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EXPERIENCE 4: S ELF-ASSESSMENT : THE ENGINE OF SELF -GROWTH READING
When it comes to action plans:
Performance Levels for Creating Action Plans
Level 5—Mentors
1. Assume all productive risks to help others make changes in very tough situations.
2. Create or modify tools to make insightful inferences about almost any performance.
3. Possess clear direction and create ideas for change that can be implemented.
4. See full scope of the problem, break it into elements and develop a comprehensive model for improving
self.
5. Use an extensive variety of resources in self-assessing on a continuous basis to increase self-growth.
Level 4—Professionals
1. Choose to take risks for self-improvement and will continue efforts longer than most.
2. Use common measures to make appropriate inferences within typical professional context.
3. Have direction and begin creating ideas for change.
4. Can break down problems into elements and devise an adequate plan.
5. Use numerous resources and self-assess in key areas to continue to develop professionally.
Level 3—Mobilized Individuals
1. Are willing to take limited risks when necessary to follow through on critical commitments.
2. Identify tools and make limited use of them for immediate feedback in a specified context.
3. Have some sense of direction and recognize the need for change.
4. Can see some elements of problems and devise a simple plan.
5. Use certain resources and self-assess under direction to develop in certain directions.
Level 2—Struggling Individuals
1. Are unwilling to take risks except when forced and follow through only when monitored.
2. Make uncritical use of measurement feedback if directed to in specific use of that feedback.
3. Have very little direction and have only a vague idea that change is needed.
4. See that there is a problem, but don’t see any elements to organize into a plan.
5. Use selective resources and only self-assess in crisis situations.
Level 1—Stuck Individuals
1. Are risk-averse and hardly ever follow through on any resolution.
2. Take a phenomenological look at situations, ignore objective data and inferences relative to criteria.
3. Have no direction and do not conceptualize change.
4. Doesn’t even see a problem, thus sees no need for a plan of action.
5. Have difficulty in obtaining any tools and often miss the opportunity to self-assess.