Leadership

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Leadership Management

• Discussion for Lesson 11
• Personality and Reflection as a Leadership Tool

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Lesson 11Reading Objectives

• 1. The student will comprehend and
  distinguish personality traits and psychological
  types.
• 2. The student will know his/her
  psychological type and describe the implications
  for his/her relationships and leadership
  performance.
• 3. The student will comprehend why
  introspection and reflection are valuable tools
  for a leader.

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Lesson 11Reading Objectives

• 4. The student will comprehend the Paul
  Principle and how to avoid it.  
• 5. The student will apply reflection and
  introspection to better understand their
  strengths and weaknesses as a leader.

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Lesson 11Discussion Objectives

• 1. The student will know their psychological
  type and describe the implications for their
  relationships and leadership performance. 
• 2.  The student will apply reflection and
  introspection to better understand their
  strengths and weaknesses as a leader.

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REVIEW OF FIRST PAPER

• this and that
• Thesis statement/summary
• The written medium doesnt talk
• speaks to ?
• Introduce your sources.
• Footnotes and Quotation marks
• Reread and Rewrite
• Multiple use of the same word
• Pronoun mismanagement
• Missed words
• Useful resources
• http//www.bartleby.com/141/index.html Elements
  of Style, Strunk
• http//www.wsu.edu8080/brians/errors/errors.html
  Common Errors in English.

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Personality Structure

• Extroversion
• Agreeableness
• Conscientiousness
• Emotional Stability
• Openness to experience
• Self-monitoring of Behavior

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Psychological Types

• Psychological types help define cognitive styles,
  i.e., mental processes used to perceive and make
  judgments from information
• Knowledge of these cognitive styles can help you
  relate better to people because you better
  appreciate how they make decisions
• According to Psychiatrist Carl Jung, how people
  gather and evaluate information determines their
  cognitive style

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Psychological Types
Gathering Information

• Sensation type Individuals
• Prefer routine and order
• Search for precise details
• Prefer to work with established facts

• Intuitive type Individuals
• Prefer overall perspective big picture
• Enjoy solving problems
• Dislike routine
• Prefer to look for possibilities

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Psychological Types
Evaluating Information

• Feeling type individuals
• Need to conform
• Adapt to others wishes
• Avoid problems that may cause disagreement

• Thinking type Individuals
• Rely on reason and intellect
• Downplay emotion in problem solving and decision
  making

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Psychological Types
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A study of opposites

• Swapped 3rd/5th Fleet throught war
• Halsey known for dynamic Fleet/Fleet battles
• Spruance known for methodically planned out
  Amphibious Battles

• Admiral Spruance
• Quiet, Introvert
• Sensation/Thinking

• Admiral Halsey
• Brash, Extrovert
• Intuitive/Feeling

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Introspection and Reflection

• Introspection
• Enables leader to realize gaps between who they
  are, who they think they are, and who they are
  perceived to be
• The introspection process should be accomplished
  systematically, and should be done regularly with
  the help of an executive assistant, trusted
  friend or spouse

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Exercises

• Using information from the www.keirsey.com
  website, the instructor will ask students to
  identify their own personality type. Famous
  individuals with similar personality types will
  be highlighted.

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NTRationals

• Analytical, systematic, abstract, theoretical,
  complex, competent, inventive, logical,
  technical.
• Walt Disney (ENTP)
• Mark Twain
• Abraham Lincoln (INTP)
• Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Fredrich Nietzsche
• Bill Gates

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NFIdealists

• Humane, Sympathetic, Enthusiastic, religious,
  creative, intuitive, insightful subjective.
• Jane Fonda
• Emily Dickenson
• Leo Tolstoy
• Oliver Stone
• Gandhi
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Vladimir Lenin
• Thomas Paine
• Alexander Hamilton

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SPArtisans

• Adaptable, artistic, athletic, open-minded,
  tolerant, persuasive, enjoying life.
• Elvis Presley
• Madonna
• Ernest Hemingway
• Hugh Hefner
• Mozart
• Barbra Streisand
• Michael Jordan
• Franklin D Roosevelt
• George S. Patton
• Erwin Rommel
• Donald Trump

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SJGuardians

• Conservative, stable, consistent, routinized,
  sensible, factual, umimpulsive persevering,
  detailed
• Jimmy Stewart
• Barbara Walters
• Dan Rather
• George Washington
• Woodrow Wilson
• Harry S. Truman
• Jimmy Carter
• George Bush
• Colin Powell
• General Stonewall Jackson
• General Omar Bradley

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• SO WHAT?!
• Or
• Am I going to make everyone take this stupid test?

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The Interactional Framework

• Leader
• Position
• Expertise

• Followers
• Values
• Norms
• Cohesiveness

• Situation
• Task
• Stress
• Environment

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Summary

• Knowing the different personality types, and how
  each may react to various situations can be a
  critical component of effective leadership
• An accurate assessment and clear understanding of
  your own personality traits is an important
  prerequisite to understanding others
• The reflective leader is able to analyze
  leadership situations in light of what he already
  knows

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Next Class

• The Power of Perception
• Read
• Leadership Management, Chapter 12