Behaviour Series
Self Management
The ability to take responsibility and be accountable for your actions. Self-managed people behave as if they are a valuable asset. They take steps to motivate themselves and stay committed and well informed, to develop themselves and to manage their own time and maintain a healthy work/life balance.
Being responsible and accountable is a crucial capability in a world where people are increasingly expected to take appropriate initiatives, without delaying things by seeking permission and covering their backs, and to achieve more with less.
There are 7 questionnaires in this cluster, they are:
Business Awareness
The extent to which you understand the ways and means of your organisation and the market place in which it operates.
The factors determined are:
- Organisational awareness
- Market awareness
- Political astuteness
This questionnaire will help you to:
- Understand the ways and means of your organisation
- Learn about the national and international marketplace
- Win the support of key people in your organisation.
Commitment
The extent to which you persevere in the face of difficulties and stay positive and purposeful.
The factors determined are:
- Investing more in your work life
- Enriching your job
- Enhancing your performance
- Clarifying your values about work
This questionnaire will help you improve your levels of commitment by helping you to:
- Invest more in your work life in terms of the time, effort and enthusiasm you put into your job
- Enrich your job with new activities, responsibilities and tasks
- Enhance your performance to show greater commitment and become more motivated
- Clarify your values so that your approach to work is positive and purposeful.
Self-Development
The extent to which you take responsibility for your own learning and development.
The factors determined are:
- Planning
- Doing
- Reviewing
This questionnaire will help you to overcome these obstacles by encouraging you to:
- Plan your self-development so that it is purposeful and goal-oriented
- Tackle a variety of self-development activities
- Review progress towards your self-development objectives.
Self-Motivation
The extent to which you maintain a willingness and commitment to achieve your goals.
The factors determined are:
- Achieving
- Persevering
- Developing
This questionnaire will help you to:
- Work towards your goals using a system of values to underpin your approach
- Pursue your long-term aims and aspirations with determination
- Strengthen your self-motivation through personal and professional development.
Stress Tolerance
The extent to which you balance your life and work to prevent unwanted stress.
The factors determined are:
- Healthy relationships
- Positive attitudes
- Managing your situation
- Well being
- Time management
This questionnaire explores five areas of stress-tolerance behaviour:
- Maintaining healthy, stress-free work and personal relationships
- Using the power of positive thinking to combat stress-inducing thoughts
- Controlling the external factors that make work and home stressful
- Keeping physically and mentally fit through diet, exercise and relaxation
- Organising your time and resources to reduce time pressures.
Taking Responsibility
The extent to which you have the confidence to be self-directed and accountable for your actions.
The factors determined are:
- Self-confidence
- Self-direction
- Problem solving
- Owning outcomes
This questionnaire will help you to take responsibility and initiative by:
- Adopting an assertive, confident approach to your work
- Being self-motivated and taking work initiatives
- Assuming responsibility for solving problems
- Holding yourself accountable for the outcomes of your actions.
Time Management
The extent to which you establish work practices that are efficient and make the best use of your time.
The factors determined are:
- Time conscious working
- Time conscious planning
- Time conscious communicating
- Time conscious interacting
This questionnaire explores four key areas of time management:
- Establishing good working practices so that you operate as efficiently as possible and make best use of your time
- Planning and organising your workday so that important tasks are prioritised and you can fit everything you need to into your day
- Handling incoming and outgoing communications in time-efficient ways
- Managing time with other people, including handling interruptions, meetings and requests.