Personal Effectiveness: Skills and Behaviours of Sundar Pichai

Personal Effectiveness

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
Case Study Review ....................................................................................................................3
Reflective Statement ..................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Personal Effectiveness consider as a specific method which use all the talent, knowledge,
skills, energy and talent to obtain a particular goal. It is necessary to improve personal
effectiveness to achieve any extra ordinary objective and become more successful. Most of the
people try hard to improve their personal effectiveness but they do not have any idea how and
where to start . There are only few way to generalize and maximize their personal effectiveness
to improve their performance and efficiency. With the help of personal effectiveness strategies,
people can better understand their skills and talent and also learn to use their skills and
knowledge optimally and identify that which skills need to develop to accomplish a specific
goal. There are many traits of personal effectiveness such as determination, self confidence,
decision making skills, problem solving skills, time management , managing stress etc. these
traits are helpful to maintain the personality of each and every individual. This report will cover
the case study of Sundar Pichai and discuss about their skills and behaviour that help to made his
global leader. This report also identify the impact of positive and negative elements of Sundar
Pichai skills and also behaviour. Apart from this, report also determine the reflective statement
and apply personal effectiveness strategies and principle to own development as per the
requirement to boost my performance in the competitive market. Lastly, this report also discuss
strategies that I need to adopt so that I can address my personal development needs and also
determine the current potential effect of personal development gap.
MAIN BODY
Case Study Review
Skills and behaviours that have made Sundar Pichai an personally effective global leader.
The leader refers to the person who guides and leads the group of people to achieve the
goal so set. With the increased globalisation the role of leader also increased as to manage and
direct the diverse group of members. The effective leader is one who manages and commands
positively the people in order to achieve the objectives by aligning the employees and
organisational goals (Alenizi, 2019). When the personality doesn't fit the job role the person
cannot facilitate being effective in that order.
Big Five Personality Trait Model

To analyse this better Big Five Personality Trait model is used to match the fit between
person and job. This model helps in understanding the individual personality and characteristics
possessed by them and it helps in better assigning the roles (Anzengruber, et., al., 2017) . When
the proper match between the role and job role is designated the organisation is benefited by the
effective performance of an employee. The key dimensions being presented by this model is as
follows - Openness - This refers to the creativeness and innovative insights of an individual. The
person high on this trait tends to possess the creativeness. The individual tends to think
out of box and explores new patterns to manage the things. The person low on this trait
tends to be resist the change and create a barrier in self development. They don't like
exploring new ideas and gets limited to the job role, Conscientiousness - It is trait which reflects the goal directed behaviour an having good
control to manage the things. The person high on this trait tends to be diligent and
handles the work responsibly. The individual low on this trait tends to be unmanageable. Extraversion - This trait refers to measure the sociability and assertiveness of an person.
The person high on this trait tend to be good at social skills and maintains the positive
environment. The lack of this trait represents the person to effectively interact and always
low on energy which creates the dull environment. Agreeableness - This reflects the considerable and ability to get along with others. The
inclusion of this trait helps an individual to be empathetic and reflects the helping nature.
The individual low on this trait tend to be just confined to their roles and have lack of
awareness of external environment (Barisone, et. al., 2019).
 Neuroticism - This is referred to the emotional stability of an individual. The person high
on this trait tends to be stressed and anxious at every things. The individual low on this
trait tend to be emotionally balanced and handles well workplace stress this results in
better management of work.
Sundar Pichai is an effective leader who possess great work ethics and his skills and
behaviour made him an effective leader. He believes in maintaining the positive work
environment which fosters the creativity of employees. His core principle which makes him an
effective leader is believe in integrity and collaboration. He takes on the inputs of the team
members which give them feel that they are being valued. The Suanr Pichai believes in setting