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Table of Contents
Part A 3
Introduction- Self-awareness 3
Importance of Self-assessment 3
Critical evaluation 3
Target profession 6
Conclusion 6
Part B 7
Self-Assessment with the different toolkit and psychometric test 7
Summary of the strengths and weaknesses 13
Part C 15
Three areas of development 15
Action plan 16
References 19
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Appendices 19
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Part A
Introduction- Self-awareness
Importance of Self-assessment
For building self-awareness skills, an individual can take self-assessment tasks for identifying
the strong and weak areas with different toolkits and psychometric tests like Belbin team
working role assessment, MCI assessment and 16 personality traits assessment.
Critical evaluation
Teamwork skill
Teamwork skill development is an integral part of the success of any project in academics or
while working in an organisational setting. A person with better team working skills can
communicate and express personal perspectives, opinions and ideas with others in a clear and
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concise manner. Moreover, teamwork skill helps in sharing knowledge and skills with the
other team members. With enhanced teamwork skills, an individual can easily manage any
conflict by working as a negotiator and mediator among the parties. With the development of
teamwork skills, an individual can develop active listening skills that help in building
trustworthy relationships and understanding with peers mates (Jamshed & Majeed, 2019).
The ability to listen to the tea members can help an individual to build a flexible mindset
regarding the perspectives and opinions of others.
In the workplace, an Individual can showcase teamwork skills by volunteering with more
responsibilities, working together for achieving a common goal, providing support to the
other team members and celebrating the team success. Teamwork skill is an essential skill for
being a leader (Mai, 2018). A successful leader can facilitate collaboration and harmony
within a team.
Emotional intelligence
Emotional Intelligence is nothing but understanding how people think, and feel in different
situations. A high level of emotional intelligence helps an individual to understand the insight
of others and thus it has greater importance in any organisation. Employers often conduct an
emotional intelligence test in the interview process for identifying the understanding of the
individual about the experience and perspectives of others. Employers take EQ tests as there
can be different situations in the workplace while the behaviours and actions of an individual
can drive emotional response in others (Duncan, Green, Gergen & Ecung, 2017). Thus, with
the development of emotional intelligence an individual can make others feel important and
valuable through the establishment of interpersonal relationships.
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There are different situations and times in which the application of an authoritative leadership
style can guide an individual better in achieving the projected goal. Acting based on emotion
can lead to impulsive decisions and behaviour in the professional field. The five most
important characteristics of emotional intelligence include self-awareness, self-regulation,
motivational social skill development and empathy. However for the development of
emotional intelligence one needs to perceive emotions, understand and manage the emotions
and manage relationships in personal and professional areas (Issah, 2018). Thus, emotional
intelligence is a key skill of management and leadership that helps a management
professional to manage and lead better subordinates and colleagues.
It's important in developing self-awareness: thus the ability to understand, identify and
regulate emotions can unlock the mystery behind the moods and feelings of the individual,
therefore, an individual with high emotional intelligence can respond better in different
situations and while communicating with a crowd. Thus, the development of emotional
intelligence helps in relationship management (Oh, 2021). Thus, with a strong sense of
emotional intelligence, one can boost up self-confidence and it allows one to understand the
strengths and weak areas for encouraging development and growth.
Leaders are considered as the typical figurehead of a business firm. Different works depend
on strong management and the building of coordination and collaboration. A good leader has
several skills such as communication skills, self-awareness skills, integrity and honesty,
relationship building skill, innovative skills and motor skill. With the development of
effective leadership and motivational skill, an individual can better perform in an
organisational setting with effective decision-making. Good leaders and managers can set a
clear expectation that leads the subordinates to know the standards of the task and the
projected goal (Tanui, Were & Clive, 2018). Successful leaders and managers can
communicate with the other members with clarity and conciseness in order to avoid any kind
of confusion so that they can lead an effective team that has a contribution to the
organisation.
diverse team are confident enough to ensure the subordinates are following their commands
(Miao, Humphrey & Qian, 2018). This type of confidence level of a manager is developed by
their self-awareness and self-evaluation. Self-awareness of the management professionals
makes them flexible in trying out an out-of-the-box strategy for accomplishment of the task
and responsibility.
