My Personal Strengths and Weaknesses Term Paper

Personal Strengths

Office Skills

My work experience has included working in a rental car buy back company. This role has included doing a wide range of tasks including answering phones, computer work, titles, mailing, managing export/import information and doing inventory control. In this role I was basically running the office. This experience therefore gives me a wide range of office skills as well as the ability to run an office. These management skills can also be applied to other jobs and to other tasks, therefore giving me flexibility in my skills. I have found these office skills of use in both my home environment and my study environment.

Organizational Skills

My work experience and my home experience has given me good organizational skills. These skills come from the tasks listed above, as well as from the organizing I do at home, such as placing ads for rental properties, paying bills and looking after general household tasks.

Home Skills

My home skills also include cleaning, cooking, doing laundry and caring for grandchildren. This also includes doing home maintenance such as painting.

People Skills am a group person who enjoys working with other people and fits into groups quite well. I am also amiable and able to get along with most people and get along well in most situations. I am also an expressive individual, who likes to be involved in things. These things I would say are my people skills, which allow me to get along well with others in my home and work life as well as work well in teams.

Independent and Self-reliant

While I like to work as part of a group I am also able to work independently. In carrying tasks, I learn quickly and like to be shown how to do a task and then be left alone to do it. In this way I am self-reliant and in a work situation need little direction or supervision.Leadership Skills

Once I know what I am doing I like to take charge of situations. My people skills and my organizational skills make me a good leader. While I am happy to learn from others and to work in groups, if I have the skills and knowledge to know what I am doing, I like to take charge and lead others.

PERSONAL WEAKNESSES

Procrastination

One weakness is that I tend to procrastinate, putting things off until the last minute. With some things, I tend to think about them a lot, and not actually do anything about them until the very last minute, if at all.

Time Management

While I have good organizational skills, I do have some problems with managing my time. This is especially in managing my time between work, college and home tasks.

Writing Skills

At 53 years of age, I have just returned to school and am taking my first classes. I have some weaknesses in my writing skills. I especially have problems with essay writing, formatting of papers and grammar.

Criticism have a weakness in that I tend to take criticism personally and take offence to it, instead of taking it well. I have trouble recognizing that criticism is meant to be constructive, not destructive.

Oral Presentations am not very confident with oral presentations and am not very good at public speaking.

People Skills

My major weakness in my people skills is that some people do tend to find me aggressive. This is a product of both my need to work on tasks independently and also the way….....