Working with Others
After taking the Keirsey Temperament Sorter and learned profoundly about my weaknesses and strengths. I realized that to have a harmonic relationship with the other temperaments, I need to improve in my weaknesses. Some of the things I must improve is in my communication skills, shyness as well as my inflexibility. What I liked about the Keirsey assessment unlike other ones I did in the past, was their constructive feedback when most of other tools focus only on the positives. These indicators have helped me to recognize my limitations and gave me a clearer direction on how to increase effectiveness. It reminded me that warm and tactful communication can increase my effectiveness, and see opportunities to change my behavior …show more content…
Having creative initiative, ability to manage conflicts or know how to manage time are some of the skills and techniques necessary to be an effective manager. We cannot learn these skills from one day to another without training and gaining knowledge. This is something I learnt in the book Becoming a Master Manager by Quinn et al.
What defines an effective manager is their competing values and expertise. There are certain qualities that every master manager must have and even though there are paradoxical, there are still important and essential. If we want to know the techniques to be a master manager, we must discover what are our strongest and weakest competency values which will tell us in which areas we excel and in which areas we need to improve on. After taking the Competing Values Framework, I found out the following three strongest and three weakest competencies.
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People get motivated differently and for different reasons. For example, motivation derived from watching inspiring speeches and motivation derived from the efforts of individuals (e.g. a person losing weight). Per the Content Theory, people’s sources of motivation vary and may come from either intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivators or by innate needs vs. learned needs (p.196). Personally, my source of motivation is forced from extrinsic vs. intrinsic motives. I am doing my MBA because I believe I will learn new things and improved my skills which is challenging (intrinsic, intangible) however, I am also doing my MBA because it pays well in the labor market (extrinsic, tangible) and that would also make me
After taking the Keirsey Temperament Sorter and learned profoundly about my weaknesses and strengths. I realized that to have a harmonic relationship with the other temperaments, I need to improve in my weaknesses. Some of the things I must improve is in my communication skills, shyness as well as my inflexibility. What I liked about the Keirsey assessment unlike other ones I did in the past, was their constructive feedback when most of other tools focus only on the positives. These indicators have helped me to recognize my limitations and gave me a clearer direction on how to increase effectiveness. It reminded me that warm and tactful communication can increase my effectiveness, and see opportunities to change my behavior …show more content…
Having creative initiative, ability to manage conflicts or know how to manage time are some of the skills and techniques necessary to be an effective manager. We cannot learn these skills from one day to another without training and gaining knowledge. This is something I learnt in the book Becoming a Master Manager by Quinn et al.
What defines an effective manager is their competing values and expertise. There are certain qualities that every master manager must have and even though there are paradoxical, there are still important and essential. If we want to know the techniques to be a master manager, we must discover what are our strongest and weakest competency values which will tell us in which areas we excel and in which areas we need to improve on. After taking the Competing Values Framework, I found out the following three strongest and three weakest competencies.
Strongest …show more content…
People get motivated differently and for different reasons. For example, motivation derived from watching inspiring speeches and motivation derived from the efforts of individuals (e.g. a person losing weight). Per the Content Theory, people’s sources of motivation vary and may come from either intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivators or by innate needs vs. learned needs (p.196). Personally, my source of motivation is forced from extrinsic vs. intrinsic motives. I am doing my MBA because I believe I will learn new things and improved my skills which is challenging (intrinsic, intangible) however, I am also doing my MBA because it pays well in the labor market (extrinsic, tangible) and that would also make me