Mymanagementlab: Personal Assessment

The personal assessments from MyManagementLab has allowed me to delve into my skills and preferences. This has allowed me to better understand myself, how I communicate with others, and how all this comes together in an organization. Not only have I gained general knowledge about organizational behavior from these personality tests, but I have also learned things about myself that will allow me to become a better employee, coworker and in the future, a manager. However, all this knowledge is pointless if we forget what should be our reason behind everything. Through the sacrifice of Christ and His precious blood, we have been bought out of sin and no longer belong to ourselves. We belong to God, and everything we learn or do should be for His
Taking the assessments on communicating with other was very eye-opening for me. Per MyManagementLab, I have a low knowledge of coaching and counseling, low knowledge to provide negative feedback, and low knowledge to communicate supportively. In conjunction with that, my communicating style is skewed towards deflecting. I am an introvert who does not like conflict. While I may understand the reasons my communication skills are so poor, that does not give me an excuse to remain that way. MyManagementLab gives some pointers on how to improve in my areas of inadequacy, and I need to take the time to reflect on them and improve myself. Leadership and Team Skills. My leadership style is almost completely even between the three styles listed by MyManagementLab. There is only a .75 difference between the lowest and highest styles. I have not been any many areas of leadership, but since I do not have a strong preference towards a certain leadership style, I can adapt to the situation at hand. Due mainly to the fact that I am a Christian, my ethical leadership is high. I have a set moral code that I hold myself to, and this is more important than a business’s
As Dr. Fischer (2006) so eloquently reminded us, “it was Jesus Christ’s work on the cross, and then His resurrection from the dead, that opened the way for us to walk in newness of life.” We should strive to become more and more like Christ, not so we can be viewed as a holy person, but so that we can glorify God. Everything we learn and everything we do should be for the glory of God. He is the only One worthy of this. As Revelations 4:11 exclaims, “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created” (English Standard