Mgt601 Dynamic Leadership Answers Assessment Answers

When you receive your results, look at your report and read the background document on the Gallup psychometric assessment. You should then prepare a report which covers the following issues:

1) A brief description of your results. Provide a copy of your report as an Appendix.

It will not be included in the word count.

2) Your initial reactions to your results: any surprises, any concerns, any connections with your own self-perceptions of your leadership strengths and personality preferences, any consistencies or inconsistencies with other feedback that you have received, either from colleagues or other psychometric tests.

3) Your initial thoughts on the implications of the results for your current and future leadership: how you can draw on your strengths to enhance your current and future effectiveness.

1. a) Explore and reflect on self- development as aleader to build self-awareness
2. e) Demonstrate the technique of reflective andreflexive practice as a means of continuouslearning and self-development.

Answer:

The survey captured 5 strengths of mine which are known as Achiever, Includer, Adaptability, Responsibility and Context. The survey says that I am a great achiever and dedicated to achieve whatever I want with hard work and dedication. About being an includer, I like to be with the people who include other people in the team and do not like to be with the people who avoid other. I am a very responsible person when it comes to managing with my duties as well as my work. In case if I am unable to deliver anything, I feel that it is for me to look up to the methods so that I can complete my responsibility. About me being an adapter, I live in present and not think about the future at all. If talked about context, I am a person who look back in my past a lot of times. To understand the present or to think about something if something is not right in my present, I tend to look back. This is what the survey tells about me.

The initial reaction which I had towards the result was quite amusing and exciting as I was surprised to know some things about me and felt a little different from the above strengths that I have. For example: I felt surprising that I look back in the past because I am a person who feels that one should not look in the past as past might bring a feeling of regret and if one looks in the past then he or she cannot move ahead in life(Yukl, 2010). Then I also felt amused to see that I am an includer as this is very right about me. I feel like helping everyone and feel bad in avoiding anyone. I feel good where there are people who are helpful and include others in their teams. Though, I have received a feedback from people that I need to be more responsible towards my work or duties.

The current leadership is about being effective in any way one can and its effects should be seen when a firm or any leader is able to achieve something great. Leaders just do not focus on the development but they also focus on the process of going towards the development. I feel that there will be more integrity in the future leaders(Yammarino).

Two of my strengths that are responsibility and includer, can help me become a good leader in the present. My effectiveness as a leader can definitely increase with these two strengths that I have. With the feedback that I need to be more responsible, I will be able to become more prone towards my duties and can do my tasks in a way that I am able to achieve the goal.  Also, including other people in teams is one of the qualities that a leader of today’s world should possess. Hence, these two qualities can enhance my work as a leader in current scenario(Day, 2012).

For future effectiveness in my leadership, my strengths like adaptability and achiever together will help me to blend nicely with the new trends of leadership(Horner, 1997). Also, I am an achiever and I try my level best to achieve things my way. If I am unable to achieve them, I try to find new ways to achieve my target again. I can never stop trying and I am not a quitter(Davis, 2018).

References

Davis, A. (2018). How To Develop Effective Leaders for Current and Future Roles. Retrieved October 9, 2018, from https://www.flashpointleadership.com/blog/how-to-develop-effective-leaders-for-current-and-future-roles

Day, D. V. (2012). Leadership: Past, present, and future. Retrieved October 9, 2018, from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285709072_Leadership_Past_present_and_future

Horner, M. (1997). Leadership theory: past, present and future. Team Performance Management, 3(4).

Yammarino, F. (n.d.). Leadership:Past, Present, and Future. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies , 20(2), 149-155.

Yukl, G. (2010). Why flexible and adaptive leadership is essential. Consulting Psychology Journal Practice and Research, 62(2).