Leadership Management: Understanding Self and Others Skills Report

This report delves into the critical aspects of understanding self and others, focusing on the development of essential skills for personal and professional growth. It begins with an executive summary and an introduction that defines the core concepts. The report then analyzes four key skills: focus and attention, and time management. Each skill is examined through reflective journal entries, exploring its importance, self-assessment findings, feedback from peers and tutors, and any contradictions between self-perception and external feedback. The analysis incorporates relevant theories and concepts to support the arguments. Furthermore, the report discusses how each skill can contribute to future success and includes a personal development plan and a conclusion summarizing the key findings and recommendations. The student provides a comprehensive overview, assessing their competence and identifying areas for improvement to enhance leadership capabilities.

Understanding Self
and Others

Executive Summary
Understanding self and others refers to connection in between people so that they can motivate
themselves as well as others. This comprises of wide range of techniques such as charismatic,
transformation and many others which will aid to deepen the values associated with core
beliefs. This report will cover 4 different skills which a person needs to have while working on a
project, or performing at workplace. Furthermore, it will look into different aspects that are linked
with positive and negative aspects at the same time (Baron-Cohen, Tager-Flusberg and
Lombardo, 2013).

Table of Contents
Executive Summary.....................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................5
What is the core skill to develop?............................................................................................................6
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on? (use relevant theories and
concepts to support your answer)...........................................................................................................6
Reflect on your current competence regarding this skill. How did you assess your competence? (use
your self-assessment findings, feedback from peers and your tutor, plus your own reflections on your
thoughts, feelings and behaviours to answer this question)...................................................................6
Can you identify any contradictions from your analysis above? For example, is there a match between
how you see yourself and how others see you, or not?..........................................................................7
How might this skill help me in the future? (use references to support your argument)........................7
What is the core skill to develop?............................................................................................................8
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on? (use relevant theories and
concepts to support your answer)...........................................................................................................8
Reflect on your current competence regarding this skill. How did you assess your competence? (use
your self-assessment findings, feedback from peers and your tutor, plus your own reflections on your
thoughts, feelings and behaviors to answer this question).....................................................................8
Can you identify any contradictions from your analysis above? For example, is there a match between
how you see yourself and how others see you, or not?..........................................................................9
How might this skill help me in the future? (use references to support your argument)........................9
What is the core skill to develop?..........................................................................................................11
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on? (use relevant theories and
concepts to support your answer).........................................................................................................11
Reflect on your current competence regarding this skill. How did you assess your competence? (use
your self-assessment findings, feedback from peers and your tutor, plus your own reflections on your
thoughts, feelings and behaviours to answer this question).................................................................11
Can you identify any contradictions from your analysis above? For example, is there a match between
how you see yourself and how others see you, or not?........................................................................12
How might this skill help me in the future? (use references to support your argument)......................12
What is the core skill to develop?..........................................................................................................13
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on? (use relevant theories and
concepts to support your answer).........................................................................................................13

Reflect on your current competence regarding this skill. How did you assess your competence? (use
your self-assessment findings, feedback from peers and your tutor, plus your own reflections on your
thoughts, feelings and behaviours to answer this question).................................................................13
Can you identify any contradictions from your analysis above? For example, is there a match between
how you see yourself and how others see you, or not?........................................................................14
How might this skill help me in the future? (use references to support your argument)......................14
Summary...............................................................................................................................................15
Personal development Plan...................................................................................................................16
CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................................18
INTRODUCTION
Understanding self and others can be defined as ways in which individual can judge
oneself and others on basis of certain points like attitude, knowledge, skills and many others
(Tennant, 2012). This will help individual to know more about themselves, by which they can

acknowledge their strengths and weaknesses. This assignment is based on different skills which
should be possessed by individual, why they are required, assessment from others and
contradiction with what other thinks about individual and what individual thinks about
themselves. Furthermore, summary is presented which describes strengths and weaknesses of
skills and what all skills are must to be developed.
REFLECTIVE JOURNAL ENTRY PRO-FORMA 1

What is the core skill to develop?
There are different skills which must be developed before entering into a professional world so
that individual can have competitive edge. As per me I would like to develop this skill:
 Focus and attention: This is important skill as without focus nothing can be attained
in life and for this it is mandatory to have some goal towards which I can work with all
my efforts. When goal is clear then it becomes easy to focus and all my attention will
be on its achievement.
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on? (use relevant
theories and concepts to support your answer)
There is a reason behind each skill I have chosen to develop. I know my flaws and know what
I have to develop by which I will be able to attain my goals after my studies. These skills are
essential for me as focus and attention will provide me where I want to go and what can be
done to attain that. Focus and attention is crucial as without this nothing can be attained. An
example can be taken to understand this perspective. Like being a student, many things
influences and goals changes like if a new technology comes within market, my goal changes
like I want to become a python developer when android came my goal was to become Android
developer and when there was growth in other sectors I wanted to get into that sector. This
means there is no stability and focus which can be seen from example that there is fluctuation
in goals. For this it is mandatory to be focused so that I can work from this moment to attain
particular goal (Foucault, Davidson and Burchell, 2010).
Reflect on your current competence regarding this skill. How did you assess your
competence? (use your self-assessment findings, feedback from peers and your
tutor, plus your own reflections on your thoughts, feelings and behaviours to
answer this question)
At present as per my views and others reflection is provided on basis of these skills.
Skills Feedback

