Self-Assessment: Management Skills, SWOT & Objectives for Growth

This essay provides an assessment of a developing manager's skills and performance, focusing on self-awareness and areas for improvement within an organizational context. It begins by introducing the role of a manager and the importance of organizational culture. The core of the essay involves a self-assessment of management skills, employing SWOT analysis to identify personal strengths (such as focus and timely completion of tasks), weaknesses (including nervousness, time management issues, and limited technical skills), opportunities, and potential threats. The essay concludes with a prioritized list of objectives and targets aimed at developing the manager's potential, accompanied by specific time frames for achieving these goals, and also includes references.

The Developing Manager

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Introduction
Manager is a person who controls or directs the business
activities. Their role is to make environment conducive to work
and motivate employees in order to accomplish their tasks.
Organisational culture define values and importance of
organisation that contribute to the social ans psychological
condition of an entity.

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2.1 Assess own management skills and performances
Marriott hotel is one the famous hotel in a worldwide and it
manage their staff in an efficient manner. All the managers have
their own set of qualities. They have different kind of skills,
knowledge, performance, and their own ideas. As a manager it
would be must to have these qualities which makes a perfect
person to play a role in a Marriott hotel as a manager.

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2.2 Analyse personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threat
SWOT analysis is the best technique to identifying our own
strengths, weakness and opportunities also understand things
which are threat for us. Through this technique I can find out
my own capabilities and try to improve them for put the
company on a profitable situation. As HR manager of a
Marriott hotel I need to use my strength for a hotel and
remove my weaknesses which may be harm my profession
also take a opportunities which offer me at a time and find out
my threat.

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Strengths: These are the qualities which define positivity of a
company and a person as well. Strengths assist company to
achieve its objective and goals in an efficient and appropriate
manner. The biggest strengths of Marriott hotel are good
management, good internal and external environment, no debts,
relationship with its employees etc. As a HR manager of Marriott
hotel my strengths are as follows:
My biggest strengths is I focused on my job and complete my
work on time.

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Weaknesses: These are the hidden qualities of a
person. Which may down the performance of an
organisation. If company ignore these qualities it
may be beneficial for it. I also have some
weaknesses which drag me down during the course
of employment.
Opportunities- People get opportunity from market
and organisation as well. Opportunities received
with various different types of offers, schemes which
helps company to improve its management and
attract costumer towards organisation.

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Threats- Threats not manageable but if we work on it surely will
find the solution. Usually, these are uncontrollable but surely get
solution. If threats are control by me in Marriott hotel then it
brings a wrong impact on organisation.

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2.3 Set and prioritise objectives and target to develop own potential
Objectives Time frame
My biggest weakness is I easily get nervous and
lose my confidence which reduce my work
power and down my work quality.
20 days
Second weakness is I cannot manage time in
well manner which reduce my work quality. I
need to make time table and follow it for
complete my job on time.
15 days
My third weakness is management. Usually, I
can't manage work and not able to provide
proper training to them because of time and
professional knowledge which effect my work
quality.
10 days
Fourth one is basic knowledge. I have less
basic knowledge because I can't read latest
update and not aware latest news regarding the
management of Marriott hotel.
30 days
My last weakness is less technology skills. I
have not much technology skills because I used
less the latest techniques and Google. And m
collected less data related to company. I need
to collect internal and external data related to
Marriott hotel.
15 days

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References
 Arends. R., 2014. Learning to teach. McGraw-Hill Higher
Education.
 Pinkerton. E. ed., 2011. Co-operative management of local
fisheries: new directions for improved management and
community development. UBC Press.
 Pohl. K., 2010. Requirements engineering: fundamentals,
principles, and techniques. Springer Publishing Company,
Incorporated.

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