Leadership Skills: Self-Analysis of Strengths, Weaknesses as Manager

This assignment is a self-analysis report focusing on identifying personal strengths and weaknesses relevant to leadership and management. The author reflects on an incident to highlight bravery, creativity, determination, and dedication as strengths, while acknowledging weaknesses such as knowledge delivery, judging others, and being domineering. Based on this self-assessment and feedback from toolkits, the author outlines a plan for personal development in areas like understanding others' concerns, being tactful, and improving communication skills to become an effective future manager. The report emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and continuous self-development in fulfilling a leadership role, referencing academic literature to support the analysis.

Question 3
Summary of My Major Strengths and Weaknesses and Comments on Any Patterns of
Behavior That Have Emerged From the Self-Analysis
From the incident, I realized that I have some strengths that enabled me to overcome
the situation strongly. Braveness is one of my strengths. The situation changed my patterns of
fear and I had to be brave enough to bring a solution to the problem. I believed that “fear cannot
keep a man out of danger but courage can”. Therefore, I was brave enough to raise the issue
that the foreign students from Spain were doing wrong, and they were not supposed to
communicate in Spanish while the discussion was still on.
Creativity is also a strength I realized from the incidence. After learning the concerns of
Spanish student, I was creative enough to come up with a solution of awarding each member
with a pen and notebook to write opinions. Creativity being mother of innovation, the student
contributed beneficial ideas through the writing as compared to those who were contributing
verbally.
Determination and dedication is another strength I realized. Despite, the communication
barriers being experienced in the group, I remained focused on the discussion and further
looked on ways for members to corporate and meet our discussion goals.
I possess a weakness in delivering knowledge to other members. After I learned that
people were communicating, in their dialects, I did not take time to educate them about the
importance of effective communication but I condemned them and briefly advised them to stop
the behavior.
Judging others is also my weakness. I realized the weakness when I jumped into
conclusion that Spanish students were being ignorant to the discussion. At first, I did not even

bother to finding out why they were discussing in Spanish while the group rules and regulation
were displayed on board.
Domineering is also my weakness. Uiterwijk (2013 p. 97) defined domineering as an act
of being too focused on doing something alone. This weakness is evident from the incident that
I never asked other members for their opinions and views. Furthermore, despite a discussion
group having several members, I believed my proposal was right and commanded them to
obey.
Three Areas of Personal Development as a (Future) Manager That I Can Work On In the
Next Year
The incidence has given me an insight of how I will consider people’s problems in the
future. Furhermore, I have learned and agreed with Twenge, Campbell and Freeman (2012
p.1045) that sometimes people need to learn others concerns but not jumping into conclusion.
In the future, I will be more curious with other people’s actions so that I could easily identify their
changes in behavioral patterns. As a leader, from the incidence It is clear that people changes
their usual behavior when there is an issue disturbing them.
My future career requires me to deal with people from diverse cultures and
personalities. Therefore, the incident has enlightened me that I should be more tactful and
appreciative so that in the organization I can work with others with respect and harmony.
According to Bambacas and Patrickson (2008 p.51) employees with effective communication
skills, abilities to solve problems and good decision-making are likely to be retained and well
compensated. Therefore, I appreciate my abilities to solve problems, being quick and a firm
decision maker and good communication skills as they will increase my performance in future
in the aspects of personality and career development.
References

Bambacas, M. and Patrickson, M., 2008. Interpersonal communication skills that enhance
organisational commitment. Journal of Communication Management. 1st ed.UK: Emerald insight
publishers pp.51-72.
Twenge, J.M., Campbell, W.K. and Freeman, E.C., 2012. Generational differences in young
adults' life goals, concern for others, and civic orientation, 1966–2009. Journal of personality
and social psychology. 5th ed. Germany: springer p.1045.
Uiterwijk, J.W., 2013, August. Perfectly solving domineering boards. In Workshop on Computer
Games (pp. 97-121). Springer, Cham.

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