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Is the “traits” approach to the study of leadership valid? If so, in what ways? How does recent research on the links between personality and individual behavior contribute to our understanding of leadership?

The Kiersey Temperament Sorter assigned me the personality type ENFJ. The letters stand for Extrovert, Intuitive, Feeling, and Judging. After my research, I have found out some broad statements about ENFJs. Scholars describe ENFJs as natural leaders. ENFJs are full of passion and charisma, naturally attracting and inspiring people. Surprisingly, ENFJ forms only around two percent of the population. Some scholars describe this two percent simply as Protagonists. Scholars typically correlate the ENFJ personality type to our world’s politicians, coaches and teachers. Most importantly, ENFJs reach out to inspire others to achieve and do good deeds in the world. ANFJ’s must see the good results they cause to feel satisfaction in their lives. With

The results of these tests told me a lot about myself. I found that I am an ESFJ: Extrovert, Sensor, Feeler, and Judger. I like to work with people and tangible things, and try to understand others, and make decisions and complete my responsibilities. My top intelligences are musical and linguistic, which means I have a good memory for words, music, and patterns.

Understanding your personality type is an important factor in determining the level of success you will have in life. Personality traits are intrinsic to the way a person thinks, acts and responds to people and situations that they face in life. The purpose of this project is to identify my personality type and how it applies to areas in my life including my career, relationships, learning type and decision making. As part of this study, it was determined through the self-administered Jung Typology Test that my personality type is ESFP. The analysis of this personality type will help me to obtain greater success in life by applying the knowledge that I will gain from this study. In addition, acquiring a better understanding of my personality type will help me to better understand how to maximize the

The personality type that best describes me is ESTJ personality -The Executive. ESTJs represent tradition and order and embrace the values of honesty, dignity and dedication. They also lead by example as they are strong believers in the rule of law and authority, dislike laziness and cheating specifically at work. Because ESTJs expect their reliability and work ethic to be reciprocated, they do not hesitate to show their wrath to anyone who does otherwise. This attribute however, earned them the reputation of being inflexible. Throughout my life and career, I have exhibited these traits. I am brutally honest, dedicated and follow the rule of law without wavering. In my field we are governed by laws and in my position, I uphold the law.

My Jungian Typology is Extraverted Sensing Feeling Judging (ESFJ). According to Carl Jung and Isabel Briggs Myers’ personality type theory, I enjoy entertaining, giving, and being in charge. I am also easily hurt and when I feel hurt, it’s impossible to hide. I have a hard time making a decision because I am torn between choosing what is right for others instead of the right choice for me. I have a good sense of danger and I tend to tread carefully in situations that could result in negative consequences for others and myself.

After completing the Prentice Hall Self-Assessment Library Test (SAL), I have discovered how different strengths and weaknesses of my personality, which influence how I make decisions and interact with others in the work environment. Part one of the test “What About Me”, identified several areas of my personality that I wish to improve on. My scores for creativity, as well as emotional intelligence were lower than I expected, and therefore something that I can work to improve upon. The second part of the test, “Working with Others”, identified one major weakness in my leadership style. My scores indicated a potentially laissez-faire leadership style, indicating that I may sometimes appear detached and indifferent in the eyes of my co-workers. Finally, the third part of the test, “Life in Organizations”, offered no major surprises and generally fit well with how I view my attitudes towards organizational structure. From these results, I was able to identify areas which I would like to improve upon with regards to my leadership style and attitudes in order to become a better leader in my organization. Additionally, the results of this test afford us the ability to apply biblical ideas when working to improve faults in our personalities in order to be the best leaders we can be.

Therefore how a leader’s character or personality influences leadership. This paper will critically evaluate how useful is the trait approach to leadership. It begins with

There are many leadership styles and is important to know which style you are. There are many ways one can learn their leadership style, for example, through assessments. Knowing your leadership style will help you become a better leader. Although there are many leadership assessments our text discussed four assessments that can give insights into building blocks of personality most commonly identified by peers, subordinate employees, and supervisors (Ledlow, et al, 2014). These assessments include: Hemisphere Dominance assessments; Jungian assessments; Vark test; Struder Group; Price Group; and many

In relation to leadership, there is a strong cultural bias towards introverts; 65% of senior corporate executives viewed introverts as a barrier to leadership. This may provide a reasonable explanation for why introverts are generally passed on for promotions. Grant et al (2010) found that while conventional wisdom supports the view that extroverts make better leaders because they are overtly confident and charismatic, introverts tend to make better bosses in certain situation where workers are proactive and constantly offering new ideas for business. This is relevant in regards to business and management because introverted leaders are said to be skilled listeners and as such will pay attention to the ideas of their employees and display greater receptivity to said ideas. In contrast, extroverted leaders are more likely to feel threatened by their employees’ ideas or better yet, they might get so excited about putting their own ideas into practise that they do not even listen to their employees.

This theory is based on the premise that there are certain personality characteristics that are essential for a person to possess in order to be a leader. The main emphasis is on what the person is in terms of a constellation of personality traits. This theory searches for that set of universal leadership traits that will assure success. Numerous traits have been suggested: courage, integrity, loyalty, charisma, ambition, intelligence, honesty, clairvoyance, persistence, arrogance, health, political skill, confidence and vision.

Sun Tzu once said “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”(p. 51). Even though one may not be in battle this statement still holds true when dealing within organizations and how people work together. The purpose of this paper is to identify which of the Sixteen Personality Types I am. After completing the Jung Typology Test I was scored as being EFSP; throughout this paper I will discuss each individual letter and the theory behind it, and then elaborate how it applies to my own personal life. Using the knowledge that I have gained from first part of this paper and using Type Talk at Work I will then further dive into how my personality affects my decision making. Once I have reached a better understanding of myself I will then apply it to my current career and how I can make myself a better officer, and therefore a better leader. Very good

My ENFJ personality described as an extroverted person in life. For instance, I enjoy getting involved in different activities and events which bring out my energetic nature (16personalities, 2016). My preference is being around people and interacting with them on a personal level as much as possible, and I

Previous research has not yet investigated how different personality types may have different expectations towards leaders within the workplace. Neither Expectancy theory, Leader-Member Exchange Theory or Metaperceptions have addressed which expectations followers might have towards leader’s personality types. Thus, how differences between followers’ expectations and leaders’ actual personality traits affect job performance is the gap considered by the present work. A better understanding of these interactions

After taking a quiz about personality types, when my results came in it turned out I was a ESFJ. A ESFJ is a person who is more out-going, the love hanging out with people, always in the crowd. ESFJ are altruists, they will be take helping out people very seriously. When ready the articles on ESFJ a lot of the things applied to me. I thought it was really cool how some of the famous people I knew since a little girl had the same type of