SELF-ASSESSMENT REFLECTION REPORT
CMHR405 - Winter, 2014
Harieshan Kandiah
April 6, 2014
Self assessments have been used widely in recent decades. The usefulness and truthfulness of these assessments depend entirely upon the user. Utilizing a self assessment tool for the betterment of self is the goal of this report. In this report, I have completed 3 different self assessments to analyze myself. The first assessment that will be discussed is the Jung Personality Test. The next one will be the Team Role Preference Survey followed by the Work Locus of Control Survey. Each of these surveys focuses on various behavioural and personality traits. The Jung Personality Test focuses on four principal physiological
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The 10 I got in this category accurately describes me, because I tend to be actively involved in discussions and trying to get everyone's ideas heard. As a gatekeeper, I encourage and facilitate participation within the group to ensure all team members contribute to the project. I feel the 12 that I got in this category accurately represents me because I am always trying to get everyone involved. As a harmonizer, I manage the group discussions and mediate conflicts while reducing tension. The 12 I got in this category is accurate of me because I manage the group discussion while ensuring conflicts do not erupt. As an initiator, I am efficient in setting group goals and looking for ways to work on these goals. This leadership role describes me somewhat because I do like to take charge when possible. As a summarizer with a 12, I feel that taking notes and summarizing meetings fits me well. I found this to be a surprise because summarizers usually tend to be non-leaders. I generally opt for a more leadership oriented position. The theory behind this test has helped me understand more about myself in terms of fitting in within a group environment. I found that I would fit best within the roles of gatekeeper and harmonizer, which aren't surprising. "According to self-assessment feedback on personality, the key motivation that drives my behavior is to be respected, to be academically qualified, and to
Something interesting about me is that for 4 years in the marching band I played the saxophone. It is during those years I learned how to properly communicate with other students working in a large group to accomplish our shared musical goals. Eventually I would end up in a leadership role during my senior year of high school it’s during this time I learned the importance of dividing personal relationships and from leadership role. Often during my leadership role, I found myself at conflict due my personal friendships with other band students in the organization. Additionally, I listen to classical music, using photo editing software, and using different programming languages. The results from my TypeFocus were the following: ‘I’ introversion, ‘S’ sensing, ‘T’ thinking, and ‘J’ judgement. I will honestly say I did not learn not anything new from the taking the assessment about myself and the careers I will likely enter. Even more the assessment just confirmed everything that I’ve known about myself like how tend to be more introvert often takes me a while to open up personally to most individuals.
I agree with this, I confront my issues at hand. Organization is common in this paper, with it being in my personality assessment as well. I follow the rules, and attempt to reach my aspirations in a timely manner of doing so in a precise way. I am quite sociable, I have found this to be an excellent personality trait to have. By getting along with everyone in my surroundings, and being able to create conversations, this has positively impacted the choices I have made by others influences and opinions.
In order to better understand myself and others, I turned to the reliable, comprehensive Jung typology test developed by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers. This test is based on the work of famous early twentieth century psychologist Carl Jung. The test determines one 's personality type based on four parameters – an introverted/extraverted scale, an intuition/sensing scale, a feeling/thinking scale, and a judging/perceiving scale. By answering a series of questions aimed at determining specific behavioral functions and dispositions, the applicant is given four letters corresponding with the four parameters to represent his or her personality. Sixteen letter combinations representing sixteen different personalities are possible.
Personality is defined as the unique way in which each individual thinks, acts, and feels throughout life (Ciccarelli, 2014). Numerous individuals are curious in regards to their actions and how their mind works, thus leading companies to create personality tests, in order to provide individuals with some perspective on their personality. While individuals can take personality tests for leisure, personality tests are often utilized in situations such as job interviews, diagnosing mental disorders, and educational purposes. Two popular personality tests are the Keirsey Temperament Sorter and the Big Five Personality test. After taking both tests, I analyzed them using my knowledge of general psychology and of my own actions. I found the
The test was telling very different side of me. I never viewed myself as introverted, enjoys time being alone, being artsy. But also I agreed with myself being sensitive to what I say to others, tend to avoid hurting other’s emotions. I tend to be empathic and tries to approach a problem from other’s perspective view point. I tend to watch what others do, want and uncomfortable with before I take my action toward to it. From that I noticed that I tend to get stressed out from being with big group of people where I feel I can handle all of their differences and tend to keep the group small then I feel more comfortable being with
Throughout the semester and the various self-assessments that I have completed, I managed to learn a few things about myself that I never really put much thought into. By looking at the various models and scales, such as the five-factor model for better understanding and essentially breaking down key parts of someone’s personality, the MBTI personality test, the locus of control assessment, and the various learning and career-based assessments, I am better able to understand myself and how I need to move forward in pursuing the smart goals I make.
