Compose a personal essay (450-500 words), thoughtfully reflecting on the ways in which the Big 5 Personality, Meyers Briggs (MBTI) and Emotional Intelligence (EI) shape your inter-personal and management/leadership communications (project to the future if you haven’t been a manager yet).
Your essay should show that you’ve completed the assessments (not tests) and all the readings/video, so be sure to discuss your results (share your scores for each assessment) and discuss what each assessment means for you and your career. Tie your reflection to the course concepts revealed in the course materials. In a personal essay, you can use the first person “I” point of view, but do not overuse "I". The tone can be less formal than an academic paper, but you should still cite and reference sources. Areas to include:
- Your strengths and areas that need more development (focus is on communication)
- Examples of your strengths (or lack thereof, or both) in the workplace, include EI, MBTI profile and Big 5 results in your essay
- Barriers that hinder your professional communication effectiveness
- Plan for improving your professional communication effectiveness
Use business writing style (double-spaced, liberal use of headings, bullet points and charts/graphs/graphics as appropriate). For instance, you might use a table to show the different scores. Or, you might list various business scenarios with your strategies in a table or illustration. Or, you might list strengths and weaknesses with plans for capitalizing on strengths and improving weaknesses. Feel free to be creative to present your message effectively.
Use textbook, at minimum, as citation and reference (the 3 assessments cannot be your own references). Please use proper APAcitations and referencesas appropriate. See sample paper posted in Announcements. Double space using paragraphs and white space. Submit your paper to the Dropbox.