Complete the Self-Assessment Exercise on pages 292-293 of the Greenberg text. Submit your score from the Self-Assessment Exercise along with your answers to the following question. 1. Submit score. 80 2. What does this questionnaire reveal about the particular factors that would keep you from working well in teams? This questionnaire served to reveal several of my specific shortcomings; which would inhibit my ability to join in and work effectively in a team. The first of these is my lack of desire to revel publicly in my victories and achievements. The specific phrasing of one of the questions includes the following ...relish the opportunity to take credit for the work I do. This identifies a greater issue for me which is that I am relatively
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The second is to realize that it is within my power and ability to overcome or rise above. And the third is to make the change or the desired end state a priority in my life. That all being said, my path to change should include finding opportunities to get engage in that which I was avoiding before; due to my fear of being vulnerable. In addition, I should begin to visualize enjoying myself; and functioning well in this new expanded role; as a highly effective, and valued, integral member of a team; a team that is routinely engaged in conducting challenging yet meaningful and rewarding work together. Simply put, the more rich and vivid my visualizations and imagining of might success of a team member are the higher the likelihood that I can and will in fact be able to perform as desired; and overcome my natural and innate introvert tendencies toward avoiding others and going it alone at …show more content…
And while this just meets the threshold of the tests authors consider to be a readiness to work with a team, I need to take stock in the good qualities and tendencies which I do in fact already poses. While a number of the question help to bring forward my natural predilection toward working independently and without need of much guidance or supervision; such as question number five that wherein I identified my ability to ...get a lot accomplished without having someone looking over my shoulder. And there is question number sixth; which I scored very highly on, in my own self-assessment, which further reveals that I ...welcome the opportunity to do whatever is best for my organization. And while I see this sentiment as stemming from my need to belong and contribute to something greater than myself; such as a noble cause; a meaningful undertaking and purpose. This coupled with my willingness to ...learn a new job skill as identified in question number seven of the same self-assessment, point toward my meaningful qualities as a potential team player; over the alternative of those who remain instead; self-centered, self-serving and aloof. And who are resistance to put forth the time and effort to learn an additional need skill or capability need by to insure team
The second is to realize that it is within my power and ability to overcome or rise above. And the third is to make the change or the desired end state a priority in my life. That all being said, my path to change should include finding opportunities to get engage in that which I was avoiding before; due to my fear of being vulnerable. In addition, I should begin to visualize enjoying myself; and functioning well in this new expanded role; as a highly effective, and valued, integral member of a team; a team that is routinely engaged in conducting challenging yet meaningful and rewarding work together. Simply put, the more rich and vivid my visualizations and imagining of might success of a team member are the higher the likelihood that I can and will in fact be able to perform as desired; and overcome my natural and innate introvert tendencies toward avoiding others and going it alone at …show more content…
And while this just meets the threshold of the tests authors consider to be a readiness to work with a team, I need to take stock in the good qualities and tendencies which I do in fact already poses. While a number of the question help to bring forward my natural predilection toward working independently and without need of much guidance or supervision; such as question number five that wherein I identified my ability to ...get a lot accomplished without having someone looking over my shoulder. And there is question number sixth; which I scored very highly on, in my own self-assessment, which further reveals that I ...welcome the opportunity to do whatever is best for my organization. And while I see this sentiment as stemming from my need to belong and contribute to something greater than myself; such as a noble cause; a meaningful undertaking and purpose. This coupled with my willingness to ...learn a new job skill as identified in question number seven of the same self-assessment, point toward my meaningful qualities as a potential team player; over the alternative of those who remain instead; self-centered, self-serving and aloof. And who are resistance to put forth the time and effort to learn an additional need skill or capability need by to insure team