Personal Reflection on Self-Awareness and Readiness for Change

This personal reflection discusses the importance of self-awareness and readiness for change in personal and professional development. It also includes the results of a change readiness assessment tool and the author's strengths and weaknesses.

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PERSONAL REFLECTION
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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In order to progress in life both is regards to the individual and organizational levels, self-
reflection is required to a great extent. The essential purpose of the self-reflection is to develop
significant understanding of the individual’s readiness for change. The secondary aspect in focus
is the formation of effective strategies that can ensure further future development.
Self-awareness is an essential criteria for the development of an individual in any field of
work or occupation. The optimal understanding of one’s self can help to enhance the strengths
and tackle the weaknesses towards developing a balanced approach towards life and work. I have
used the change readiness assessment tool for scoring myself and my capabilities to adapt to
changing working environments that I can experience in my professional life. The results of the
assessment has helped me to reflect to a certain extent in regards my self-awareness. The initial
phases of the assessment has pointed to by relative balance when it comes to accepting either the
familiar or the unknown. I am motivated and cannot wait till I can start a new endeavor.
However, at the same time according to the assessment tool I am logical and do not jump to
conclusions when it comes to certain important decisions in life that can guide my future course
of actions.
On the basis of the assessment my scores are: Adventurousness – 23, Resourcefulness – 24,
Adaptability – 23, Optimism – 29, Confidence– 23, Tolerance for ambiguity – 25, Passion- 23
The assessment points towards the fact that I am to a great extent adaptable with regards
to the changing environments. I believe this is one of the crucial capabilities that can make me
achieve greater heights in the future. However, I strongly believe that with regards to some of the
cases I might have achieved more than the acceptable results. I am quite well poised towards
adventuress and I am relatively confident of my actions. I believe being adventurous is a good

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thing in the corporate environment that I will have to endure in the future. This is mainly due to
the fact that these environments require men to be risk taking. Sometimes, risks has to be taken
in a corporate scenario in order to avoid greater risks in the future. My confidence levels can be
said to at par with the requirements but not great. The main problem area that I have identified is
my over optimism. High levels of optimism can mean lack of critical thinking and proper
evaluation of a situation. This is because optimism sometimes can be based on concepts that are
not realistic. I believe too much optimism can make me suffer in the future. Hence, I will need to
take better logical and critical approaches to life. It is important to have a growth mindset rather
than a fixed mindset as a growth mindset is always inclined towards making oneself better.
Hence, I believe that I have significant strength but at the same time I lack critical understanding
of situations at certain points in time. I will need to change this for the better.
In conclusion, it can be said that both my strengths and weaknesses will guide me
towards my future. My strengths will enhance my challenge tackling capabilities and my
weakness will always provide me with essential development areas focusing on changing which
will make mee get better with time.