Assignment of Self-Analysis Portfolio

Introduction of Self-Analysis Portfolio

Human personality and specific characteristics draw an impact on the leadership skills of a person. Personality develops from external experiences of a person in the society, at the workplace, and in the educational institutes. The self-analysis portfolio is based on my self-analysis regarding leadership skills, personality attributes, and management skills. In the portfolio, information collected from the questionnaire and personality quiz is presented in detail. Moreover, self-analysis portfolio will cover four main dimensions which include career history, personality attributes, managerial competency profile, and leadership styles. Followed by these sections whole discussion is concluded and summarized in the conclusion section.    

Career History of Self-Analysis Portfolio

It can be seen that career history has a huge impact on the business of the person. The reason is that if career history is fine and perfect, then it will help any individual to gain confidence and also the courage to move on.

At the start, I have learned many new things that are extremely important for my future. When I was in school, I had a task that my teacher gave me was related to management. I just need to manage all things for the entire class so that they are able to take benefit from that plan. But at that time, I have no idea how to manage the class in a proper way. So I had faced huge failure in management. Then after some time, I started to learn many new things from others.

My teachers were extremely cooperative with me and gave me a lot of information related to management skills. But there is still a need to gain much experience in that field. Later on, I moved towards the high school. At that time, I started to use strategic management skills to complete the required tasks. Then after this, I was able to manage these tasks in a perfect way. Now I got an extreme level of confidence and started to do similar tasks that are related to management. Now at that time, I gained a lot of interest in the field of management. Then I decide I must have to go to the management field.

            The main reason is that I thought that I was able to handle some things easily. After that time, I go for that field and then started to manage different thing in a proper way. But at that time, I had one huge problem of low patience. My patience level was extremely low. Due to this, I started to make huge mistakes and also unable to manage new tasks in a proper way. After that time, I realized that I have to go for some changes in my personality. The main reason was that it would help me in the future in regulating all tasks in a proper way. For that problem, I started to give proper time to each task. I just have to increase the level of steadiness, and this will help me to increase my confidence level for the future in the field of management. When I was in high school, I started to steady myself. The main reason was that it would help me to control my emotions and also my nervousness.

It can be seen that during the pressure condition, it is extremely difficult to handle any task in a proper way. At that time, an individual will make huge mistakes and also unable to make changes in those particular tasks. For handling the pressure, there is a need for steadiness skills in the personality. If a person had such skills, then it will be extremely easy for him to handle such a condition. For that skill, I started to evaluate myself in a critical way. But the main problem is that I was not facing such a problem that will test my steadiness. I thought that I was able to manage everything without any nervousness and anxiety. But I was totally wrong. The main reason was that at that time, I had not faced such pressure conditions. So how could I be able to evaluate that in a proper way? There is a need for such a condition where I am able to prove myself.

For that condition, I had joined the company as an internee. I thought that from that internship, I was able to learn new things for the future. But I had done an internship in that company for about 4 months, but I was unable to face such pressure conditions where my steadiness level is tested in an essential way. 

Then from that time, I started to join a company. My aim was that I just wanted to prove to them they had hired a perfect manager for that organization. From the start day, I worked there with proper dedication and gain attention and fame from all staff members. Then after 2 years, I switched from that organization to another for the sake of experience. But the main problem was the nature of work was totally different. But in that place,

I have tested my steadiness skills in a proper way. I was given a lot of unique situations where it was extremely high pressure in handling the entire condition and also managing all tasks. The thing was that at that time, I just remain calmed and relax and manage all of my tasks in an essential way. In that organization, my management skills were tested in a proper way. In the started, I faced a lot of problems that started. I don’t know how to handle the pressure and stay calm.

But as time passes, I gained a lot of experience and confidence regarding pressure handling. This is just because of that pressure test in that particular organization. From that, I have analyzed that I can easily able to manage my tasks under swear pressure. I am able to balance it in a proper way. Then I joined the multinational organization. In that company, there is a totally unique nature of work, and also the intensity of load is also high, but I can say that it will polish my skills and give me more confidence.

Personality Attributes of Self-Analysis Portfolio

In this section, I have presented my areas of strength and major weaknesses supported by the information I obtained from my self-assessment. Furthermore, the information presented in this section is also supported by the theories and concept I learned in my course lectures. According to my information collected from the lectures, individual behaviour refers to what a person does and person in a certain situation or how a person deal with something. Individual behaviour gets influence from the individual variables such as demographic variables, the background of the person, and abilities and skills. Abilities and skills can be mental as well as physical. For instance, my self-analysis shows that I have good mental skills or abilities in problem-solving and stress handling. Thus, on my individual behaviour, my skills and abilities have a direct impact.

