Beer party in 2 weeks

Got your attention :-) but I don't intend to steal the thunders from Lynnette and Dai ...

This blog is about a more personal subject - my GCI feedback report. Every time I take a personality survey or assessment, I feel that I have to restrain myself from answering from the perspective of what I want to see myself as. It's not different this time and I think I did fairly well to stay truth with what I really am in this assessment.

The GCI report indicates that I am good at perception management. It says I am not judgmental and inquisitive, which I agree very much. I am interested in different cultures, which reflects my own multi-cultural background and the cultural diversity at work. It may come as a surprise as first that I have a reasonable tolerance of ambiguity as engineering is usually linked to numbers and facts (I have been in engineering R&D for my whole career.) But I think the tolerance generally grows as one ages and matures. It's interesting to hear from Joyce's experience with the undergraduate class on BaFa BaFa. I can't say that I am surprised by the results - younger adults with none to small amount of work experience are probably more impatient with our group of working adults in this class here.

I also seem to manage myself pretty well. I am optimistic. I handle emotional setbacks and stress well. The assessment may be different if I took the same test 10 years ago. I think the challenges at workplace in the last 10 years (e.g., Internet bust, globalization, difficult superiors) have polished by EQ reasonably well. I am surprised by the low levels in self confidence, self identity, and interest flexibility. I consider myself a moderate without a big ego but not timid either. The evaluation is relative to others who have taken the assessment so I can only hypothesize that my benchmark on these three categories are different from others.

Last but not least, I am moderate on relationship management. I shouldn't be surprised as I consider myself an introvert so relationship building (particularly outside the workplace) is not my strength. Since interpersonal relationship in the workplace is essential, I think I am generally able to keep up with it.

Overall, the GCI indicates that I am strong in knowing myself and listening to others but weak in reaching out to people in building relationship. Getting myself into situations of getting to know strangers may help enhancing my relationship management skill. It's an essential leadership skill - whether it's in Internet age or social networking age.