Managing self and personal skills
Description
- Willing and able to assess and apply own skills, abilities and experience
- Being aware of own behaviour and how it impacts on others
Self
- Managing workload and making effective use of time
- Being well prepared for meetings and presentations
- Demonstrating an awareness of own values, motivations & emotions
- Keeping up to date with what is happening in professional area
- Having an enthusiastic and positive ‘can-do’ approach
- Maintaining a healthy life balance
- Speaking and writing by using clear succinct language
- Showing consistency between words and actions
- Being self motivated
- Accepting and demonstrating personal responsibility for health and safety, data protection and other compliance areas
Others
- Giving and receiving constructive feedback as part of normal day-to-day work activity
- Developing and maintaining personal networks of contacts
- Ensuring own behaviour, words and actions support a commitment to equality of opportunity and diversity
- Chairing meetings effectively, ensuring everyone has an opportunity to contribute
- Getting the best from others through effective communication
- Managing own response when faced with challenging situations
Organisation
- Taking an active interest in what is happening more widely in the organisation
- Keeping up to date with what is happening in wider HE environment
Behaviours indicating further development needs
- Talking or writing at inappropriate length
- Focusing almost exclusively on own job or own department
- Being consistently late for meetings
- Missing deadlines
- Reacting defensively to constructive criticism