Unit Sixteen: Assessing Your Management Style
Part One: Assessment Activities
INTERPERSONAL ORIENTATION
1. Self-Assessment: Personality Traits, Lussier, page 309
2. Test Your Personality (A version of MBTI)
4. What's Your Emotional Quotient?
5. Evaluate Your Current Stress Level
6. Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation in Behavior
8. Five Factor Model of Personality
CHANGE
9. Self-Assessment: Personality Type and Stress, Lussier, page 335
10. Self-Assessment: Entrepreneurial Qualities, Lussier, page 92
11. Locus of Control
12. Tolerance of Ambiguity Scale
VALUES
14. Self-Assessment: Personal Priorities, Lussier, pages 214-215
15. Skill Builder 2: Ethics and Whistle Blowing, Lussier, page 75
LEARNING STYLES
17. Are You a Left Brain or Right Brain Individual?
18. What is Your Preferred Learning Style?
19. Test your preferred perceptual modality
A. Explanation of perceptual modalities
TIME MANAGEMENT
20. Time Management Evaluation
21. Self-Assessment: Time Management Techniques, Lussier, pages 190-192
Part Two: Email Application Activities
(Individual assignment) Prepare an outline summarizing the results of the self-assessment exercises done for class. For each test identify each test, the purpose of the test, your results, and what your results mean. At the end of your outline write a summary self profile, including here common themes and the implication of this profile for you as a manager. You may want to organize your results according to the major categories highlighted above.
Part Three: Textbook Assignment
Read pages 306-315 in Lussier
Part Four: Unit Outline with Reading Assignments
I. The importance of understanding your management style
A. Peter Drucker, "Managing Oneself," HBR, March-April 1999
II. Tests on the Web
A. Emode
B. ivillage
II. Keirsey
III. LIFO Success Profile
VI. Behavioral self-management