Personal Effectiveness: Skills and Behaviours of Sundar Pichai

Personal
effectiveness

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
CASE STUDY REVIEW................................................................................................................1
Apply thories and framework related to personal effectiveness by providing critical evaluation
of skills and behaviour that Sundar Pichai used to become a global leader...............................1
REFLECTIVE STATEMENT.........................................................................................................5
Discuss how you intend to apply personal effectiveness principles to your own development
for getting success in competitive job market.............................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Personal effectiveness refers to a branch of self-help movement which deals with the
goals, related concept and success. It is a combination of some ideas that reflects a power of
positive thinking and positive psychology. In simple terms personal effectiveness is separate
from the new thought movement. Personal effectiveness people are highly focused and
determined towards their specific goals and it could be achieved by developing the self-
discipline. Personal effectiveness reflects something that is entirely unique for everyone and it is
basically based on an individual person career. In this person will utilise all their skills, talent and
energy to fulfil the goals or setting the goals in the life. This report is based on a Sundar Pichai
who a known as a business executive officer of Alphabet Inc. that is a subsidiary firm of Google.
He was born on 12 july, 1972 and in 2015 he was appointed as a new CEO of Google. It is a
pride moment for India to see that Indian born become a CEO of largest multinational
technology company. This report includes the skill and behaviours that helps Sundar pichai to
become an global leader. It also involves the positive and negative elements within Sundar
Pichai skills and behaviour with their impacts. Further it explains the reflection for own
development to maintain the competition within job related market. It helps in analysing the
opportunities and threats that are including in developing the personal effectiveness in order to
remove the weaknesses so that high profitable results are to be enjoyed in the job market by an
individual person (Sundar Pichai Life Story: A Man Bringing Revolutionary Changes, 2021).
CASE STUDY REVIEW
Apply thories and framework related to personal effectiveness by providing critical evaluation of
skills and behaviour that Sundar Pichai used to become a global leader
Sundar Pichai was born on July 1972. He get the C grade in one of paper at IIT
Kharagpur. Form that he got the inspiration to work hard and improve their academic and
management skills. Due to this their scholar degrees are to be improved which helps in becoming
a leader of Google in 2015. To become a global leader, several skills and behaviours of Sundar
Pichai helps them that impact on enhancing overall personal effectiveness (Cowen, 2020).
Sundar Pichai follow the Affiliative leadership style. It is a type of leadership style which
promotes harmony among the followers by solving the conflicts so that fewer conflicts are to be
faced by the team members. This leadership style establishes the collaborative environment
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within the company and shows the better way to succeed and bring the best out of others. To
effectively reflects Pichai's leadership style that helps in becoming a global leaders several skills
and behaviour are to be explained below:
Skills and behaviour that made Sundar Pichai an personally effective global leader
 Communication- It is one of the best skills of Sundar Pichai that helps in becoming a
global leader. He has a good tone of communication that helps in easily connecting with
the huge audience. Sundar Pichai is a strong communicator and ensures that every
member understand the mission and task effectively and properly so that
misunderstanding are not creating while performing the task (Murugan, 2017). To
maintain the effectiveness in the communication, SMCR communication theory is to be
referred to Sunder Pichai because it helps in systematically transfer the information to
team members so that effectiveness would be maintained.
 Team player- When an individual person is talking about Sundar Pichai then they
discuss about their team player skills. Having the team leading skills helps in removing
the roadblocks or any barriers that has to be stand in completing the task. Due to team
building skills Sundar Pichai encourage the collaboration and personal development
within working environment. It also set the collaborative culture that helps in attaining
the targets effectively.
 Decision making skills- Sundar Pichai has achieved the targets in their life by working
hard, never giving up attitude and their dedication towards attaining the hand work. This
helps in taking an effective decisions related to presented task. In this it is evaluated that
Sunder Pichai focus on adopting the behavioural theory that helps in taking decisions
effectively.
 Encouraging innovation- Innovative organisations are to be developed with innovative
ideas that are provided by the members of people. Sundar Pichai has an innovative
behaviour due to this Goggle and Alphabet becomes a largest technology company in
world. This also encourages the working employees to suggest innovative ideas and
thoughts so that their overall professional career is to be enhanced. Due to innovative
ideas and thoughts organisation get the productive results in their long term survival
(Vidergor, 2018).
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