The personality traits are relatively stable dispositions to behave in a particular way. I focused on the most important five traits and zeroed in on my specific deficits associated with effective leadership when reflecting upon myself. The five personality traits are self-confidence, stress tolerance, emotional maturity, integrity, and extroversion. Self- confidence is defined as a feeling of trust in one's abilities, qualities, and judgment. I have a great amount of self-confidence when I am very informed and knowledgeable about a topic. The area of self-confidence that I would like to improve upon is to persist in the face of problems and defeats. My confidence goes up and down during a specific problem including one with a defeat. I would like to persevere and to transition to acceptance and what I can do better in defeat. Stress tolerance is the next personality trait which I deal in a variety of different ways including the need to have my own “introverted time to tolerate the troubles of a day. At times I get very stresses and I tend to show. My wife tells me I show stress by being very short with one word answers and short phrases. She typically leaves me alone for a bit of time understanding what I need to get over the stress. The last personality trait I am going to focus on is extroversion. I believe in the right situations I can take my introverted self and become more extroverted. It takes certain situations and a level of being comfortable to make this happen. I believe I have already warmed up to the cohort and the “feeling out” process has been fairly easy with this group. A different set of traits and skills associated with effective leadership is motivational traits which include task and interpersonal needs, achievement orientation, power needs, expectations, self-efficacy. Motivation is defined as a set of energetic forces that originate both with as well as beyond an individual to initiate work-related behavior and to determine its form, direction, intensity, and duration. The first and only motivational trait that I will focus on is task and interpersonal needs as I believe is one of the biggest building blocks for relationships. These people are driven by the task as well as their concern for people. I don’t think that anyone can ever top out but will always strive to be better with interpersonal needs. I have noticed that some people view an interpersonal relationship differently than others. All people are different and I am hoping that in the next two years I will get better at adapting to people to please individuals the best way I can. The last subsets of effective leaderships are the skills which include technical, interpersonal, and conceptual. Technical skills are the focal point for me. Technical skills are the bringing of specialized knowledge to bear an administrative task. The skills are going to take a lot of experience, a good mentor, and the drive to focus on as many behind the scenes items. While working with my principal I am sure to include myself in a bit of everything. I will need to continue to ask the question why, for more understanding of why administrators do what they do. Conceptual or cognitive skills are ever changing but to think logically and to work with concepts seems to come fairly easy for me. My vast amount of teaching in three different school districts in a multitude of different positions has allowed me to have the ground work for thinking logically. These are the items that I personally feel comfortable with and some traits that I perceive will need work over the next two years. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/ous-lp-rp13/attachments/20180613/9fc9fd62/attachment-0001.html >
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