My performance in situation handling and finding an appropriate solution for each issue has also improved my learning skills. In accordance with my results of self-analysis, my performance is improved and I can perform the role of the leader in a better way as I can manage stress and solve problems with my mental abilities. My individual behaviour is also influenced by other individual variables such as family background, affiliation with social class and life experiences. Excluding, this personally attributes are also influenced by psychological variables such as learning, motivation and attitudes (Haslam, Reicher, & Platow, 2010). According to my results of self-analysis questionnaires and tests, my strength is stress management, problem-solving, and competitiveness. In the light of self-analysis, I can declare myself as a type “A” personality type. I want public recognition and self-recognition in my family and friends circle. I have a strong forceful personality that encourages me to dominate in every situation and lead in the front row.

Although, I also feel restless when not active and does things quickly which indicate that I have a “type A” personality. Furthermore, the results of the personality dimension questionnaire and test show that my personality falls in the category of extravert and stable. Following lectures on personality dimensions, extraverted personality-oriented people with stability usually live carefreely and rarely take stress and tension of problems and social issues. Talkative, outgoing, and responsive people fall in this category of extravert stable. While on the other hand, extravert unstable people can be restless, changeable, active, touchy, excitable, and impulsive.

However, my self-evaluation conclude that my personality attributes and qualities relate to the qualities of extravert stable people. Leadership and management skills are my strength and potential which directly relate to sanguine personality (a combination of extraverted and stable personality). Self-analysis also suggests that my behaviour is pro-social as it is supportive of harmonious and productive social relations. Among my social circle, I am considered as an open-minded, stable, tolerant, and warm person who has enough strength of encouraging other people to do something right at the right moment. Additionally, the behaviour of nurturing and empowering other people also make a pro-social person. Apart from these strengths and potential, there are some areas in my personality which need improvement. For instance, during self-analysis, I found that my communication skills are not enough strong.

In this competitive world, effective communication skills are essential to get a better career opportunity in the area of leadership and management. To be recruited as a leader or manager in an organization I must have to bring improvement and ensure further development of my communication skills. Moreover, my pro-social behaviour focused on nurturing, empowering, and encouraging because of stable, open-minded, calm, and tolerant personality characteristic my overall behaviour is more democratic as compare to autocratic. Democratic behaviour is considered as an effective and appropriate behaviour in the organizations for the managerial positions.

However, extreme democratic behaviour presents a low authoritarian personality. Thus, in this point of view, managers also must have to focus on autocratic behaviour sometimes to increase authority on employees and subordinates. Considering this, I also need to have brought improvement in my pro-social behaviour to some extent. For instance, sometimes I should have aggression, hostility, and anger. Therefore, autocratic behaviour included at some extent in my overall personality will result in the increase of authoritative behaviour which is essential for a leader or managers to deal appropriately with the followers while working on a specific job.                             

Managerial Competency Profile

            In this section, the analysis of the managerial competency profile is presented in detail with reflection. Information collected from the management competency questionnaire and self-evaluation based on the managerial capabilities is also presented in this section. Additionally, course material and lecture content are also discussed here to support ideas and opinions about managerial competency profile.

Organizational psychologists have presented some characteristics of an individual person that can be used as supportive indicators to measure and evaluate leadership and management competency. The four characteristics are influence, steadiness, competence, and dominance. Influence is highly important in the development of management and leadership in a person. People having the characteristic of influence can better motivate and encourage other people which makes them a better leader or manager. Evaluating my managerial competency profile, it can be concluded that I need to have the characteristic of influence in my personality. Influence characteristic should be developed in my personality by improvement in communication skills. Excluding this, in managerial competency profile, other important characteristics of leadership and management are dominance.

Current analysis shows that my personality is assertive and dominating as I contract with obsequious individuals and submissive. Moreover, in my core competencies developing and evaluating issues in the big picture can be supportive for me to be a successful manager or leader in future. Although, I also need to work more on this core competency to refine my managerial skills and capabilities. Steadiness is also required for the development of managerial skills and competency. Self-evaluation of my personality and managerial competencies I found my strength in steadiness. My high level of steadiness helps me control my nervousness and anxiety when things go wrong or cause issues. In my opinion, managers and leaders must have steadiness to deal with uncertain situations and conflicts without losing their self-control, temperament and patience. Continue to this, steadiness can also make me clam when uncertainties cause nervousness and anxiety.       

