MBA502 - Personality Reflection on Emotional and Cultural Intelligence

This essay presents a personality reflection based on self-assessments using tools like the Johari Window, Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Test, and Daniel Goleman’s EQ Instrument. It involves feedback from peers to identify open areas, blind spots, hidden areas, and unknown areas of the author's personality. The essay discusses the author's strengths, such as predicting behaviors and staying clear in complex situations, and weaknesses, including reluctance to accept irrational behavior and a lack of budgeting expertise. It recommends developing competencies like adjusting to diverse individuals and enhancing managerial skills, including communication and budgeting, to function effectively as a global citizen. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and continuous improvement for personal and professional growth. Desklib provides access to similar essays and resources for students.

Running head: PERSONALITY REFLECTION
Personality reflection
Name of the student
Name of the university
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Evaluation through Johari window
Johari window is having mainly four quadrants including open area, blind spot, hidden
area and unknown area. I have contacted with my cousins in doing the assessment of mine and
the result of them varies in terms of different elements with my own assessment result. I order to
evaluate the results, I will use johari window model.
According to this mode, the first element is the open space. This refers to the public
aspects and characteristics, which are known to me as well as to my peers. According to the
assessment test, it is identified that the both of my cousins are having the opinion that I am more
attentive towards the words used by the opposite person when listening compared to what they
actually mean. I am also having the same opinion. Thus, this characteristic of mine is in the open
area of the johari window, which denotes this characteristic of mine is known to me and others
(Tran 2016). Thus, it can be concluded the listening trait of mine is known to others apart from
me. Another public area identified is my favorite subject in school, which is English. The
response from my cousins is same as of mine. Thus, it denotes that my qualification and
education skills are kept in the open area according to the johari window.
The next element of the Johari window is the blind spot that denotes the characteristics
not known to me but known to others. According to the assessment result, i have given the
opinion that I am uncomfortable in meeting and taking with the new people. However, the
response of my cousins denotes that I am comfortable in talking to a new person (Saxena 2015).
Thus, it is blind spot for me, which is not known to me but to others. This may happened due to
the reason that I may not have the experience of how effectively I deal with the new people,
which is noticed by other people. Thus this is not known to me. The next element is the hidden

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area. This area denotes the space, which is known to me but unknown to others. According to the
assessment, it is identified that my cousins are not having the idea about my habit of keeping
diary with me. It is only known to me. This is due to the reason keeping a diary with me is a
secret aspect that should not be communicated with me. The last aspect is the unknown space.
This denotes the area which is not known to me or others. It is identified that the interpersonal
skill including the leadership skills are not known to me neither to my cousins. However, the
result of the assessments of mine and my cousins are denoting that I am having leadership skills.
However, it was not known to me or to my cousins.
Identification of the strengths and weaknesses
One of my major strengths identified is predicting my feelings and behaviors in different
situations. This helps me in determining the consequences in a certain situation and can pre-
determine the steps that should be taken. Another positive factor of mine identified is my own
realization about my strengths and weaknesses. I am well aware about my own strengths and
weaknesses and have clear and precise idea how to overcome the weaknesses. This also helps me
in having clear idea about my limitations beyond which I should not go. Another strength of
mine is staying clear and simple in any situation and at any point of time. This helps me in
staying free from any complexities and be able to communicate my views clearly to the targeted
person.
However, apart from the strengths, there are few weaknesses also being identified for me.
One of the major weaknesses is reluctance in accepting the irrational behavior of the people.
Though in this case, I am right from my own point of view but in the current scenario, it will be
treated as a negative factor. This is due to the reason that there will be different types of people

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in the business environment and I should have the capability to adjust to all of them. However, in
my case, I cannot be able to get adjust with people with having irrational behavior. This will
reduce my effectiveness in the real life situation. Another major weakness identified is my lack
of expertise in budgeting and managing money. This will also prove challenging due to the
reason that I will face difficulty in the further life regarding money management. This will also
limit my potentiality in the business scenario in the further stage.
Recommended steps for improvement
One of the major competencies that should be developed by me is having the capability
to adjust with different types of people with having different traits. Development of this
competency will help me to function well as global citizen (Reysen and Katzarska-Miller 2013).
This is due to the reason that in a culturally diverse organization, competency of adjusting with
different kinds of people will help me to have more acceptances among the peers. This will also
help me in effectively communicating with the peers from different social and cultural groups. In
the case of the culturally diverse organization, internal stakeholders will have different opinions
and approaches and having adjustment capability will help me to get adjusted with all of them.
Another important competency that should also be developed by me is managerial skills,
which will include communicating with new people and being more effective in calculations and
budgeting. This is important due to the reason that developing my managerial skills will help me
in managing the culturally diverse organizations (Kor and Mesko 2013). For instance, in a
culturally diverse organization, I may get assigned in a tem where majority of the team members
are from different social groups. Thus, at that point of time, it is the managerial skill of mine that
will help in managing the different social groups effectively. According to me, developing the

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managerial skills will also include budgeting skills and communication skills. In earlier
assessments, it was identified that I was lacking in terms of budgeting and calculations skills.
Thus, to be a global citizen and working in a culturally diverse organization, I should develop
effective communication skills in order to meet up with the new people and identify their
attributes (Lolli 2013). As I already have the strengths of determining the attributes of people by
their body language, so developing only the communication skills will help me I having effective
managerial skills in place.
Conclusion
Thus, it is concluded that there are number of positive and negative factors being
identified in my personal assessments. Some factors are known to everyone and some are known
only to me. In addition, some factors are unknown in general. In this essay, I have discussed
about the differences between the opinion of mine and my cousins and it is seen that there are
number of traits that are not known to my close ones but they known to me. In this essay, I also
discussed about the areas of improvement and competencies that should be developed in order to
have more eligibility in being a global citizen.

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