Self-Assessment for Management and Leadership Development

This report is a self-assessment of the student's management and leadership skills, focusing on personal development and career goals within a multicultural environment. The student identifies their strengths, such as evolving interpersonal skills and a hardworking ethic, and discusses how they can become an outstanding manager. The report emphasizes the importance of self-awareness, communication, and cultural understanding. The student also outlines the skills they need to develop to work effectively with diverse teams and clients, including communication proficiency and the ability to build trust. The report references academic sources to support the student's reflections and provides a plan for future development, highlighting the need for continuous learning and adaptability in a dynamic business landscape. The student aims to improve their skills to work effectively in a cross-cultural environment with multicultural and diversified people.

Management

Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person – hardworking and
competent but otherwise mediocre – into an outstanding performer.” Peter Drucker,
“Managing Oneself’, HBR, Jan. 2005
Question 1:Where do you think you belong?
Question 2: What is critical for you to be an outstanding manager in the multicultural
environment?
Answer 1:
I think I fit to the process of evolving the interpersonal skills. I also belong to the
category of hardworking person. In the recent competitive business environment, it is true
that we manage our own life as well as career together. During the course of personal
management, I will learn more about the development of self-awareness that proved to be the
significant skill. It is rightly stated that hardworking has proved to be the significant element
for becoming a great performer. As per Hassanzadeh, Silong, Asmuni & Wahat (2015) the
characteristics and qualities linked with the good performer comes from the consistency and
determination. From the course, I have also noticed that efforts and dedication are most
important things that can turn a person into a hard working person. In order to increase the
ability of hard work, focus on one activity has proved to be the significant strategy. By
making my involvement in the process of development, I have to build my level of
competency in several areas. The competent areas include becoming interpersonal competent,
dynamic communicator, creating personal contact as well as becoming a higher performer.
Global all these areas are significant at the time of developing personal goal as well as
becoming a goof performer. It because these areas prove to be significant in order to work
upon several complex things. There are few people who only that good performance is
essential for a successful career. As a mentor of my own, I have learned that the combination
of outstanding performance, self confidence, personal impact, interpersonal communication,
and communications are few element of my success. However, there is not direct sort of
relationship between the several things and success in order to gain career objectives. For
transforming myself into a good performed, I need to give my concentration in identifying
the most significant objective (Caliendo, Fossen & Kritikos, 2014).I also have to take steps in
order to achieve the results. Being hardworking and self-competent, I am required to develop

the habit of completing tasks in time. Besides this, confidence development is also required to
give a feeling of competency, confidence and mastery. In addition to this, optimism is also
one such thing. Learning this aspect, I need to understand both favourable as well as
unfavourable events. I will also work on the small goals, I will be able to accomplish each
and every goal. By following all the above mentioned things, I can develop my hardworking
skills (lvesson & Sveningsson, 2015).These things are significant element to improve my
skills and in making me a hardworking and capable person.
Answer 2:
For becoming an outstanding and better manager in the diverse environment, I
required to develop the significant skills for working effectively in the cross cultural
environment with multicultural and diversified people. Being a manager, it is essential to deal
with different cultural people. Communication style, work ethics, management, and
behaviour also differs from country to country. It is also seen that the western culture highly
give preference to the values. Several people also develop the sense of patience and
community (Javidan, Bullough & Dibble, 2016). Due to this, I am required to aware of my
own preferences, personal biases, styles, focus, and insight. These elements are crucial for
managing any environment. In spite of this, I also need to start taking initiative for ensuring
interaction with the global clients. I also required taking the assistance of a mentor to better
understand the culture. By getting the deep knowledge regarding different cultures, I will be
able to understand the individual as well as collective values. Due to this, I am required to
manage the cultural diversity for effectively understand the responsibilities of any project
professional because culture in any organisation consist of the different values (Guiso,
Sapienza & Zingales, 2015).
As compare to this, communication proficiency is also one such element that is
required to understand at the time of managing different background. In order to improve the
communication skill while interacting with different cultural environment people, it is
essential to understand the language and preference of those people. Due to this, at the time
of performing at global platform, I also required to develop my managerial skills in order to
handle the conflict that is seen among the cords cultural people. In order to become the global
leader, I also required to establish the close emotional link for ensuring the loyalty and trust
among different people. It is because loyalty and trust are two significant elements that helps
a person to gain the complete support from good people. At the same time, this will also help

in remaining competitive. In this way, I will require to deliver the best and effective
performance for influencing the employees to work toward the objective of the organisation
(Cumberland, Herd, Alagaraja and Kerrick, 2016).

References
Caliendo, M., Fossen, F., & Kritikos, A. S. (2014). Personality characteristics and the
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Cumberland, D.M., Herd, A., Alagaraja, M. and Kerrick, S.A. (2016). Assessment and
development of global leadership competencies in the workplace: A review of
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Guiso, L., Sapienza, P., & Zingales, L. (2015). The value of corporate culture. Journal of
Financial Economics, 117(1), 60-76.
Hassanzadeh, M., Silong, A. D., Asmuni, A., & Wahat, N. W. A. (2015). Global leadership
competencies. Journal of Educational and Social Research, 5(2), 137.
Javidan, M., Bullough, A., & Dibble, R. (2016). Mind the gap: Gender differences in global
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