Additionally, emotional intelligence measurement also plays an important role in evaluating leadership and managerial competence of a person. Four major themes of emotional intelligence are social, social skills, self-management, and self-awareness. Self-analysis shows that my emotional intelligence relates to the category headed by social management and management with a raw score of 3.11. In this category, my emotional intelligence relates to effective teamwork, collaboration, mentoring, and building relationship. My personality is enough flexible to get an adjustment in any social group thus relationship building in the social circle is quite easy for me. Moreover, personality strengths associated with extravert qualities are also supportive for me in social relationship building and managing emotional intelligence properly (Keith, 2019).

 In the emotional intelligence testing, my scores for the self-control and discipline was more than 50%. While integrity and trustworthiness were the second dominating variables in my personality. Additionally, test scores presented that I have medium level creativity and flexibility. Over score indicate that I am following self-management model in emotional intelligence which requires further improvement to reach social recognition model in emotional intelligence. My course material and lecture notes have drawn my attention towards this weakness and area of improvement. Therefore, to be a successful manager and leader in future I have to bring improvement in my emotional intelligence capabilities.                            

1.      6 domain Cluster based classification system of Self-Analysis Portfolio

6 domain cluster based classification system is based on factor grouping which includes strategic & organization wide competences, networking competencies, problem solving and decision making competencies, team leadership competencies, administrative & operational competencies, and personal management competencies. These competency clusters have the various number of competence elements. These 6 domains are presented below in this section in brief detail to relate my self-analysis findings with these domains:

1.      Leadership and team-building of Self-Analysis Portfolio

The first domain cover elements such as individual consideration, motivating others, building teams, facilitating group interaction and building team morale. Considering self-analysis, building team, facilitating the group’s interaction and individual consideration are core elements related to my personality.    

2.      Strategic management and future orientation of Self-Analysis Portfolio

The domain has focused on behavioural characteristics and elements such as effective risk-taking, analytical capacity, environmental awareness, and managing change. My personality is mainly focused on managing change and analytical capacity. However, I need to have a focus on effective risk-taking to learn strategies and develop behaviour regarding control of risk factors as a manager in future.        

3.      Personal management competencies of Self-Analysis Portfolio

Personal integrity, enthusiasm, self-awareness, and tolerance of ambiguity are the key focused areas by the domain of personal management competencies. The evaluation suggests that my personal management competencies are high although a focus on improvement can turn this domain into my competitive advantage.

4.      Problem-solving and Decision Making of Self-Analysis Portfolio

Regarding this domain, my personality mainly relates to the evaluation of alternatives, accurate problem diagnosis, and problem-solving ability.

5.      Political skills, influence, and persuasion of Self-Analysis Portfolio

Identifying opportunities, forging an alliance, and participating in meetings relates to this domain. Being an effective manager in future I also need to have a focus on this domain and further develop strength relevant to this domain.

6.      Administrative and Operations Management  of Self-Analysis Portfolio

In this domain, the key focus is on operational scheduling, facilities maintenance, inventory administration and productivity monitoring. An administrator and operations manager should have a focus on all these areas to control the cost of operations and maximize the overall profitability of the company. Thus, to be a successful manager in future I would also require to develop strength in the operations management and administrative activities such as sales, advertisement, knowledge of accounting, and operational scheduling regarding all major activities to be done in the organizations (Amanchukwu, Stanley, & Ololube, 2015).    

From lecture notes and course materials I learned that I have to acquire competencies of an effective leader and manager by following the sequential competency acquisition. The process of acquisition would start by learning stress management and time management. Then in the next step, the focus is required on coaching and motivating. The third step relates to the practising operational leadership domain which covers network building and strategic leadership.    

Leadership Style of Self-Analysis Portfolio

            Following course material and analysis, some common leadership styles include a democratic leadership style, autocratic leadership style, and laissez-faire leadership style. Autocratic leadership style pays special attention to controlling behaviour. Democratic leadership style is related to the overemphasis on inclusive behaviour. While on the other hand, laissez-faire leadership style is focused on disengaged behaviour and disinterested behaviour. Leadership styles are consistent behavioural patterns of a person that describe how being a leader or managers he/she would approach and interact with other team members and colleagues.

