Self-Awareness Assignment 1
Radhakrishnan MGH C02 Summer 2013
Check course outline for due dates for your section
In this course you will observe yourself as a leader in terms of your behaviors, personality and skills using
questionnaires. Further, you will have in-class role-play experiences that will help you understand how you work
and interact with others. For these assignments you will try to identify and improve one skill you need to develop
the most based on your understanding of your level of that skill from the role play activities and the
questionnaires you did in this course. Then you will try to improve on this skill throughout the course of the
semester and chart your progress on it.
Step 1: Complete Interpersonal/intrapersonal skills questionnaire
Personal Assessment:
A. First complete the interpersonal/intrapersonal skills questionnaire by yourself
Informants Assessment:
B. Secondly, give the interpersonal and intrapersonal questionnaire to at least 3 categories of people.
We will call these individuals ‘informants’.
1. A friend/family member/life partner -- someone who knows you in personal situations;
2. A colleague/supervisor/subordinate -- someone who you did professional work with, in school
or in a volunteer position or in a paid/unpaid work position.
3. A new acquaintance you met and interacted with in this course-- someone you did a role play
exercise within this course.
You can have more than one person in each category but you must have at least one person in each category.
Please remember to submit your own and your informants’ completed questionnaires with your assignment.
Step 2: Describe Results
After completing Step 1, analyze the results of both your personal and informants’ assessments of your
interpersonal/intrapersonal skills. Briefly describe the evaluations you received from each of your
informants within each category. Write down their names and in which capacity you know them on the
relevant questionnaires. Use the questionnaire's validity and reliability information (research the
relevant article reference for each questionnaire) as a guide to infer whether your ratings were ‘high’
‘low’ or ‘moderate’. Overall, try to restrict yourself to 4-5 lines of description for each type of
informant.
Translate the results from both your personal and informants' completed questionnaire into
charts and graphs to clearly display your data. You will need to include your graph and charts in
the appendix and reference them (e.g., Figure 1-3) in your assignment. Please note that the key
purpose of evaluating both your personal and informants evaluations is that it provides you
with the opportunity to see, how individuals you know personally, professionally and new
acquaintances perceive your interpersonal/intrapersonal skills in comparison to your own
personal assessment of your interpersonal/intrapersonal skills.
You now must identify one skill you want to develop out of the five intra/interpersonal skills we have
learned about in this course (i.e., self-esteem, self-control/self-regulation, self monitoring, social skills,
attitudes toward authority). If you find that there are any discrepancies between your personal
assessments and your informants’ assessment, this developmental assignment provides a great
opportunity to correct such discrepancies. (E.g. you ranked yourself high on self-esteem; however your
informants ranked you low on self-esteem) as a result you might want to improve your self esteem.
Step 3: Choose Skill to develop and justify
A. Once you have described each informant’s evaluation and your own evaluations on each of the five
skills choose one skill out of the five that you think you should improve. Justify why you chose this skill
based on the evidence you gathered thus far (i.e., from all/some of your informants, from your
behavior in this course and from your own observation of your behavior in your life). Why do you
trust the evidence you are using to decide to improve this skill (i.e., why is this valid and reliable)?
Provide one concrete example of how you demonstrate the lack of this skill or an unacceptable level of
this skill in your daily life (at work, at home or at school, in leisure activities).
B. Define this skill by listing its features. Illustrate one similarity and one difference between the skill
you choose to improve and another related concept that it may be confused with – using an example
situation. Go beyond the lecture notes when you are trying to define this skill – use the
readings/additional references to illustrate the differences/similarities. Apply them to a specific
situation
C. Describe how the lack of this skill or an unacceptable level of this skill might hinder your
performance as a leader at work, home, or in school. Explain why this level of skill affects your current
performance and/or how it might negatively impact your future career. Use theory/empirical
research to support your explanation of the connection between this skill and leadership performance.
Note this is different from a concrete example of how you display the lack of the skill or an
unacceptable level of the skill. When considering theory/research find academic research articles in
support of your hypothesis that the skill for development will negatively affect your leadership
performance, or alternatively, why improvement in this area will be necessary for your career.
Format Requirements
This assignment should 4 pages or less and should be 12-point font, double spaced, with 1-inch margins. You
should have a minimum of 2 distinct academic references that are not recommended readings from this course.
Charts or graphs or references do not count toward the page limit.
Before you submit your paper on the due date, ensure you have at least 24 hours to submit it on turnitin and make
appropriate changes if it flags your paper as having too many similarities to already published work. (see end of
this document for instructions on how to submit on turnitin)
Submit a hard copy to the professor in class on the due date listed on the course website. You will also submit a
copy on blackboard.
