Professional Reflection About Your Management Potential
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My Management Profile: Self-Assessment
Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.
Imagine a scenario in which a college graduate is filling out an application for a car loan. The form asks for information about the applicant’s current position. Now, given that the ink is not quite dry on his diploma, the applicant is concerned that his employment may not impress the bank loan officer, so he decides to write that he is a “manager”. After all, that can mean anything, right?
As you start this course, you may want to ponder some very important questions:
- What do you think or what have you observed that managers do? What skills did the manager possess that made him or her either excellent, or a poor performer on the job?
- Why do you want to be a manager? (If you are a manager, consider how you came to be a manager.) Reflect on what you like about the managerial position and what you would like to do better in this position.)
- What skills, abilities, behaviors, and knowledge do you have that you think will help you be a good manager?
Now that you have thought about these questions, it is time to do a little more formal self-assessment in order to recognize your own management strengths and weaknesses. Having a clear picture of your professional skills and areas in which you can improve is the first step in professional growth and an important foundation on which to build your management career.
To prepare for this Discussion:
- Take the management skills self-assessment, using the following link from this week’s Learning Resources.
- (n.d.). How good are your management skills? Retrieved July 10, 2017, from https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMM_28.htm
- Analyze the results of your self-assessment.
By Day 2
Post a cohesive response in which you:
- Examine the role and characteristics of an effective manager by:
- Describing what you believe to be the most important things that managers do (i.e. what is the function of the position?)
- Explaining the characteristics that you think are important to be effective in a management role
- Assessing why these characteristics matter depending on what a manager does
- Explain how learning more about yourself might inform your management aspirations. Provide the valuable insights that you gained, including:
- An appraisal of at least three strengths you discovered you possess through the self-assessment that will help you be an effective manager, based on what you have identified that managers do (be sure to include why you selected these strengths, i.e., why the selected strengths will benefit you as a manager)
- An appraisal of at least one weakness you discovered in your self-assessment and how that might impact your ability to effectively manage
- A summary of why having a realistic image of yourself is helpful as you realize your management aspirations
- Delineate actions that you can take to ensure that you are an effective manager and how various industries or levels might change the relative importance of various management characteristics by:
- Summarizing specific steps that you can take to make sure you build upon your strengths and either mitigate the effects of your weaknesses or overcome them
- Evaluating the relative importance of various strengths and weaknesses
- Explaining whether the industry or level of management within an organization changes which strengths or weaknesses matter. Be sure to justify your explanation.
Be sure to support your ideas by connecting them to the week’s Learning Resources, as well as other credible resources you have read; or what you have observed and experienced.
General Guidance: Your original post, due by Day 3, will typically be 3 or 4 paragraphs in length, as a general expectation/estimate. Refer to the Week 1 Discussion 2 Rubric for grading elements and criteria. Your Instructor will use the rubric to assess your work
Assignment: Professional Reflection: 5-Minute Pitch: Making the Case About Your Management Potential
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
Applying what you learn to your personal and professional experience is perhaps the best way to retain new information. One way to do this is to add to a regular, ongoing reflection that asks you to apply this new material. Throughout this course, you will be asked to reflect on the week’s material and respond to a prompt in a Professional Reflection. Read through the Porter article, listed in the Learning Resources, for more information on self-reflection. You will submit these reflections each week within the same document. In other words, you will continue to build your Professional Reflection as part of one Word document, inserting new headings for each new weekly prompt. Each heading should specify the week and the name of the assignment.
Note: In addition to responding to the Reflection prompts each week, you are expected to provide any surprises you learned in the week’s Learning Resources, Discussions, and/or Assignments.
In this first Professional Reflection, you will create a 5-Minute Pitch. Imagine that you are hoping to move into a management position that has become available in your organization. You see the hiring manager, but she has only five minutes available to talk. How do you determine what is important to share in this short amount of time and what you can leave out?
