Competency Self-Assessment
Review the full course map against your current role and identify priority development areas.
Learning objectives
- 1.Rate yourself honestly across core management domains
- 2.Identify top three strengths to leverage
- 3.Identify top three development priorities with actions
The ten management domains
Use this checklist to rate yourself (1 = novice, 5 = confident practitioner) across domains covered in this course:
- Institutional context & transition to management
- Leadership, trust, and psychological safety
- People management: recruitment, development, underperformance
- Performance management & continuous feedback
- Communication & meetings
- Stakeholder & interinstitutional management
- Decision-making & delegation
- Budget, finance & procurement
- Project management & risk
- Ethics, diversity, conflict, change, strategy, wellbeing
Strengths to leverage
Management development often over-focuses on gaps. Your strengths are resources — if you are excellent at stakeholder management but weak on budget, partner with a strong administrator while you build financial literacy. Name your strengths explicitly to your team so they know where to rely on you.
List three strengths colleagues would attribute to you. How will you use each in the next 90 days?
Gap-closing actions
Pick three gaps. For each: one learning action (course, reading, shadowing), one practice action (real task in your unit), one accountability partner (peer, mentor, director). Vague intentions fail; scheduled actions succeed.
Practice
Hands-onApply this lesson before you move on. Your work is saved in your personal workbook.
Competency self-assessment
Rate yourself 1 (novice) to 5 (confident practitioner) across the course domains. Be honest — gaps drive your 90-day plan.
Key takeaways
- ★Honest self-assessment beats comfortable illusion
- ★Leverage strengths while closing critical gaps
- ★Every development goal needs learning + practice + accountability
You haven't finished the practice block yet. You can still mark the lesson complete — or finish the practice first (recommended).