Sunday, August 18, 2013

A520.1.2.RB – Shuck, Allison

Self-Awareness Assessment

1.      What do you notice about your results?

After taking the pre Self-Awareness Assessment, I realized that I have a well-developed set of personal standards and beliefs that guide my behavior. However, because I am constantly trying to improve myself, both personally and professionally, I have a tendency to seek feedback from others. I have learned that through self-disclosure, I can learn more about myself and how I receive and process information. But, for the most part, I am capable of demonstrating emotional intelligence; I have the ability to display emotional maturity.

Emotional Intelligence Assessment

·         Emotional Awareness: the result of this assessment indicates that I am capable of understanding my inner emotions; I am capable of evaluating why I make certain decisions.
·         Emotional Control: the result of this assessment indicates that I prefer to confront an issue rather than avoid it. However, it also indicates that I am skillfully honest, in that I try to avoid being harsh to others.
·         Emotional Diagnosis: the result of this assessment indicates that I am sensitive to the emotional issues of others; but, that I sometimes lack the ability to acknowledge different emotional commitments.
·         Emotional Response: the result of this assessment indicates that I have emotional control, but also imply that I sometimes loose emotional control during stressful situations.

The Defining Issues Test

The result of this assessment indicates that I evaluate each issue from an ethical standpoint.

Cognitive Style Indicator – determines the way in which you gather, evaluate and act on information.           

      For all three styles: Knowing, Planning and Creating, my scores were as follows:

Knowing = 5
Planning = 4.85
Creating = 4

Based on the above listed scores, I scored above the average mean in knowing and planning among young managers, but scores below the average mean in creating. I scored above the average mean in planning amount young mangers and MBA students, but scored below the average mean in knowing and creating.

Locus of Control Scale

      In this assessment I scored 6, which is higher that then overall mean average of 5.19.

Tolerance of Ambiguity Scale – refers to the extent in which an individual feels threatened by the lack of information received with situations that are ambiguous, incomplete, unstructured, or dynamic in any way.

In this assessment, I received the following scores for each of the following categories:

Novelty = 27
Complexity = 51
Insolubility = 14

The result of this assessment indicates that my total score 92, was far above the average mean of 56.47; which means that I feel really threatened by the lack of information.

Core Self-Evaluation Scale – the attitudes, emotions and though patterns that make each individual unique.

The result of this assessment indicates that my score of 3.16 was significantly lower than the average mean 3.88.

2.      How much of this rang true for you?

For the most part, I feel that the results of each assessment were accurate, except for that of the Cognitive Style Indicator. I was shocked that I received a low score in creativity because I love to create and design new things.

3.      What did you see that you were expecting in the results?

I found results of the Emotional Intelligence Assessment to be completely accurate, I try to be non-confrontational but prefer to immediately address issues as they arise.

4.      What were the surprises?

Well, I felt that my score for the Core Self-Evaluation was not completely accurate. Why, because some of the questions being asked could only be applied during specific instances. For example: Question 8. I am filled with doubts about my competence. In some cases this can be true, but not in all cases. I feel that my competence can sometimes determined by others; meaning that I formulate my thoughts and beliefs on the opinions of others. Thus, it can be difficult to truly evaluate my true competence because everyone sees and understands things differently. What may be true to one person may not be true to the other. 
5.      How will you make use of this information? 
I can use this information to asses why I think the way I do and how my thoughts effect my actions. By evaluating my thoughts, values, beliefs, and emotions, I can learn how to adapt in different situations both good and bad. 

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