self-evaluation for mission readiness

The Staff Development Service of the Office of Human Resources Management and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations have compiled two evaluation forms to help you determine your readiness for a new assignment. The Mission Readiness Self-Evaluation is intended to help you assess your own readiness for the conditions of a non-family mission assignment. The Family Readiness to Move evaluation provides some questions for you and your family to consider before making the move.

The Self-Evaluation is a valuable way of looking at your own suitability for a mission assignment. This is not a selection test. It is a training and research tool designed by a group of international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to help staff acquire a better self understanding and to track their own personal development.

Various surveys and social studies have identified certain characteristics related to working with people under mission conditions. Your personal attributes are particularly relevant in situations where people of different backgrounds are required to work closely together in highly stressful situations.

orking through the Mission Readiness Self-Evaluation is intended to help you determine whether you are ready for mission work. There are some circumstances in which it might be advisable to postpone accepting a mission assignment. These include:

Pending legal action
Family crisis
Pending marital separation or divorce
An unresolved traumatic experience
Treatment for a chronic ailment
Treatment for alcohol or drug abuse

If any of these or similar circumstances are currently affecting your life or the lives of your family members, accepting an assignment before the issues have been resolved could be extremely stressful. We suggest that you consider all points of the Self-Evaluation, the Family Readiness to Move evaluation and the Mission Readiness Checklist carefully. If you find that you are having difficulty getting properly prepared or have any worries about your mission readiness, it is important that you contact a staff counsellor to discuss the issues in detail. Staff counsellor and stress counsellor contact numbers can be found in the fourth section of this web site, “Part 4: Additional Information and Worksheets”.