Personal Assignment: Personality Insights

Personality Insights Understanding one’s personality is important to get the best work place environment when working with others. Often, staff will become upset with other staffers over the simplest things. The reality is that employees are most likely not trying to upset one another, it is just their personality types are different. I have an ESTJ personality, which means that I can be very forward; time oriented, and set in my ways on how I do things. The opposite personality, which there are some in my office will be slower on getting assignments done, not show up to work on time, and are scared to address something they do not like. “Outgoing, gregarious, usually quite direct, and very upbeat to be around (Extraversion), ESTJs see the

I sincerely found it extremely more complicated to complete than the Myers-Briggs personality test. Myers-Briggs was to the point and directly about my personality. The McGraw-Hill Connect assessment focused a lot of questions on the workplace and how I would react or lead in certain scenarios. My answer for almost all the questions is typically “somewhat like me.” This was because for about every scenario I could think of my actions being on both sides and depending on the specific merits of the case. As I wrote in our first project assignment and in this one, working on Capitol Hill means constant changes. You never know the political environment and how that will change each day. This means you can react to different situations, even with staff, differently each

Working on the hill is to fast pace to really allow for micro-managing, therefore “Self-Managed Teams” are often what you will see. As Dr. Fischer described in the week 4 presentation, there is often a lack of accountability in self-managed teams (2017). Even though for most of these answers in the assessment I was undecided on how I would act in a group scenario, it has got me thinking on maybe how I should act. They may be times when I need to become more of a leader in projects and conflicts that arise. Being consistent with stepping up into that role could reflect highly of me with the boss. “Collaborating—this approach is seen in people who desire a win–win situation, striving to address concerns and desires of all the parties involved in the conflict” (McGraw-Hill