Self Assessments
Earlier the term assessment was in to picture (i.e. gathering of data, analyzing data & interpreting data) , but as of current situation , the term self assessment varies , it means evaluation of one’s actions , attitudes or performance.
It simple means encouraging themselves in order to examine their own learning levels & understanding levels by identifying areas that require improvement.
To perform a self assessment, it is necessary to ask questions to yourself, assessing your thoughts, feelings, actions and behavior to determine, where you are standing.
It depends on two terms:
Self knowledge
Self development
Self knowledge: Helps you to think about what is important to you, what motivates you, and identify areas where you may want to develop future.
Self Development: Use the exercise and prompts provided to gain a deeper understanding of how your values influence you and to being to consider areas for future development.
Self assessment is the process of looking at oneself in order to areas aspects that are important to one’s identity. It is one of the motives that drives self evaluation, along with self verification & self enhancement.
3 Action steps of self assessment:
It is an ongoing process that requires being connected to your inner voice. These day many people appear so plugged in to the world through their devices & social media that they are not connected to themselves
- Develop confidence
- Talk it out,
- Make your Move
Develop Confidence: You must develop confidence to take actions that will advance you and your business. But building confidence is not a simple as it sounds. The most successful people are these who can manage the contradiction of life ; who are aware of but not constrained by their limitations. Confidence is the balancing act between pride & uncertainty and it is a work in progress.
Talk it out: You must surround yourself with trusted friends & mentors who will be honest with you about you performance and what areas need improvement listen to them. Listen to yourself. The ability to simultaneously doubt and trust you is the core of effective self assessment.Make your move: You can carefully plot your own success and evaluate your effectiveness as you go along, but by the end of the day, you have to get out and play in crowd. you have to meet people , develop relationship and swap best practices , you have to make things happen . Trust your healthy self confidence
Benefits of self assessment: –
Self criticism
Obtaining feedback
Psychometric tests
Emotional intelligence
Self criticism: In self assessment you are able to judge yourself , whether the activity performed by is good/ bad you must have the ability to analyze things . It helps to know yourself without being involved by the third party. You can able to know our own mistakes and correct them.Obtaining feedback: The people who you trust & believe, provides a feedback, them it is your responsibility to rectify your mistake and assess yourself, whether your have performed well; always take the feedback in an optimistic way
Psychometric tests: It enables to determine particular characteristics of an individual by referring to a norm. They assess the people’s general behavior & fundamental skills. A test is turned psychometric when if follows particular step by step and is validated through statistical studies.
Emotional intelligence: It enhances the ability to raise awareness of our own emotions so that we can recognize and decipher the emotions of others. Emotional intelligence can grow and develop as people mature and that further emotional intelligence skills can be developed through learning & training.
The more an individual is aware of his strength & limits, and those of others the more he will be capable of developing strategies that will be facing by him as per requirements of environment.
