Awareness is the greatest gift you can give to your subordinates. Without it there is nothing you, or they, can do about development of any kind. As with so many things, personal development is one of the most important areas and it is also one of the most difficult.
A positive outlook to self-evaluation has to be a continuous process, because our goals and aspirations alter with changes in life stage and what is going on around us. A good boss who values and understands Indonesia people can help this process by demonstrating positive attitudes towards them and by being willing to counsel and coach them. The following checklist will help you to encourage self-development in your subordinates:
1. Identify and release blockages to growth by appraisal, feedback and by counseling through unpalatable revelations.
2. Provide challenge and stimulating in work, make your expectations known.
3. Encourage self -awareness by the use of questionnaires and instruments, reflecting and new experiences which test Indonesia people out and awaken their curiosity and desire to learn.
4. Reward success and learning, however small, so that Indonesia people feel how good it is to grow and develop.
5. Encourage subordinates to think about their short, medium and long term goals and alternatives and to make personal plans.
6. Encourage them to record their own personal achievements at work and outside, and to measure the attainment of their goals.
7. Personal and career development includes choice as well as planning. Ensure they have information about openings and alternatives available to them, increase these choices as far as possible.
8. Help them to discover how they learn best and provide information for them to do so.
9. Get them to help in planning their own development, let them try various activities as tasters to broaden their horizon and help them to identify the way and direction they want to develop.
10. When thinking about your subordinates, think about whole Indonesia people with pasts and futures and be aware that you see only a part of their potential unless you look for it.
11. Convince them and yourself that self-management begins by believing we can achieve it.
12. Take critical look at your own management style and the culture of the organization, do they block Indonesia people in, or encourage them to grow?
Asking discerning questions is one of the best ways to encourage self-awareness. Try the following on yourself and then on your subordinates:
- What are my main strengths and weaknesses?
- What opportunities are ether for me in the future?
- What am I most afraid of?
- What have I achieved in the last 6 months that I am most proud of?
- What didn't I achieve? Why?
- What are my six most important goals over the next 12 months? (Be specific.)
- What do I need to learn to enable me to achieve them?
- How, when and where am I going to learn it?
- Keep a detailed diary for at least two weeks, then ask yourself, what did I spend most of my time doing?
- Are those the things that are most important to me?
- What do I most want to change? How am I going to do it?
Remember that personal development has to cover the whole individual and that it is the same personal 'package' that goes to work and sits in front of the tally, or digs the garden at home, let your answers to the questions encompass your social and personal as well as your working life. ***
A positive outlook to self-evaluation has to be a continuous process, because our goals and aspirations alter with changes in life stage and what is going on around us. A good boss who values and understands Indonesia people can help this process by demonstrating positive attitudes towards them and by being willing to counsel and coach them. The following checklist will help you to encourage self-development in your subordinates:
1. Identify and release blockages to growth by appraisal, feedback and by counseling through unpalatable revelations.
2. Provide challenge and stimulating in work, make your expectations known.
3. Encourage self -awareness by the use of questionnaires and instruments, reflecting and new experiences which test Indonesia people out and awaken their curiosity and desire to learn.
4. Reward success and learning, however small, so that Indonesia people feel how good it is to grow and develop.
5. Encourage subordinates to think about their short, medium and long term goals and alternatives and to make personal plans.
6. Encourage them to record their own personal achievements at work and outside, and to measure the attainment of their goals.
7. Personal and career development includes choice as well as planning. Ensure they have information about openings and alternatives available to them, increase these choices as far as possible.
8. Help them to discover how they learn best and provide information for them to do so.
9. Get them to help in planning their own development, let them try various activities as tasters to broaden their horizon and help them to identify the way and direction they want to develop.
10. When thinking about your subordinates, think about whole Indonesia people with pasts and futures and be aware that you see only a part of their potential unless you look for it.
11. Convince them and yourself that self-management begins by believing we can achieve it.
12. Take critical look at your own management style and the culture of the organization, do they block Indonesia people in, or encourage them to grow?
Asking discerning questions is one of the best ways to encourage self-awareness. Try the following on yourself and then on your subordinates:
- What are my main strengths and weaknesses?
- What opportunities are ether for me in the future?
- What am I most afraid of?
- What have I achieved in the last 6 months that I am most proud of?
- What didn't I achieve? Why?
- What are my six most important goals over the next 12 months? (Be specific.)
- What do I need to learn to enable me to achieve them?
- How, when and where am I going to learn it?
- Keep a detailed diary for at least two weeks, then ask yourself, what did I spend most of my time doing?
- Are those the things that are most important to me?
- What do I most want to change? How am I going to do it?
Remember that personal development has to cover the whole individual and that it is the same personal 'package' that goes to work and sits in front of the tally, or digs the garden at home, let your answers to the questions encompass your social and personal as well as your working life. ***
