Leadership and Management: Assessment 3 - Managing Yourself Report

This report, submitted as Assessment 3, focuses on self-management, leadership, and working with multicultural teams. It reflects on the student's learning throughout the semester, drawing upon Peter Drucker's principles of self-management, which emphasize identifying strengths, understanding learning styles, and aligning personal values with organizational goals. The report highlights the student's strengths in communication and adaptability, along with their leadership qualities and ability to work under pressure. The student outlines an action plan for developing HR skills, including training and development and relevant work experience, aiming to become an effective leader in a multicultural environment. The report also emphasizes the importance of personal competencies and the development of 360-degree feedback for continuous improvement. References include works by Drucker, Eliason, Jorgenson, Rao, Redding, Saloi, and Srinivasan.

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Managing yourself
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The report emphasis on managing ourselves and make ourselves competent to lead the
team and working with multicultural individuals in the team. The report includes the
reflection of what I learnt throughout the semester and the reading materials provided in the
college. One of the reading which I am going to talk about is “managing oneself” explaining
the rules of Peter Drucker, which emphasis on developing our strength and knowing where
one belongs to (Rao, 2015).
As we know that history had great leaders like Napoléon, da Vinci and Mozart who
have performed extra ordinarily well in their life and have been considered as an exception,
however they have been managing themselves in the war like conditions. It is said that
“Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person — hardworking and
competent but otherwise mediocre — into an outstanding performer (Eliason, 2019).” It
means that if I want to perform exceptionally than I will have to be aware about my strengths,
and I will have to evaluate how do I learn and how do I contribute. It is important to focus on
strengths and develop the certain skills and traits to transform ourselves to build an extra
ordinary persona. Developing strength would also subsidies the impact of weaknesses. When
I relate myself to the theory of managing myself from Peter Drucker, I feel that my strength is
communication skills and adaptability. I can adjust myself in any environment, learn new
things quickly and manage things with minimum financial resources available. I worked for
the restaurant where I even helped in purchase department, and I helped them to get the best
quality things on cheapest price available. The negotiation skills helped me reach this level of
confidence. However, to apply these tricks in all field, I will have to study each industry
trends and need to gather knowledge of a particular subject before opting for any discussion
or deal (srinivasan, 2015).

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My personality reflects more towards having leadership skills, an extrovert individual
who is comfortable to work with number of people belonging to different culture. I consider
everybody’s opinion while taking any decision (Jorgenson, 2015). Furthermore, I give more
importance to people’s perspective, because I feel considering everybody’s opinion minimize
the risk of failure. One more aspect in “how do I perform” aspect is whether you can work
under pressure or you need predictable environment. If I evaluate myself on that stance, I can
work under pressure. I am looking towards developing myself to continue working under
pressure by producing finest quality results. One more aspect of managing oneself talks about
having values which can be compatible with organizations’ values. I have a charismatic
personality, where I have balanced approach of people centric and task-oriented values. On
the contrary, wherever there is a tradeoff between human emotions and task completion, I
find it difficult to come to any conclusion (Drucker, 2015).
The personal competencies model is being used to evaluate an individual four set of
competencies which can help to achieve the goal for life. Before joining any organization, I
will have to study the background of the company. Next would be how the learning strategies
such as summarization and highlighting will me help to regain the knowledge. There will be
few challenges in dealing with multicultural employees and employees with different goals,

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but it is important to be self-motivated and encourage team to meet the ultimate goal which
are aligned with organizational goals. It is important to have a good relationship with team
members in order to have a personal connect with them. Good relationship with team
members will enable you to reach an extra ordinary goal by subsidizing the impact of cultural
differences (Redding, 2014).
After studying where I belong to and what is my strength and weaknesses, I found out
that I am a people-oriented person and quick learner. If I strive to get the position of an HR, I
will have to adopt different HR best practices which can be applied throughout the
operations, training and development methods which can boost the knowledge and morale of
an individual along with developing 360-degree feedback to evaluate the individual personal
competencies. The relevant action plan is given as below (Saloi, 2018).
Goal Action Evidence of
achievement
Target Date
Motivation activities to
boost the morale of
multicultural team
Go out and have
informal meeting
frequently
I will be able to most
effective leader for the
multicultural team
members
December 2019
Training and
development session
theory and practical
knowledge
360-degree feedback
and attained for
certification exams.
I will pass the level iv
leadership and training
development
certification exams
August 2020
Tae relevant work
experience in HR
field`
opt for an internship in
prestigious firm
I will work with
dedication and take an
internship of probably
3-6 months in company
End of degree or in
summer vacation

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References
Drucker, P. F. (2015, January). Managing Oneself. Retrieved from https://hbr.org:
https://hbr.org/2005/01/managing-oneself
Eliason, N. (2019). Managing Oneself by Peter Druck. Retrieved from
https://www.nateliason.com: https://www.nateliason.com/notes/managing-oneself-
peter-drucker
Jorgenson, E. (2015, July 6). Getting a Head Start. Retrieved from https://medium.com:
https://medium.com/evergreen-business-weekly/how-to-start-a-new-job-
1fddd420c41e
Rao, T. V. (2015). Know where one belong to . In T. Rao, Effective people. Random House.
Redding, S. (2014). Personal competency. Retrieved from http://www.centeril.org/:
http://www.centeril.org/publications/Personal_Compentency_Framework.pdf
Saloi, M. J. (2018, March 10). Lessons from Managing Oneself. Retrieved from
https://hackernoon.com: https://hackernoon.com/managing-oneself-a1914dd95c36
srinivasan, K. (2015, August). Managing myself… Notes from Peter. Retrieved from
https://carnivas.com: https://carnivas.com/managing-oneself-563ea0418a73