Consider how you would like to present your case to the hiring manager, especially why you would be the best candidate for the management position. You know the hiring manager is very interested in learning about your management philosophy and will likely ask you to summarize the most important skills that you believe managers must have. In addition, you should be prepared to explain the reasons why you think that managers succeed and fail.
To prepare for your Professional Reflection:
- Consider what you believe are the most important characteristics managers possess and why.
- Reflect on the extent to which you have these characteristics.
- Reflect on your management strengths that you discovered as a result of your self-assessment in this week’s Discussion 2.
- Review this week’s Learning Resources, especially:
- Achievement Unlimited [Achievement Unlimited]. (2010, August 18). Management skills – Why managers fail [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5u0RqEjgYw
- Horstman, M. (2016). The effective manager. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
- Chapter 1, “What is an Effective Manager?”
- Chapter 2, “The Four Critical Behaviors”
- Wiseman, L. (2015, October 2). New managers: Embrace your rookie status. Harvard Business Review.
- Document: Professional Reflection Assignment Instructions (PDF)
To complete the Professional Reflection Assignment, compose a document that addresses the following (Note: There are two sections to this Professional Reflection – your 5-Minute Pitch and your synthesis of what you consider to be the most important things that you learned this week):
Based on what you have read and discussed this week, what would be the most important elements that you could share with a hiring manager in the limited 5 minutes she has available to talk? With this in mind, develop a script for your 5-Minute Pitch as your first professional reflection that cohesively addresses the following:
- After synthesizing the Discussion Board posts with this week’s resources, identify the three most important attributes—skills, behaviors, and characteristics—of effective managers and why you have selected these attributes, based on what you believe managers do.
- Evaluate the extent to which you think you have the characteristics that managers possess, along with examples that illustrate these characteristics. (Remember, you are developing a script to make a case about why you would be effective in a new management role.)
- Explain how you anticipate this knowledge will help you be an effective manager.
- Delineate some specific reasons as to why you believe that some individuals are more successful as managers and others are not. Explain your reasoning. To what extent do the characteristics that you outlined contribute to success or failure?
- What strategies will you use to continue to develop your skills and knowledge of your own strengths as they relate to your management success. What will you do (and not do) to ensure that you are an effective manager?
Following your 5-Minute Pitch, respond to the following, in which you:
Explain whether your opinion about management characteristics has changed as you examine this week’s Discussion posts from your colleagues. Describe the ways in which your thinking changed. If you did not change your thinking, what aspects of the Discussion further informed your position? How do you think that seeking input from others can impact your thinking?
- Summarize the three most important things that you learned this week—from the Learning Resources and Discussions—about management characteristics or your own strengths and weaknesses, including why you selected them and how you will apply them to your role as a manager. This may include anything that surprised you.
Be sure to support your Professional Reflection using this week’s readings or other credible and relevant resources. You may also include quotes from the weekly Discussion that you think support your 5-Minute Pitch.
Questions about this assignment? Post them in the Contact the Instructor area. That way, everyone in the class will see, and benefit from, the Instructor’s response.
General Guidance: This week’s Professional Reflection submission should be about 1 page in length (remember the goal is to have a 5-minute speech, so you need to be succinct). Refer to the Week 1 Professional Reflection Rubric for grading elements and criteria. Your Instructor will use this rubric to assess your work.
By Day 5
Submit your Professional Reflection. In order to receive credit, all assignments are due by the deadline. Should you encounter an unanticipated and uncontrollable life event that may prevent you from meeting an assignment deadline, contact the Instructor immediately to request an extension. Your Instructor’s contact information is in the Instructor area. For a full description of the late policy, please refer to the “Policies on Late Assignments” section of your Syllabus.
