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MDG 2011 FEEDBACK REPORT FOR Romesh Gupta (M -07 to M -06 Transition, ESSAR Shipping)
Dear Romesh, Thank you for participating in the MDG process; an assessment process that is designed to evaluate your proficiency on the 12 Essar Anchor Competencies that are integral to your growth and development as a leader in Essar. We hope it was an interesting learning experience for you. As you know, the final outcome of the MDG process is a combination of (a) your on-the-job performance over 2/3 performance cycles (with a 50-60% weightage) and (b) your performance in the MDG assessment process (with a 40-50% weightage). This Feedback Report captures your performance in the MDG assessment process, providing feedback and developmental inputs for your growth within the Essar Group. As you go through the report, we are confident you will find sufficient data and plans to help guide you in your personal and professional development. We wish you the very best in your pursuit of Excellence! Best regards, Sujaya
KEY TO UNDERSTANDING & USING THIS REPORT
P P1 Planning &Organising P2 Result Orientation
E E1 Calculated Risk Taking E2 Initiative
N Ng1 Interpersonal Ability Ng2 Closure Skills
N Nu1 Developing Self / Others Nu2 Enhancing & Sustaining Performance
O O1 Quality Orientation O2 Commercial Acumen
C C1 Need Identification C2 Establishing Strategic Relationships
RATING SCALE DESCRIPTOR
Between 4 – 5 SD- Strongly displayed
Between 3 – 3.9 AD-Adequately displayed
Between 2 – 2.9 PD-Poorly displayed
Between 1 – 1.9 ND- Not displayed
PENNOC and the 12 Anchor Competencies INTERPRETING YOUR SCORE
3.73.8
3.3 3.33.6
3.83.8
3.3 3.33.5 3.5 3.5
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
P1 P2AD AD
E1 E2AD AD
Ng1 Ng2AD AD
Nu1 Nu2AD AD
O1 O2AD AD
C1 C2AD AD
PENNOC SCORES
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MDG EXERCISE
EXERCISE-WISE FEEDBACK ON YOUR PERFORMANCE IN MDG 2011
Personal Interview (PI)
You have come across as a hardworking and sincere individual. Your commitment has also been demonstrated. However working on your leadership skills, showing greater assertiveness and enhanced clarity of thought while presenting are areas for improvement.
E-Fit
You strongly demonstrate the ability to prioritize activities, mobilize & leverage resources, stay focused & prepare for contingencies. You also possess leadership qualities like effective decision making & goal orientation to a high degree.
You demonstrate a high level of commitment & the ability to innovate, ingenious problem solving, recognize & capitalize on opportunities, handle ambiguity & take calculated risks when required.
You adequately demonstrate a facilitative, knowledge sharing, supportive & nurturing attitude. You show potential in the areas of delegation, coaching/mentoring, developing self & others & for creating an open healthy work environment.
Your scores indicate adequate closure & rapport building skills, a good grasp of the business environment, a win-win attitude & good interpersonal & communication skills. You are fairly approachable, sensitive, a good listener & possess adequate levels of emotional maturity
Your scores demonstrate quality orientation & commercial acumen to a very high degree. You are able to effectively leverage technology to deliver high quality, efficient products, services & work processes. You are usually meticulous, strategically aware with a sound understanding of the financial aspects of business
Your scores show a customer orientation with the ability to establish strategic relationships, relate well with business partners & be able to identify their needs. You firmly believe in using customer information to enhance products & services
Written Test NA
Group Discussion
You have been perceived to be a good listener, appreciating and supporting your colleagues. Your Project Management, Nurturing and Negotiating skills are also adequate. However, Operational Excellence and Entrepreneurial Orientation have emerged as areas for improvement.
Case Study Group
Discussion NA
Case Study Presentation
NA
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COMPETENCY COMPETENCY-WISE FEEDBACK ON YOUR PERFORMANCE
IN MDG 2011
P1 -Planning &
Organising
AD- You are perceived to generally plan and organize your work well. You also seem to adequately plan and
organize projects well by establishing course of action, plan for resources required, use them optimally and
build efficiency in the team. You prioritize activities reasonably well in order to achieve the goals set. You
seem to achieve moderate success in understanding the big picture and details of an assignment. You
adequately maintain focus, track progress, adhere to agreed milestones and manage time and material
well within the approved budgets.
