Professional Leadership Journal – Proactivity Assessment
Introduction
As a public health scholar, it is essential to assess one’s own leadership through leadership self-assessments. This assignment will concentrate on personal insights gained from taking a Proactive leadership self-assessment from Afsaneh Nahavandi’s book The Art and Science of Leadership. The Proactive self-assessment was composed with sources from Becherer and Maurer (1999), Bindl, Parker and Strauss (2010), and Crant (2000) that were listed as statements of proactive characteristics. This leadership assessment required individuals to “indicate the extent to which each of the following describes you” (Nahavandi, 2014) using a scale of 1 to 4, with 1 not at all being like the person and 4 sounding a lot like the person. As a result of my individual score range, new insights were gained from this leadership self-assessment.
Gained Insights
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Based upon the list of statements it seems proactive people look for new opportunities, take initiative in their projects, and advocate for others among many other things. In hindsight of this, I learned that I possess many characteristics of a proactive person. In terms of proactive characteristics looking for new opportunities, seeing change as a new opportunity, getting something done once my mind is set to accomplish something, and seeing opportunities where others may see problems are descriptive characteristics that sound a lot like me. Aside from this, characteristics of taking initiative in projects, having a can-do approach, focusing on making something happen, and advocating for others are also descriptive characteristics that sound like me. These are all strong characteristics of a proactive person. The knowledge I personally gained about my character from this insight could perhaps impact my prospective role as a public health