Week 1: Relating - Knowing Yourself and Others, Reflective Practice

Week 1: Relating - Knowing
yourself and others, reflective

practice
Introduction
Research indicates that effective project leaders and team members have a
strong understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses as well as those
of others. After a short introduction to the course, this session focusses on
understanding your own preferred personality and behaviour traits and how
that might match or be different from others.
In Week 1 we will concentrate on exploring who we are as individuals and

what characteristics we bring to the work and study environment – what
makes us tick as individuals. We will use a number of psychological
instruments as models for thinking about how different people respond to
situations. We are not all the same!
What is Leadership?
In addition, there are numerous models of leadership that you might come
across. We will introduce you to a few concepts in this module, and as we
progress through the weeks, there will be more concepts of leadership that
you will come across.
Learning Activities
Prepare before class
Self-assessment surveys
During this program we will ask you to complete several self-assessment
surveys. You will need to complete several self-assessment
surveys BEFORE coming to the workshops.
Whilst we cannot guarantee that all of these tests produce reliable results they
might reveal different aspects of yourself and can be valuable in helping you
to explore your own personality preferences, your own communication style,
how you handle conflict, how you prefer to work in a team, etc.
Most self-assessment instruments produce variable results because they

depend on the level of self-awareness, and honesty, of the person doing the
test. Also, most are contextually dependent. You might find that you obtain
different results in a different setting or if you are in a different mood state.
These instruments reveal different aspects of yourself and are invaluable in

helping you to explore your own personality preferences, your own
communication style, how you handle conflict, how you prefer to work in a
team, etc.
This week we would like you to complete the TWO self-assessment

surveys below.
 Each survey should take about 15 minutes to complete.

 Read the attached material under weekly readings to help you to
interpret the results.
 We will use the material in class and online discussions. When you
share the information gained from these surveys with your colleagues and
team members, you will gain an understanding of how your preferences
differ from others' preferences.
 These are also very important in terms of how you will form your
teams.
The first survey (Links to an external site.) will help you gain an

understanding of your own personality using a typology originated by Carl
Gustav Jung and later developed by Isobel Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs.
It is now known as the MBTI or Myers-Briggs personality test.
The second survey (Links to an external site.) will help you gain an
understanding of your behaviour preferences. It was initially developed by
William Moulton Marston, known as DISC.
Read
Read the following short summary on Behaviour and personality.pdf .
This extract from one of your recommended texts examines questions of
leadership: Who is the Leader(1).pdf
Workshop slides: Please also take a look at the workshop slides, as we will

discuss these ideas in the workshops. PMGT5872 2020 Week 1 -
Introduction_Models_Reflection_KA.pdf
Watch
Please watch the following videos for this
week: https://canvas.sydney.edu.au/courses/25788/pages/week-1-videos?
module_item_id=839412
Listen
Download the audio files for this week or all of it, and listen at your own pace,
on-the-go or wherever you may be.
Complete at your own pace
Reflective Practice
“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience”
― John Dewey
We suggest that you start to do some journalling and reflection. Developing

self knowledge is a lifetime adventure. Reflection on situations and on
behaviour is one of the best ways of developing self-knowledge. Watch
the video on reflective writing. There are some readings about reflection
and reflective practice this week.
Reflective practitioner: Cheetham and Chivers explores several models of

reflective practice, and tests them with a sample of professionals. The paper
takes account the comments and suggestions made a large number of
respondents, and also draws on observations from the empirical
work. Cheetham_The reflective (and competent) practitioner- a model of
professional competence which seeks to harmonise the reflective practitioner
and competence-based approaches.pdf
Questions for reflection will be provided each week to help you get going,
however you can also create and answer your own questions.
Reflective writing is an important individual assessment task in this unit this

semester, and we strongly advise you to engage in some kind of reflective
practice and journalling, and continue the practice as a life long habit.
Effective leaders are highly reflective people. They think about their actions
and learn from their mistakes. Reflective practice can take many forms -
thinking, writing, drawing, discussing with others - but good reflection always
follows the pattern described in the video. You could also refer to
the following slides. We will discuss some of these concepts in class and
online to help you get started on reflective practices.
PMGT5872 2020 Week 1 - Introduction_Models_Reflection_KA.pdf
Further readings
If you want to know more about topics in this module, there are further
readings here. Additionally, we encourage you to conduct further research
using the library resourcesLinks to an external site. to expand your
knowledge.

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Week 1: Relating - Knowing

yourself and others, reflective

In Week 1 we will concentrate on exploring who we are as individuals and

Most self-assessment instruments produce variable results because they

These instruments reveal different aspects of yourself and are invaluable in

This week we would like you to complete the TWO self-assessment

 Each survey should take about 15 minutes to complete.

The first survey (Links to an external site.) will help you gain an

Workshop slides: Please also take a look at the workshop slides, as we will

Complete at your own pace

We suggest that you start to do some journalling and reflection. Developing

Reflective practitioner: Cheetham and Chivers explores several models of

Reflective writing is an important individual assessment task in this unit this

PMGT5872 2020 Week 1 - Introduction_Models_Reflection_KA.pdf

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