Personal Strengths and Weaknesses

Personal Strengths and Weaknesses

Recognizing your personal strengths may not be as simple as you may first think. Knowing and understanding these skills, personality traits, and job qualities is a must in today’s work society. Once these characteristics are understood and identified, you can begin to think about your weaknesses, which are generally more difficult to admit. Realizing your own weaknesses, and being able to admit them to your team is the first step in creating a positive learning team. When team members asses their strengths and weaknesses, it allows the other team members to fill in the positive and negative qualities between each other; thus resulting in a well-balanced learning team. Having a well-balanced learning team is an important milestone in recognizing and building work ethics, skills, and improving known traits and qualities.

Personal qualities, whether positive or negative, reflect ones strengths and weaknesses in many ways. My most important personal qualities are confidence and creativity.

Confidence comes to me in many ways, mostly at the workplace through customer comments and satisfaction. Photography, my line of work, allows me to express myself in the workplace in ways that most people cannot in their jobs. My ten years experience in this field allows me to be confident in my creative ability and succeed when challenged. This does not only contribute to my creativity quality, but to the confidence as well when I get rewarded with commission or even a polite comment on my photography and editing talents. Having a confident and positive attitude at work can make personal morale skyrocket, which also benefits the workers and team members around you.

Strengths can be defined in many different ways, but strengths involving knowledge-based skills that can be transferred from job to job can be the most important traits to strive for in the business world. Computer proficiency is a requirement in this day and age; and I am confident in saying that I am more than efficient. Running small applications such as word processors and browsing the internet are not the only tasks a computer can perform. I have proficient skills in Microsoft Word, Front Page, Power Point; and professional skills in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. I also have the knowledge of how to construct and assemble a computer myself, which also assists in computer repairs around the workplace. Computers are my strong point, yet not my only strength.

I have studied the Spanish language for over twelve years, and am nearly fluent in the dialect. Sales and communication have always come naturally to me, because I have been raised by my father, a salesman. Since I could walk, I was selling merchandise for my family, Boy Scouts of America, and local school drives. Being approachable, dressing nice, and taking care of myself are points I always pay close attention to. Photography has been a strength of mine since early grade school. Constantly winning photography competitions, excelling in photography classes, and now using photography as my career; I have become confident in my skills and talent in the field. Recognizing your skills is important, but building on your weaknesses can lead you to ultimate perfection.

It has always seemed to me that getting someone to declare their weaknesses is a difficult task. I, personally, see this as a yet another weakness in the persona of that being. Honesty and confidence are qualities you must look for, and choose when it comes to picking your learning team. If a candidate has a notion that there is nothing wrong about him or herself; that person has some thinking to do, and most likely won’t make it onto my team. Being honest is a trait that I have been ridiculed for my entire life. I tend to speak my mind, especially in situations where keeping quiet or “brown-nosing” would be the politically correct way of handling the situation.

This has led me to troubles, especially with women, but I believe it is important