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Using Self-Reflection To Make You A More Effective Leader The management job has never been easy and continually gets harder and more challenging: a key tool in dealing with the rigours of the day is to reflect upon what has happened, the outcomes generated and your own contribution to those results. Put simply this can …
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Personal Self-Assessment Checklist For Managers We all want to know how we are doing in the job and how we link with staff, colleagues and those senior to us in the organisation. One thing that is certain is that we never see ourselves as others see us. So, what sorts of questions can you ask …
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Six Quick Personal Review Questions Forget agonising over the long-awaited and possibly dreaded Supervision meeting or the Annual Appraisal: we can all get a quick feel for how things are going by asking some simple questions of ourselves, if we are honest and realistic in how we answer them! How much time have I spent …
Good Self-Reflection Questions What are my first thoughts about the year that has passed? Mostly positive or negative? If positive, what comes to mind specifically? Negative? What did I discover about my job role and the organisation this year? What were the most challenging moments and why? What were my most powerful learning moments and …
Self-Reflection Questions For Your Annual Appraisal What are my first thoughts about the year that has passed? Mostly positive or negative? If positive, what comes to mind specifically? Negative? What did I discover about my job role and the organisation this year? What were the most challenging moments and why? What were my most powerful …
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Assessing My Employability Skills We rarely sit down to think about how our employability skills are being developed (unless we see a job advertised and then decide to apply for it!). What we should all be doing, on a regular basis, is having some quality self-review time where we can map out exactly how we …
Why Do Some Managers Fail? Not every management appointment is an automatic success, and many have to work at learning their craft over many years to become truly effective and efficient in the role. There are many reasons why a manager is not a success: some are very complex, some very simple, some unique to …
How Am I Doing As A Manager? We all need some reflection and review on how we are performing in the job but this needs to be done by colleagues that you trust, whose opinions you value and who will tell you things actually as they are and not some sugar-coated version which gives you …
