Objective: To understand one’s personality and how that impacts one’s leadership style.

To lead others one must first know themselves. Effective leadership requires one to understand their different personality traits and interpersonal skills. The best leaders harness the power of the individual members of the team and let their skills and abilities contribute to organizational outcomes. Therefore, one must learn about themselves to be able to lead others, work effectively and find personal and organizational success.

In this assignment, you will be introduced to the Myers Briggs Typology Indicator (MBTI) and the different aspects of MBTI and how it relates to you. At the conclusion of this assignment, you should know your MBTI typology and understand how that typology impacts your leadership

• Read MBTI Basics https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/
• After reading the MBTI basics, take a moment to take the MBTI test: https://www.humanmetrics.com/personality
• Write a 1.5 page paper reporting your results after taking the test. In addition to discussing your different preferences, take the time to talk about how your personality type fits into your organization. Furthermore, talk about how learning about your personality will make you a more authentic and effective leader. Finally, pick two more tests from the chart below and speak about how those fit into your leadership style as well.

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