NE-II-108Eagle Patrol

Self Self AssessmentAssessment

Upon completion of this presentation you will:

• Understand the importance of self-assessment in maximizing your leadership potential

• View self-assessment as a valuable avenue for receiving feedback

• Understand how to build your own tools for the self-assessment of your roles in Scouting and in other leadership situations

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Learning Objectives:Learning Objectives:

Assessment is part of Assessment is part of Wood BadgeWood Badge

• Help choose leadership styles.

• Informal assessment during PLC’s

– How are we doing?”

– “How are you feeling?”

• Patrol Project Assessments

• You will be given the opportunity to assess this Wood Badge course

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Good Self-Assessment Good Self-Assessment Comes from OthersComes from Others

• We assess ourselves all the time

– We measure against others

– Measure against standards

• BUT, we are limited by our own perspective, history and background

• We tend to see things the way we want to see them, instead of how the way things actually are.

• We need feedback from others

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Tips for Receiving FeedbackTips for Receiving Feedback• Seek out feedback. It will nearly always provide you with

information that will in some way help you improve your performance.

• Listen carefully. Receiving feedback requires a heightened awareness of yourself and of the person offering the feedback.

• Listen actively. Restate the feedback in your own words so that the speaker knows that the message you are receiving is the same as the one the speaker intended to send.

• Listen emphatically. Put feedback in its proper context by observing the speaker’s body language, tone of voice, and emotions. Consider the speaker’s reasons for offering feedback.

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Tips (continued)Tips (continued)• Notice how you feel when someone

offers you feedback. Becoming angry or defensive can cloud your ability to listen effectively.

• Consider feedback to be a gift. It truly is.

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Giving Feedback TipsGiving Feedback Tips

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• Consider your motives. Feedback should always be helpful. Otherwise, there is no reason to offer it.

• Find out if the other people involved are open to receiving feedback. Listen carefully, then rephrase what they are saying to be sure you Understand them.

• Deal only with behavior that can be changed.• Deal with specifics, not generalities.• Describe the behavior; do not evaluate it.

Giving Feedback (cont)Giving Feedback (cont)• Let the other person know the impact the behavior has

on you.

• Use an “I” statement to accept responsibility for your own perceptions and emotions.

• To make sure the recipients of feedback have understood your message in the way you intended it, ask them to rephrase what they heard you say.

• You can give caring feedback without a good technique, but the slickest technique in the world will not hide a lack of caring.

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• Good leaders constantly seek feedback. They always want to learn more about where they are and how they can more effectively move forward.

• One of the best ways for us as leaders to encourage effective feedback is by developing and using a 360-degree assessment.

Feedback and Leadership

360° Assessment360° Assessment• From the people you report to, or are

accountable to

– “Boss” or “customers”

• From the people that you work with

– Peers and coworkers

• From the people who report to you

– Workers, “underlings”

• All these people are “stakeholders”

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360° Assessment Steps360° Assessment Steps

• Determine goals to be assessed

• Find a facilitator

• Develop an assessment survey

• Identify representative stakeholders

• Facilitator compiles and shares results

• Make assessments ongoing

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Developing Assessment SurveyDeveloping Assessment Survey

• Clear instructions to stakeholders

• Questions based on your goals

• Feedback from what observed and can be measured

• Simple answers– “Way to Go”, “Way to Grow”

– Start, Stop, Continue

– Green, Red, Yellow

• Comments and suggestions encouraged

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Self Assessment is Self Assessment is a Tool for Changea Tool for Change

• Leads to positive change

• Helps others see importance of assessment

• Helps you value giving & getting feedback

• Good 360° assessments help people discover differences between how they perceive themselves and how others perceive them.

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Learning Objectives ReviewLearning Objectives ReviewSo, do you now:

• Understand the importance of self-assessment in maximizing your leadership potential

• View self-assessment as a valuable avenue for receiving feedback

• Understand how to build your own tools for the self-assessment of your roles in Scouting and in other leadership situations

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