Leadership styles usually depend upon the consideration and initiating structure related dimensions. Consideration covers concern for people and process-focused behaviour. While on the other side, initiating structure covers concerns for production and focuses on results. Self-analysis present that my leadership style is democratic and it relates to the leadership dimension of initiating structure. My overall leadership style is focused on results and outcomes of the strategies developed for the tasks and projects. Considering, my analysis managers need to concern about production. While as a leader in the public, the process forced and concern for people related considerations are required. Self-analysis present that I also need to pay attention to the dimension of considerations such as concern for people (Asrar-ul-Haq & Kuchinke, 2016).

Thus my focus on these dimensions of leadership styles I would conclude that I also need improvement in the consideration dimension of leadership styles. According to the theories and research of Jack Welch the leadership behaviour can be identified with 4 E's which relates to the approaches such as edge, energies, energy, and execution. Considering these 4 E’s and self-analysis, my personality strengths include a competitive edge to win, energizing behaviour, and action-oriented activities. Relating my current managerial and leadership competencies with the requirement of workplaces and organizations it can be claimed that I have enough strength to fit in the strategic culture of an organization. Moreover, being a leader my core values are integrity and trustworthiness. These core values are highly acceptable in the society and workplaces moreover such qualities and values work as a strength and develop leadership in the leader.

Personal leadership is developed in the personality traits related to the direction of leadership and life.  According to my assessment, I evaluated that my leadership style is predominately participative. This type of leadership style distinguishes a person from others because I am capable of working with group members and those who understand the objectives and goals of the task. my biggest strength is my hard-working nature, punctuality, time management, responsibility, and ability to accomplish the goals before deadlines. As a team player, I am a trustworthy person as I can survive in different and severe kind of environments. My self-assessment benchmarking shows my personality and leadership skills. According to this analysis, I have creativity at a high level that I can generate ideas and I can think out of the box to generate all the possible solutions to the problems. creativity can be related to the thinking process. I am highly open to new tasks and challenges. I always get excited about a challenging task and listen to the point of others. I always like to admire new ideas and point of view that are often proposed by my team members. I always give my maximum dedication to the task that has been assigned to me. For instance, in the workplace, I like to have a complete audit on a weekly basis to evaluate the performance of my team members. In these audits, I always score maximum that is 99% or 100% due to my dedication for the work. This assessment shows how much dedicated I am toward my goals of life. I believe in honesty is the best policy and I always follow it in my life. All the process is reliable so I can trust all under any kind of circumstances. My leadership style is collaborative because I perform all the tasks after having reliable group discussions. I am always prepared for the new challenges and if I fail in accomplishing the goals, I take responsibility. I am a confident person that has a focus on the goals and remain confident about the work and score well in case any audits are conducted. One of the important factors of my leadership style is my communication skills. This skill helps me while having communication with others about the projects even if the team members belong from different nationality. I am good in communication because I love to learn about languages. I consider leadership as a way that is leading to others and to get the desired results. There are number of theories that are presented by different authors, but the best leadership style is collaborative leadership. There are number of facts that can be used to determine the combination of behavior and ability of someone to accomplish the task in a team. I like to accomplish goals within the time range with best competencies and reliable outcomes of the project. I like to take other team members with me all on the way to go far for the goal. I emphasize on sharing the ideas and have participative decision regarding the task directions.

Conclusion  of Self-Analysis Portfolio

 The whole discussion concludes that leaders and management require some specific characteristics, values, personality traits, behaviors, and approaches. Self-analysis report concludes that my leadership skills are developing with time. However, still, improvement is required in these areas to ensure betterment in leadership and managerial skills and capabilities. Self-analysis reports indicate that my overall personality is centered on the current requirements of modern organizations such as the democratic leadership style. However, problem-solving skills and stress management are my core qualities. In response to analysis, it is decided that I will continue existing strengths as well as develop new skills and capabilities as a leader or manager. Leadership capabilities and management capabilities are also discussed in this portfolio in the light of information extracted from lecture and self-analysis questionnaires.

Tests related to essay of Self-Analysis Portfolio

Test related to essay, according to the analysis I have performed different tests for the personality.  Moreover, being a leader my core values are integrity and trustworthiness. These core values are highly acceptable in the society and workplaces moreover such qualities and values work as a strength and develop leadership in the leader. The next test is related to the personality trait. Personal integrity, enthusiasm, self-awareness, and tolerance of ambiguity are the key focused areas by the domain of personal management competencies. In the essay, there is proper information about the personality of the individual .