Love to quote the view on learning by the legend Aristotle, “Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age” and what makes a person learn more is from his own understanding of what’s lacking in him. This self assessment has helped me to judge my abilities, actions, qualities, and realized my strengths and weaknesses by myself being the critique with the help of my colleagues and roommates.
In the leadership trait questionnaire, I found others have judged me the way I judged myself except in areas of self confidence, and outgoing where I gave low score for my confidence but my assessors thought I was doing better with my confidence. However, by personality trait, I am rather shy and restrained when it comes to expressing my views on controversy topics. But my colleagues think I am doing what I am supposed to do. I have to absorb to cultivate in these areas and take risks in social settings, to speak up and act immediately.
The Skills Inventory indicated that I have strengths in both human and conceptual abilities and a bit lower in my technical leadership. I do need to have the technical understanding to be able to be a nurse manager or supervisor in future and I have to work on this skill to be a successful leader. Moreover, I have acknowledged that leading with vision and being goal oriented is my strong point and need to focus on being more organised to achieve my goal. Being too sensitive to situations and as I identified a high score in human and conceptual skills, I need to focus on the situation as a whole rather than carried away by emotions which intern affects my goal.
Finally, the Leadership behavior Questionnaire specified my strengths in both task completion and relationship. Though not in any leadership roles at present in my health care profession, I wish I could be a great leader by being what I am, friendly and accommodating, creating a team environment, acknowledging others’ opinions and encouraging one another, providing a safe place for growth, while also finishing tasks and objectives professionally.
To wrap up, I have faith that, with incessant learning, sustained growth and focus in developing my technical qualities, not being too sensitive, I will be more effective in team environment in my life’s journey. Learning is never ending, so is evaluation and rationalization. It goes hand in hand. So I learnt from this activity to practice self assessing now and then to keep a track on ourselves!!!