This personality assessment project will be able to reveal and summarize the person I am by reviewing my psychological life history and by taking different perspectives from theorists. I am going to discuss the similarities and differences of my scores throughout the semester.
Myers Briggs Type indicator is usually the standard for managers and human resource departments to categorize employees to help determine the best method of coaching for optimal performance. Employees were given a test and evaluated on categories that included extraversion-introversion, sensing-intuitive, thinking-feeling, and judging-perceiving. A personality profile was based on evaluating these categories. A new method of creating personality profiles has been introduced in the workplace that expands upon the categories of the Myer Briggs Type indicator. This is called the Big 5 Factor Personality Type. This method evaluates emotional reactions, interpersonal patterns, and openness to experience, agreeableness, and work ethic (Briggs, 1998). By evaluating these categories, immediate supervisors can predict job performance across many industries. For example, low scores on emotional reactions, high extraversion, and high conscientiousness or work ethic is an indicator of high job performance. Job burnout can be predicted by
Throughout history there have been many dominant figures like Max Planck and Auguste Kerckhoff. These men were pioneers in their field. According to the DiSC survey, my behavior style falls in the dominance range where I have discovered many of my strengths and weaknesses. Some of my co-workers recognize the traits found in the dominance profile, however many see the conscientiousness profile as the primary trait. This exercise has taught me different people see different traits and that the characteristics and behaviors that I exhibit may be perceived differently. This knowledge will help me teach men how to work more effectively.
First, I would like to mention the personality tests I took. The first one was called Inner Hero Personality Assessment. Followed by Jung Myers-Briggs, Locus of Control and lastly, the Big 5 Personality Traits. Each of these gave me different insight about myself. Now that I listed what tests I took, let's get into the details. Let's begin with the Inner Hero personality Assessment. Within this test, there are four categories Helper, Thinker,
This section covers feedback from others on my self-assessment and journey of furthering my understanding of myself. For this exercise, I chose to share the results of the Hogan & Champagne Inventory as well as several of the key findings from the textbook activities. I chose one professional peer at work, Rudy Perez, and one superior non-manager (Bruce Monson), both of the Maricopa County Department of Emergency Management. I went over the attributes associated with an ISTJ style and both agreed that the test results were an accurate assessment of my personal style. My peer stated that he doesn’t think I am a full introvert as I have no problem socializing and talking with others that I know, though I am more reserved than him when we meet new people. My superior remarked that I am extremely dependable and he knows that I will complete whatever task I receive with great detail.
Personality can be defined as representing the overall profile, or a combination of characteristics that captures the unique nature of a person. Using the Big Five Model of Personality, a trait approach to personality which deals with the variation of a scale. I will be reflecting on how personality affected the work behaviour of the team. The theory consists of five key dimensions of personality, openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. I scored highly on the conscientiousness scale. Those who are highly conscientious are commonly very responsible, reliable, organised, self-directed and successful, but can have controlling tendencies. Due to being highly conscientious, I took the lead on many of the smaller tasks and kept the team working efficiently, because
Using a number of self-assessment tests I was engaged to gauge my opinions, preferences, emotions, and other criteria dealing with organizational behavior. Where some questions seemed repetitive and blatantly negative, I was able to make a number of realizations regarding myself in an organizational framework. What follows is my attempt to relay and stratify this knowledge of my personal discoveries from the self-assessment tests I completed. "Good introductory paragraph
The purpose of this report is to use the available personality tests to provide us, as an individual with a more detailed understanding of our mental preferences. I will compare and contrast the results from the three tests I undertake and use them to find out what career paths would better suit my preferences. The knowledge I will gain about myself and about Belbin’s theory of team roles will allow me to work out what role would best suit me on our team-working field exercise.
Personality shapes almost every aspect of an individual’s life, and being satisfied with one’s job is not an exclusion. The way an individual outwardly and inwardly assesses themselves, their position and their career, will play a role in their job performance, and ultimately their job satisfaction, which is defined by some merely as how content an individual is with his or her job, whereas to others, it is more complex. Job satisfaction to them involves multidimensional psychological responses to one 's job.