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Essay / Strategies for Self-Reflection and Goal Setting
Globalization allows individuals, groups, businesses, and countries to reach the world farther, faster, deeper, and more cheaply than ever before. Most of the large local companies view globalization as an opportunity and thus explore foreign markets to achieve maximum market share and optimal business strategies. However, managers would face a series of challenges caused by leadership models, cultural contexts, political and economic risks, human resource management, etc. Studying multinational management skills is very useful for my future career. In this essay, I will set goals for this topic, identify skills that I have honed and need to improve, and explain my strategies for achieving my goals. Goal Setting Over the next six to twelve months, as a student, my short-term goal is to complete an exchange program that I could study in a foreign country during my final semester. Exchange students from different countries with multicultural backgrounds come together to study, which is a great challenge for me to communicate and work in a team based on good mutual understanding. After completing my higher education, I worked as a financial consultant in a multinational company is my dream striving to come true. Endless conflicts with partners, continuous misunderstandings with customers, and mutual distrust between the parent company and subsidiaries often occurred in multinational corporations. Whether on campus or in the workplace, I would face many thorny issues related to cultural differences, management models, communication barriers or interpersonal conflicts. . Therefore, in order to work well in a multinational company, improving management skills based on case learning is my next plan to turn theory into practice. Self-assessment...... middle of paper ...... reader understanding and comprehension. In the future, I may well apply methods and skills to manage conflict if I am faced with difficult situations. Likewise, studying different character leadership models in cases is a good way to develop my leadership skills. • Quantitative and Qualitative Measures After taking the above actions, I will take both quantitative and qualitative measures to assess my skills whether they are improved or not. Quantitative measurement involves completing a survey that asks categorical questions to my peers or groupmates who must rate an answer by 1 to 10 points each time. Each survey result would be calculated and compared, letting me know what I should improve further and what I have achieved. Additionally, I will apply qualitative measures, such as a verbal interview, which will ask open-ended questions to peers to obtain assessment or feedback..