Competencies Paper

Competencies Paper

Christine Robertson

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

How am I going to leverage my strengths? This is one of the questions I pondered, early on a Sunday morning as I began this paper. I can lead and work in a team. My many years of teamwork are my foundation. I can interact confidently with others at all levels of the organization. At our conference last week, I listened and formulated ideas with others from our installers to the CEO. Much of the IT world is about being innovative. We are constantly challenging ourselves to improve on what we are doing. I then asked myself, which of the ten areas can I improve on? I want to know what drives the organization and formulate judgments accordingly, as this will help me improve my decision making abilities. I need to be able to think strategically. Currently I focus too much on the details and not enough on the big picture. It’s important as a leader to learn to have a commanding presence to be able to gain commitment to ideas and projects. I’d like to improve my personal presence by understanding how create a strong personal brand. Within the ten competencies; people and ideas are my strengths, strategic thinking, big picture and creating an individual presence need development.

Every day I work with a team or as a leader of a team. Teamwork can be found in just about everything we do in our everyday lives, from planning a trip with our families to working on a committee at work. Whenever we work with a group of people, we utilize each other’s strengths and create a better outcome than we would individually. I believe in this program we can work together to achieve the same goal. Just as we saw with the teambuilding exercise at our orientation, once the team came together many things happened. The team came up with great ideas, vetted them, and tossed out what didn’t work, then used and improved what did work to complete the exercise in the best possible way.

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