MMI Assessment

This assessment is designed to help you gain awareness about your managerial style in order to help you to excel as a people manager and transform your team culture.

There are no wrong answers. Select the option that is most accurate to your current self.

Welcome to the NewCampus Modern Management Index

Are you comfortable with sharing your ideas with your team?

I lack confidence in my ideas and thus struggle to share them with others

I struggle to find clarity in my thoughts and thus struggle to verbalise them to others

I am comfortable sharing my ideas with others

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How aware are you of your strengths, weaknesses, and blindspots?

I am aware of my strengths, weaknesses, and blindspots, but need more guidance to work on them

I am aware and equipped to maximise my strengths, and work on my weaknesses and blindspots

I have no clarity on what my strengths, weaknesses, and blindspots are

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Under pressure, you tend to:

Make informed decisions that is best for your team and organisation, and lead your team through it

Find it difficult to think and communicate clearly

Be able to ease the situation

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Question:

Someone you manage has been underperforming for a period of time, what would you do?

Raise this issue to my team lead (or someone more experienced) to look for solutions

Schedule a coffee with the individual to try to find out what's happening and brainstorm on how we can help/him/her get back on track

Do nothing and wait for the next round of performance review to highlight this

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You've been newly assigned to lead a team of 5. What's the approach you'll take with setting the tone in the initial months?

I think work is work, and we can focus on producing good outcomes by centering our conversations around our tasks

I will set up one-on-one meetings with them to get to know them personally and set up a proper communication framework

I will set up a team meeting to introduce myself to start off our relationship on the right foot

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How do you deal with uncertainties as a manager?

I might struggle to work with uncertainties but I will keep it to myself and try to put on a strong front for the rest of the team

I struggle to work with uncertainties and feel completely overwhelmed

I will work collaboratively with the team on a plan and lead them through it

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How comfortable are you with expressing yourself through writing?

I am able to communicate impactful ideas, outline my points clearly, and offer strong call to action

I can comfortably express my ideas through writing, though there are still situations where the audience misunderstands my message

I find it difficult to write in a concise manner

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Question:

It is off-peak season and your team is only handling 1 project which requires 50% of resources. 2 out of 4 of your team members requested to take days off during this period even before you have assigned the project. How would you manage this?

Refuse their request because it's all for one, one for all — everybody stays in the office together

Accept the request because you know the other 2 team members do not have any urgent personal matters to take care of, and you will prioritise giving them days off in the future

Let the other 2 team members decide if this is a fair arrangement

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Question:

After working on similar projects in the past 3 years, you noticed a problem surfacing in a few projects recently. You would:

Do what you've done before as it worked temporarily

Be ready to try a different approach even if it means taking ownership if it fails

Crowdsource ideas but probably stick to what has been done before to avoid failure

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You're tasked to lead a major project for the first time. How do you think you will react?

I feel stressed and unsure on where to begin

I will be able to lead the tasks and lead my team through it

I will be able to set the motion going, but I would require additional support from someone more senior as well

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How comfortable are you with persuading your project stakeholders?

I am comfortable speaking with stakeholders but find it difficult to strategically get their buy-in

I am comfortable speaking with stakeholders and am usually able to understand each of their motivation and get their buy-in

I get anxious and find it difficult to speak to stakeholders

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Someone from your team is giving you feedback, how would you react?

I will only listen to people whom I think are more experienced than me

I will pretend to be interested in the feedback and forget about it after the conversation

Regardless of seniority, I will embrace feedback on my work and assess whether it's something I can improve on

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Your team's workload is currently at 95% capacity for the week, and your manager assigns you to another project that will require 2 days of work the same week. The deadline is set to be "ASAP". How do you respond?

I will be firm and negotiate for some work to be reprioritised and shifted to the next week

I will be hesitant to agree to the work but will tell my manager that we'll work towards it

I will feel pressured and take on the workload, which will result in my team having to work overtime

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Question:

You are suddenly assigned a different type of project from your typical work. You will:

Be hesitant to accept the assignment and will seek advice from peers

Take on the challenge and frame it as a chance to learn

Prefer to stick to what you already know and reject the assignment

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You are tasked to lead and communicate your team's 6-month goal to them in a meeting. What is most likely to happen?

