A. Introduction to Excellence in management and leadership
4. Time management and goal prioritisation
a. personal work goals
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Prioritise personal and work goals
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 3
Do you need to Control?
Activity 4
Identifying work goals
Activity 5
Activity 6
Prioritise personal and work goals
To manage self, one must obtain a degree of insight into not only your personal leadership and management style, but the qualities and attributes others may perceive you display. To do this, complete the following activities and tools.
Activity 1
Complete the Team Leadership audit tool. It can take up to an hour to complete this tool.
Team Leadership Behaviour tool
Team Leadership audit .pdf file version
Activity 2
Please complete the Leadership Style Attitudes assessment tool. It will take some 15-20 minutes to complete this tool and it should give a very informative view on how your leadership styles.
Leadership Style Attitudes
Leadership Style Attitudes
Activity 3
Complete the Personal Styles Inventory tool. It can take up to an hour to complete this tool.
Personal Styles Inventory
Personal Styles Inventory
Do you need to Control?
Activity 4
This exercise is intended to give you an indicative insight into your preferences. It is not an exhaustive nor rigorous personality or behavioural insight.
Read each row, indicate which statement - A or B - is most like you.
Now read the whole table and choose THREE statements from those chosen in the above activity, that MOST agree with your opinion.
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A |
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B |
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Luck and fate decide individual success |
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Success is a reward for hard work |
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Some people can't be pleased |
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You must learn how to get along with people |
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Simple things can make people very happy |
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No matter what some people can never be happy |
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Getting promoted is a matter of luck and timing |
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A person's ability determines his/her earning power |
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What happens often is a matter of chance |
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I control my own destiny |
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Most managers never promote workers based on work effectiveness |
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The effort I put in is related to output |
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People respond to leaders when communication is effective |
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Individual leaders cannot influence customer opinions of a company |
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Marriage requires mutual commitment |
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Marriage failure rates are a reflection of the times |
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People want certainty in their lives |
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People want to be led |
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People's attitudes are the hardest things to change |
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The more you believe it, the easier it is to convince others |
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Luck has little to do with my achievements |
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Sometimes I have little to do with what affects me |
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Given the chance people want to influence decision making |
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Most individuals do not want responsibility for making decisions |
Obviously, the B column reflects statements most likely to be acceptable to leaders who believe control is critical. While not trying to over read this simple exercise your preferences will be indicated by a balance of your responses in activities one and two falling into one or the other column. You may achieve a balanced response.
The point to the exercise is to confirm all individuals have preferences. If you are honest, knowing how these may shape your judgement is an important part of identifying your preferred leadership style.
The effective integration of personal, team and organisational goals requires the ability to:
- Identify work goals;
- Plan and prioritise personal and team work goals to meet organisational goals;
- Set SMART team goals; and
- Manage time to achieve personal priorities.
Identifying work goals
Activity 5
- List everything that you would like to achieve in the next two years (LONG TERM personal goals).
- What are the things that you would achieve in the next 12 to 18 months? They are steps towards achieving your long-term goals (MEDIUM TERM personal goals ).
- List the things that you could achieve in the next 12 months which would enhance your ability to achieve the long term goals (SHORT TERM personal goals).
Activity 6
The following questions will help you to appraise your present work level and translate organisational goals into a personal work setting. It will provide a basis for the development of effective goal statements.
- What goals does your team have to achieve?
- For you, what are the performance expectations or standards attached to each goal?
- How could you improve current performance against these goals?
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