Personal Effectiveness Report: Sundar Pichai and Leadership Skills

This report delves into the concept of personal effectiveness, emphasizing the utilization of individual skills and talents to achieve life goals. It explores the significance of personal effectiveness in leadership, particularly highlighting Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, as a successful example. The report evaluates critical skills and behaviors, including openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, using the Big 5 personality model. It analyzes how these traits contribute to productivity, strong workplace relationships, and stress reduction. The report also examines the principles of personal development in a competitive market, drawing on academic sources to support its findings. The structure of the report includes an introduction, main body with critical evaluations, and a references section.

Personal Effectiveness

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
Critical evaluation of the skills and behaviours..........................................................................3
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Personal effectiveness is defined as the branch in which own skills and talents are being
utilised in order to make appropriate path for attaining goals and objectives for life. Personal
effectiveness is the aspect which is integrated with ideas of positive thinking. For big leaders
personal effectiveness is playing significant role in their success and inhaling prominence as
well. In order to perform with high efficacy personal effectiveness is the aspect which is helpful
as this is highly focused over career and own strengths (Voronina, Kungurova and Slizkova,
2018). Besides this with the help of personal effectiveness working efficacy at workplace can be
enhanced as people can know about their strengths and areas in which these strengths can be
utilised. This report is associated with various aspects of personal effectiveness along with
behaviour of Sundar Pichai. Sundar Pichai is CEO of Google and he is the most successful leader
among globe. The report further includes principles of own development in order to accomplish
successful job in competitive market.
MAIN BODY
Critical evaluation of the skills and behaviours
Personal effectiveness is something which is directly leads in increased productivity and
stronger relationship at workplace. Besides this personal effectiveness is helpful in minimising
stress level due to which individual may have higher satisfaction in their job and workplace as
well. In order to have higher working efficacy breaks are required and by undertaking personal
effectiveness strengths can be analysed by an individual and this is helpful for them to enlighten
their career. Personal effectiveness is associated with personal resources in which talent and
skills of people are acquired in such a way that personal and professional goals can be attained
by individual in context of career establishment. Skills are playing significant role for an
individual in order to attain goals and aims which are related with their life and professional
career as well. In the context of people those are working within an organisation, personal
effectiveness is providing them high edge benefits related to recognise their own talent and use
the same in optimal manner for attaining their goals and objectives. Sundar Pichai is a successful
leader and CEO of Google which is multinational technology company and specialised in
internet services in which various technologies are inserted such as cloud computing, search
engine, software and hardware (Jha, 2018).

In order to understand personality Big 5 model could be helpful as this is helpful in
elaborating personality trait along with significance of that behaviours. This model is also known
as OCEAN model of personality in which various dimensions of personality are examined. This
model is elaborated as under:
Openness
Openness is a personality trait in which people are possessed with broad range of interest.
This is the ability in which people think in abstract manner in order to be creative and
adventurous. People with this trait are highly creative and open minded in which they are
focused over dealing with challenges and inhaling abstract concepts. For Sundar Pichai his
openness lead him to plan for their venture and add new ideas to their business. Sundar Pichai is
having various quality and openness is one of the prominent among all. Sundar Pichai is
thoughtful due to which founders of Google picked him as CEO of google.
Conscientiousness
This is the dimension which is associated with thoughtfulness, goal directed behaviour
and impulse control. The people with this trait are highly determined and gratified which is
helpful for them step in frontier manner. This trait in personality for individual is helpful for
them in finishing given task in appropriate manner. For Sundar Pichai his Conscientiousness led
him to deal with various social situations and enhance capabilities of their business. Besides this
as Sundar Pichai is highly energetic and this the major reason of sustainability (Oprea and et. al.,
2019).
Extraversion
This is an ability in which assertiveness and high amount of emotional intelligence is
included. These people are able to attain better centre of attention in which they are associated
with wide social circle of acquaintance. These are the people those are highly comfortable when
they are around people and they get energised in gatherings. For Sundar Pichai he is a good
public speaker due to which he is highly confident and comfortable while speaking in public.
This trait is helpful for him to share his experience with people and comfortably involve people
in various gatherings.
Agreeableness
This personality trait is associated with trust, prosocial behaviour, kindness and affection.
People with this personality traits are having interest to get involved in people and assist people

in their hardship. Besides people with this personality traits are spreading happiness in such a
way that positivity is being ascertained. Sundar Pichai is the person who is supporting their
employees in their good and bad deeds. This is the reason that he is highly successful leader and
CEO of a successful establishment.
Neuroticism
This is the trait of people with sad behaviour and emotional instability. These people are
facing high stress and they get upset easily due to which they feel anxious sometimes. This is not
a positive personality trait and not helpful for people in order to deal with complexities faced by
them. These people may face numerous repercussions within their personal aspect and this the
major reason for their anger.

REFERENCES
books and journals
Jha, S., 2018. Self-Reflection for Personal Effectiveness: Insights from Literature. Asian Journal
of Management. 9(2). pp.1015-1019.
Oprea and et. al., 2019. Effectiveness of job crafting interventions: a meta-analysis and utility
analysis. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. 28(6). pp.723-
741.
Voronina, E.V., Kungurova, I.M. and Slizkova, E.V., 2018. Leadership skills as a key to
personal effectiveness. In V Рождественские чтения (pp. 94-96).