Hogan Assessments Bar‐On EQi MBTI

Assessments

• Based on Swiss psychologist Carl Jung’s “Type” Theory (1920s)

• Behavior is individual and predictable

• Developed by Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers (1940s)

• 60+ years of research

• Most widely used personality indicator in the world

• Between 1 to 3 million people are administered the MBTI annually

MBTI..

Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)™

Measures how individuals differ in gathering and evaluating  information for solving problems and making decisions Uses different pairs of attributes to classify people in 1 of 16  different personality types

 Introversion versus extroversion

 Sensing versus intuition

 Thinking versus feeling

 Judging versus perceiving

• Preferences are inborn

• We use both poles at different times, but  not with equal confidence

• All of the types are equally valuable

Assumptions of Type Theory

ISTJ

INTP

ESFP

ENFP

Four Scales Measured

Scale Refers To

Extraversion‐Introversion How a person is energized. Preference for  relating to the outer or inner world.

Sensing‐Intuition How a person prefers to take in  information. Preference for concrete facts  or potentials.

Thinking‐Feeling How a person decides. Preference for  objective analysis or values and people.

Judging‐Perceiving How a person organizes their life. Preference for order and closure or flexibility and spontaneity.

Four Scales Measured

Scale Refers To

Extraversion‐Introversion How a person is energized. Preference for  relating to the outer or inner world.

Sensing‐Intuition How a person prefers to take in  information. Preference for concrete facts  or potentials.

Thinking‐Feeling How a person decides. Preference for  objective analysis or values and people.

Judging‐Perceiving How a person organizes their life. Preference for order and closure or flexibility and spontaneity.

Leaders can work effectively by: • Understanding one’s own personality and 

how they react to others • Treating everyone with respect • Acknowledging each person’s strengths • Striving for understanding • Remembering that everyone wants to fit in

Working with Different Personality Types

Self‐Assessment “Personality Assessment: Jung’s Typology”

Complete:

Leader’s Self‐Insight 4.5

Video

“Myers‐Briggs and Productivity”

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