Overall I found these three assessments enlightening, encouraging and helpful!<\/p>\n
Northouse (2018) provides definitions of the leadership approaches that these assessments are based in: 1) Trait: <\/em>focused on personality characteristics of the leader 2) Skills: <\/em>focused on the leader’s capabilities\u00a03) Behavioural: <\/em>focused on what leaders do and how they behave (p. 73).<\/em><\/p>\n Trait Approach (LTQ)<\/strong><\/p>\n For this assessment I asked five of my team to do the survey. The scores on\u00a0dependable <\/em>and determined\u00a0<\/em>were the most enlightening. My team’s average was notably higher on dependable <\/em>than my score. Lately, I have been worried about being dependable<\/em> as a leader, because I have multiple roles and responsibilities and am now doing this part-time MA. In juggling many things, I noticed I can sometimes be forgetful or fail to follow through on things. I want my team to feel like they can rely on me and trust I will do what I say.<\/p>\n I was challenged when my team scored me lower on determined <\/em>than I scored myself. I have always seen myself as a very determined person and my husband, my family and close friends often comment on this. This makes me want to ask my team more about their scores, because I may need to grow more in this area in the ministry setting.<\/p>\n Skills Approach<\/strong><\/p>\n For the skills assessment, I was surprised that my technical<\/em> score was as high as it was, at 18. I generally shy away from technical things as much as possible. The human<\/em> and conceptual<\/em> scores did not surprise me, as both were very high and equally scored at 27. I have known those two areas are my leadership strengths.<\/p>\n Behavioural Approach<\/strong><\/p>\n For the behavioural approach, the results were not surprising. Both task<\/em> and relationship<\/em> were high. Task<\/em> was scored at 40 and relationship<\/em> at 45. I know I prefer relationship over task, but I am still very task-driven.<\/p>\n This exercise was good to do and I would like to use these assessments in my ministry staff team, as we navigate changes for the near future and a possible shift in leadership roles.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Northouse, P. G. (2018). Leadership: theory and practice (8th ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Overall I found these three assessments enlightening, encouraging and helpful! Northouse (2018) provides definitions of the leadership approaches that these assessments are based in: 1) Trait: focused on personality characteristics of the leader 2) Skills: focused on the leader’s capabilities\u00a03) Behavioural: focused on what leaders do and how they behave (p. 73). Trait Approach (LTQ) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":445,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit-2","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}