The Personal Assessment of Management Skills - How from a Good Manager

The Personal Assessment of Management Skills - How from a Good Manager The Personal Assessment of Management Skills ï » ¿The Personal Assessment of Management Skills Self-assessments are important if a person wants to improve themselves in any way. You have to know where you are at before you start on a road to where you want to go. The Personal Assessment of Management Skills (PAMS) is a good way for a good manager to become better. With it, he or she is able to spot differences in how they see themselves and how others see them as well as point out strengths and weaknesses. Based on the norms for the survey, I have summarized my management skill as compared to other college students who have taken this assessment. The population mean was 394.35. My score was 359 which are in the bottom quartile. I was surprise by this because I thought I would be in the third quartile at least. I have also compared my scores with the average scores my associates gave me using the scoring key. Some areas showed greater variance between how I assessed my own management skills and how others assessed my management skills. Managing conflict as well as empowering and delegating were the two areas where my associates and I differed most. These differences can be attributed to certain realities. Others are not necessarily privy to all of the information available about an observable behavior. For example, what is known about a person may be divvied up in to four areas. The first area is what is known about the individual to the individual but not to others. The second is what is known about the individual to others but not to the individual. The third is what is known both to the individuals and to others, and the last is what is known about the indiviidual neither to the individual nor to others. With this in mind, it is easy to see how personal perceptions about ones self and ot hers may be skewed and thus differ. Based on the scoring key for the 10 major areas, I have identified three areas that stand out to as my greatest strengths and weaknesses. According to PAMS, my strengths are in managing conflict, empowering delegation, and team building; whereas, my weaknesses are in developing self awareness, creative problem solving, and gaining powerful influence. Interestingly, the areas where I differed most from the assessments from my associates were the areas in which our average scores demonstrated my strengths. I am not quite sure how to interpret this phenomenon at this time, but it makes for a noteworthy point in my discussion. Self-assessments are important if a person wants to improve themselves in any way. You have to know where you are at before you start on a road to where you want to go. The Personal Assessment of Management Skills (PAMS) is a good way for a good manager to become better. With it, he or she is able to spot differences in how they see themselves and how others see them as well as point out strengths and weaknesses. As such, we may map out a path that will make us each better at management.