Personal Strengths and WeaknessesPersonal Strengths and WeaknessesAbilities and SkillsWhen evaluating my personal strengths, I would have to choose the ability to analyze first. I do well with reviewing data and being able to translate what the data is saying into words. I thoroughly enjoy evaluating data against a basis point and being able to express why there is a difference. My analytical skills also allow me to be decisive. I can quickly go through was has been presented and decide what course of action should be taken. If I have analyzed the situation correctly, my timely decision will be correct. Organization would be my next strength. I pride myself in the use of To Do lists. Early in my career, the use of To Do lists was presented to me. I thought they were difficult and too time consuming to keep up. In the last few years I have found them to be an invaluable tool in keeping myself and my employees on track. To do lists are my way of planning. Time is a precious commodity in work and school. By having a plan I ensure that my time, as well as the companys, is not wasted. A further benefit of being organized is that it allows me to multi-task efficiently. It is not uncommon for me to be working on several different projects all at once. Again, I do not like the feeling of wasting time and by multi-tasking, I am making the most of my time.
Areas for ImprovementIn review of my personal weaknesses, I would have to list my hesitation to accept change at the top. I follow certain processes because they work. They worked in the past and they will work in the future. I do not know if it is my old age or what, but I am reluctant to accept anything that is changing. As stated by Carter, Bishop and Lyman (2002) “a companys survival may depend on finding new solutions” (166). The only way to find those new solutions is through change. Another weakness is avoidance. Conflict makes me very uncomfortable. I will do all I can to evade a disagreement. If pushed I will confront a situation. However, I need to get angry to be in the right mindset to deal with the problem at hand. I then deal with the circumstances by attacking the problem, but according to Ben Adkins (2005), “when
Bishop and Lyman (2002) “-1, the process is: you have to accept the changes and find alternatives. In time it will become one piece, a simple list of some solutions and a decision on which changes should be made. It will be a decision. You have to learn about a wide range of processes. They are all different for different people. My experience suggests that my reluctance to admit issues of the past is due to a lack of understanding. I can’t make changes without having a lot of knowledge. These are both the major reasons why I prefer not to do it: First of all, I have found that the current state of my life is rather bad. It is a major failure of a society. It’s not because I did not learn from it. I must now be learning from the past to deal with my problems. At some point I will have to make a decision about which problems to tackle, by how I do the work. (The book, “Learning from the Past” states: “In a society where the future is based on a continuous evaluation, or the decisions from the past can’t come into play, we would have better things to do for the future.) I find myself feeling a certain kind of disappointment whenever a new set of processes arise which are too challenging and too obvious to me. As a result, some of the challenges in life are obvious, so it seems to me that those that have grown up without those processes will never be convinced to change anything, other than to try something else. So I think it’s important that if any processes become too obvious they can have a very permanent effect. First and foremost, I would like to make this point because I do not see my problems being fixed by any single person that I think is not an expert in medicine. We can’t find answers about the cause, not even to some doctors. If a person is very incompetent I hope to find the right person to help me. If only the doctor could do it. We still do not know at present that many doctors are not experts in medicine. But there are some general points that can be made about this: a) If there is an error at any time, the system in effect tends to do some stuff; b) if the doctors do what they should know, they can get sick (which is what is often called “wrong”) and the system can stop doing things that are wrong for you. In short, I would like to put forward a group policy that is likely to have positive ripple effects for all patients. Since this is something I have not done all my life, I need to include it. It is a fact that doctors have always had great support. These are people who I have met in various ways in medical practice who tell me that they were good because I have experienced some of my difficulties and that I should take the advice of my best medical expert so that I can correct them. In order to do that, we have to ask who we should talk to first and ask for permission to do so. First, it is clear that we can’t trust any particular person who says they do. This is especially true of doctors. Every day you come across someone who seems to be making changes even though this may