Pursuing A Character In The Workplace

Hays (2008) discussed privilege and biases based on culture and how these privileges and biases can affect a therapist’s work. Having a healthy understanding of self-identity can help understand the role of privilege and biases. In order to help self-reflect, Hays (2008) presented the ADDRESSING model which includes age, disability (born with), disability (acquired), religion, ethnicity/race, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, indigenous status, nationality, and gender. This ADDRESSING model will be applied in this paper.

The strong leader recognizes that an important part of information management is reflection. This self-assessment should include personal biases, desires, and preferences. Looking past personal perspectives and reviewing the data within the context out of which it arises deepens the objectivity and clarity with which the leader can observe and assess the data. Critical components that should be carefully accommodated in this reflective self-assessment are: personal biases, current mental models, individual needs, past practices, self-fulfilling expectations, wish listing and prescriptive deliberation. As for my personal biases, I have learned over the years that they are very good yardsticks for me to look at an issue and to know clearly how I feel about it, but I have always known what I think and what I feel are often different than my colleagues and my patients. I use this to keep my mind open to others whose views are different than mine and I use them to approach and analyze situations, but never to influence the decisions or behavior of others. A specific example is that of a woman’s right to choose: I am anti-abortion for myself as a woman but I support safe health care for all women. Current mental models vary from facility to facility and evolve over time. My career has spanned 34 years and I too have evolved during this time. Today, I feel I am working in much more of a collegial culture and one which is at least attempting to embrace diversity

Aman and Mr. Daniels leverage time each week to sit down and reflect on the experience. During this time, I have learned a remarkable amount of information about who I am as a leader. Success in life is important, therefore, one must continually be honest with themselves. Even though, there are a number of tools one can assess to gauge their growth. Self-reflecting is a vital tool improvement Therefore, when reflecting I found a few areas of focus. The chart below indicates the qualities that I possess as a leader. Granted that these qualities tend to fall in the category as both a strength and a weakness. The highlighted qualities are the areas that I will be focusing on this

I chose to base my studies on J because we shared a lot in common; we are both Christians living in a predominantly Muslim country. He is eleven years old. His parents are Jordan nationals who have lived in Bahrain for at least two years. J goes to school at Naseem International School where I work. The school offers PYP programs. Lessons are conducted in English; however, Arabic lessons are also offered per week. Majority of kids in this school are Muslims most of whom are Bahrainis. Other nationalities making the student population are Saudis, Lebanese, Jordanians, few South Africans, and other Arabian Gulf countries. Teachers are a mixture of nationalities. Some of them are Arabs, others South Africans, while some are Europeans.

I gained better understanding that perspective makes all the difference. Whereas most people will see an obstacle, according to De Pree, a giant discerns an opportunity. As I contemplate my own leadership, I have often failed at recognizing an obstacle as an opportunity. I realize I need to grow in this area of my leadership.

When creating a self-assessment for Student N, I wanted to generate a self-assessment that would be clear, simple, and provide beneficial information for myself and the student. The goal of my self-assessment was to involve the student in identifying their own thoughts and feelings towards reading, discover areas of strength and improvement, and encourage self-reflection of their learning. The student was asked to circle thumbs-up (always), thumbs-middle (sometimes), and thumbs-down (not yet). I prefer using the term “not yet” because it shifts the attitude as a work in progress versus a failure. After allowing the student to complete the self-assessment privately, I was able to sit down with them, take notes, and have a mini-conference to dive deeper into their responses.

The two units that I felt I could connect the most to were the mental health and the factors affecting wellbeing unit. I think I was able to connect the most to these units because some of the things that are talked about in the units applied to my life. In mental health and factors affecting wellbeing, we discussed the different factors that can affect our mental health. One example that we talked about was stress, and this is one reason why I was able to relate to the unit. I often have felt stressed therefore, I know the effects it has on our mental health. Another thing that we talked about was how our mental health is affected every day by little things, and, I agree with this statement because I too have experienced

To properly plan and develop personal and professional development for the future, it is necessary to reflect on personal preferences, goals, past experiences, future goals, and motivation. The purpose of this paper is to provide a self-assessment through self-reflection and professional development planning in my health care career. I isolate my top three interests in organizational settings, discuss the importance of leadership, reflect on my motivations, cognition and organizational behavior, strategic planning and marketing, explore unfamiliar healthcare professions, review the importance of quality improvement and teamwork, uncover health disparities, and finally, reflect on health ethics. This will help me thoroughly

• Attending year level meetings and planning days where I have been able to cooperative and contribute to create learning experiences

Over the last five years, I have evolved into a transformational leader in both my leadership roles. As a leader, I have identified both strengths and weaknesses. The first strength of my leadership has always been to be a role model. I have always tried my best to lead by example. I have always been a firm believer that one’s actions always speak much louder than one’s words.