Cultural intelligence
Cultural intelligence refers to the ability to relate to the perspectives of other individuals that
come from different backgrounds (Afsar, Shahjehan, Shah & Wajid, 2019). Therefore
building cultural intelligence skills helps an individual in adjusting to a diverse work
environment. The most international organisation involves a multicultural approach. Thus
with the enhancement of cultural intelligence, one can work with sensitiveness and
compassionate behaviour to a divergent perception and behaviour, additionally, leaders with
high cultural intelligence can create a strong bonding within a team. Moreover, while
enhancing cultural intelligence skills, an individual can improve communication by building
cultural intelligence, one can learn the perspectives of the different cultures and languages.
Therefore building cultural intelligence helps in mitigating the misinterpretation and
misunderstanding among the team members. Different components of cultural intelligence
skills are cognitive skills, physical cues, emotional understanding and building intercultural
bonds with colleagues. Moreover, building cultural intelligence will make an individual
aware of his biased behaviour towards the subordinates while providing rewards and
recognition (Solomon & Steyn, 2017). It will also help a management professional to build
harmony and inclusion in the organisational setting.
Target profession
I have decided to develop my skills and capabilities for making my career objective as a
management executive in a renowned organisation. For building different management skills,
I need to be self-aware and must have an evaluative attitude for continuous enhancement of
skills and capabilities (Panadero, Jonsson & Botella, 2017). Therefore, I have decided to take
my self-assessment test in order to recognise my strengths and weaknesses so that I can
develop the essential skills in order to develop my employability and psychometric skill to be
selected by a dream organisation as a management executive professional in future.
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Conclusion
From the above evaluation, it can be stated that if I want to be a successful management
professional in future I have to develop effective leadership and management skill as
Managers are responsible for developing motivation in the organisational setting. To identify
my strengths and weak areas, I need to be self-aware. Self-awareness behaviour of mine can
make me more evaluative towards my traits and psychometric behaviour. With the
development of emotional intelligence, I can understand the requirements and needs of the
employees in order to offer them rewards and recognition with a critical understanding of
their insight. Thus, with the development of leadership and management skills, an individual
can influence the subordinates and team members with the application of different leadership
and management frameworks and strategies. Moreover, the self-assessment behaviour will
make me align with the organisational culture. Being aware of how I can appear in front of
others can enhance my social skills and self-consciousness. On the other hand, with self-
awareness behaviour, I can make better relationships with peers and other team members. It
will also help me in understanding different perspectives in a diverse situation (Friedland &
Jain, 2020). It will also free me from the biassed behaviour and assumption with a better
ability to regulate emotion.
Part B
Job security
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Happiness
Wisdom
Self-confidence
Co-ordinator
Shaper
Monitor evaluator
Team worker
Implementer
Specialist
Null
Intelligence behaviour
(Appendix B)
(Self-analysis)
Type: The Protagonist (Type: protagonist from the ENFJ are considered as the true
ENFJ-T) category indicates that I team performer but I have
know how to speak to a lack of skill in
Traits: Extraverted- 36%
subordinates and how to understanding the
values, principles and beliefs. professionalism (Swift & ability to let go of the
Peterson, 2019). I will be mistakes can make others
2) Keeping promises. highly committed to the unconscious about their
workplace and the mistakes.
3)embracement of
responsibilities with
responsibility
greater enthusiasm.
Lowest Competencies:
2)excessive caring
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(Appendix E)
VRT4 (Verbal Reasoning) With the verbal reasoning I have to enhance it so that
test result: test, it is clear that I have a I can answer all the
greater sense of reasoning questions correctly.
Correct: 90%
and understand the
Unanswered: 0% (Appendix F)
Right:41
Wrong: 1
Skipped: 0 (Appendix G)
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With the above self-assessment test, I have understood that I have to establish three key
criteria such as behaviour, knowledge and cultural intelligence for influencing the
subordinates and team members in the leadership and management skill.
