Understanding Human Behavior Is Critical to Organizations - Discuss the Benefits of Self Evaluation/Self Assessment as It Relates to Leaders Today.
Q1. Understanding Human Behavior is critical to organizations - discuss the benefits of self evaluation/self assessment as it relates to leaders today.
Effective leadership is one critical aspect for organizations today. Pursuing high levels of effective leadership, leaders need to measure their skills and capabilities against different leadership dimensions. This will help leaders to spot dimensions that need enhancement and others that need development. This paper will discuss the benefits of leader’s self-assessment of different dimensions with focus on those related to understanding human behavior.
Self Assessment Techniques:
Different techniques of self-assessment have been developed. As (Clawson, et al., 2000:4) stated ‘There are many theories about the elements that make up leadership’ hence self assessment technique differ in terms of leadership dimensions measured. Another factor is the methodology used for each technique. Among the different techniques one can identify the Leadership Steps Assessment (LSA) developed by (Clawson, et al., 2000)Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), 360 assessment and many more. LSA will be considered as a sample in this paper. Leadership Steps Assessment (LSA) LSA models the leadership using six dimensions, which defines the components of leadership which, as (Clawson, et al., 2000:4) proposed were: 1. Clarifying one’s center. 2. Clarifying what is possible.
3. Clarifying what others have to contribute. 4. Supporting others so they can contribute. 5. Relentless assertion. 6. Celebrating progress. Clarifying one’s center measures how one is aware of his values and how strong they are. This involves ethical and moral aspects affecting one’s decisions; it determines to which extent one is confident about them. On the other hand, leaders who are clear about their strong values can stand crucibles with high levels of integrity and confidence.
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Clarifying what is possible measures how leaders are considering long
Effective leadership is one critical aspect for organizations today. Pursuing high levels of effective leadership, leaders need to measure their skills and capabilities against different leadership dimensions. This will help leaders to spot dimensions that need enhancement and others that need development. This paper will discuss the benefits of leader’s self-assessment of different dimensions with focus on those related to understanding human behavior.
Self Assessment Techniques:
Different techniques of self-assessment have been developed. As (Clawson, et al., 2000:4) stated ‘There are many theories about the elements that make up leadership’ hence self assessment technique differ in terms of leadership dimensions measured. Another factor is the methodology used for each technique. Among the different techniques one can identify the Leadership Steps Assessment (LSA) developed by (Clawson, et al., 2000)Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), 360 assessment and many more. LSA will be considered as a sample in this paper. Leadership Steps Assessment (LSA) LSA models the leadership using six dimensions, which defines the components of leadership which, as (Clawson, et al., 2000:4) proposed were: 1. Clarifying one’s center. 2. Clarifying what is possible.
3. Clarifying what others have to contribute. 4. Supporting others so they can contribute. 5. Relentless assertion. 6. Celebrating progress. Clarifying one’s center measures how one is aware of his values and how strong they are. This involves ethical and moral aspects affecting one’s decisions; it determines to which extent one is confident about them. On the other hand, leaders who are clear about their strong values can stand crucibles with high levels of integrity and confidence.
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Clarifying what is possible measures how leaders are considering long
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