I will struggle to communicate this to my team

I will be able to get everyone on the same page as me

While I am comfortable presenting, I am often not able to get my team to be aligned with my ideas and vision

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How comfortable are you managing different types of personas?

I do not feel comfortable managing my team at all and require guidance on it

I can confidently manage my team made up of different profiles

I only know how to manage certain types of persona

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You have been told to increase your team headcount by 5 people to accommodate the coming year's organisational growth chart. How would you handle it?

I will inform my Human Resource team to keep a look out for specific profiles

I will go through a deep dive to best identify profiles we need first, before informing the Human Resource team and being involved in the search

I will message Human Resource to oversee it

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How would you describe your belief system?

I tend to stick strongly to what I believe in and don't think anyone can change that

I am open to changing my beliefs with time and different experiences

I am open to hearing about other perspectives, but usually stick to what I believe in

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Question:

Which of this best describes you when giving a presentation?

I rely on my slides to provide me with prompts on what to talk about

I feel a bit awkward standing in front of a group audience

I am confident speaking to a group and I am able to maintain eye-contact with the audience throughout the presentation

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Question:

The team worked well to meet the team's quarterly goals, however, there were some individuals who under-performed, what do you do in the next team meeting?

Celebrate the win as a team, share a debrief on what went well and what can be worked on in the next quarter. You make a mental note to schedule 1-on-1s with individuals who underperformed to help them improve

You will call out the individuals who under-performed and tell them that they could potentially lose their jobs if they continue to under-perform

Celebrate the win and tell them to get ready for the next quarter

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Question:

You are putting together a workshop for your team on problem-solving. Which is the most likely outcome?

You will take into consideration the contexts of the projects at hand while putting together the workshop

You will be able to have foresight of the best ways of problem-solving for your team based on their personas and projects at hand

You will put together a step-by-step on how you approach problem-solving

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Question:

During a team meeting, one of your team members suggested an update is due in a key operational process which has not been improved on in the past 2 years. How would you react?

Take this as an opportunity to do away with the old to give way to new ideas, and make it work to the best of your ability

Dismiss that individual's suggestion as the process has served its purpose for the past 2 years

Be willing to try out the new process, knowing that you can fall back on the former process if it does not work out

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You were told to fact check and relay information to a client. You were busy and send it out without checking. The information turned out to be incorrect and you received backlash from the client. How would you react?

Take ownership of the mistake and note to be more careful next time

Put blame on your colleague for sending you incorrect information

Take ownership of the mistake although you don't really see why you should

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You're working in a small company and senior leadership above you has changed twice over the past year. How do you respond?

Remain focused on my job scope while encouraging my team

Take ownership of leading my team in this uncertain time and provide an anchor for them

Be worried about the company's future, and look to leave the company

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How do you feel when you have to give a performance review for a team member who is under-performing?

I dread doing a performance review for under-performing team members

I will come up with excuses to delay doing the review as I want to avoid having the tough conversation

I will take this as an opportunity to reset expectations and build a plan to help my team member get back on track

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You manage a team of 3. Your team is having a hectic week at work in preparation for a presentation to the CEO, and one of them says they need to take family emergency leave for two days. How do you respond?

I will grant them the leave but expect them to return to work as soon as possible

Family and work life should be separate, the work should still be completed on time

I will be concerned about their wellbeing, and ask them not to worry about the work and attend to their family

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Your team has been assigned a new project in an industry that is unfamiliar to you. How would you approach it?

Speak to the right people to learn about that industry

Learn more about the industry whilst applying previous learning experiences from other industries

Do some research on that industry on my own, and get the team to do the same, before we begin the project

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How do you tend to promote crowd interaction during a presentation?

I do not prefer to engage the crowd because I want to finish the presentation as fast as possible

I like to balance my presentation with crowd interaction as I believe everyone has something valuable to share

I tend to spend too much time engaging the audience, losing track of time and not being able to finish the presentation

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Your Details

That's all for the assessment. Now onto a few quick questions about you.

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How many people do you manage at work?*

How many years of managerial experience do you have?*

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