Global Competencies Inventory

Global Competencies Inventory
The results regarding the GCI were quite surprising to me actually, at the time I was taking this assessment I thought to myself "Gee, these questions again...", but as the time and questions kept passing I realized that the questions were in fact different than the ones asked in previous assessments. For example in the GCI we had to say how many images/shapes were alike, and this was categorized under Perception Management; the shapes to me were not all exactly the same but they had similar attributes (all of them did actually, expect the ones that were missing something), and the ones with the similar attributes (same number of side and somewhat similarity in shape) I numbered off. Overall my score for Perception Management was Moderate, and what I lack in this category is Cosmopolitanism (low score) and Category Inclusiveness(low score), however I scored high on both Inquisitiveness and tolerance of Ambiguity which made me kind of proud of myself. Category Inclusiveness is something I really need to focus on in order to change how I act or maybe view certain situations or people, I need to research that further.
When it came to Relationship Management my score is high, what probably aided this was the fact that I scored pretty high on Relationship Interest and Interpersonal Engagement. I do certainly agree with these scores because I do consider myself very curious of others and if there is a chance I would engage with them...(my friends say I would talk to a wall if I could =P). In any case I'm pretty satisfied with this section's scores, well except for the fact that I scored really low on self awareness. Coming out of class I called my boyfriend and mentioned the fact that this assessment categorized me as not self aware at all! He simply just said "those who know you know that", he said this because to him self aware means "little concern in how their behavioral tendencies affect other people", he doesn't regard the other things that self awareness also means like knowing your value and strengths and limitations, and in that aspect he is right sometimes I'm way into my own little world that I disregard others, or sometimes I don't filter my thoughts and it's never done in a mean way it's just saying it too bluntly. But what I must disagree with is the statement that because i score low "i am not aware of my values, strengths, and limitations", because i am aware of the values i was raised with and with the ones i developed over my 21 years of life. I am true to myself and to what I believe in, and just because I am surrounded by people who don't think the same does not mean I am wrong or I am not willing to adapt, because I can adapt to different situations but I just can't see myself changing values, THIS IS AFTER ALL A HETEROGENEOUS WORLD.
For Self-Management my score was very high, in all the categories I scored high, with the exception of Non-stress tendency. Scoring low on non-stress tendency was no surprise because when I am in a fast paced situation I tend to react very quickly in a stressful manner, in my head I literally start asking questions on how to better the situation and if one doesn't come to mind I freak out, though at the time I don't even notice that freaking out like that is that bad. For example, I work at a restaurant and the environment is pretty fast paced and when I'm involved in a situation where it requires me to run back and forth a lot, while still being polite and I'm literally worrying about every little thing.I read last year that because I basically have a type A personality, the path that I am leading is going to end up giving me ulcers (That's literally what the booklet said, its the LSI assessment). In any case, i need to learn to relax, I need to learn to find new ways of letting out stress and ways of coping with stress while being in a fast paced environment. But then again, I get kind of a rush when things get intense, even though I stress about it that itself gives me an incentive to do something about it
My overall Global Competency Index score was HIGH!!! Ehh Yay! I'm very happy to have that score because this assessment was very insightful in many ways, and it really narrows down on what I should work on. Also this test was not impacted by social desirability which makes them even more truthful.