Interpret the results of the self-insight quizzes
The first part has provided in-depth overview about my leadership self-insight. Before analyzing leadership self-insight I have attended several tests or quiz by using specific diagnostic tools. The diagnostic tools are related to my leadership qualities and competencies. I have given assessment based on three tools including situational leadership skills, emotional intelligence skills and interpersonal communication skills. In my situational leadership skill I have scored high that implies that I am accustomed and competent in handling any kind of situations happened at the workplace. As a business leader, I may have to face numerous unexpected situations due to employee absenteeism, lack of cooperation, miscommunication so on. However, I am very much confident and competent in handling any kind of crisis raised suddenly. Employees working under me can work being happy and enthusiastic. I do not prefer to make my work environment suffocating. If any employee faces health issue at the workplace I try to stretch my hand towards the individual. I have made an effective team rapport with each other based on which employees can get any kind of cooperation from me due to their health issue. On the other hand, in case of any kind of crucial situation happened due to customer dissatisfaction I have the ability to communicate with the customers properly.
My interpersonal communication skill is not effective due to which I have gathered very low score in this part. People having language barrier faces challenges in communicating with me. Large number of employees is there associated with my organization that have language barrier. I am only comfortable in maintaining verbal communication. My non-verbal communication skill is very poor. I cannot express my opinion and point of views by showing my facial expression and body language. Naturally, people from different cultural backgrounds and attitudes are not very flexible in communicating with me. Due to language barrier I fail to make effective face to face communication. Proper face to face communication is very important for resolving any kind of business issues happened at the workplace. It is however undeniable that due to the lack of non-verbal communication knowledge and multi-lingual flexibility I am unable to understand the major concern of those employees. Naturally, they fail to show their best endeavour towards the services. However, in order to become an efficient leader I would have to improve my interpersonal communication skill so that employees can share their views and thoughts with me.
The third and the last assessment that I have given includes my emotional intelligence skill. In this very specific test I have made high score. As a successful leader I have received immense positive feedback from my colleagues due to my quick customer service. As a team leader I have the capability of getting employee productivity at the right time. Employees prefer to deliver the services within stipulated time due to effective team bonding and communication. By maintaining participative form of decision making style I can share my views and thoughts with my team members. As a result, they can get the opportunity of sharing a good bond with me.
Provide a succinct summary of your key strengths and weaknesses
If the employees understand my direction I never tend to show my rude attitude towards this individual. I always prefer to show my sympathetic outlook towards my team members so that employees do not get afraid of the workplace. They should deliver the solution by enjoying their work activities. I have also observed that people are from different psychological backgrounds. Therefore, while taking collective decision they tend to provide their different opinions towards each other. My emotional intelligence skill does not allow the employees in showing biased approach towards any individual. I always prefer to give equal priority and response to all of my team members. Due to the genuine cases of absenteeism I prefer to become friendly with my employees. As a result, after joining to the office they tend to show their best effort towards the services. In addition, I have also observed that sometimes I become rude in handling overburden of pressure. This kind of approaches can be controlled after taking an effective training session from an expert. However, in order to get the best productivity from employees I should have lenient behavioural approaches. Otherwise, I would never be able to get good performances from the employees.
While discussing my strengths as a leader I have observed that my extrovert nature in becoming friendly with anyone and with any situation is my biggest strength. As a result, new team members do not have to face challenges in making rapport with me. In addition, I have also observed that I can easily maintain a friendly work environment within my team due to my over extrovert nature. Employees working under me can work being happy and enthusiastic. I do not prefer to make my work environment suffocating. People can work with enthusiastic zeal in my team due to agile work environment.
However, I cannot be indifferent towards my weakness in the role of leader. I have observed that my situational leadership quality is not very high. I have to face immense difficulties in handling any kind of crisis being unable to handle major situation effectively. In addition, my decision making skill and time management competency is very poor. I cannot take proper decision at the right time due to which the crisis situation increases eventually. Therefore, it is however undeniable that I need to focus on improving my management quality.
