Assignment 1 – Values
Travis Durocher
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- Based on the results of my Rokeach and competing values assessments and resulting profile, my leadership/managerial roles are ‘Monitor’ and ‘Coordinator’. The keys to effectiveness that I exude are; practicality and stability. The contributing behaviours of these roles are; factual, realistic, grounded, questioning, strong, confident, secure and independent. However, the extreme and ineffective behaviours that accompany these traits are; pessimistic, destructive, visionless, hopeless, arrogant, closed rigid and inflexible. This profile does not allow one to assess oneself as a team player, because it is primarily based on leadership qualities. However, in speculation using this model, I would be more of a strong, outspoken leader, which would invoke confidence and security among my teammates. On the other hand, the negative attributes that would be present may be the inability to listen to others comments or concerns as well as a closed minded attitude. This could have the ability to result in a divide within the team. To guard myself from these tendencies I would use instrumental values such as being polite, loving, responsible, hard working, and broad-minded. These values along with my leadership skills would allow me to be an intricate member of a team, not only leading a team but listening to the concerns and voices of others.
- Prior to completing the rankings of the values on these charts, I believed the chart would not help me and I looked at it mainly as an assignment for school. I found myself changing my rankings as I went through the different values. On the terminal values chart my first three rankings were; health, freedom and a comfortable life. My last three rankings were; true friendship, world at peach and world of beauty. Now that I have completed the rankings I find myself in a way upset with my rankings and what I have chosen to be ‘most important’ in my life. In my opinion these rankings are a reflection of the society in which my generation has grown up in, with our focus on money and success. However, what are money and success if you have no true friendships or a world at peace? My rankings of the terminal values would exemplify a leader who demands success and no errors from those who he works, however he might find himself very alone at the top. In order to be a good leader I need to focus on the people who I will work with as well as the task at hand. My instrumental values, on the other hand, I have ranked my top three as; independent, loving and polite. However, my last three rankings are obedient, broad-minded and capable. The value of independence is two sided; positively I am self-reliant and self-sufficient, negatively I could not allow myself to rely on others or accept their positions. As a well-mannered and loving person I would be affectionate and courteous to other as a leader and teammate. Ranking broad-minded low on my list is a negative aspect in regards to being a leader and a teammate, however I would hope that my ability to be affectionate and well-mannered to others would over shadow my inability to be open-minded.