Self Assesment - Leadership
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The advantages of Self-Assessment in regards to leadership.
Introduction.
As a leader in the form of a director, manager or team supervisor in today’s economical environment, you will start feeling the pressure and stress slowly but surely to build up at work and you won’t be able to put your finger on it, until something happens that will test your leadership abilities and will change your leadership style forever. This is then called a crucible.
“Everyone is tested by life, but only a few extract strength and wisdom from most trying experiences. They’re the ones we call leader”-Warren G Bennis and Robert J Thomas: HBR at large – Crucibles of Leadership.
A crucible has a religious meaning to it; it basically means a test or an event where there is a final decision or verdict. For example, Sidney Harman (Warren G Bennis and Robert J Thomas: HBR at large – Crucibles of Leadership), he is the co founder of Harman Kardon and the president of an experimental college. He encountered his crucible when “all hell broke loose” in one of his factories. After supervisors postponed a scheduled break because the siren didn’t go off, workers rebelled. One worker announced that he didn’t work for NO buzzer. To Harman, this refusal to bow to management’s sense less rule suggested an interesting connection between education and business. Pioneering participative management, Harmon transformed his plant into a kind of campus, offering classes and encouraging dissent. An event like this will force you into an intense self-reflection and transformation that accompany crucible experiences. It will let you start self-evaluating and self-assessing your leadership skills.
There are tools/instruments available to self-evaluate or self-assess your leadership skills. All of these self-assessment instruments have a similar purpose.
Self-evaluate or self-assess Instruments.
One of these self-evaluate or self-assess instruments is the well-known
The advantages of Self-Assessment in regards to leadership.
Introduction.
As a leader in the form of a director, manager or team supervisor in today’s economical environment, you will start feeling the pressure and stress slowly but surely to build up at work and you won’t be able to put your finger on it, until something happens that will test your leadership abilities and will change your leadership style forever. This is then called a crucible.
“Everyone is tested by life, but only a few extract strength and wisdom from most trying experiences. They’re the ones we call leader”-Warren G Bennis and Robert J Thomas: HBR at large – Crucibles of Leadership.
A crucible has a religious meaning to it; it basically means a test or an event where there is a final decision or verdict. For example, Sidney Harman (Warren G Bennis and Robert J Thomas: HBR at large – Crucibles of Leadership), he is the co founder of Harman Kardon and the president of an experimental college. He encountered his crucible when “all hell broke loose” in one of his factories. After supervisors postponed a scheduled break because the siren didn’t go off, workers rebelled. One worker announced that he didn’t work for NO buzzer. To Harman, this refusal to bow to management’s sense less rule suggested an interesting connection between education and business. Pioneering participative management, Harmon transformed his plant into a kind of campus, offering classes and encouraging dissent. An event like this will force you into an intense self-reflection and transformation that accompany crucible experiences. It will let you start self-evaluating and self-assessing your leadership skills.
There are tools/instruments available to self-evaluate or self-assess your leadership skills. All of these self-assessment instruments have a similar purpose.
Self-evaluate or self-assess Instruments.
One of these self-evaluate or self-assess instruments is the well-known
Bibliography: 1.) Management Development Review Vol 6 Issue 3: “THINK MANAGER, THINK MALE” by Virginia E. Schein, Marilyn J. Davidson 2.) “Prejudice in Organizations”, UVA – OB-0381, James G Clawson and Bryan Smith 3.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyrTxk5OI5U