Introduction
Life is a learning experience and every individual has things that make them unique in their own way. Every individual has something innovative and distinctive that makes them who they are and this are what are known as personal strengths and weaknesses. I believe that being able to recognize one’s strengths and weaknesses can greatly help one to become a better person. Knowing who you truly are in regard to the strengths and weaknesses; and accepting these weaknesses can greatly motivate one to work extra harder to overcome the weaknesses and thus improve one’s life. This is my first online school and college paper I have ever written. In this assignment I will be discussing strengths that I currently possess such as time keeping, great believer in team work among others and the way that I use them in my normal everyday life. Although, as we both know, nobody is perfect and cannot possess every skill and be proficient with it, so I will also be discussing some of my weakness such as poor communication and writing skills. I will illustrate how these weaknesses affect my academic and career life and how I plan on improving on them to help me become a better person in the society.
Personal Skill Strengths
One of my greatest strength I believe is on organization. I am great believer in having things organized which is why I keep a daily diary where I record all my plans for the day from the most important to the least important. By doing this, I am able to ensure that all the important deadlines are met and this helps to keep everything in my life in order.
My second strength is my believe and passion in teamwork, I believe in having good relationships with the people around me whether it is at work, at school or even at home and giving everyone an opportunity to express their ideas. I understand that team work is a great element that helps in ensuring goals are met.
My other strength is that I am very passionate about helping other people without any bias; I am that person whom everyone feels free to ask a question about anything. This is one of the reasons why even I was selected as the group representative for the youth group that I am in our estate because I am always ready to help the members when they come to me with their personal problems.
Time management is another of my strength that I can confidently say that I have developed over the years, though it was not easy to acquire it especially with my busy schedule at school and also at my part time job. Today I am always able to meet my demands by ensuring that I have balanced all the activities that I have to do in my life. This balance is effective because it greatly helps me to have peace of mind knowing that at the end of the day, all the demands for the day have been met.
Personal Skill Weaknesses
My weaknesses are things that I have been trying to really work on to see if I can improve and live a much better and successful life. My first weakness is in concern with communication and presentation skills, I am not very good at mingling and meeting new people and this means that I do make a lot of conversations. This has negatively impacted on both my communication and presentation skills. I understand that good communications as well as presentation skills are both important in helping one to effectively grow and develop most especially in career matters. This has greatly affected my social life because I always fear speaking in a place where there are many people and sometimes I have really great ideas.
Another major weakness that I have is that my writing skills are not really that good. I understand the basic skills and I can complete an essay but I always find the content to be shallow and not as convincing as it should be. Good writing skills is something that I really need with both my work and school life because I know that I will often be required to write projects and assignments something that I really struggle with. I have in the past had constant complains from my teachers to improve on my writing and this has greatly impacted on my academic results.
Personal Improvement Plan
A weakness is something that one can work on and try to improve for better performance which is why I am making a lot of effort to try and work on my weaknesses. I believe that improving on both my communication and writing skills are important in helping me become a better individuals and this will help me improve on both my academic and work performance.
In regard to my communication skills, I have been trying to work on this weakness by joining youth groups in the society where we hold discussion groups and they have been motivating me to talk more and it is really helping me gain courage while speaking in a crowd. I have also been investing more time attending more educative conferences where I get to meet and interact with more people something that is really helping me improve on both my presentation and communication skills.
In regard to my writing, I have come up with a schedule with one of my friends who is really good at writing essays. She will be helping me become a better writer and this means that I have to write three essays every week where we go through the essays together to help me understand how to structure my essays. I have also subscribed to various educational blogs that discuss writing skills, where I interact with other people struggling with writing problems and we get to understand how we can better improve on our writing skills.
Conclusion
Understanding one’s strengths and weaknesses is something that is very important and every individual should try and assess their skills to understand what weaknesses and strengths they possess. This has been a very educative assignment that has helped me understand and accept truths about myself that I have always been reluctant to address. I now understand that my greatest strengths include; believe in teamwork, time management and also my organization skills. These are skills that will greatly impact on both my educational and career paths, thus helping e become a better individual. I however also understand that communication and writing skills weaknesses could negatively hinder this development and that is why I should work extra harder to try and improve on these weaknesses. I believe that with the help of the plan that I have come up with to improve on these weaknesses, everything will work out well and I will achieve my life goals and become a better individual.
References
Sukiennik, D., & Raufman, L. (2016). The career fitness program: Exercising your options (11th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
