PLP 3

Leadership Trait Questionnaire: Personal Rating

Key: 1= Strongly Disagree 2= Disagree 3= Normal 4= Agree 5= Strongly Agree

 1. Articulate: Communicates effectively with others 12345

 2. Perceptive: Is discerning and insightful 12345
 3. Self-confident: Believes in himself/herself and his/her ability 12345
 4. Self-assured: Is secure with self, free of doubts 12345
 5. Persistent: Stays fixed on the goals, despite interference 12345
 6. Determined: Takes a firm stand, acts with certainty 12345
 7. Trustworthy: Is authentic and inspires confidence 12345
 8. Dependable: Is consistent and reliable 12345
 9. Friendly: Shows kindness and warmth 12345
 10. Outgoing: Talks freely, gets along well with others 12345
 11. Conscientious: Is thorough, organized, and controlled 12345
 12. Diligent: Is persistent, hardworking 12345
 13. Sensitive: Shows tolerance, is tactful and sympathetic 12345
 14. Empathic: Understands others, identifies with others 12345

Leadership Trait Questionnaire: Parents Average Rating

 1. Articulate: Communicates effectively with others 3.5

 2. Perceptive: Is discerning and insightful 3.5
 3. Self-confident: Believes in himself/herself and his/her ability 4.5
 4. Self-assured: Is secure with self, free of doubts 3
 5. Persistent: Stays fixed on the goals, despite interference 5
 6. Determined: Takes a firm stand, acts with certainty 4
 7. Trustworthy: Is authentic and inspires confidence 3.5
 8. Dependable: Is consistent and reliable 3
 9. Friendly: Shows kindness and warmth 5
 10. Outgoing: Talks freely, gets along well with others 3
 11. Conscientious: Is thorough, organized, and controlled 2.5
 12. Diligent: Is persistent, hardworking 4
 13. Sensitive: Shows tolerance, is tactful and sympathetic 5
 14. Empathic: Understands others, identifies with others 3.5
My interpretation:

Comparing my results to what my parents averaged, it can be clearly seen that have

inflated/over-valued my leadership traits in this questionnaire with nine out of fourteen

grades being lower between my parents than I gave myself and only five instances where

my parents grade was higher than mine. What this means for me is that I still have a way to

go to meet what I believe about myself and that I need to improve in certain areas. I know

no human can be perfect and grade 5/5 in every category and that is not the intention, my

current goal is to work towards meeting my personal expectations and grades from this

questionnaire. My weakest point seems to be conscientious and I can agree with that

because of my organization skills being poor in my parents (Tidying the bed etc!). I will work

to improve this skill the most in the coming days. At some point in the future I would love to

know how non-family members grade me in such a questionnaire because in some ways my

parents could be bias towards me, or even be more harsh in certain grades.
Skills Inventory:

Key: 1= Not True 2= Seldom True 3= Occasionally True 4= Somewhat True

5= Very True

 I enjoy getting into the details of how things work. 12345

 As a rule, adapting ideas to people’s needs is easy for me. 12345
 I enjoy working with abstract ideas. 12345
 Technical things fascinate me. 12345
 Being able to understand others is the most important part of my work. 12345
 Seeing the big picture comes easy for me. 12345
 One of my skills is being good at making things work. 12345
 My main concern is to have a supportive communication climate. 12345
 I am intrigued by complex organizational problems. 12345
 Following directions and filling out forms comes easily for me. 12345
 Understanding the social fabric of the organization is important to me. 12345
 I would enjoy working out strategies for my organization’s growth. 12345
 I am good at completing the things I’ve been assigned to do. 12345
 Getting all parties to work together is a challenge I enjoy. 12345
 Creating a mission statement is rewarding work. 12345
 I understand how to do the basic things required of me. 12345
 I am concerned with how my decisions affect the lives of others. 12345
 Thinking about organizational values and philosophy appeals to me. 12345
Technical Skill: 27 Human Skill: 23 Conceptual Skill: 28
My Interpretation:

The results from the skills inventory questionnaire show that my Technical and Conceptual

skills are in the high range at 27 and 28 respectively. But, my Human skills, although in the

high range are at 23 which is only one point higher than the moderate range. I personally

believe that my human skills are in the moderate range and that I have overvalued these

skills in this questionnaire. I believe this sections calls for the most improvement and I will

eb working towards this by being more understanding of others while working in groups as
well as being a more outgoing person as I learned from my second week of this personal

leadership portfolio that I need to be more outgoing and as seen in the leadership trait

questionnaire earlier, I need to be more conscientious. From the results, theoretically I can

maintain a very executive position in a company because all 3 of my skills are in the higher

ranges. This questionnaire would be more accurate I fell if I had other people to compare

results with as well, because I think it is of value to see what my group members think of me

by this questionnaire and how true is skill is to me while they work with me in a group.