Developing Effectiveness in Management and Leadership

ASSIGNMENT ESSAY
Developing Effectiveness in Management and Leadership
on topic
MyMy PersonalPersonal AwarenessAwareness
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MY PERSONAL AWARENESS
I was very confused at the beginning of my MBA studies and was about to withdraw
from the programme, since I was very busy at the time and the new responsibilities and tasks
for the module were giving me headaches, not even to mention the reading material and other
assignments. It made a pressure on me and even put me into an argument with a colleague at
work. The key turning point was the discussion with my Course Leader and senior staff at
work, which gave me support to persevere in it, and it especially came to my awareness about
my weaknesses and strengths when I started the next module Developing Effectiveness in
Leadership and Management. That was it; I was at the right place for the answers I was
looking for.
Anyone who is committed to self-improvement, personal development, or the higher
goal of spiritual growth should actively seek self-understanding. This is because only when
one understands what is missing can focus the efforts on what needs to be improved. Self-
awareness is the capacity that a person has for introspection and it involves gaining an
understanding and insight into one's strengths, qualities, weaknesses, flaws, ideas, thoughts,
beliefs, reactions, attitudes, emotions and motivations. Introspection also involves assessing
how one person perceives others and how others are affected based on someone's behaviour,
reactions and actions.
Based on the survey outcomes of both Emotional Intelligence Self-Assessment Tool
(Feldman, 1999; Sterrett, 2000) and Daniel Goleman's EQ Test (Goleman, 1995), I have
analyzed my strengths and weaknesses on the quality of emotional intelligence perspectives.
Both these tests of emotive intelligence help a person to identify one’s hidden area, open
area, unknown and blind spot area based on the tool of Johari window (Luft and Ingham,
1955). I have compared my test grades with the results completed by my two colleagues.
As per the EI Self-Assessment Tool results, I have scored high in social awareness
and self-awareness skills. In terms of social awareness, I have scored 21, whereas in self-
awareness skills, I have scored 20. According to Goleman (2006), the fundamentals of
emotive intelligence are considered as self-awareness - recognizing a feeling as it happens. It
generally influences an individual to provide a reliable and positive sense of self-worth and
also improves one to be critically self-reflective (Fernández-Berrocal and Extremera, 2016).
The colleague that provided my self-awareness score as 22, knows me very well rather than
the other friend. Hence, comparing the results, I can say that as per the Johari window, self-