I have identified the weakness of my leadership and management skills that I need to develop for the future. The essay reflected the important of emotional intelligence, critical thinking and time management in the area of business and its related practices by using academic resources.
Emotional intelligence (EQ) is the key foundation to success in every business matter. The internationally well-known psychologist Daniel Doleman as cited by Schermerorn (2016, p-369) defined emotional intelligence as “the ability to manage ourselves and our relationships effectively”. EQ is about using our emotion as a guide to identify and understand feelings towards others which is very important for the organization. Daniel further mentioned that the effective leaders with high EQ will be quicker to notice the level of emotions which are running within the organization and take control of it in order to promote positive attitudes and to limit destructive behaviors. The recent study of Global Creative Agency Gyro and The Fortune Knowledge Group (Marks, 2017) seems to prove that emotions play a hug part of decision making in business as well. After interviewing 720 senior-level executives in 2014, 65% of them answered that the subjective factors such as good reputation, culture value and trustworthiness make a difference in making choices when evaluating completing proposals in partnering. By reflecting on the result of self-assessment test from Management 6th Asia – Pacific book by Schermerorn (2016), self-awareness is the skill that I need to develop in the area of emotional intelligence for my future leadership skills. …show more content…
I couldn’t handle the stress and criticism which is a sign of lacking self- awareness. In order to improve my emotional intelligence skills, I will keep a diary to write every day’s activities and review them every night. Taking criticism as positive feedbacks and try to learn from the mistakes. Instead of laying down on the bed when I feel depressed. I will go to meet my friends and consultants. Enough sleeping and eating regularly help me to function my daily tasks. Talking to people who are successful around me and learn how they manage their stresses helps me to upgrade another level of emotional intelligence skill during my degree. Critical thinking is a skill that I should learn to improve for the future leadership .Critical thinking is the ability to interpret, analyze and evaluate the information for creative problem solving. (Schermerorn, 2016). As my job interview experience, the employer always find out the applicant’s critical thinking skills by giving a test question in an interview. It likely aims to search the employee who can think critically and creatively based on the provided information. Critical thinking plays an important role in planning strategies, problem solving, decision making and innovation in today’s competitive global business (Kallet, 2014). It requires to evaluate the information with different perspectives and making quality decisions with innovative solutions for the company. Without these skills, it couldn’t possible to judge the information properly and it could cause enormous loss for the company by making the wrong decisions. Since I was grow up under the military regime in Myanmar. Asking questions are not allowed in the schools and influenced by traditional teachings in believing that questioning teacher is not respectful. Students are limited to think in the boundaries of whatever the teacher saying and class activities which encourage the critical thinking are rare. I am aware that I am lack of critical thinking skills. I should always practice asking questions first before doing things in order to improve my critical thinking. In addition, I will practice taking time to decide the right decision rather than deciding rashly. I reflect my activities from the dairy, evaluate them and …show more content…
Time management is the ability that using your time effectively. “Good, effective time management is a core skill, a career skill that we all need both to make us able to perform in a current job and to enhance our career prospects.” (Forsyth, 2016). Time is limited valuable resource and it could not be save or pause. Balancing the time is not easiest as what it looks like. As a result of having good time management, it is possible to meet deadline regularly for tasks and will finish on time. It reduces the stress and anxiety that having on work. (citation here).Time management is important for business because you can accomplish tasks effortlessly and lead you to make better
Emotional intelligence (EQ) is the key foundation to success in every business matter. The internationally well-known psychologist Daniel Doleman as cited by Schermerorn (2016, p-369) defined emotional intelligence as “the ability to manage ourselves and our relationships effectively”. EQ is about using our emotion as a guide to identify and understand feelings towards others which is very important for the organization. Daniel further mentioned that the effective leaders with high EQ will be quicker to notice the level of emotions which are running within the organization and take control of it in order to promote positive attitudes and to limit destructive behaviors. The recent study of Global Creative Agency Gyro and The Fortune Knowledge Group (Marks, 2017) seems to prove that emotions play a hug part of decision making in business as well. After interviewing 720 senior-level executives in 2014, 65% of them answered that the subjective factors such as good reputation, culture value and trustworthiness make a difference in making choices when evaluating completing proposals in partnering. By reflecting on the result of self-assessment test from Management 6th Asia – Pacific book by Schermerorn (2016), self-awareness is the skill that I need to develop in the area of emotional intelligence for my future leadership skills. …show more content…
I couldn’t handle the stress and criticism which is a sign of lacking self- awareness. In order to improve my emotional intelligence skills, I will keep a diary to write every day’s activities and review them every night. Taking criticism as positive feedbacks and try to learn from the mistakes. Instead of laying down on the bed when I feel depressed. I will go to meet my friends and consultants. Enough sleeping and eating regularly help me to function my daily tasks. Talking to people who are successful around me and learn how they manage their stresses helps me to upgrade another level of emotional intelligence skill during my degree. Critical thinking is a skill that I should learn to improve for the future leadership .Critical thinking is the ability to interpret, analyze and evaluate the information for creative problem solving. (Schermerorn, 2016). As my job interview experience, the employer always find out the applicant’s critical thinking skills by giving a test question in an interview. It likely aims to search the employee who can think critically and creatively based on the provided information. Critical thinking plays an important role in planning strategies, problem solving, decision making and innovation in today’s competitive global business (Kallet, 2014). It requires to evaluate the information with different perspectives and making quality decisions with innovative solutions for the company. Without these skills, it couldn’t possible to judge the information properly and it could cause enormous loss for the company by making the wrong decisions. Since I was grow up under the military regime in Myanmar. Asking questions are not allowed in the schools and influenced by traditional teachings in believing that questioning teacher is not respectful. Students are limited to think in the boundaries of whatever the teacher saying and class activities which encourage the critical thinking are rare. I am aware that I am lack of critical thinking skills. I should always practice asking questions first before doing things in order to improve my critical thinking. In addition, I will practice taking time to decide the right decision rather than deciding rashly. I reflect my activities from the dairy, evaluate them and …show more content…
Time management is the ability that using your time effectively. “Good, effective time management is a core skill, a career skill that we all need both to make us able to perform in a current job and to enhance our career prospects.” (Forsyth, 2016). Time is limited valuable resource and it could not be save or pause. Balancing the time is not easiest as what it looks like. As a result of having good time management, it is possible to meet deadline regularly for tasks and will finish on time. It reduces the stress and anxiety that having on work. (citation here).Time management is important for business because you can accomplish tasks effortlessly and lead you to make better