Month: August 2016

Personally Credible

CIPD 3

Personally Credible as identified by the CIPD (2016) is the behavior of being a reliable person with adequate amount of credible sources & information that have high value in delivery with making use of past or current experience and expertise, which most importantly must be delivered with high integrity and objectivity.

 

I have built this behavior in CULC during my work with groups when firstly meeting deadlines, being highly committed to the given tasks, accept & handle all related responsibilities, support decisions, and most importantly offer meaningful and rational advice when asked for.

 

According to the CIPD, I must demonstrate this behavior in my future role as an HR practitioner as i will be likely to lead people that work with me. Therefore, i must be aware on the techniques of giving sensible feedback to my team to increase their development, and be able to coach them to increase their awareness of their role’s objectives and requirements.

I have attended a training workshop by September intake students about feedback, which i have learnt the Sandwich Technique in. Afterwards, i have learnt to make all my feedback to others using this technique where you must firstly say the good aspects, then mention the bad that need to be improved, and later again with the good to conclude with positive emotions.
In addition to that, I had past experience working in a family owned business in Bahrain, and i was in a position that all employees came to seek advice from me about how to improve in their jobs.  Admitting my slight experience in the food & bakery business, i have managed to attend 8 workshops in a year to be able to meet with the required level of understanding to be able to benefit the employees when they approach me for help.

 

Engaging in various group activities in CULC especially in Leadership module in term 2, i demonstrated this behavior while being a group leader that is responsible of creating the action plan for our group and making sure everyone can follow after personally reading the required material to be able to participate in class and engage with group discussions.  Moreover, in term 3 the chance of being a mentor to my mentee Awais from Term 2; i managed to share my expertise & experience with him to further develop his understanding to module requirements to be able to score high grades in his coming submissions; which he found very useful and helpful.

The most important trait I need to develop to become a better personally credible person, is the ability to admit all self skill or performance gaps and work on improving them, and built as many academic & practical experience as possible.  Only then I believe that I would be able to be a good search engine for who ever is in need for my advice.

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Role Model

CIPD 2

According to CIPD definition (2016) Role model is a person that motivates & inspires others to copy their behaviors and set an example to follow either now or in future. My responsibility as a role model began in my family, being the eldest between to other sisters. It is always important to be a good role model because the younger siblings look up to me all the time.

However, in CULC I thought it would be different hence I was the only student in my class that came from a different educational background ‘Accounting & Finance’ therefore, I insisted to be the role model in term 2 Finance module hence I came from a finance background and all my classmates where seeking for my advice and wanted to make use of my knowledge. I enjoyed the experience by participating and encourage them to engage in seminar group activities to emphasize the fun factors in analyzing numbers and financial statements’ since everyone found it the least interesting subject.

In term 3 Employee engagement module, i have learnt that leadership & integrity are two of the four employee engagement enablers. Therefore, i personally find a link between being a role model in taking leadership because all leaders are supposed to be role models to their followers. In addition to that, the second enabler ‘Integrity’ i can also link it to role model’s key traits, in which i believe that all role models must have integrity in their values and actions. For example, in future when i become an HR professional i would like to be a person that my employees look up for example if i ask them to be punctual i must attend on time myself first (Clake, 2010).

 

To further develop this behavior, i would like to set certain values to my self first, and understand my future organizations values, and be able to communicate them through my behavior not only my orders to my team in the workplace. For example, i can set clear goals and be very transparent with my team, identify my strengths and share them with the employees to motivate them on working to enhance theirs. In addition to that, i would want to take further coaching courses and complete my ILM certificate to be able to develop my staff through demonstrating good values.

 

As an HR person, my role is not to only communicate values, but also to lead by example, observe their re-action, measure my teams progress, and celebrate and praise their success. Then only being a role model will increase their involvement, happiness, and success (Achor, 2011).

 

 

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Courage to Challenge

‘How did I demonstrate the behavior as required by the CIPD? What can I do to further develop this behavior as an HR Professional?

CIPD

According to CIPD (2016) as HR practitioners; we are required to have courage to challenge included in our behavior, which indicates high self-esteem, credibility, communication skills, and ability to overcome any expected or non expected difficulties.

 

During my study in CULC, I have developed this behavior in many cases while working with others in our group course works. For instance, in developing people in preparation of our time management training workshop I found it important to meet with my group mates to explain and motivate them to accept the challenge of winning the client by meeting all his requirements.  In addition to that, I had to clarify the importance of winning the challenge by giving them motives to score better grades, win clients expectations, and the most importantly it has to be ethical towards our competitor groups, meet our personal values and group values in means that we must find the right things to do.  I have sat with them and decided on the most appropriate approaches that will make us reach to our objectives and help the trained CULC students to meet our training learning outcomes and benefit from it.

 

I also emphasized on the importance of demonstrating competencies such as confidence in performing, and have analytical strengths, decisiveness, and try to overcome any risks that we might face during the workshop.  Moreover, I was motivated to enhance these capabilities because they will also be useful in my future role as an HR practitioner (CIPD, 2016).

 

The most valuable skill I insisted to emphasize on in our workshop was the importance of being able to negotiate the requirements which  I personally find it a very crucial trait that is necessary to be in any courageous person, and specially when having to negotiate with a superior person in any future job.

 

Moreover, I personally like to use ‘Emotional Intelligence’ as my model of courage; and according to Golemen (1995) that categorized the competencies into personal & social to divide the elements needed on how to manage ourselves and how to handle relationships.  This model showed me that is it important to firstly be self awarded, self regulated, and motivated.  Secondly, to have empathy and built social skills such as influential skills, communication skills, leadership, and most importantly conflict management.  I find these skills highly related to courage to challenge because I firstly need to be able to manage myself better, then make relationships and challenge others.

 

The main traits I have developed during my study in CULC is self efficacy, in which I am highly aware of my capabilities and know exactly when to put them in use especially while working with others in groups (Bandura, 1997).  Moreover, starting my course in January 2016 with new people and new major developed my openness to experience and self evaluation after the end of each term.

 

To further develop this behavior as an HR professional, I need to work on my emotional intelligence, and always keep myself motivated to do & give my best.  In addition to that, after graduating I need to make sure to be open to any challenge that will come and apply to all industries without limiting myself, hence I believe when you limit one limits himself he then limits his skills.

 

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