Leo Pascual Dacayanan

Masters in Public Administration

Leadership and Organizational Change

The Philippine National Police has its quarterly performance evaluation

report which measures competencies on its members. It is very significant to
know our strengths and weaknesses to determine the gaps and thereafter
resolve the gaps with the interventions.

For me, all personnel of the Philippine National Police must have personal
assessment on different areas of competencies such as Job Knowledge,
Work Management, Interpersonal Relationship and Concern for the
Organization. Personal assessment will provide the benchmark for
performance to become more effective and efficient. It shall be used to
assess the performance in terms of contribution to the attainment of the
PNP Mission and Vision, skills and competencies, attitude towards work
and relationship with the superiors, and peers.

Here is my Performance Assessment as Chief Investigation and Detective

Management Section.

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT
Area Gap Sub-Rating Interventions
Job Knowledge 20% 80% Understanding the job descriptions;
Awareness of the Vision, Mission and
Objectives of the Organization;
Community Oriented Policing
System;
Creativity/resourcefulness;
Analytical Ability; Ability to solve
problems; Oral and written
communications; Law enforcement
and maintenance of law and order

Work 30% 70% Record Management and Submission

Management of report; Compliance with and
implementation of Policies/SOP’s;
Sense of Priority; Client
Satisfaction/Orientation; Cost
Effectiveness; Involvement/Presence
in Activities
Interpersonal 5% 95% Receptive to ideas/suggestions;
Relationship Teamwork management; Build
linkages and networks; Ability to
lead and follow; Motivation
Concern for the 20% 80% Stewardship of units properties;
organization Preservation of units properties;
coordination

How do you prepare yourself in the fast changing world and why do we need
to prepare?

In this era of change and innovation, the world demands a different

form of leadership, we are now in the world where people creates the
standard on what a leader should be and who the leader will be. Because
today’s world is different, words like “disruption,” “innovation,” “megatrends”
and “digital” jostle uncomfortably for space alongside demands for meaning,
purpose, values and managing millennials. Leaders are required to answer
for how responsible their organization is in its impact on the wider world.
Being a leader in this unfamiliar terrain requires an upgrade, not just of
skillsets and knowledge, but of the very operating system of leaders
themselves.

Leaders need to be ready for all the challenges in their organization

because sometimes other persons will be buffeted them with bad publicity
thru verbal or social media, but they need not allow themselves to be
depressed or immobilized. To be a good leader these days, one should be
aware of the managerial acronym: VUCA, short for Volatility or the challenge
is unexpected or unstable and may be of unknown duration, but it’s not
necessarily hard to understand, knowledge about it is often available;
Uncertainty or despite lack of other information, the event’s basic cause and
effect are known, the change is possible but not a given; Complexity or the
situation has many interconnected parts and variables, some information is
available or can be predicted, but the volume or nature of it can be
overwhelming to process; and Ambiguity or casual relationships are
completely unclear, no precedents exist: you face “unknown unknowns”.

Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity are the realities of

today and can be continue to be so in the future. “It won’t be getting easier
and leaders must accept this reality.”

To make a better future, I am preparing myself to seek out

experiences and opportunities to learn and apply, maker instinct or ability
to exploit your inner drive to build and grow things, as well as connect with
others in the making; Clarity or ability to see through messes and
contradictions to a future that others cannot yet see; Dilemma flipping or
Ability to turn dilemmas — which, unlike problems, cannot be solved — into
advantages and opportunities; Immersive learning ability or ability to
immerse yourself in unfamiliar environments and to learn from them in a
first-person way; Bio-empathy or ability to see things from nature’s point of
view — to understand, respect and learn from nature’s patterns;
Constructive depolarizing or ability to calm tense situations where
differences dominate and communication has broken down — and bring
people from divergent cultures toward constructive engagement and Quiet
transparency or ability to be open and authentic about what matters to you
— without advertising yourself; Rapid prototyping or ability to create quick
early versions of innovations, with the expectation that later success will
require early failures; Smart mob organizing or ability to create, engage with
and nurture purposeful business or social change networks through
intelligent use of electronic or other media; Commons creating or ability to
seed, nurture and grow shared assets that can benefit other.

One way of attaining these experiences is by attending trainings

provided by the Philippine National Police. I have to have the proper
knowledge to be applied in the course of my duty so I can act accordingly in
different situations as a police officer.

Another way is to pursue a higher education, so I can keep abreast of

different developments and be updated on the current trends and demands
of present situations.

Lastly, to keep an open mind and be open to changes; an open mind

for me is very important because I encounter people who are adamant to
change. They easily get afraid or agitated whenever there will be changes in
their organization and environment. They are afraid to change what they are
accustomed to without first weighing the pros and cons of the situation.
True, that it is hard to change the things that became part of our system.
But there are changes for the better; change is inevitable, people change, the
world change, so we have to keep an open mind in each and every situation.