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Understanding the behavioral styles of your team is just as important as the skills they have. Great teams leverage their differences, so they complement each other. This leads to higher performance and better results. Designing highly efficient teams with members that have complimentary personality and leadership styles, using assessment instruments such as the DISC profile, has become increasingly important to organizational success.
In this assignment, students will reflect upon their leadership style through a DISC behavior/personality self-assessment. Note that there is not a “good” style or a “bad” style. Rather, understanding one’s personality and behavioral style will help in understanding how to respond to conflict, what is a motivator, what causes stress, and how you solve problems. In addition, understand one’s DISC profile allows for more targeted selection of teammates that compliment your specific leadership style.
https://www.123test.com/disc-personality-test/
Assignment Instructions:
1)Begin this assignment by identifying an appealing instrument for conducting your leadership self-assessment, such as the DISC assessment posted in Learning Resources.
2)Conduct your self-assessment.
3)Prepare an evaluation that:
a.Identifies the instrument (with citation to either web page or another source).
b.Describes the results of your self-assessment, including areas of strength and challenge.
c.Describes the potential implications of the results on professional leadership and participation as a team member.
d.Includes one figure.
4)In developing the final interesting, informative, and comprehensive manuscript, include the following:
a.Select format elements from APA Style:
i.Double-spacing.
ii.1-inch margins.
iii.Running header.
iv.Times New Roman 12-point font.
v.Title page.
vi.References (including at least two citations).
vii.Figure formatting per APA style.
b.Attention to brevity (concise but complete), as shown by commitment to the length requirement: no more than 5 total pages in length (1 title page, 1 reference page, 1 figure page, ~2 written content pages). I’ve attached a sample paper. also you can can do the personality DISC if it makes the paper easier for you.
Opening and closing sentences and use of topic sentences to organize thoughts into paragraphs. Includes summary paragraph.
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Running head: LEADERSHIP STYLE FOR CHANGE
Leadership Style for Change
Student Student
Stony Brook University
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Leadership Style for Change
In every organization there is a leader. This is the main person to drive policies. Leaders
have their own styles to manage team members. These styles describe the personalities of the
leaders. How to find a leadership style that serves one’s self-awareness, leading to better
communication among staff and improvement of their progress towards successful goals? There
are many behavioral instruments or personality assessments that can come to grips with one’s
own personal style. In this paper, I will use DISC personality assessment to understand my
leadership style in responding to conflict and solving problems.
DISC is a modal that can quickly assess your personally style. It examines four
personality traits: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance (123 Test, 2018). DISC
contains 28 groups of four personality statements from which you must chose the one “most like
me” and the one “least like me” (123 Test, 2018)
My DISC assessment results show my personality type as a Dominance personality as
figure 1 described. According to the 123Test website, my score shows that “you have a strong
inner motivation to influence people and circumstances” (2018). A Dominance personality is
described as assertive and fast paced toward goals. The strength of this personality trait,
according to the 123Test website, is these persons like taking action to move straight forward to
their goals (2018). They like to direct people under them and set up goals without team
collaboration. This personality favors goal directed action and dislikes failure or loss of
autonomy (Personality Profile Solutions, 2018). The limitations of this personality trait are that it
is self-directed and uncaring of team collaboration. Such people like to work alone and tend not
to ask others about their opinions because they are impatient to listen to other opinions. They like
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to make decisions toward achieving goals and are indifferent to people in the team (Personality
Profile Solutions, 2018).
A dominant personality has good potential implications for leadership skills and can
influence team members and overall organization in different ways. With a dominant personality
as a leader, the task assigned will be completed on time or faster. But this leadership style shows
a lack of collaboration skills. This will affect the feelings and attitudes of other team members
(Slowikowski, 2005). While the leader’s only concern is to achieve goals within the time limits,
he or she also depends on the team members for innovative problem solving; this conflict leads a
stress, both for the leader and the team.
In contrast, a dominant personality has a good potential to participate as a solo team
member. This type of personality likes new opportunities and challenges. This can fit with
opportunities for career advancement. They establish their own way to complete the task because
they have a responsibility (Slowikowski, 2005). For example, my community care team was
assigned to do a project on how to establish a system to get information on our veterans from ER
staff to various hospitals. I came up with the initiative of faxing a cover page letter with specific
boxes, including H&P notes, lab data, diagnostic tests and consultation notes from other
physicians. Then, I checked the boxes to inquire about just the information I needed. Moreover, I
would call and find out if they received the fax and how long before they could reply. This
assertive behavior ensured that I would receive the information at a certain time.
In conclusion, there is no right or wrong way for different personalities to work as a
leader or a team member. All the behavioral styles are to drive the team to complete the task. The
relationship between the leader and team members can inspire ideas, prompt the exchange of
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information and facilitate brainstorming for success. As the Gregory Nunn’s quote has it: “The
right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions” (Brainy Quote, 2018).
Figure 1. Self-DISC personality result.
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References
123 Test. (2018a). Disc personality test. Retrieved from https://www.123test.com/disc-personality-test/
123 Test. (2018b). Your disc personality report. Retrieved from https://www.123test.com/discpersonality-test/id=fSQWNCXF46LMCZU&version=
Brainy Quote. (2018). Gregory nunn quotes. Retrieved from
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/gregory_nunn_159277
Personality Profile Solutions, L. (2018). Disc profiles explained: D is for dominance. Retrieved from
https://www.discprofile.com/what-is-disc/overview/dominance/
Slowikowski, M. K. (2005). Using the DISC behavioral instrument to guide leadership and
communication. Aorn j, 82(5), 835-838, 841-833.
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