RUBRIC
QUALITY OF RESPONSE NO RESPONSE POOR / UNSATISFACTORY SATISFACTORY GOOD EXCELLENT Content (worth a maximum of 50% of the total points) Zero points: Student failed to submit the final paper. 20 points out of 50: The essay illustrates poor understanding of the relevant material by failing to address or incorrectly addressing the relevant content; failing to identify or inaccurately explaining/defining key concepts/ideas; ignoring or incorrectly explaining key points/claims and the reasoning behind them; and/or incorrectly or inappropriately using terminology; and elements of the response are lacking. 30 points out of 50: The essay illustrates a rudimentary understanding of the relevant material by mentioning but not full explaining the relevant content; identifying some of the key concepts/ideas though failing to fully or accurately explain many of them; using terminology, though sometimes inaccurately or inappropriately; and/or incorporating some key claims/points but failing to explain the reasoning behind them or doing so inaccurately. Elements of the required response may also be lacking. 40 points out of 50: The essay illustrates solid understanding of the relevant material by correctly addressing most of the relevant content; identifying and explaining most of the key concepts/ideas; using correct terminology; explaining the reasoning behind most of the key points/claims; and/or where necessary or useful, substantiating some points with accurate examples. The answer is complete. 50 points: The essay illustrates exemplary understanding of the relevant material by thoroughly and correctly addressing the relevant content; identifying and explaining all of the key concepts/ideas; using correct terminology explaining the reasoning behind key points/claims and substantiating, as necessary/useful, points with several accurate and illuminating examples. No aspects of the required answer are missing. Use of Sources (worth a maximum of 20% of the total points). Zero points: Student failed to include citations and/or references. Or the student failed to submit a final paper. 5 out 20 points: Sources are seldom cited to support statements and/or format of citations are not recognizable as APA 6th Edition format. There are major errors in the formation of the references and citations. And/or there is a major reliance on highly questionable. The Student fails to provide an adequate synthesis of research collected for the paper. 10 out 20 points: References to scholarly sources are occasionally given; many statements seem unsubstantiated. Frequent errors in APA 6th Edition format, leaving the reader confused about the source of the information. There are significant errors of the formation in the references and citations. And/or there is a significant use of highly questionable sources. 15 out 20 points: Credible Scholarly sources are used effectively support claims and are, for the most part, clear and fairly represented. APA 6th Edition is used with only a few minor errors. There are minor errors in reference and/or citations. And/or there is some use of questionable sources. 20 points: Credible scholarly sources are used to give compelling evidence to support claims and are clearly and fairly represented. APA 6th Edition format is used accurately and consistently. The student uses above the maximum required references in the development of the assignment. Grammar (worth maximum of 20% of total points) Zero points: Student failed to submit the final paper. 5 points out of 20: The paper does not communicate ideas/points clearly due to inappropriate use of terminology and vague language; thoughts and sentences are disjointed or incomprehensible; organization lacking; and/or numerous grammatical, spelling/punctuation errors 10 points out 20: The paper is often unclear and difficult to follow due to some inappropriate terminology and/or vague language; ideas may be fragmented, wandering and/or repetitive; poor organization; and/or some grammatical, spelling, punctuation errors 15 points out of 20: The paper is mostly clear as a result of appropriate use of terminology and minimal vagueness; no tangents and no repetition; fairly good organization; almost perfect grammar, spelling, punctuation, and word usage. 20 points: The paper is clear, concise, and a pleasure to read as a result of appropriate and precise use of terminology; total coherence of thoughts and presentation and logical organization; and the essay is error free. Structure of the Paper (worth 10% of total points) Zero points: Student failed to submit the final paper. 3 points out of 10: Student needs to develop better formatting skills. The paper omits significant structural elements required for and APA 6th edition paper. Formatting of the paper has major flaws. The paper does not conform to APA 6th edition requirements whatsoever. 5 points out of 10: Appearance of final paper demonstrates the student’s limited ability to format the paper. There are significant errors in formatting and/or the total omission of major components of an APA 6th edition paper. The can include the omission of the cover page, abstract, and page numbers. Additionally the page has major formatting issues with spacing or paragraph formation. Font size might not conform to size requirements. The student also significantly writes too large or too short of and paper 7 points out of 10: Research paper presents an above-average use of formatting skills. 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