After getting feedback from my leaders I got additional information about my strengths and weaknesses. As per my strengths, I have good communication skill with the help of which I can easily interact with the team members. By maintaining participative form of decision making style I can share my views and thoughts with my team members. As a result, they can get the opportunity of sharing a good bond with me. In this kind of situation, I have observed that team productivity becomes very much high. The team members do not show their reluctant attitude in providing additional effort for team. As a successful leader I have received immense positive feedback from my colleagues due to my quick customer service. As a team leader I have the capability of getting employee productivity at the right time. As a result, customers do not have to wait for a long time in order to receive services. Employees prefer to deliver the services within stipulated time due to effective team bonding and communication. If any employee faces health issue at the workplace I try to stretch my hand towards the individual. In a word, I as a leader am known for co-operative and emphatic towards employees. My emotional intelligence skill is very high.
Assess the need for more information on your behaviors
My English communication skill is very fluent. At the same time, it is also undeniable that I do not have multi-lingual flexibility. Naturally, people having language barrier faces challenges in communicating with me. Large number of employees is there associated with my organization who have language barrier as well as cultural barrier. These people are very much helpless in sharing their difficulties facing at the workplace. On the other hand, I have also observed that my technological competency is not very updated with the gradual progress of globalization. With the rhythmic flow of business, customers become accustomed with digitalized services. Organizations are implementing global counting software in order to expand the business in international market. In comparison to that business scenario, I am very much backdated in handling advanced technology. I am only habituated in operating regional accounting software. But I have observed that my organization is interested in implementing IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) in order to deal with foreign investors. This is the crucial situation with which I have to deal in my organization. Being unable to operate international accounting standard I have to face challenges in meeting organizational goals and objectives.
As an efficient leader my primary vision is
- To direct the team towards right path with the help of which we can meet organizational target
- To expand my widespread hand towards my team members so that they can deliver the work being friendly and co-operative without keeping any personal grudge
- To meet organizational productivity by enhancing my management skill as well as emotional intelligence skill
- To hold senior position my improving my flaws and overcoming the challenges with proper training
Action: In quest of direct the team members towards similar goal I will have to make a group communication first. The primary objective of this group communication is to set the organizational objectives and convey this message to the employees equally about our organizational mission and vision. At the same time, I would have to take an initiative or planning method on how to meet our goal. Group activity as per my point of view will be the most effective ways of meeting organizational target rather than focusing on individual activity. Senior and junior employees need to show their cooperative outlook with each other. As a result, entire team would be able to work in a collaborative way.
Action: In order to meet this objective I would like to follow participative leadership style at the workplace. With the help of an effective leadership style employees can get the opportunity to share their views and thoughts with me. On the other hand, I have also focused to make collective decision while making any business decision at the workplace. With the implementation of participative form of decision making style both the business leaders and employees can get equal opportunity in providing their own opinion. Therefore, I would be able to make an effective internal bonding.
Action: In order to enhance my management skill I would have to take proper management training at my workplace. The human resource managers will hire a professional expert for me who will provide effective training session to develop my skill and competency. Automatically, my decision making skill and time management competency will be high. On the other hand, it has also been observed that emotional intelligence quality in an in born capacity that the leader can never develop and incorporate within nature. In order to capture my emotional intelligence skill and quality I would have to show my sympathetic nature towards employees. I should never impose my own decision on the employees. In addition, I would have to focus on any kind of health and psychological issue faced by the employees at workplace. By gaining these psychological challenges I would be able to direct the employee towards right path.
Articulate your vision for developing as a leader
Action: In order to hold senior position from a leader to a manager I would have to focus on overcoming my flaws which I have identified. I would have to receive training on communication skill for rendering multilingual flexibility. I would have to focus on enhancing my decision making skill as well as time management skill. In addition, I would not have to face any challenges in dealing with the customers as well as with the internal stakeholders.
