MSLD520 - Module 1 - Self Evaluation - Madeline Campbell


In January of this year, I started the journey of my Masters in Management with a concentration in leadership. After completing and passing my first course, I was given full access to take any of my management and leadership courses. I embarked on my first leadership course while simultaneously taking a management course, which I was quite timid to start. Having had little experience with leadership and never studying it before, it seemed like a very tall mountain to climb. After the second week in that class, it was by far my favorite in my academic career thus far. Dissecting leadership skills and how a leader can be formed and can form people was extremely inspiring. I was tasked with completing self-assessment tests about my own leadership qualities, which was very eye opening. It helped me to be more self-aware in every aspect of how I carry myself in my office to how I do my daily office tasks. Whetten and Cameron state that the five most critical areas of self-awareness in management are, “emotional intelligence, personal; values, cognitive style, orientation toward change and core self-evaluation” (2016, p. 47 ). Further, they state, “These areas have been found to be among the most important predictors of effective personal and managerial performance—  including achieving life success, performing effectively in teams, competent decision making, life-long learning and development, creativity, communication competency, job satisfaction and job performance” (Whetten & Cameron date, p. 48). Post working on self-awareness, it has truly aided in more job satisfaction and pushing myself to work harder and take more responsibility within my current position.

Personal values and cognitive style have played a significant role in being more self-aware. “They are the core of the dynamics of behavior, and play so large a part in unifying personality” (Whetten & Cameron, 2016, p. 48). Personal values stem from an individual’s values and I believe in hard, fair work. I always want to be honest, striving to be the best I can. Due to this, I recently have been very transparent with one of my managers about some negative situations within my department and my perspective on them. Throughout this I have realized (via my past leadership class) that I was being very stagnant within my positon due to being unmotivated. I decided to try to be more present in my office and to take on more responsibility. This has aided greatly in my motivation and work-satisfaction. “Research by Judge and colleagues has linked core self-evaluations to job satisfaction and further showed that intrinsic job characteristics mediated the relationship” (Judge, et al 2003). A change in my current position that was surprising to my direct manager was that I offered to take on a new territory. My previous territory was all the Midwest and East Coast, which did not consist of months of travel in the Fall season. I took Southern California as a new territory expanding my travel to two months, September, October and one week in November. From this, I hope to let my manager know that I am willing and desirous of taking on more responsibility within my department.

Developing my personal and professional skills is a task I will continually be working on. As I develop professionally I hope to re-assess my leadership and management skills in an effort to continually be evolving within my profession. As Whetten and Cameron state, “Not only does self-awareness training assist you in your ability to understand and manage yourself, but it also is important in helping you develop understanding of the differences in others. You will regularly encounter individuals who possess different styles, different sets of values, and different perspectives than you do” (2016, p. 65).



References

Judge, T. A., Erez, A., Bono, J. E., & Thoresen, C. J. (2003). The core
       self‐evaluations scale: Development of a measure. Personnel Psychology,
       56(2), 303-331. doi:10.1111/j.1744-6570.2003.tb00152.x
Whetton, D. A. & Cameron, K. S. (2016). Developing management skills,
        9th ed. Boston, MA: Pearson.


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