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Personality Assessment MOL 522E Organizational Development & Behavior Instructor: Kevin Palmer Angela Clemons March 26, 2013

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In the DISC and ESCI-U assessments I found that many of the reflections that I have

been doing within myself have shown me the type of person I am as well as the type of person that I am perceived to be. Over the past several years, I have believed that maybe there was something wrong with me. In fact, it has caused me to still suffer some major setbacks in my life today. I have always seen myself as a leader and a team player but I do like to be under strong leadership. When people have said that we are our own hardest critic I would have to agree. I am my hardest critic and sometimes that can cause me to give up when I should push harder. Each week each assignment has me second-guessing my choices. In the ESCI-U assessment, others scored me higher than I scored myself. In the DISC assessment, it confirmed some of the personality traits that I have uncovered through my personal development. The ESCI-U scores showed strength in emotional self-awareness, achievement orientation, adaptability, empathy, organizational awareness, coach and mentor, influence, teamwork, systems thinking, and pattern recognition. The minimum scores in these categories was a 4.3. Based on this assessment I see that I need to work on my emotional self-control, which scored my lowest mark at a 3.9. Additionally, I scored a 4.0 in conflict management and a 4.1 in positive outlook. The three of those low scoring areas show that I need to find appropriate ways to manage conflict as well as my emotions. By doing so, I would be taking steps toward having a positive outlook instead of always waiting for the ball to drop. Achievement orientation surprisingly gave me the highest marking at a 4.6. I always want to achieve at the highest level but daily stresses seem to always prevent me from reaching that goal. I believe that taking the time to research the right strategies to reduce stress would improve my work ethic and productivity. This assessment did show me how others perceive me in the

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work environment in a way that I am able to see how my peers perceive me. I did score well in influence, teamwork, systems thinking, and pattern recognition with scores of 4.5. These scores indicate that improvements in the other areas will have me moving toward becoming a leader that would be able to move my organization toward a learning organization with the support of others. The DISC assessment gave me insight to my personality that I really appreciated. While going through the assessment I could not understand why it had so many questions asking the same thing in a slightly different way. I typically would not take an assessment like this if given the choice because I think that they are not accurate (again an issue with positive thinking). However, this particular assessment had all the necessary tools to gain insight into my personality and information on the areas in which I could improve. My classical profile pattern is Creative. The Creative profile fits me like a glove! I am often confused when people say that I have an aggressive nature while saying that I am too sensitive. To me they seem to contradict each other. What I have learned in this assessment is that they may seem contradictory but they do not always mean that I am mean spirited or always wanting to do it my way. I just prefer to try new ways of doing things. It has been my experience that not many people do well with change and prefer to do it their own way. Part of the reason this assessment was life changing for me is because it made my current situation look very differently. In light of recently being fired, I found that I was finding that I was falling into the same I dont care attitude that comes with hard situations. However, because of these lessons and assessments I have been able to take a way that this particular agency was not a good match for my personality and does not reflect me personally. That may

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sound odd but at the end of the day, recruiting is about finding the right people for the client and the job. They hired me based on me being the right person for the job and they were right to do so. What they failed to do was to make sure that I was the right match for their organization, which I was not. I am motivated by the ability to be free to control my environment. This would include when I work and how I work. This shows my aggressive nature because I am quick to tell you that if given the opportunity to make decisions (within company guidelines of course) I am able to obtain prenominal results. I did go into the position not focused on getting to know the staff or trying to make waves but it just seems that I am drawn to helping my team to be successful so that the organization can be successful. So being called a perfectionist in my book is definitely a high compliment. My work habits are often seen as overly aggressive as well. During training, I often find myself trying to create templates, tutorials, and manuals so that I can have quick access to them if one is not available. This I have found is sometimes a major factor that I get on the radar of management. I have no problem in tight situations where deadlines move or I need to think fast on my feet. I actually like when I have the ability to think outside of the box to get things done. Living by the motto, dont work harder work smarter. I do become frustrated easily when I cannot reach my goals because of slacking colleagues or if I do not have essential information to complete the task. In this instance, I tend to lose the ability to stay tactful in communicating my frustration. This is an area that I am trying to improve but keep coming up short because not every organization or colleague is going to work the same way I do. Overall, I am able to see the areas in which I am effective and see the areas in which there is a need for improvement. The other issue I will need to push toward is time management and not giving up if I feel like the goal

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is attainable. The foundation for overcoming these insights is to overcome FEAR. The fear of becoming successful weighs far greater than that of failure.