In the second part, I have conducted a Belbin Team role test for having a greater
understanding of my ability to work in a team. Moreover, Honey and Mumford learning style
assessment has made me aware of my learning style and behaviour while working with a
team. Being a planter and complete-finisher, I can take initiative in any project work or
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organisational activities while the trait of complete-finisher will help me in searching out the
errors and performing the work with perfectionism. On the other hand, the high score in these
two traits may increase my anxiousness and reluctant behaviour in delegating the task. Thus,
I have to be aware of these negative attributes. On the other hand, my manageable skills are
indicating I can develop my team working skills with the development of listening skills and
cooperative skills with better communication. In addition to that, building coordination skills
will help me to act like a confident, mature, talented and clarifying goal (Belmejdoub, 2017).
This trait will also help me in overcoming the behaviour of avoidance in the delegation of the
task.
In understanding the team working capability, the Honey and Mumford model has made me
understand that I have to develop pragmatist behaviour by improving problem-solving skills.
Also, I have to develop a critical understanding of the background information by research
skill development. In contrast, the higher score as an activist and reflector is indicating that I
have a greater ability in brainstorming, group discussion. Moreover, I can learn anything by
watching others through my strong observing skill.
In the fourth part, I have conducted an emotional intelligence test through which I have
understood that I have to develop it for being successful management professional. Without
emotional intelligence skills, I cannot be able to cope up with a diverse working environment.
Moreover, it can hamper my social relationship skills and can make my self centred (Liu &
Chen, 2018). Thus, it is important to develop EQ skills in order to develop a strong
interpersonal relationship with colleagues and manage different diverse situations with
calmness and effectiveness.
The fifth part is indicating that I have not gathered knowledge about different cultural
perspectives and objectives. While working as a management executive in a renowned
company, I have to work with a diverse range of people with different backgrounds and
cultures. In order to work effectively in a diverse working environment, I have to develop
Cultural intelligence by learning the culture of the US, European countries and the UK.
In the next part, I have done a 16 personality test to know my personality trait. With this test,
it is clear that I have to develop a high level of tolerance as lower tolerance levels can make
me ignorant about the perspectives of others. On the other being a protagonist and natural
leader, I have the ability to motivate peer members and subordinates. When scoring a high
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score in the intuitive test, it can be stated that I can closely observe the surroundings and have
an optimistic soul.
Do:
· I have to make sure that my peers believe that I have greater respect towards their
culture and values.
Don’t:
· I need to control the excessive caring attitude as others can take advantage of this
behaviour (Smith, Sardeshmukh & Syed, 2019). I have to be more tactical in managing
the issues.
· Using ‘I’ in verbal and written communication can reflect my self-centred and self-
focused attitude and thus it has to be replaced with ‘we’.
· The avoidance behaviour in delegating tasks can affect the performance level and
productivity which I have to shape up.
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Part C
From Part B, it is clear that I have to develop cultural intelligence, emotional intelligence, and
team working skills in order to develop my professional skill as a management executive
professional. With the development of cultural and emotional intelligence, I can enhance my
ability to work in a diverse work culture with inclusion. Moreover, building emotional
intelligence will help me to build an interpersonal relationship with colleagues while building
a high CQ level will help me to understand the language and cultural preferences of others.
These skills will further enhance my ability to work with harmony and peace (Lawson, 2021).
Moreover, the development of team working skills is going to enhance my team management
skill and will make me more professional and more professional as a management executive
professional.
Emotional intelligence: To build emotional intelligence I will study books on it. Also, I will
try to work in a group every week in order to build awareness regarding my facial and
activity-oriented expressions. Moreover, building interpersonal skills with my peers in
college can help me in building a collaborative attitude.
Cultural intelligence: To build cultural intelligence I will study books on it. Moreover, I will
try to attend the cultural conferences. In addition to that, I will learn several languages to
enhance my CQ.
Team working skills: For building team working capability, I will perform in the group
project and try to collaborate and participate in each group activity (Sharma, 2019). Listening
skills and team working skills will also be developed by making group discussion activities.
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Action plan
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· Self-reflection
making.
· Building
interpersonal
relationships with my
peer mates in the
academic area.
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Appendices