P2 -Result orientation AD- You seem to take ownership of the task assigned to you and don’t give up till its completed most of the
time. You are a self-starter and actively achieve goals and objectives in line with the expectations set. You
assess situation in depth and generally take decisions if required. You usually persevere even when faced
with challenging tasks or setbacks. You seem to make efforts to originate action and strive for achieving the
target set for yourself and your team. You are focused on the bottom line results and are able to get the
work done most of the time effectively and deliver quality products and services in a timely manner.
E1 - Calculated risk
Taking
AD- You are seen to demonstrate calculated risk taking at an adequate level of proficiency. You are
generally able to do SWOT analysis for risks and identify original, imaginative and optimal solutions to the
problems faced. When faced with ambiguous and uncertain situations, you most of the times handle it
well.
E2 - Initiative AD- You demonstrate initiative taking abilities adequately. You take the initiative to act independently or
take charge of the situation as and when required. You are committed to achieving the objectives set and
sometimes also are willing to take up the challenges of achieving difficult targets . You frequently seek
opportunities to work on new assignments and projects.
Ng1 -Interpersonal ability AD- You seem to work harmoniously and efficiently with the people around you whether internal or
external most of the time. You seek to understand other peoples' needs and motives. You are easy to
approach and people feel a comfort in your presence. Most people find you pleasant, warm and gracious.
You listen adequately and try to put your own self into the shoes of the others in order to understand their
need and desire. You try to build a rapport with others and are moderately successful in doing so.
Ng2 -Closure skills AD- You are perceived to be moderately successful in reaching consensus and agreement when faced with
difficult situations. Depending on the need of the situation you are diplomatic and at times direct as well
and strive to arrive at a common ground. You have been reasonably successful in maintaining a healthy
relationship with parties involved in situations that required you to make tough decisions.
Nu1-Developing
self/others
AD- You have a satisfactory level of commitment towards developing self and the team, and this is an
improvement opportunity. You are aware of the developmental needs of your team members and provide
them with the requisite support. You do not hesitate in delegating challenging and stretching tasks,
coaching team members, holding frequent developmental discussions, providing constructive feedback and
providing challenging tasks as some of the initiatives that help your team members in their development.
You are perceived as someone who is approachable and constantly strives to improve self and team.
Nu2 -Enhancing and
sustaining Performance
AD- You seem to be able to get the best out of many of your people most of the time and also take the
initiative to prepare some of them to take up current and future responsibilities. You are perceived to be
reasonably open to empower your team members, seek their inputs and share ownership for performance
enhancements. You make your team members feel like they are part of the business and not merely hired
hands. You seem to be able to build this as one of your strengths by providing support to your team
members to develop the required skills and abilities. You generally create a climate of positivity that would
effectively push people to deliver their best.
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O 1 -Quality orientation
AD- You seem to adequately deliver products and services that meet the expectations of internal as well as
external customers. You tend to ensure adherence to processes for a high standard of quality in the
output. You generally explore the possibility of leveraging technology that would have positive impact on
the quality. You adequately ensure efficiently and effective work processes. You tend to encourage your
team further to come up with ideas and suggestions to improve work processes that would create a
learning environment in the organization.
O2 -Commercial acumen
AD- You adequately keep yourself aware with most of the market trends of your industry. You reasonably
understand your business, revenue and profitability model. You use such available information for decision
making that would be useful to the organization in long term with moderate success. You have a fair
understanding of how business works, current and future policies and practices, trends, technology and
information affecting your business and organization.
C1 - Need Identification AD- You seem to generally act with the customer in mind. You make adequate attempts to understand their
requirements both expressed and unexpressed. You take initiatives to reach out to your customers on a
regular basis to understand developments at their end to respond accordingly by making changes in your
offerings. You stay in touch with your customers short and long term needs and set realistic expectations
and ensure delivery as schedule. You generally meet the expectations and requirements of the customers.
C2 - Establishing
Strategic relationships
AD- You are seen to be generally good at building and maintaining strategic relationships with professionals
to partner with them for achieving the organizational business goals. You seem to take adequate initiatives
and do not hesitate to make use of most of the opportunities you come across to build professional
relationships. You are reasonably successful in leveraging these professional networks and relationships for
the benefit of the organization.