Personality Type and Leadership Approaches

Personality Type and Leadership Approaches

After carefully analyzing the 1 MTI type in the textbook, I concluded that my personality is INFJ. Essentially, INFJ stands for Introversion, Intuition, Feeling, and Judging. Accordingly, INFJ’s traits include seeking meaning and connection in various relationships, material possessions, and ideas (Weiss, Tilin & Morgan, 2014). Further, more listed characteristics of my personality include being interested in what motivates other people, being insightful about people, and being decisive and organized in implementing their goals. Moreover, when it comes to achieving a common goal, an INFJ is able to develop a clear vision of how to do it (Weiss, Tilin & Morgan, 2014). Lastly, yet importantly, an INFJ tends to be dedicated and meticulous to its values. As such, looking at these traits, my preferred behavioral leadership style would be goal-oriented and relationship-building.

Considering all the details above, I identified authentic leadership style as the approach of leadership that my personality would take. Authentic leadership is about being oneself and making room for others to do the same (Northouse, 2018). Besides, it involves open communication, ethical behavior, teamwork, and transparency. This leadership approach helps one be an effective steward at the team level. Accordingly, being a steward leader involves being a caretaker, which means that people feel valued, respected, and appreciated, or as mentioned above, being themselves. Leadership can be defined as the ultimate form of stewardship because it’s all about ensuring that you take the best care possible of your responsibilities, which include people and resources. Authentic leadership approach easily overlaps with stewardship. With emphasis placed on the relationships among the individuals in an organization, they both ensure that these interactions are effective and based on trust.

References

Northouse, P. G. (2018). CUSTOM: Grand Canyon University ADM 620 Leading Public Organizations Custom Electronic Edition. SAGE Publications, Incorporated.

Weiss, D. F., Tilin, F. J., & Morgan, M. J. (2014). The interprofessional health care team: Leadership and development. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.

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Personality Type and Leadership Approaches

Explore the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator information located in chapter four of the textbook. Using the “Reflection: 16 MBTI Types at a Glance,” determine your personality and preferred behavioral leadership style. Present your discoveries and explain how your identified leadership style allows you to be a team steward and ensures that individuals within the organization interact well with each other.