Benefits of Self-Evaluation/Self-Assessment as It Relates to Leadership Today.

Benefits of self-evaluation/self-assessment as it relates to leadership today.

Fulcrum for all endeavors is the human being. Every action required for processes, development, and creativity is initiated and sustained by humans. Relative decisions and responses necessary for daily operation in organisations are controlled by the behaviors of people saddled with various tasks either as leaders or as subordinates. In other words, nothing is achieved without the direct influence of human behavior. Understanding human behavior therefore is indeed very critical to organizations. In light of the aforementioned, benefits and importance of self-evaluation/self-assessment cannot be over emphasized as it relates to leadership today.

Human behavior is the response of an individual to both external (physical world) and internal (psychological world) forces which he/she is constantly interacting with.

In order to understand human behavior leaders have to first understand the elements or factors involved. However various studies have shown that Human behavior in individual is uniquely different. Each individual shows a considerable amount of difference in behavior from another no matter how similar they may be.

Leaders should primarily be committed to influencing people. Unless leaders understand the criticality of human behavior to the organization and the need for self-evaluation/self-assessment, their efforts to influence others will never be achieved.

“The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give….In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself”.

Leadership is indeed a very serious business. Under Our genetic endowment, we clearly see that we did not only inherit physical characteristics but also bio-chemical balances and emotional tendencies as well as more fundamental specie-specific instincts like socializing amongst others. Nigel Nicholson makes another strong case that many aspects of our human behavior and traits are...