management homework

Leadership Personal Action Plan

My preference is ENFJ. I believe this is the personality type that goes with my leadership style. With this personality type, my primary focus is external. I deal with issues in accordance to how I feel about them. I also like things or people who fit within my value system at the personal level. My secondary focus is internal meaning that I use intuition when dealing with things. As a leader, I feel that my major strength is focusing on people. I always believe that people can achieve so much when they come together. My major strength is in people skills, for this reason I have a unique ability of bringing people together to accomplish a given task. With these skills, I believe I will be an excellent team leader because I will help people bring the best in them out there. This means that decision-making within the organization and team management will be easy because it will be easy for me as a leader to bring people together and brainstorm for a solution.

This personality however has its downsides because leaders with these traits are known to be manipulative of people under them. For the most part, ENFJs are pushy and relentless until they get the results they want. As a leader with these qualities it may be difficult to spend time alone because most of the time they are externally focused. For this reason, it will be easy to fill my life with activities that involve working with other people. On the downside, I might find myself putting the needs of other before my own why I still attempt to keep track of my needs to ensure that I do not forget them.

Another weakness for this type of personality is that people tend to be reserved when it comes to expressing their opinions especially when they know their thoughts especially when such thoughts may controversial to the extent of pushing people away. Because my major strength is in people skills, it will be important that I blend in with people so to be a change catalyst. In this approach, it is impossible for this type of leaders to be in a group as individuals because they are always doing their best to bring the best out if the team.

As a leader with a preference for E category of personality characteristics, I have definite opinions and values, which will only be expressed if they are not too personal. This could have a negative impact on my relationships with people because I may not be able to speak my mind in the fear that it may affect group dynamics. I will therefore, need to improve on group communication to determine how to remain vocal when important issues that are important to my leadership role.

Recognizing gifts and strengths of my personality type, which make me unique is important in ensuring that I maximize on the strengths that bring the best out of every situation. For this reason, I will capitalize on my people skills to ensure that I achieve success in people management especially in team management. Embracing the ability to inspire others and making them feel valued is an important strength that is vital for a leader. Additionally, seeing positive outcomes from human situations and finding solutions that maximize outcomes from human interactions are strengths that as leader I have to note. Being expressive when voicing my opinion will also be crucial in ensuring that people under me understand my position regarding a given issue. The gift of understanding and getting down to the level of people’s feelings and being empathetic will be important in understanding where people are coming from and helping them apply experiences effectively. The most important strength is turning ordinary situations into magical solutions. The ability to use to bring around a situation will be the main point interest for me.

There are weaknesses in this type of leadership preference. As a problem solver, I have to ensure that my weaknesses do not water down my strengths. As a result, I will keep watch of extraverted feelings, which mostly lead people with these characteristics, too much value in the world. The first step is assessing the needs of people around me to ensure that the needs of others do not mislead my needs or affect my role as a leader. I must ensure that the need to look out externally for value does not affect performance or overlook other important matters. By limiting the extraverted feeling of judging situations as well as discriminating situations I will be able to avoid being subjective or rigid in value judgement. Avoiding acquiesce will also be important in ensuring that as a leader I do not support subjective agenda of retaining control. This approach will be important in ensuring that I can find the true feelings and values of people, which supports my people skills.