Tutors Peers Me
Focus & attention Careless attitude
towards different
activities.
Not focused,
remains confused
with respect to
future.
Focused for few
days but again goal
changes if any
problem arises.
Can you identify any contradictions from your analysis above? For example, is there a
match between how you see yourself and how others see you, or not?
Perspectives vary from individual to individual. Everyone has their own point of view either
its related with person or some situation (Komives and Wagner, 2016). As per above
feedback , given by tutors, peers what they think about me is similar in some manner to what I
think. I need to work on this so that I can have affirmative result from tutor and peers. By
going through the information which has been shown above there exists higher prospect that
contradictions have been identified. Tutor has mentioned that that I have a careless attitude but
it is wrong as I am serious in class room but towards my goal or aim I am nor attentive. I have
been curious to know that what other are doing so that I can attain knowledge with respect to
same.
How might this skill help me in the future? (use references to support your argument).
Focus is something that is needed at every level while carrying out a project or any other
responsibility. This type of scale will lead me to be an influential person due to high
concentration on specific area. This will lead me to reach the details of project which will lead
to reduction within risk associated with break in submission.
REFLECTIVE JOURNAL ENTRY PRO-FORMA 2

What is the core skill to develop?
In this context the following skill can be developed
 Time management: Nothing can be attained if time is not managed properly suppose
after completing my education I want to give entrance exam to enter into Google, but if
I am not prepared within certain time limit then I won’t be able to get into that position
and after some time I may not be eligible for same profile. I have to learn time
management skill so that I can attain my goal. This also indicates that I lack focus and
attention (Baron-Cohen, Tager-Flusberg and Lombardo, 2013).
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on? (use relevant
theories and concepts to support your answer)
Time management will assist me to manage my skills in a way that after completion of my
studies I can grab my goal. I have analyzed that time do not stop for anyone while carrying out
tasks. Handling of every activity within peculiar time leads to accomplish task within time
such as submission of college project within peculiar time frame which is given by tutor. A
theory is given by Pareto and known as 80/20 rule. By this rule I have found that it depends on
input and output which hardly fits with one other. Thus, both input and output of job or task
comprises of uncertainty with imbalance factor. To understand this an example can be taken
such as I am doing my project and in this need to give my 20% efforts through which 80%
results can be attained. It is essential for me to acquire this skill so that I can complete my
project within time.
Reflect on your current competence regarding this skill. How did you assess your
competence? (use your self-assessment findings, feedback from peers and your
tutor, plus your own reflections on your thoughts, feelings and behaviors to answer
this question)
At present as per my views and others reflection is provided on basis of these skills.
Skills Feedback

Tutors Peers Me
Time management Works on deadline,
but need start working
with time so that at
end moment any
problem do not occur.
Works at last
moment which
creates lots of stress.
I like to work within
time but it is not like
that I start working
from starting but I
think work must be
completed doesn’t
matter when it was
started and end. It
should be before
deadline.
Can you identify any contradictions from your analysis above? For example, is there a
match between how you see yourself and how others see you, or not?
Depending upon findings I do not start working when projects are assigned but I try to
complete them before deadline. I have to acquire this skill so that it can benefit me in near
future in context of business or job. As per the feedback I have been completing my project on
the last date only. Therefore, I need to improve my this skill so that if any problem is faced by
me then I can complete it before deadline by having effectual guidelines from tutor and peers.
By taking into consideration the information I found that analysis given by tutor and my
investigation are similar in some manner. Thereby, I can see contractions within feedback
given by peers as well as self analysis.
How might this skill help me in the future? (use references to support your argument).
By this I can execute all tasks as well as programs at specified duration of time.

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL ENTRY PRO-FORMA 3

What is the core skill to develop?
At present scenario, it is crucial for me to acknowledge myself by taking reviews from people.
This skill has been illustrated below
 Giving and receiving feedback: I hardly give feedback as I don’ want offend anyone
as I know that people do not like when anyone interrupts them or tell them about their
weaknesses. I am not open to feedback I don’t like when someone points out at me but
sometimes it seems that if I will listen what other says about me then it will help me to
grow in a better.
Why is this core skill important? Why did I select this skill to reflect on? (use relevant
theories and concepts to support your answer)
Receiving feedback will let me to acknowledge my weaknesses by which I can know what
needs to be improved (Dzhogleva and Lamberton, 2014). Giving feedback will assist me to
find flaws in myself and help them to overcome those, this will also help me to identify
whether I need to improve that point in myself or not. By acknowledging my weaknesses I can
work on them to transform into strengths.
Reflect on your current competence regarding this skill. How did you assess your
competence? (use your self-assessment findings, feedback from peers and your
tutor, plus your own reflections on your thoughts, feelings and behaviours to
answer this question)
At present as per my views and others reflection is provided on basis of these skills.
Skills Feedback
Tutors Peers Me
Giving and
receiving feedback
Hardly talks with other
and when it comes to
own listens to tutors
but sometimes gather
certain good things
and more often
Not open to negative
comments. It is not
harmful but still
thinks how they
pointed out at me
and thinks that they
It’s true I am not
optimistic. I don’t
like when someone
says that you don’t
listen. I think its my
own life and I know

ignored. are biggest enemy. which way to go.
But at certain
moment of time I
feel that they are
right and they are
saying for my own
good.
Can you identify any contradictions from your analysis above? For example, is there a
match between how you see yourself and how others see you, or not?
It has been analyzed that I am not open to feedback or reviews given by tutor and peers. I
know that it will assist me to improve myself. As per tutor I ignore negative comments but by
acknowledging them I can make relevant improvisation in myself.
How might this skill help me in the future? (use references to support your argument).
This skill will aid me to develop myself by receiving reviews given by tutors and peers.