Examples Of Leadership Self Assessment

Leadership Self-Assessment

Danika Patel

8/8/2017

According to the book, understanding personality is essential for effective leadership. Without an understanding of self, there cannot be a clear understanding of how others perceive you as a leader. (Ledlow & Coppola, 2014) In order to figure out your leadership style you have to have an understanding of who you are. This can be done by taking a series of personality assessments to see what you best fit into. Emotional intelligence is the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions. (Ledlow & Coppola,

(Batool, 2013) Emotional intelligence has two distinct types of leaders: transformational and transactional. Transformational leaders have some sort of interest for their colleagues. They also have a different outlook on the work they do and have a better work ethic than most. Transformational leaders also focus on the awareness of the goals of the organization, by doing so they develop others to higher level of ability and motivate them to consider the interests of the group over their own interests. (Batool, 2013) The transactional leader is one whom rewards staff on the basis of their performance. These leaders are the ones that emphasize doing the work or finishing a task knowing that someone is watching and in the end will influence their own employee performance with the outcome of some sort of reward. (Batool, 2013) Emotional intelligence is important, but the unbridled enthusiasm has obscured a dark side. New evidence shows that when people keep their emotional skills to themselves, they become better at manipulating others. (Grant, 2014) This is basically saying that when someone is so good at controlling their emotions, they can disguise their own true feelings. It’s kind of like having an amazing poker face. No one really knows what they

This was because I figured that everything I said would’ve fell into the Type B category, but after that assessment I am more understanding of why I am Type A. According to Psychology Today, even though my interactions with others may be warm and tolerated most of the time, I may occasionally show some impatience and hostility. When I am stressed or frustrated, I lash out at others or end up keeping the anger or frustration to myself. One thing about being Type A is that I can open up emotionally and I value relationships for the sake of the people involved, and I always focus on what I can do for them. I read an article on Huffington Post called 16 Signs You’re A Little (Or A Lot) Type A. As I was reading through them, I did notice that 50% of them fit me. I had those “yeah that’s definitely me,” moments. I realized though that, you never really think about what kind of personality you have until something like this comes up and you take an assessment and it tells you right then and there. I’ve always known myself to be a stressed out person with horrible anxiety and when I was younger I had complete control of it, but as I got older, I lost all that control. Perhaps it was because I became an adult. Between work and school and everyday adult things, it isn’t easy to not get stressed out and think about the bazillion things you have to do. And with