Assignment 1: Finding the Leader in You: Self-Assessment / Johari Window

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Self-Assessment Score Sheet

Directions: Complete the following self-assessments: A Twenty-First-Century Manager, “TT” Leadership Style, Intuitive Ability, Conflict Management Strategies, Time Management Profile, Organizational Design Preference, and Which Culture Fits You?” These self-assessments are located in Week 1 of your course shell. Read the scoring narrative provided at the end each self-assessment and record your score in the appropriate area below. Then, read the interpretation narrative and write a brief interpretation of what your score means.

Assessment: A Twenty-First-Century Manager

PMF Score: ___8__

Interpretation: A score of less than 10 infers that there is room for improvement. Most people will not be a 10 in their assessment of themselves. However, assessments completed by others will be helpful and may be surprising.

Assessment: “TT” Leadership Style Assessment
“Transformational” Leader Score: ___26__	“Transactional” Leader Score: __24___
Interpretation: Transactional and transformational leadership are two distinct managerial styles that either seek to maintain or change the organization. Transactional leadership is largely characterized by a desire to maintain the company's existing culture, policies, and procedures. It uses a reward-and-punishment based system to compel employees to perform certain behaviors. In contrast, the transformational leadership style seeks to provoke change in the way the company operates. Leaders who exhibit transformational leadership are often characterized as charismatic, inspiring, and motivating.

Assessment: Intuitive Ability

Intuitive Score: __5___

Interpretation: Initially I thought I was very intuitive. I found that I am not. The intuition of a leader comes into play when there is insufficient data and time, conflicting information, or a multitude of viable options when a big decision must be made. For an organization to be successful, not only must you have some sense of intuition, but you need it in those who surround you as well.

Assessment: Conflict Management Strategies
Yielding tendency: __9___	Compromising tendency: __12___
Forcing tendency: __8___	Problem-solving tendency: __14___
Avoiding tendency: _15____
Interpretation: Conflict is a natural part of working in groups, because different people have different ideas and viewpoints. Sooner or later, every leader will have to deal with a conflict between two or more people. What matters is how the leader and group members address the conflict. Dynamic leaders know that conflict usually doesn't go away by itself. It may seem to disappear, but then it pops up again in an unexpected place or time. Dynamic leader’s help members learn to: • Practice "cooling off" before speaking • Reverse roles to see the other person's point of view • Realize it's only fair for both parties to tell their side of the story • Look at conflicts as problems, then solve them together • Ask for help if they cannot resolve the conflict.

Assessment: Time Management Profile

Score: __5___

Interpretation: Effective time management is crucial to accomplishing organization tasks as well as to avoiding wasting valuable organizational assets. - See more at: http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadtime.html#sthash.B2x3x6xP.dpuf

Assessment: Organizational Design Preference

Score: ___67__

Interpretation: Organizational design as a systematic approach to configuring and aligning structures, processes, culture, leadership, people practices and metrics in organizations. This approach is used to make decisions about grouping people and resources together to create the best environment. I scored 67 which shows I am comfortable with mechanistic design. The functional organizational structure of a mechanistic design starts with its tall, triangular shape. Many workers form the structure’s foundation, grouped into departments by similar activities such as production. Above them sits their managers. When each employee narrowly specializes in some limited part of a larger whole, one manager can easily supervise many employees and has a wide “span of control.” The span of control gets smaller moving up the organization, where managers manage other managers. The central power of the company crowns it all.

Assessment: Which Culture Fits You?

Score: __1___

Interpretation: I sit into the baseball team, which is said to value talent, entrepreneurial activity, and performance over commitment; one that offers large financial rewards and individual recognition. I would agree with this assessment of myself.