Self Assessment Essay

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What are my preferred team roles? 1. “The purpose of this self-assessment is designed for me to identify my preferred roles in meetings and similar team activities” (McShane & Von Glinow, 2016, p. 250). 2. 12 (Encourager), 11 (Gatekeeper), 11 (Harmonizer), 13 (Initiator), 10 (Summarizer) 3. My score of 12 as an encourager and 10 as a harmonizer is in the high range and indicates that I have a “strong tendency to praise and support other” (McShane & Von Glinow, 2016, p. B-5) and am very likely to “keep track of what occurs in a meeting” (McShane & Von Glinow, 2016, p. B-5). The score of 11 as a gatekeeper, indicates I have a moderate tendency to encourage others to talk during a meeting and a moderate tendency to mediate conflict. 4. An interpersonal …show more content…

The purpose of this self-assessment is designed to help me establish my strengths and weaknesses on various dimensions of active listening (McShane & Von Glinow, 2016, p. 250) 2. 16 (Sensing) + 16 (Evaluating) + 15 (Responding) = 47 (Overall) 3. My scores in sensing and evaluating, and my overall score places me in the top 25th percentile of the MBA students that took this evaluation. This indicates that I am an active listener that waits for people to finish their thoughts and that I understand the meaning of what people are saying. My responding score was in the bottom 25th percentile indicating that I do not provide feedback as much as other do (McShane & Von Glinow, 2016, p. …show more content…

It is good to know that I am in the top 25 percentile for sensing and evaluating, because most of the time that I interact with people over the phone, by email, or by instant message, and if I am not careful, due to the lack of non-verbal communication, a message could be interpreted incorrectly (McShane & Von Glinow, 2016, p. 258). So, hopefully scoring high on these two attribute will help to mitigate this. However, from this assessment my responding skills can be improved. This low score might be due to my working in a virtual office and conducting a lot of business over the phone and not being able to interpret the non-verbal cues that helps a person be an active listener (McShane & Von Glinow, 2016, B-4). Another reason the score is low is that I do not often rephrase statements. I think I will take McShane & Von Glinow (2016, p. 272) advice and start using the phase, “So you’re saying that….?” to make sure I understand what others are trying to say, for poor project communications can hamper a projects success (Larson & Gray, 2014, p. 120) so by improving my communication skill this will help my projects be a success. Assessment to determine how I influence coworkers 1. The purpose of this self-assessment is to help me understand different forms of influence when working with coworkers and to know my preference for each influence tactic (McShane & Von Glinow, 2016, p. 308). 2. 13 (Persuasion), 13 (Silent Authority), 8 (Upward Appeal), 7 (Exchange), 6 (Assertiveness),

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