Deck 15: Enhancing Your Management Career Potential

Question 1

Match each term with its definition or description.
a.strengths
b.weaknesses
c.opportunities
d.threats
e.self-assessment tools
f.self-awareness
Things to take advantage of in order to build strengths

Answer 1

c

Question 2

The ________ department in an organization generally provides a number of assessment tools for employees.

Answer 2

human resources

Question 3

People generally are far more critical of others than they are of themselves.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Is there limited opportunity for advancement in this field? This would be a question you might ask yourself when determining what aspect of a SWOT analysis?

A) Strengths
B) Weaknesses
C) Opportunities
D) Threats

Question 5

In performing a strengths assessment,it is important that you never compare yourself to others.

Question 6

When you analyze your weaknesses,you must accept that they cannot be changed into strengths.

Question 7

The reason for participating in a ________ process is to identify strengths and styles that will benefit both the individual and the organization in a positive fashion.

Question 8

As an employee becomes more effective with a soft skill,his or her consistency level with that skill ________.

Question 9

Match each term with its definition or description.
a.strengths
b.weaknesses
c.opportunities
d.threats
e.self-assessment tools
f.self-awareness
Tests,questionnaires,inventories,surveys,or other instruments designed to measure various aspects of personality,motivation,or competence

Question 10

The first part of a skills inventory assessment is to measure technical skills needed for a specific position,sometimes called ________ skills.

Question 11

Self-assessment tools are tests,questionnaires,inventories,surveys,or other instruments designed primarily to ________ various aspects of personality,motivation,or competence.

Question 12

What specific technical skills and expertise do I have that are required for the job? This would be a question you might ask yourself when determining what aspect of a SWOT analysis?

A) Strengths
B) Weaknesses
C) Opportunities
D) Threats

Question 13

Can I network and find a mentor who will coach me and open doors that might enhance my career opportunities? This would be a question you might ask yourself when determining what aspect of a SWOT analysis?

A) Strengths
B) Weaknesses
C) Opportunities
D) Talents

Question 14

Opportunities and threats are different from strengths and weaknesses in that you cannot control them.

Question 15

Do I have difficulty packaging my skills and marketing myself to a company? This would be a question you might ask yourself when determining what aspect of a SWOT analysis?

A) Strengths
B) Weaknesses
C) Opportunities
D) Talents

Question 16

Ensuring that you have a positive self concept is a key value of self-assessment.

Question 17

Which of these is often overlooked when a person takes a personal self-assessment?

A) skills and values
B) cognitive ability
C) physical fitness/health
D) learning style
Enter the appropriate word(s)to complete the statement.

Question 18

SWOT analysis is a managerial planning tool that can be adapted easily to a personal career assessment tool.

Question 19

Assessment tools need to be viewed as just one step in the journey to becoming more ________.No assessment tool,even a professionally administered one,is 100 percent accurate.

Question 20

Managers doing strategic planning often use a tool or process called a SWOT analysis.Of the following,which is not represented by the letters in SWOT?

A) Strengths
B) Weaknesses
C) Opportunities
D) Talents

Question 21

Match each term with its definition or description.
a.strengths
b.weaknesses
c.opportunities
d.threats
e.self-assessment tools
f.self-awareness
Areas in which you could improve

Question 22

Match each term with its definition or description.
a.strengths
b.weaknesses
c.opportunities
d.threats
e.self-assessment tools
f.self-awareness
A measure of how well you know yourself and your impact on others

Question 23

Match each term with its definition or description.
a.strengths
b.weaknesses
c.opportunities
d.threats
e.self-assessment tools
f.self-awareness
Things to identify and then overcome or minimize

Question 24

The second part of a skills inventory assessment for a position is to measure soft skills.What is another term for soft skills?

Question 25

A job description that has requirements including critical thinking,communication,collaboration,team building,and creativity and innovation would be related to what type of skill?

Question 26

An in-depth knowledge of Excel and Word and the ability and to create worksheets for various business documents are abilities that would be related to what type of skill?

Question 27

It is important that you approach limitations or weaknesses you may have from the perspective of turning them into what type of trait?

Question 28

Skills inventories can be viewed from your perspective and another perspective.What is the other perspective?

Question 29

Match each term with its definition or description.
a.strengths
b.weaknesses
c.opportunities
d.threats
e.self-assessment tools
f.self-awareness
Areas in which you are superior to others

Question 30

A key value of self-assessment is to ensure that you have what type of view of yourself as a person?