Behavior Preferences and Leadership
Behavior Preference and Leadership
Discuss the value of learning and using personality preferences in the role of a nurse leader, manager and/or administrator. Clearly articulate and support with references.
MBTI Type
Determine your 4-letter preference Type using the free test provided by HumanMetrics (Links to an external site.). The test is similar to the MBTI Indicator (copyrighted).
Using information from the readings, or from self-selected additional readings related to MBTI Personality Profiles – reflect on the personality type indicated. State whether you agree or disagree with the outcome. If you disagree- identify the Type that you believe more closely relates to your preferences.
Application
Using the 4 letter score, identify the value of your preference type – your preferred functions: E/I, N/S, T/F, P/J to your work as a professional in leading and managing for outcomes related to work teams and/or patients.
Identify your two least preferred functions between S/N and T/F. You will identify the S or the N as a least preferred and you will identify T or F as a least preferred. State how the deficit may affect your work and how you will compensate for the lack of a gift, by developing skills to support your leadership role.
Grading
APA, Grammar, Syntax, Punctuation. Include Title Page, References (4 minimum). 500 to 1000 words.
DIRECTIONS
This is the website that is needed to find the information for the personality type. I am and INFJ. You can find everything you need to know about this type by navigating the page. I need a title page and a reference page with 5 peer Reviewed articles in APA style 7th ed. 850 words. I attached the rubric for you to follow. Thank you!!
https://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/infj
Behavior Preferences and Leadership
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Behavior Preferences and Leadership
Nurse leaders often stand out in the manner in which they lead their organizations towards meeting their missions, visions, and goals. Today’s nurse leaders need to understand the association between their behaviors and their leadership approaches (Yang et al., 2016). According to Riley et al. (2021), leadership is a set of behaviors and actions utilized by an individual or a team to facilitate the realization of goals and objectives. Personality preferences influence behavior and therefore determine the leadership approaches applied by an individual. Nurse leaders often utilize the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a psychometric test tool developed by Carl G. Jung, to identify their personality preferences (Yang et al., 2016). The purpose of this assignment is to discuss the value of personality preferences in nursing leadership, describe my MBTI type, and apply the four-letter score in professional leadership and management.
MBTI and Leadership
Nurse leaders, managers, and administrators must learn and use MBTI personality preferences. As Yang et al. (2016) explain, MBTI is a tool that enables individuals to explain their decision-making processes, their perceptions of the world, and interaction mechanisms towards the external environment. Learning personality preferences enables nurse leaders, managers, and administrators to understand the sources of energy that they need to perform their roles effectively. This can be established from the first letter of the MBTI personality type defined by the Extraversion-Introversion (I/E) score (Song et al., 2021). This score identifies the perceptions and concepts that leaders focus on to be successful in their roles.
It is by learning personality preferences that nurse leaders, managers, and administrators learn to be sensitive about things around them. Completing the MBTI test enables the leaders to understand the scores that best define their sensing and intuition (S/I) preferences (Prineas et al., 2021). Nurse leaders, managers, and administrators utilize these preferences to focus on facts as well as the interconnectedness between interrelated themes which are highly crucial for effective performance. Leaders need to understand how they make decisions and how they organize their lives. The decision-making processes used by a leader are best understood when a person learns his or her personality preferences. Additionally, their personality preferences guide them to organize their lives in a manner that will enable them to provide direction and lead teams. MBTI types that capture thinking-feeling (T/F) and Judging-Perceiving (J/P) dimensions define a person’s personality preferences about decision-making and life organization respectively (Song et al., 2021). Generally, learning and using personality preferences is of great value to nurse leaders, managers, and administrators by enhancing their effectiveness about the source of empowerment, how they understand and sense things around them, their decision-making processes, and self-organization.
MBTI Type
MBTI type defines a person’s personality preferences. My 4-letter personality preference as obtained from the MBTI test is INFJ (introverted (I), Intuitive (N), Feeling (F), and Judging(J). INFJ is a personality type that defines people with complex characters and unique types of talents. They focus on developing strong relationships with others. INFJs select their friends selectively, hold deep convictions, have personal charisma, and strive to protect the oppressed (Humanmetrics Inc., 2022). I strongly agree with the outcome of the MBTI test score which has revealed my personality preference as INFJ because it is closely aligned with my preferences. I am an introvert who obtains energy from the inner world and utilizes them to interact with people. I am also an intuitive person who sees the inner picture and applies critical thinking to establish interconnectedness among things. I have a preference for feeling, which means I evaluate the impacts of my actions on others when making decisions. Again, I judge carefully when organizing my life which enables me to have clear structures and schedule to ensure that I complete projects within the available time (Humanmetrics Inc., 2022). Generally, as an INFJ, I am both a dreamer and a doer.
Application
My 4-letter personality preference type is highly applicable to my work as a professional in leading and managing outcomes related to work for teams and/or patients. In terms of E/I, N/S, T/F, P/J dimensions, my preferred functions, and which apply to my role as a leader include Introverted (I), Intuitive (N), Feeling (F), and Judging (J) (Humanmetrics Inc., 2022). Being able to interact with people is a key leadership characteristic required for effective leadership of teams and management of outcomes. I can succeed in this area because I am an introvert. Moreover, to be able to work effectively with teams and manage outcomes, a leader must be able to create a big picture of things and establish a connection between concepts, be able to evaluate the impacts of their actions, and can organize tasks properly (Riley et al., 2021). I can achieve all these because I have preferences for intuition, feeling, and judging.
My two least preferred functions between S/N and T/F are Sensing (S) and Thinking (T). A deficit in these areas will affect my work by preventing me from learning quickly from things around me (S) and by preventing me from applying an objective judgment of things when making decisions (T). I will compensate for the lack of these gifts by enrolling in personality training programs that will enable me to develop my skills to support my leadership role.
References
Humanmetrics Inc. (2022). INFJ: Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging. https://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/infj
Prineas, S., Mosier, K., Mirko, C., & Guicciardi S. (2021). Non-technical skills in healthcare. In: Donaldson L., Ricciardi W., Sheridan S., Tartaglia R. (eds). Textbook of patient safety and clinical risk management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59403-9_30.
Riley, J. M., Beal, J. A., & Ponte, P. R. (2021). The exemplary practice life of the nurse. Journal of Professional Nursing: Official Journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 37(5), 1018–1025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2021.07.003
Song, M., Choi, H. J., & Hyun, S. S. (2021). MBTI personality types of Korean Cabin Crew in Middle Eastern Airlines, and their associations with cross-cultural adjustment competency, occupational competency, coping competency, mental health, and turnover intention. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(7), 3419. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073419
Yang, C., Richard, G., & Durkin, M. (2016). The association between Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Psychiatry as the specialty choice. International Journal of Medical Education, 7, 48–51. https://doi.org/10.5116/ijme.5698.e2cd