<div dir="ltr">Dustin, <div><br></div><div>I appreciated reading your response because as your examined the traits, you considered your strengths and weaknesses within each. I alluded to this in my response, that we possess these traits to varying degrees and your writing helps me confirm that this is true. I found it interesting that you mentioned your wife when discussing stress-tolerance. I thought of the same thing, how I get short with my family and they can easily tell I am stressed by my tone and one word responses. I respond to stress differently with my coworkers and believe I may respond differently as an administrator, too. At work, I hide my stress quite effectively, as these people are not closest to me and the introvert in me wants to remain elusive. At work, I try to watch my tone and attempt to respond to others cautiously, with more patience than I show at home. I wonder if you experience the same, that your stress exemplifies itself differently at work than at home.<div><br></div><div>Your response also reminded me just how beneficial the internship portion of this program will be in helping us learn the skills of administration. I'm thankful to work for a principal who is strong in both managerial and leadership skills. So, I look forward to gleaning from his knowledge and expertise when it comes to technical and cognitive skills, especially. It is certainly and ever changing world that will require a lot of on-the-job training and continued mentorship even after we leave this program. The question "why" is so pertinent to our work. It falls deeply into the symbolic perceptual lense, as we look for meaning throughout our managerial and leadership tasks. The "why" can continue to give us drive and mission in our work as we struggle with difficult situations, troublesome people, and the complexity of politics. Additionally, I look forward to utilizing the relationships we're building in this program to help us with these skills in the future. </div><div><br></div><div>~Molly <div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Dustin Tyler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dustin.tyler@ccsd.us" target="_blank">dustin.tyler@ccsd.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The
personality traits are relatively stable dispositions to behave in a particular
way.<span> </span>I focused on the most important
five traits and zeroed in on my specific deficits associated with effective
leadership when reflecting upon myself.<span> </span>The
five personality traits are self-confidence, stress tolerance, emotional
maturity, integrity, and extroversion.</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"> </span></p></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Self-
confidence is defined as <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">a feeling
of trust in one's abilities, qualities, and judgment.</span><span> </span>I have a great amount of self-confidence when
I am very informed and knowledgeable about a topic.<span> </span>The area of self-confidence that I would like
to improve upon is to persist in the face of problems and defeats.<span> </span>My confidence goes up and down during a
specific problem including one with a defeat. I would like to persevere and to transition
to acceptance and what I can do better in defeat.<span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">Stress tolerance is the next personality trait which
I deal in a variety of different ways including the need to have my own “introverted
time to tolerate the troubles of a day.<span>
</span>At times I get very stresses and I tend to show.<span> </span>My wife tells me I show stress by being very
short with one word answers and short phrases.<span>
</span>She typically leaves me alone for a bit of time understanding what I
need to get over the stress. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">The last personality trait I am going to focus
on is extroversion.<span> </span>I believe in the
right situations I can take my introverted self and become more
extroverted.<span> </span>It takes certain situations
and a level of being comfortable to make this happen.<span> </span>I believe I have already warmed up to the
cohort and the “feeling out” process has been fairly easy with this group.<span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">A different set of traits and skills associated
with effective leadership is motivational traits which include task and
interpersonal needs, achievement orientation, power needs, expectations,
self-efficacy.<span> </span>Motivation is defined as
a set of energetic forces that originate both with as well as beyond an
individual to initiate work-related behavior and to determine its form,
direction, intensity, and duration.<span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">The first and only motivational trait that I
will focus on is task and interpersonal needs as I believe is one of the
biggest building blocks for relationships.<span>
</span>These people are driven by the task as well as their concern for
people.<span> </span>I don’t think that anyone can
ever top out but will always strive to be better with interpersonal needs.<span> </span>I have noticed that some people view an interpersonal
relationship differently than others.<span>
</span>All people are different and I am hoping that in the next two years I
will get better at adapting to people to please individuals the best way I can.<span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">The last subsets of effective leaderships are
the skills which include technical, interpersonal, and conceptual.<span> </span>Technical skills are the focal point for
me.<span> </span>Technical skills are the bringing of
specialized knowledge to bear an administrative task.<span> </span>The skills are going to take a lot of
experience, a good mentor, and the drive to focus on as many behind the scenes
items.<span> </span>While working with my principal I
am sure to include myself in a bit of everything.<span> </span>I will need to continue to ask the question
why, for more understanding of why administrators do what they do.<span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">Conceptual or cognitive skills are ever
changing but to think logically and to work with concepts seems to come fairly
easy for me.<span> </span>My vast amount of teaching
in three different school districts in a multitude of different positions has
allowed me to have the ground work for thinking logically. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">These are the items that I personally feel
comfortable with and some traits that I perceive will need work over
the next two years.<span> </span><span></span></span></p>
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