Personal Statement: My Personal Leadership Philosophy

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My personal leadership philosophy is more compassionate than I realized. As shown in Exercise one, which analyzes if you focus more on being power-oriented, achievement-oriented, and concerned with human welfare. My scores for that exercise came out to be: Column One- 18, Column Two- 29, and Column Three- 25. This means I have a strong concern for human welfare than being power-oriented and achievement-oriented, but I am more achievement-oriented than power-oriented. This was interesting as I always thought I was power-oriented because I like to be in charge and not bossed around. Maybe the qualities of being achievement- oriented reflect those feelings. The second exercise reflected on what assumptions I make about people and how it affect my leadership. The scores for that were: X-Theory- 39 and Y-Theory- 62. The X-Theory personality is the strict side of leadership; do I as I say and not as I do. The Y-Theory is a compassionate person who wants input from their followers. I realized I was …show more content…

Introversion, Sensing vs. Intuition, Thinking vs. Feeling, and Judging vs. Perceiving. My results were the Counselor and the Protector. Because there were two answers I had to pick one and I picked the Protector. A Protector is practical, compassionate, caring, and motivated to provide for others and protect them from the perils of life. Referring back to the other two tests it makes sense to have the trend of being compassionate. We did a small activity in which I had to choose fives words that I valued. Those words were knowledge, trustworthiness, professionalism, helpfulness, and advancement. Then someone close to us had to choose another five that they thought we valued, my sister picked: justice, integrity, responsibility, professionalism, and vitality. This shows I do not show my values more than I think, which is a huge lesson though I do value the things my sister