The Seven Habits Profile gives individuals such as myself a strong understanding on leadership strengths and weaknesses. The profile asks a series of questions and takes your scores to break down your Seven Habit effectiveness. There are 9 areas of focus; two foundational habits and seven habits. Each of the categories is scored on a scale that has a range of 3-18, with 3 being the lowest and 18 being the highest. The Seven Habits Profile showed that I am “outstanding” in 4 categories and “very good” in 5. This indicates I have strong leadership habits of an effective leader, and my employees will be confident in my leadership abilities. Even though the lowest score categories are “very good” the Seven Habits Profile highlighted several areas …show more content…
Category 2, a foundation habit, showed that I scored consistently across all areas. The one that I feel weakest about is working hard in a way that avoids burn out. I tend to become quite passionate about my work and exhaust myself overtime. In the evenings, I try to keep busy to stay focused on life but will burn myself out thinking to hard occasionally. I take pride in the ability that I can balance priorities and am considerate of others needs and concerns when working on tasks.
Be Proactive (Score=15, very good). Category 3, a seven habit, showed that I scored consistently across all areas. Of these areas scored I feel that sometimes I do blame others when my mood is off. I tend take actions that would put blame on another person during these rare instances. I have a strong control over my life and I focus my energy on tasks I have control over.
Begin With the End in Mind (Score=16, outstanding). Category 4, a seven habit, showed my primary weakness to be organizing myself to avoid a crisis mode. I feel like I have a solid handle on accomplishments in my life now. When I have multiple projects, I tend to have a focused energy and sometimes forget other areas that require attention as well. Within the past year I have done better in this area but still need improvement. I consistently have a clear plan to my week and follow a daily task list during my
These three traits have been what I have followed, while in different leadership position, to strive to be the best leader I
It’s very likely that you usually pay more attention to your shortcomings than your strong points. You customarily devote yourself to overcoming your limitations.” (Gallup, n.d., p. 5). This statement is very true; I am a very motivated individual, and I am always trying to better myself. I am a person that does not focus on my strengths, but on my weaknesses that I need to improve.
According to the StrengthsFinder survey, my top five signature strengths/themes are: Ideation, Adaptability, Deliberative, Activator, and Command (StrengthsFinder, 2015). Admittedly, the level of accuracy in which the survey was able to identify some of my traits was surprising. However, these are traits I have been aware of and developed over the years from childhood to present day, but have not had them in such a format that adds context. The survey results were right about me taking one day at a time – I do not worrying about things such as legacy, long term career goals, and what people think of me – Adaptability.
I know what I am capable of and therefore I work hard until I do what I can. I admit that I am very creative as a person as well and that helped me win a few extra points here and there. My weaknesses this year were that
Final Essay Strengths First of all, I feel as if I am a very dedicated person, whether it’s related to my educational goals, current job or career goals, or personal relationships. I take dedication seriously because I believe dedication shows you truly care about that goal you are trying to attain or that person of which you are trying to maintain a good, lasting relationship. Going along hand-in-hand with dedication, I feel as if self-motivation is also a personal strength of mine. I’m currently trying to juggle a schedule of a full-time student, part-time job, extracurricular clubs and activities, and maintain a social life and being self-motivated is the only way to succeed at handling all of those things at once.
The first behavior trait that demonstrates a successful leader is self-awareness, which consist of being aware of their behavior and how this can affect others around them. These leaders can analyze the feelings and thoughts of their staff and present themselves as their authentic self (Leroy, Palanski, & Simons, 2012). The second positive leadership behavior is self-management. Self-management consist of having control over your own behavior with the ability to manage actions, performance, and find resources that will contribute to a positive attitude to keep from reflecting negative feelings onto others you work with (Breevaart, Bakker, Demerouti, 2014). The last behavior that demonstrates a positive leadership is social awareness.
