Self-Reflection Assessment: Management Competencies and Development

This report is a self-reflection assessment focusing on the development of management competencies, based on the STAR Model. The student analyzes their strengths and weaknesses, particularly highlighting areas such as openness to criticism, seeking opportunities, and insightful decision-making. The assessment involves analyzing situations, tasks, actions, and results to understand personal limitations and devise strategies for improvement. The student identifies a lack of openness to criticism, a hesitancy in seeking opportunities, and insufficient insight as key shortcomings. They propose solutions such as practicing mindfulness, engaging in more discussions with peers, and undertaking detailed studies to enhance their knowledge and perspective. The report concludes with a summary of the student's self-evaluation and plans for future development, emphasizing the importance of continuous learning and improvement in management skills.

Running head: SELF REFLECTION ASSESSMENT
SELF REFLECTION ASSESSMENT
Name of the student
Name of the university
Author Note

1SELF REFLECTION ASSESSMENT
The respective paper is a self reflection about me and my management competencies and
capabilities based on the STAR Model of self-reflection. In the respective paper, I have utilized
my six capabilities and competencies in order to identify, comprehend, analyze and interpret my
positive as well as negative qualities, my shortcomings and drawbacks in the arena of
management and how can I improve the areas for the near future. To identify my capabilities, I
have maintained a journal of my competency throughout the course in order to evaluate them
while framing the paper.
As a student of Business Management, I have been subjected to different kinds of theories,
approaches and perspectives. Throughout the course, not only did I learn about the theories,
concepts, perspectives and dynamics of management, but have also learnt that a student of
management is expected to have certain qualities and competencies. Management skills that are
essential for a management enthusiast or a student who is pursuing management are: Technical
skills, conceptual skills, interpersonal skills and management skills apart from other tertiary
skills such as spontaneity and street-smartness. A management expert is expected to have highly
optimized skills and knowledge synergized with maximum potentiality and efficiency.
Throughout the course, in the first assessment, I have realized that the major skill that I required
for my profession was I am not open to criticism. A professional, an expert or a student who has
been working in the management environment within a corporate setting would be coming
across a plethora of opportunities as well as threats and winning and losing is a part of
professional life. Every professional should be open to criticism of him/her and his/her activities
in order to identify his/her faults and grow as a professional and an individual, which I lack.
Therefore, to improve myself in this arena, I have to be more patient and not be overconfident

2SELF REFLECTION ASSESSMENT
about my code of conduct, keeping an unprejudiced mind in the workplace. According to the
STAR Model, the respective competency is analyzed hereafter.
Situation: throughout the management course score section between weeks 1 to week 10.
Task: management of drug department in pharmaceutical setting with a session of group
discussion regarding my role.
Action: I was given the task of a management personnel and I was supposed to take the
managerial responsibility of the drug department.
Result: I realized that I lacked in the skills of being open to criticism from my peers and mentors.
I have been given the task of management personnel. I have committed certain mistakes such as
miscommunication and wrong interpretation in my course internship which has led to criticism.
However, as I was criticized, I lost patience and gave wrong conduct in my workplace which
meant that I am not flexible or unprejudiced to my notions of my abilities. Therefore, to improve
myself in this arena, I have to be more patient and not be overconfident about my code of
conduct, keeping an unprejudiced mind in the workplace by practicing mindfulness exercises.
Throughout the course, in the second assessment of week 2, I have realized that I have certain
limitations. I am not susceptible to procure opportunities surrounding me. Seeking opportunities
to learn within a learning environment is an interpersonal skill which every management student
is required to have. With the help of skills of seeking opportunities, a person can grow personally
and excel professionally. Opportunities in an organization or in a workplace are dime-a-dozen. It
is the talent and capability of the professionals that enable them to seek those opportunities by

