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Why self-assess?
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How to self-assess?
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What to self-assess?
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How to use self-assessment?
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How to get feedback?
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As a manager, you need to know your strengths and weaknesses to improve your performance and develop your potential. Self-assessment is a valuable tool to help you identify your areas of excellence and improvement, as well as your goals and motivations. In this article, we will explore some ways to conduct self-assessment and get feedback from others to enhance your management skills.
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- Charles McKinney Jr., CSM® Fueling Futures: Apprenticeship Program Maestro | DEIB Dynamo | Skill Architect | Catalyst for Change | Passionate…
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1 Why self-assess?
Self-assessment is the process of evaluating your own abilities, behaviors, and personality traits in relation to your work context and objectives. Doing so can help you recognize your strengths and leverage them for better results, identify weaknesses and address them with learning and development opportunities, align actions and decisions with values and goals, increase self-awareness and confidence, seek constructive feedback from others, and plan your career path and growth.
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- Charles McKinney Jr., CSM® Fueling Futures: Apprenticeship Program Maestro | DEIB Dynamo | Skill Architect | Catalyst for Change | Passionate about Transforming Lives through Workforce Development
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Self-assessing for career development is like being your own career superhero. It helps you understand your strengths, weaknesses, and goals, creating a personalized map for success. By reflecting on your skills and achievements, you can identify areas to improve. It's a powerful tool to set meaningful objectives and make strategic career decisions. Being your own career detective through self-assessment ensures you're on the right path, equipped with the skills and mindset needed to conquer your professional goals!
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In my oppinion,the most objective ways to measure performance, whether it's one's own or that of team members, include:Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) measuring the reality of achievements against set objectives.Success cases showcasing specific achievements and positive outcomes.Crisis management demonstrating the ability to handle difficult situations effectively.
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I often encourage my clients to take a self-assessment like DISC - it identifies not just their weaknesses, but what they do well as leaders, communicators, and coaches. We sometimes need to remind ourselves what makes us great professionals.
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Because1- it keeps track of your numbers.2-Settles KPIs of your performance.3-Represent a strong backup of yoir succesful milestones during the year.4- Points 1 to 3 build a honest atorytelling of your work.
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2 How to self-assess?
There are many methods and tools to conduct self-assessment, depending on your purpose and preference. Online tests and quizzes, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the StrengthsFinder, and the Career Values Scale, can provide you with a general overview of your profile and potential. Self-reflection exercises, such as the SWOT analysis, the SMART goals, and the journaling technique, can help you to uncover your insights and feelings, as well as to identify your patterns and gaps. Additionally, feedback surveys and interviews, such as the 360-degree feedback, the peer review, or the one-on-one meeting can help you to gain different perspectives and validate or challenge your self-assessment.
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- Gabriel Martins Application Science - Liquid Chromatography - HPLC - Master of Science
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using tools to identify blind spots like 360 feedback or questionnaires based on personality and work aspects are great for self assessment. Making them yearly, helps to identify moving trends through career development.It’s much easier to identify what we know we have to do than what we don’t no we are lacking.
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Take only one type at a time since there are so many types. Think about what you want to know about yourself to improve upon or to boost your self-confidence instead. You should be open to the results, whether they are good or bad, and determine how to use them to advance your career.
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3 What to self-assess?
When conducting self-assessment, it's important to focus on aspects that are relevant and important for your management role and career development. These include your management style, skills, goals, and values. Assess your strengths and weaknesses in each area, such as planning, organizing, leading, communicating, problem-solving, and decision-making. Evaluate your level of proficiency and confidence in specific abilities and competencies like delegation, motivation, coaching, feedback, conflict resolution, and negotiation. Additionally, assess your progress and performance in relation to your goals, as well as your challenges and opportunities. Lastly, consider your alignment and congruence with your values such as integrity, accountability, innovation, collaboration, and diversity. Reflect on your sources of motivation and satisfaction.
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Decide what you want to know - if I am a leader, do I need to understand my communication style better to delegate? If I am working on a team do I need to show how I can be a team player when managing projects and finishing timelines? What do you need to improve on if you are not getting promoted? Working with a career coach on the results is a good way to figure out what you need to assess. There are times when it is beneficial to have a little emotional intelligence about yourself.
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Self assesment is keeping reccord of goals, business results plus evidence of their work in teambuilding and a strong participation in transversal projects.
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4 How to use self-assessment?
Self-assessment is not a one-time event, but an ongoing process that requires regular review and update. To use self-assessment effectively, you should set a purpose and scope that are both clear and realistic. Additionally, it is important to choose the right methods and tools for your needs and preferences. Collecting and analyzing the data from your self-assessment to compare it with feedback from others can help you identify your strengths and weaknesses, as well as opportunities and threats. Afterward, you should create an action plan to capitalize on your strengths and address any weaknesses. Lastly, it is essential to monitor and evaluate your progress, celebrate successes, and learn from failures.
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Reviewing your self-assessments periodically is recommended. Check back after six months or a year to see how it has changed. Take advantage of your strengths if you are getting promoted. If there are challenges that you need to address in the future, analyze and compare feedback with others.
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5 How to get feedback?
Feedback is essential to supplement and bolster your self-assessment. It can provide you with information and opinions about your performance and behavior, helping you to confirm or correct your self-assessment, discover new or hidden aspects of yourself, improve your skills and competencies, increase your awareness and understanding of others, build trust and rapport with others, and foster a culture of learning and improvement. To get feedback effectively, you should identify the sources and types of feedback that you need and want, ask for feedback in a respectful and constructive way, listen to feedback with an open and curious mind, acknowledge and appreciate the feedback giver, seek clarification and examples if needed, reflect on the feedback and decide what to do with it, act on the feedback and show improvement, and follow up and thank the feedback giver.
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Your supervisor and people reporting to you can provide you with insight into your daily work habits and style. You can move forward by finding a mentor who can provide you with guidance.
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Employess could proactively organize a presentation of their own work. Showing interest in becoming responsible of their performance and hits instead of passively receiving a personal review of things he should have done.
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6 Here’s what else to consider
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Well, where to start. AI just finds the most common denominator. Please think for yourself. Self reflection, what happens and your role in it, whether good or bad, is where learning starts. It is dependent on context, your pre-depositions, your expectations, etc. That makes it very complex. Complexity that cannot be captured by tools like Myers-Briggs Type indicator where the results are dependent on whether you answer statements from the position of who you want to be or who you actually are. Who you are is 10% conscious and 90% subconscious. Good luck on being anywhere near truthful instead of wishful. Better to just be transparent about what you want and connect and be open to others. Learn from your mistakes together and grow together.
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I do think a self assessment can be beneficial in targeting areas of strength or weakness. I would caution though, that upper management has to understand this is merely how the employee sees themselves related to their work. Management needs to be willing to meet the employee halfway on these assessments and help the employee find target areas. Celebrate the strengths and action the weaknesses. Employees have to know that their opinion of themselves matters in how a company sees them and grows them. Managers needs to be asking why the employee sees themselves as they do instead of just spitting out what they think and not investing.
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