The resources which are highly needed in order to make this action success are as follows:
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In quest of direct the team members towards similar goal I will have to make a group communication first |
For making a group communication successful I will have to approach the human resource managers for arranging a conference hall. The hall should have proper electricity facility with internet accessibility. As a result, I can easily transmit my messages to the employees and they can get the opportunity of proper feedback. |
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In order to meet this objective I would like to follow participative leadership style at the workplace. |
In order to make appropriate collective and participative decision I need to have conference hall, loud speaker facility and computers. In a conference hall we can gather together for taking effective business decision. With the help of computers I can show relevant database about organizational performance. I can store important data as well collected from the employees. |
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In order to enhance my management skill I would have to take proper management training at my workplace. |
I would have to hire an expert human resource who will provide me effective training and development session for enhancing management competency. In addition, as a resource I need to have a proper training hall along with technological and physical equipments. As a result the entire training program would be successful. |
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I would have to receive training on communication skill for rendering multilingual flexibility. |
In order to conduct communication training I need to have training hall with the accessibility of projector. I need to have s for making the training program attractive. |
In order to get time to time feedback on my leader skill and behaviour I would like to keep the track by using technological equipments. In every three months I will make a survey form based on my leadership skill and capability. I would like to distribute this form to the email ids of every employee associated with my organization. On the other hand, employees who are not very advanced in operating technological devices can fill a printed hardcopy as well. On the other hand, I can use social media platform as well for collecting wide range of views from the employees about my leadership skills and qualities. In the social media platform I would like to give preferences in forming descriptive questionnaires. In this descriptive form of questionnaires the employees would get the scope of delivering their comments in an elaborated way. As a result, I would get better scope and opportunity to understand my flaws and improve my skills in accordingly.
In order to review and revise my future plan I would like to communicate with my human resource managers in order to know organizational competency at the current market situation. If my organization is currently unable to afford sufficient amount of money for the purpose of my training I can revise my future plan. I would like to avail free online courses from where I will get effective ideas on how to enhance my communication skill and increase management competency. Apart from attending online training program I can take guidance from my senior employees as well. With the help of an effective suggestion from my senior I would be able to enhance my experience as well. An effective experience from my seniors is very much valuable for enhancing my future path.
After making an effective discussion with my senior supervisors they have provided me effective suggestions regarding my way of improvement as a leader. As per their point of view, my decision making skill and time management competency is very poor. I cannot take proper decision at the right time due to which the crisis situation increases eventually. They have stated that I do not have multi-lingual flexibility. Large number of employees is there associated with my organization that has language barrier as well as cultural barrier. For them I need to gather multilingual flexibility. I have also observed that my technological competency is not very updated with the gradual progress of globalization. I am very much backdated in handling advanced technology. I am only habituated in operating regional accounting software.
Based on my drawback, they have provided me effective recommendations which are as follows:
- I need to enhance my technological competency with the help of which I can operate global accounting standard. With the help of technological advancement I can handle sudden technological barriers as well. In addition, I can help my employees as well who are not competent enough in their technological skill and capabilities
- I would have to receive training on communication skill for rendering multilingual flexibility. People who are facing challenges in communicating with me due to language barrier would get benefits if I have multilingual flexibility. At the same time, I would have to render non-verbal communication as well. As a result, employees would be better communicated in case of their formal communication method.
- I would have to focus on enhancing my decision making skill as well as time management skill. I become confused in taking proper decision at the crucial time. As a result, the process of business becomes out of the flow. In this kind of situation I would have to face immense challenges in meeting customers’ satisfaction level. Lack of decision making skill can hamper my career as well.
- My seniors have suggested me that I need to improve my personal development skill along with my patience. I do not keep my patience while handling any crisis. In this situation, I tend to react very bad on employees. This kind of nature has left immense negative impression on my personal growth and career. In order to overcome this situation, I would have to work on controlling behavioural approaches at the crucial times.
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