After knowing what my weaknesses are, I usually try to solve them and improve my skills. For example, I’m not a highly flexible and positive person, so I seek out to individuals who are flexible and positive in their lives and ask for their advice. Another strength that I have is that I usually have a positive outlook of my improvement, because I have seen examples of those who overcome their hardships and become successful in life, so I believe that if I try hard enough, I will be able to overcome my weaknesses. I’m also confident with my listening skills and my ability to focus on others and make them feel heard. I like to start on works and projects early so that if anything comes up, I will still have time to handle it.
By putting this recommendation into action now, I expect to become more connected to my coworkers, more visible to upper management, and more capable of making effective decisions in future leadership positions. Finally, my third change will be taking a more energetic approach to furthering my education, so I am able to have the skills I need to make effective decisions with the two-up, two-down approach in mind (Schmalz, 2015, np). In order to understand the goals and motivators of those above me, I need to learn more about their responsibilities and habits. Running Head: C200 TASK 2: LEADERSHIP ANALYSIS 11 “Leadership behavior stems from habitual neural pathways that are developed over time.
Completing the seven-habit profile assessment provided great insight into my leadership and management style. I have been managing people for twenty years and I have many examples I can reflect on. I will begin by discussing my low score areas. The low score areas were categories one, five, and seven.
Being self-aware of one’s own strengths in the nursing field is extremely important for the nurse, their patient, and their peers. Some people may even suggest that understanding one’s own strengths is necessary to develop a meaningful nurse-patient relationship (Rasheed et al., 2018). Therefore, taking the Strengths Finder quiz can benefit the nurse, patient, and healthcare team in its entirety. I learned a lot about myself and how
Nevertheless, it is the way that friction is approached that makes a difference. By applying my positive attitude and sense of finding a common ground among coworkers, it will enable me to apply this strength to my daily life. Lastly, the strength of achiever was a lesser theme for me compared to my other top strengths. I sometimes take on too many tasks and want to accomplish many things in order to make me feel good about myself. I am extremely committed to everything I do and influence others to succeed in what they do.
According to the Gallup findings on my Strengths Finder Assessment, I tend to go with the flow and take things as they come (adaptability), and enjoy life and the beauty in it, as well as avoid unnecessary stress for self and others (Gallup). I remember once in a social assignment that I was heading, where I was required to lead a team to come up with ideas on how to improve a church outreach program. As the leader, I wanted everything to work out well in consideration of timeliness, quality, and in involving all team members to feel ownership and participation throughout the process. By identifying these three characteristics (timeliness, quality, and involvement), my strengths of adaptability, strategy, relator,
My learning patterns for the Learning Connections Inventory is as follows: Sequence – 31 (Use First), Precision – 29 (Use First), Technical – 17 (Avoid), and Confluent – 18 (Use as Needed). I’m classified as a “Dynamic Learner” because I have two strong learning patterns along with one as needed and one avoid pattern. After taking the LCI quiz I feel like my learning patterns are extremely accurate. I scored very high with the sequence pattern.
Leadership Trait Questionnaire The Leadership Trait Questionnaire (LTQ) showed that I lack in self-confidence, self-assurance, and feel that I lack in insight. I show strength in determination, being outgoing, friendly, empathetic and sensitive, I rated myself as fours in these categories and a five in the outgoing category (Northouse, 2016). It is essential to show self-confidence and self-assurance when in a leadership position.
CORPORATE LEADERSHIP SEVEN HABITS AND DEMING’S 14 POINTS AROOJ ZAFAR 01-221162-105 SEVEN HABITS AND DEMING’S 14 POINTS Stephen R. covey the author of the book “principle centered leadership” explained ways to establish personal effectiveness. In his book, he discovered seven habits that allow people or organizations to develop commitment towards stable and unchanging principles in their behaviors and interactions; in the state of interdependence. He linked total quality with principle centered leadership as it allows people to be more intrinsically motivated to seek stability and continuous improvement. Interpersonal effectiveness is essential to total quality as it allows organizations to develop relationships within the departments,