3SELF REFLECTION ASSESSMENT
having effective interpersonal communication systems with his/her peers in order to grow and
excel. Factors such as knowledge and skills can be brushed up or revisited with the help of the
peers if and only if I am able to seek opportunities surrounding me. I should have the courage
and spirit to engage in communication with my peers to derive maximum knowledge, ideas and
information from them in order to grow myself as a complete individual both professionally as
well as personally. According to the STAR Model, the respective competency is analyzed
hereafter.
Situation: throughout the management course score section between week 1 to week 10.
Task: management of drug department in pharmaceutical setting.
Action: I was given the task of a management personnel and I was supposed to take the
managerial responsibility of the drug department and also exhibit my responsibility through
group discussion.
Result: I realized that I lacked in the skills of inculcating opportunities from my surroundings. I
was initially, not understanding the secondary and tertiary tasks of a management personnel,
however, I did not seek out any help from my peers out of bashfulness or lack of confidence and
interpersonal skills. Therefore, I realized that I have such limitations and should cope with it. .
Factors such as knowledge and skills can be brushed up or revisited with the help of the peers if
and only if I am able to seek opportunities surrounding me. I should have the courage and spirit
to engage in communication with my peers to derive maximum knowledge, ideas and
information from them in order to grow myself as a complete individual both professionally as
well as personally.

4SELF REFLECTION ASSESSMENT
The third shortcoming that I have faced is that I am less insightful. I do not possess the power or
talent to look at the matters from different angles. Insight can be defined as understanding or
comprehending a specific cause and effect within a specific context. The term insight as different
meanings and connotations, such as, it can be termed as an introspection regarding a particular
issue that might or might not be happening in a particular future scenario, a special power or
talent to see through the matters, which is often called intuitiveness, a power of acute and keen
observation that can be classified as deduction, discernment and perception, that are often called
intellection. However, in the management arena, the management professionals or expert should
be having the quality of seeing matters through different perspectives and on different grounds of
contexts in order to understand and analyze the matters better and take better decisions for the
present as well as future of the organization. As I lack in these qualities, I have to develop an
insight towards all the matters surpassing me, and to materialize it, I need to act calm and
tranquil and also practice the insightfulness through mindfulness, such as, thinking about a
particular topic on different perspectives and different contexts, which is also a kind of
intellectual exercise. In order to fuel myself, I would be requiring to be getting into a detailed
study about various management situations, theories, concepts, contexts and perspectives, so that
I become well aware of my subject and increase my knowledge, develop my wisdom in the
respective area. According to the STAR model, the competency can be analyzed hereafter.
Situation: throughout the management course score section between week 1 to week 10.
Task: Decision making regarding patient health in pharmaceutical setting.

5SELF REFLECTION ASSESSMENT
Action: I was given the task of a management personnel and I was supposed to take the final
decision regarding the finalization of drugs for patient health and make a presentation of the
decisions.
Result: I realized that I lack in insight and intuitiveness regarding the complexities of the
situations. I had committed an analytical mistake in decision making process in the report which
I was given to make. I could have taken help from my peers or discussed about the matter with
others but I did not do it. Therefore, I realized that I have to be more discursive and analytical in
my approach. As I lack in these qualities, I have to develop an insight towards all the matters
surpassing me, and to materialize it, I need to act calm and tranquil and also practice the
insightfulness through mindfulness, such as, thinking about a particular topic on different
perspectives and different contexts, which is also a kind of intellectual exercise. In order to fuel
myself, I would be requiring to be getting into a detailed study about various management
situations, theories, concepts, contexts and perspectives, so that I become well aware of my
subject and increase my knowledge, develop my wisdom in the respective area.
The respective paper concludes as a self reflection about me and my management competencies
and capabilities based on the STAR Model of self-reflection. In the respective paper, I have
utilized my six capabilities and competencies in order to identify, comprehend, analyze and
interpret my positive as well as negative qualities, my shortcomings and drawbacks in the arena
of management and how can I improve the areas for the near future. To identify my capabilities,
I have maintained a journal of my competency throughout the course in order to evaluate them
while framing the paper.