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After taking the leadership/management diagnostic test I was said to have an “I” management orientation with a “D” secondary.

“Influence: People with High "I" scores influence others through talking and activity and tend to be emotional. They are described as convincing, magnetic, political, enthusiastic, persuasive, warm, demonstrative, trusting, and optimistic. Those with Low "I" scores influence more by data and facts, and not with feelings. They are described as reflective, factual, calculating, skeptical, logical, suspicious, matter of fact, pessimistic, and critical.”

I’m never a fan of general personality tests because I always believe them to be too ambiguous and I usually feel that I can relate to any personality type at some instance or moment in my life. I do, however, feel like this tests describes me pretty accurately. I am not an extremely dominant person, I am very compassionate and care about others immensely. I do however feel that I am more outgoing and influential than most and use my personality hand in hand with my leadership skills.

Like every test, no results are ironclad but I do believe that all the results have some foundation and truth to their results. Look at the class results, you did see the more participative students being categorized as D or I personalities and the less talkative personalities having S or C types.

If I had to pick a personality type to be stranded with I think I would have to pick an “I” personality. I believe I would butt heads with a D personality, I never like being told what to do or how to do it. I much prefer logical reasoning and discussions with someone of a similar personality to see if we could come up with the most logical solution to the problem at hand.