Leadership and Management: Personality Test Analysis and Reflection

This assignment presents a reflection on personality tests and their implications for leadership and management. The student analyzes two templates, each focusing on a critical incident and the results of personality and emotional intelligence tests. The first template highlights introversion and the need for improved social interaction, while the second showcases extroversion and strong decision-making skills. Both templates identify areas for improvement, such as social awareness and relationship management, and discuss how the insights gained can be applied to future leadership roles. The assignment emphasizes self-awareness, understanding of emotional intelligence, and the development of effective leadership and teamwork skills, providing a framework for personal growth and professional success, with references to supporting literature.

Q2. Template One: Incident from Residential weekend
My chosen toolkit is: Personality test
My results for this toolkit are:
Summary of critical incident: explain how the critical incident arose and why it is significant
to your learning and development
This test can assist an individual in analysing their personality. This test helps in determining the
individual whether they are capable to achieve future goals and objectives or not. Apart from this, it
has assisted me in analysing the areas where improvement is required. Now I will be better able to
achieve them. It will help me in growing and can also assist me in exceling in my career. Results
from the personality test are attached above.
How does your behaviour (thinking, feelings and actions) in this critical incident reflect the
findings of your chosen self-analysis toolkit? How has the toolkit enabled you to understand
why you think, feel and behave in the way that you do? What have you learned about yourself
that you didn’t know before?
According to the test I am good in making decisions, observant and also my strategies to achieve
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goals and objectives are good. I need to work on being more extrovert. There was an incidence
because of which I realised that I am introvert. Our tutor has given me an opportunity to meet up
business icons and strengthen business network. But I was really shy to start communication with
them. I was not able to build up a bond. I have also analysed that my decision making power is good
which has supported me in solving lots of problems.
Identify how you will use this learning in the future to become an effective leader, manager or
team-worker
Emotional intelligence test:
This test is being conducted by individuals in order to have knowledge about own emotions, strength
and capabilities. This emotional intelligence that has made me realised that I need to work upon my
self-management and social awareness abilities. From the above description it has been analysed that
my major weaknesses are lack of social awareness, turbulent and introvert nature. For improvising
both these abilities I can engaged in practising task so that they can be easily managed.
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Q2. Template Two
My chosen toolkit is:
My results for this toolkit are:
Summary of critical incident: explain how the critical incident arose and why it is significant
to your learning and development
Personality test: This test is being performed by an individual to know about the nature of individual
(Hobson and et.al., 2019). It will help an individual in knowing about the areas which needs to be
improved. This test has assisted me in analysing my strength as well as weakness. By this test I can
be able to work upon achieving my cadmic as well as professional goals.
How does your behaviour (thinking, feelings and actions) in this critical incident reflect the
findings of your chosen self-analysis toolkit? How has the toolkit enabled you to understand
why you think, feel and behave in the way that you do? What have you learned about yourself
that you didn’t know before?
From this test I have realised that I am extraverted, observant and Turbulent. I have analysed this
when my tutor gave me a task of presenting a discussion in front of new professors (Loe and et.al.,
2016). I was able to do it easily and also I was able to build up a strong bond with them. This has
assisted me in achieving my goals and objectives. I have also analysed that I was really good at
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judging this assisted me in identifying the problems which can arrive in future.
Identify how you will use this learning in the future to become an effective leader, manager or
team-worker
Emotional intelligence:
This test is really useful for analysing the strength, capabilities and emotional aspect of individual.
From the above test I have analysed that I am really poor in social awareness and relationship
management. So I need to work on these aspects. It is really important for me to deal with these
issues as it will assist me in solving my problems and will also support me in achieving career goals.
REFERENCES
Hobson, C.J. and et.al., 2019. Assessing and Developing Leadership Capabilities in MBA Students Using
The 16PF® Personality Test. Business Education Innovation Journal VOLUME 11 NUMBER, p.119.
Loe, B.S. and et.al., 2016, September. Validating the quality of crowdsourced psychometric personality test
items. In Fourth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing.
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