My People Competencies

Based upon your self-knowledge gained through your experience, feedback from others including managers, teachers, peers, and any assessment instruments you have completed list and provide a brief (one sentence) explanation of your people related capabilities; and then rate each capability you list:   Exceptionally Effective, Effective, Somewhat Effective, Limited Effectiveness, No Capability.

Persuasive – The ability to get others excited in objects or ideas that I find exciting. Rating: Exceptionally Effective

Sympathetic – Being tenderhearted and feeling the sensation of pain for others turmoil. Rating: Exceptionally Effective

Educator – The ability to show or explain a concept or idea in various ways to inform an individual or group of people. Rating: Effective

Cooperative – Willingness to compromise or deny needs to get along with others. Rating: Somewhat Effective

Modesty – The quality of being unassuming or moderate in the estimation of one’s abilities. Rating: Limited Effectiveness

These people competencies come from feedback from individuals in my career and personal life, self-reflection, and the IPIP-NEO assessment. I believe that my greatest strength is my ability my persuasiveness, but only when I myself am excited about the object or idea being discussed. While my IPIP-NEO reflects a low modesty score (26 of 100), my unique-level of openness to others thoughts and ideas leads me to believe that being too cooperative is the competency I will need to develop the most. While reading The Advantage, by Patrick Lencioni, he shared that a key principle needed to develop organizational health is mastery of conflict. The reason why I wish to work on my level of cooperativeness is due to the fact that I tend to avoid conflict.