Introduction to People Management

Vasanthi Srinivasan
Week 7

Managing Self
How to Know Your Strengths and Weaknesses-Part 1

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How to Know Ones Strengths:

Look back at times when you were effective.

Look at the feedback you receive from significant
others.

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Managing Self
How to Know Your Strengths and Weaknesses-Part 2

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How to Know Ones Weaknesses

Listen to the feedback.

Look back at situations where you have not
done well.

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Managing Self
Fitting into the Larger Organizational Purpose

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Get Clarity on :

What is the purpose of your role?

Why are the set of activities assigned to you?
Where will you be headed in the coming years?

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Be clear on what is your contribution to the organization.

Not in terms of : In terms of:
Key Result Area Professional Development

Targets Career Growth

Deliverables Contribution to the

Organization

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Managing Self
Important Managerial Values

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Three Important Values that Managers

need to Demonstrate:

Getting things done through others.

Enjoying success of direct reports.
Demonstrating visible integrity.

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Delegation is difficult as it requires a manager to

TRUST.

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Key Takeaways

Give up on your strengths.

Ask others to lead on your strengths.
Pick on more responsibilities from your weak
areas.

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Managing Self

Enjoying Success of Direct Reports

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As a Manager you need to have the humility to

acknowledge that your direct reports are an
integral aspect of your performance.

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Managing Self
Visible Integrity

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Aspects of Demonstrating Visible Integrity :

Follow the process and policy before you
implement them.
If the policy is ambiguous, ask whether you
used a fair judgement to arrive at the
conclusion.
If still unclear on some aspects:
Talk to credible senior leaders.
Perform the mirror test.
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Managing Self
Investing in oneself

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The 70:20:10 Framework

70 20 10

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The 70:20:10 Framework

70% of our Career

70 20 10 70 Development happens
on the job.

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The 70:20:10 Framework

20% of our Career

Development happens
70 20 10 20 through
conversations,
observations and
interactions.

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The 70:20:10 Framework

10% of our Career

70 20 10 10 Development happens
in a formal context.

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Managing Self
Spaces for Development

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1 Starting Up Week 7

Pilots provide opportunities:

That are non-threatening.
To try something new and experiment.
To bring value to the organization.

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2 Unstructured Assignment

Unstructured assignments acquire multiple capabilities:

Tolerance to live with an ambiguous problem with
uncertainties.
Ability to put together a structure on a relatively
unstructured problem.
Judge which alternative to choose as a final decision.

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Turnaround Opportunity
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Crisis Stable Environment

Ability to move from a crisis to a stable environment is

a highly learning intensive situation.

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Increasing the Scope of Work

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Take on more opportunities within your department.

Ask your manager to give you important assignments,
to increase the scope of your activities.

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5 Being Part of Cross-Functional Teams and Task Forces

Learn about interdependencies that exist in the

organization.
Understand a problem from different perspectives.

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1
Starting Up

5
Part of Cross- 2
Functional Unstructured
Teams and Assignment
Task forces

4
3
Increasing
Turnaround
the Scope of
Opportunity
Work

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