Leadership Profile

 Leadership Profile

According to Özbağ (2016), leadership traits are influenced by a person’s personality. My Gallup Assessment results clearly depicted my personality and behavior, particularly when executing leadership roles. My signature themes were responsibility, positivity, arranger, focus, and achievement. The results suggested that I have psychological ownership for everything I set my mind to do, and I feel emotionally bound to follow it through to completion. The results also indicated that I tend to praise others, look for the positive side of every situation, and celebrate every achievement. The effects of the arranger theme suggested that when faced with a complex problem involving a wide range of factors, I enjoy managing all variables, aligning and realigning them until I am sure I have arranged them in the most productive configuration possible. The achiever theme demonstrated my drive and constant need for achievement. It suggested that I feel dissatisfied if a day passes without an achievement. The focus theme indicated that I need a clear destination and rely on goals to determine priorities and make the necessary changes to regain a sense of direction.

I would function well as a transformational leader due to my high commitment to achieving a specific goal. Marshall (2010) states that a transformational leader is visionary, committed, and inspiring. I can, therefore, leverage my focus and the need for achievement to inspire my followers to achieve exceptional results. Transformational leadership is characterized by emotional intelligence, value systems, and attention to every person’s spiritual side (Shelton, 2012). Therefore, my positivity can help me improve my transformational leadership practice because finding a way to lighten other people’s spirits enhances emotional intelligence, thus making it easier to ensure everyone works towards achieving a shared goal.

References

Marshall, E. (2010). Transformational leadership in nursing: From expert clinician to influential leader. Springer Publishing Company.

Shelton, E. J. (2012). Transformational leadership: Trust, motivation, and engagement. Trafford Publishing.

Özbağ, G. K. (2016). The role of personality in leadership: Five-factor personality traits and ethical leadership. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 235, 235-242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.11.019

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Do you believe you have the traits to be an effective leader? Perhaps you are already in a supervisory role, but as has been discussed previously, an appointment does not guarantee leadership skills.

Leadership Profile

How can you evaluate your leadership skills and behaviors? You can start by analyzing your performance in specific areas of leadership. In this Discussion, you will complete Gallup’s StrengthsFinder assessment. This assessment will identify your strengths, which have been shown to improve motivation, engagement, and academic self-conference. Through this assessment, you will discover your top five themes—which you can reflect upon and use to leverage your talents for optimal success, and examine how the results relate to your leadership traits.

To Prepare:

Complete the StrengthsFinder assessment instrument per this Module’s Learning Resources instructions.

Please Note: This Assessment will take roughly 30 minutes to complete.

Once you have completed your assessment, you will receive your “Top 5 Signature Themes of Talent” on your screen.
Click the Download button below the Signature Theme Report, then print and save the report. We also encourage you to select the Apply tab to review action items.
NOTE: Please keep your report. You will need your results for future courses. Technical Issues with Gallup:

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Reflect on your Assessment results, and consider how the results relate to your leadership traits.
Download your Signature Theme Report to submit for this Discussion.
By Day 3 of Week 5
Post a brief description of your results from the StrengthsFinder assessment. Then, briefly describe two core values, two strengths, and two characteristics that you would like to strengthen based on the results of your StrengthsFinder assessment. Be specific. Note: Attach your Signature Theme Report to your Discussion post.