3-4 paragraphs Self Assessment
Assignment and Instructions attached. Assignment should be 3-4 paragraphs. APA citations and References.
As you start this course, you may want to ponder some very important questions:
What do you think or what have you observed that managers do? What skills did the manager possess that made him or her either excellent, or a poor performer on the job?
Why do you want to be a manager? (If you are a manager, consider how you came to be a manager.) Reflect on what you like about the managerial position and what you would like to do better in this position.)
What skills, abilities, behaviors, and knowledge do you have that you think will help you be a good manager?
Now that you have thought about these questions, it is time to do a little more formal self-assessment in order to recognize your own management strengths and weaknesses. Having a clear picture of your professional skills and areas in which you can improve is the first step in professional growth and an important foundation on which to build your management career.
To prepare for this Discussion:
Take the management skills self-assessment, using the following link from this weeks Learning Resources.
Mindtools. (n.d.). How good are your management skills? Retrieved July 10, 2017, fromhttps://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMM_28.htm
Analyze the results of your self-assessment.
Posta cohesive response in which you:
Examine the role and characteristics of an effective manager by:
Describing what you believe to be the most important things that managers do (i.e. what is the function of the position?)
Explaining the characteristics that you think are important to be effective in a management role
Assessing why these characteristics matter depending on what a manager does
Explain how learning more about yourself might inform your management aspirations. Provide the valuable insights that you gained, including:
An appraisal of at least three strengths you discovered you possess through the self-assessment that will help you be an effective manager, based on what you have identified that managers do (be sure to include why you selected these strengths, i.e., why the selected strengths will benefit you as a manager)
An appraisal of at least one weakness you discovered in your self-assessment and how that might impact your ability to effectively manage
A summary of why having a realistic image of yourself is helpful as you realize your management aspirations
Delineate actions that you can take to ensure that you are an effective manager and how various industries or levels might change the relative importance of various management characteristics by:
Summarizing specific steps that you can take to make sure you build upon your strengths and either mitigate the effects of your weaknesses or overcome them
Evaluating the relative importance of various strengths and weaknesses
Explaining whether the industry or level of management within an organization changes which strengths or weaknesses matter. Be sure to justify your explanation.
Be sure to support your ideas by connecting them to the week’s Learning Resources, as well as other credible resources you have read; or what you have observed and experienced.
General Guidance: Your original post, will typically be 3 or 4 paragraphs in length, as a general expectation/estimate