If your submission is unfortunately late, you must contact the professor to make alternative arrangements
for submitting it to her. If your assignment is late then 4% of the total grade for the assignment will be
deducted for every day it is late (including the weekend). No extensions! No exceptions!" No binders, cerlax,
or duotangs due to weight considerations. You can print on two sides of the page
How to submit on Turnitin.com
As per the course syllabus your paper will be checked for its originality via Turnitin. Turnitin.com is an
electronic resource that assists in the deterrence and detection of plagiarism. Each submitted paper is checked for
textual similarity against resources stored in the Turnitin.com database and against billions of web pages
(including on-line texts and journals). Instructors receive originality reports for all papers submitted through
Turnitin which indicate the degree of textual similarity found in each assignment. The Originality Report highlights
in colour any suspicious passages. By clicking on these passages you will be linked directly to the related internet
source. If the source of the matching text is a student paper from your class this will be indicated. However, if the
match is with a student paper from another course this will also be indicated.
In order to submit your assignments you will need to establish your own Turnitin account. You will first create a
user profile and you will then join your class. You will need a Class ID number and the enrollment password for the
course to create your own turnitin account. Once you have created an account and joined a class, you will have
access to your own home page. See also Getting Started: A Guide for Students
http://www.teaching.utoronto.ca/teaching/academicintegrity/turnitin/guide-students.htm (available on CTSI
web site as a pdf file).
First Visit www.turnitin.com and click Create a user profile.
Follow the on-screen directions (the system will ask you to enter your name and email address and will also ask
you to choose a password). Once you have established a user profile you will be asked if you would like to enroll in
a class using the student class enrollment wizard. Your instructor will post the necessary course account numbers
and password on blackboard. (If you do not have the course account numbers you can add the class at a later date
– to do so, follow Steps 2 and 3).
After creating a user profile, you must login
To login visit www.turnitin.com and enter your email address and password in the space provided in the top
right hand corner of the web site. Click the Login button to enter your personal Turnitin homepage.
After logging in you must ENROL IN A CLASS
ClassID
and Enrollment password for your class (available from your blackboard page for
your section). Click Submit to enroll in the class and add it to your homepage. Each class that you have
From your homepage click the Enroll in a class button. On the next page enter the
enrolled in will appear on your homepage. Click on the class identifier to enter the class and view the assignments
associated with that course.
SUBMITTING A PAPER – after enrolling in a class
From your Turnitin homepage select the class to which would like to submit an assignment.
Click on the Submit button and select either File Upload or Cut and Paste from the pulldown menu.
To upload a file:
- Enter a title for your paper and then use the Browse button to select the file that you would like to submit.
Click Submit.
- You will be asked to confirm your selection. Click Yes, submit to finalize your submission.
- Once you have submitted your paper you will receive a digital receipt.
To submit by cut and paste:
- Select Cut and Paste from the pull down menu, enter a title for the paper and cut and paste it into the text box.
- Click Submit. After submitting you will receive a digital receipt.
How to submit on Blackboard
1. Log in Blackboard.
a) Go to the University of Toronto portal webpage (https://portal.utoronto.ca/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp).
b) Click “login” at the top of the portal page.
c) Input your UTORid and password, and click the button “LOG IN”.
d) Only one person per group needs to submit the assignment
2. Find the MGTC90 course homepage.
a) Click the link "Winter-2012-MGTC90H3-Y-LEC01-LEC02 or LEC03 or LEC05: Business Leadership Skills" under
“My Courses” section. Choose the LEC you are registered in
3. Submit your paper.
a) Click "Content" link on the left side of the homepage.
b) Click "Assignment 1".
c) Keep the text box below "Submission" blank (Don't paste your assignment here!).
d) Click the button "Browse for Local File" at the right side of "Attach File".
e) Find out the assignment file you want to submit (Please use *.doc, *.docx, or *.pdf format). Please name your
file with your first and last name,
f) Make sure the file name at the right side of "Attached files" correct.
g) Keep the text box below "Comments" blank.
h) Click "Submit" at the very end of the page (Once you click the button, you can NOT change your file any more).
i) Deadlines are marked on the course outline.
j) If you submit your assignment after the deadline, your assignment is late - then 4% of the total grade for the
assignment will be deducted for every day it is late (including the weekend). No extensions! No exceptions!
l) If you have any technical issues regarding above steps, please contact the instructor by email:
[email protected]