My results from the Participant Self-Assessment is accurate to how I would be in a meeting. Though I have never been in a actual meeting before I can relate by demonstrating how I would behave in a class lecture. I am rather quiet and if there is something that I would like to address then I would, otherwise I would participate by actively listening. I think I behave this way because I am afraid of sharing ideas that people will disagree with but I know that I should not be because sharing ideas can help other people learn to see different views. As suggested by my result, “You can contribute much more to meetings than you currently do” I understand that meetings/lectures are meant for learning and sharing ideas and in order for them to be

Every one has their subjects that they love and hate, and for it was defiantly writing. Writing is something I dreaded for a long time; I developed my hatred towards writing since probably elementary school. I hate writing when I’m expected to put a spin on a subject that just doesn’t work for me, personally. There are many times when I have papers due and sometimes I feel like I have nothing to say towards the topic. I could write a paragraph but to continuously write paragraphs after paragraphs it gets a little harder. I always contradict myself in my writings but that is something I have grown out of. Writing is time consuming and requires a lot of effort. They require a lot of planning and usually some accompanying reading and note taking. Taking notes is one of my weaknesses. In some intuitions like my high school for instances there was not enough time is given to the rough draft and not enough feedback is given before the essay receives a final grade. I personally believe that not everyone is a "natural-born" writer; but I do believe that everyone has the capability to become a decent writer.

Perhaps this deep awareness and self-reflection is both a blessing and a curse! Hmm, connecting the dots in a way no one else can. Mustn't innovative thinkers build off of some fundamental idea that is necessarily framed and shaped by previous thinkers? I find it hard to believe that any epiphany I might have is truly unique in that it was not inspired by something or someone else before. Yes, it is necessary to connect the dots differently, uniquely. My life, the oddities, the synchronicities, the hardship, and the way that the universe conspires around and about me, is no doubt different from the experience of previous thinkers. Yet, as I connect these dots to fit my life, I still feel that it is wise to continue to be guided by past brilliance. If you have any further suggestions of readings or theories or great thinkers that you would like to recommend, please do not hesitate to do so. I would like to flip through my History of Psychology textbook, but I lent it to a friend and I am unsure when I will get it back. "If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else? That's not self-help, that's help. There's no such thing as self-help... if you did it yourself, you didn't need help." Well, I'm lost when I try to do this myself. So I suppose I am looking for help. But, I'm looking for something beyond any help that can be offered to me through medication or therapy or anything like that. I want to find the answer myself, but I shamelessly

What is a soul? My old Pastor told me that humans are on this world to have dominion over all creatures whether creeping or crawling. This statement translated from Christian teachings in the Bible. However, what makes a person believe that souls solely belong to humanity? The idea of that statement seems rather faulty. According to Merriam-Webster, a soul is “the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal.” Since animals and humans both have a soul, shouldn’t we be equals? Although scientists argue that animals can’t self-reflect, animals should be our equals because they have the same sensibility we have and as a matter of course animals have souls; therefore, as animated beings, they should have rights.

The results of my self assessment were pretty accurate to what I know about myself. I have strong intrapersonal and interpersonal skills. I maintain strong relationships with others and think deeply about my life choices, goals, and ambitions. The only score that I thought would be higher was my musical score. I can play a musical instrument and I enjoy listening to music, but I don’t like to sing or play for others. Thinking back to my childhood, I was a linguistic learner. I followed directions well, if someone modeled how to do something, I could follow it and explain it back. I liked talking with someone personally to understand different concepts. The older I got, I was able to adapt to how my teachers’ taught. I had one teacher who loved using bodily-kinesthetic activities, I had other teachers who loved to sing and use logical-mathematical thinking. If I didn’t adjust to their styles of teaching, I wouldn’t have been successful in their class. I believe learning patterns can be altered because my learning pattern was altered. I’ve learned many different things from teachers who have different teaching styles. Teaching is an art and all teachers should use different teaching styles. Having a wide variety of teachers with different teaching styles made me a well rounded learner.