LDP
Strengths:
Enable others to act: Due to my past sports participation and work experience I have noticed a pattern. I am usually the guy cheering on my teammates and encouraging my co-workers. I have learned to appreciate this role because I successfully influence these people. I always like to get to know my team or people I’m working with, I like to know details about everyone. That allows me to be well prepared when I’m trying to enable others to act. I would not approach everyone the same way, things that motivate people vary.
Encourage the heart: This ties in a lot with enabling others to act, however the biggest difference is encouraging the heart comes more into play in times of need. I hate seeing people struggle, so once I notice frustration I attempt to make them recall their passion to the activity.
Relationship Management: I love to inspire and motivate others to work hard and strive for their goals. I like to get to know people and build a healthy friendly relationship. Not only start the relationship but also keep it and make the other person feel appreciated.
Areas of Improvement:
Challenge the Process: I usually like to state my opinion and hope it is taken into consideration. However, I realized I tend to trust teammates too much that I never challenge their opinion. This is definitely something I would like to work on.
Action Plan
Challenge the process: I automatically believe my teammates ideas have been thought out and studied before being presented. This always leads to me going with their word as opposed to finding out more and challenging details to carry out a more effective plan. I currently have had the belief that a lot of challenging leads to a mixture of opinions but no valued opinion is developed.
I want to reach a stage where I still believe in my teammates but develop a relationship where my teammates understand that argument is not a personal issue but a tool to improve. I want to reach a stage where I can take multiple opinions and organize them in a manner that would lead me to a group put together valued idea.
I will get there by challenging my teammates on anything I believe needs more evidence to be put into play. Even if its a tiny small detail, I want to get into the habit of challenging with a full sense that I am only doing it for the better. I will also practice on getting us to a level where challenging is accepted by the entire group. I will do that by encouraging my teammates to challenge an idea when they believe it can generate a better idea. Once that feel is developed challenging will be an accepted habit and not an action many are scared of. I will organize everyones ideas by developing categories that define similar ideas and generate one idea for each category. From all the ideas for each category I will develop an idea that incorporates all the approved ideas into one plan.
Self Awareness: Right now I have a hard time recognizing my emotions, what I mean by that is, I have difficulties defining my likeness towards an idea. I also have a difficult time not letting my personal emotions interfere with my actions. I tend to carry out a bad idea when I’m unhappy.
I want to get to a point where I can immediately decide if I like an idea or not. This would allow me to further study the idea and provide feedback or challenge. I will also like to get to the point where I don’t let my emotions affect my actions, a point where I can put my personal feelings aside and think rational.
I will carry this out by studying the idea more as it is being presented. I feel this would allow me to develop a quicker opinion; I will also highlight key pros and cons of an idea. By having a short list of pros and cons I can develop a quicker opinion. As for putting personal feelings aside to avoid bad actions, I will constantly remind myself that personal feelings do not matter I believe I can carry this out by developing a ritual. Such as, before any group activities taking some time to clear my mind and solely focus on the task at hand.