Leadership is the glue that holds any company together, identifying and understanding your type of leadership style can ultimately help you become a better leader in your professional career. A successful business cannot function without leadership, so this is a crucial aspect of internal employee development for companies trying to stay relevant in a crowded marketplace. In addition to recognizing your leadership style, every leader needs to look at it and identify what type of personality they have. By becoming an informed business leader you will earn the trust and respect of your team to lead them into the future and maximize growth potential. In this article I will identify my leadership style, my personality type, and how it has influenced my professional growth. Identifying these findings is extremely important for creating a company culture. After taking the Myers Briggs Personality Test on the Human Metrics website, I was not surprised to receive the conclusion of an ENTJ or “the natural born leader.” The role of an ENTJ is that you behave in a very logical and rational way (“Personality”). The Myers Briggs Type Indicator test has been around for over 65 years and has continually evolved to become more accurate in identifying personality traits. I find the reflections on the ENTJ personality type to be accurate because they are a no-nonsense leader type who likes to take responsibility and get the job done. To become a better leader for your organization you can take the time to educate yourself on the other 15 types of personality traits. This will help a leader better understand the views of their colleagues and provide them with tools to address... half of paper ......Myers, Isabel Briggs. and Mary H. McCaulley. Myers-Briggs Manual (MBTI): A guide to the development and use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists, 1998. Print."Personality test based on the type theory of C. Jung and I. Briggs Myers."Personality test based on the type theory of C. Jung and I. Briggs Myers. Humanmetrics, 1998. Web. 11 June 2014. “Reliability”. The Myers & Briggs Foundation. Network. May 27, 2012. Rothwell, J. Dan. In mixed company: communicating in small groups. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2013. Print."Quiz: What is your leadership style?" Quiz: What is your leadership style? About.com and Web. 12 June 2014. .
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