Personal Statement : Personal Development

Whenever the term legacy is invoked in conversation it elicits many different responses. What is it that makes a person have a legacy that will endure long after he or she has breathed their last breath? In my judgement there are several factors that enable a person to have a long lasting impact on others. There are several key attributes that I feel contribute in the greatest manner of developing a person into who they are and into the professional and the leader they were destined to become. As I take an in-depth view of myself and evaluate the abilities that I possess, there are areas I must identify to improve upon whether strengths or weaknesses. The strengths are my endurance, compassion, and leadership,

It is with these basic assumptions and goals that I will immerse myself in this exercise with. I will search to gain valuable insight of who I truly am. I will define my strength, my enabler, and my blockers. I will use all the data available to create a best self-portrait and to identify key trends in my personality and characteristics. My importantly, I will delve into the roots of my behaviors and actions to learn who I am as a leader, as a worker, as a sibling, as a son, as a friend, and as a person in general. With all this insight combined I will be able to effectively orient myself towards the future and be the type of leader and man that I dream of being, with the help of my strengths.

I like to be Faced with any given scenario they can quickly spot the relevant patterns and issues.. I improve things about myself and other people or situations. I am “fascinated by problems that puzzle,confound or frustrate most people”. My other strength is Belief. I have certain core values that are unchanging. My family is my top priority and I am driven by my talents. The strengthsquest helped me understand who really I am. I am always been an independent person who wants to complete every wish my family dreams about. A person who’s only goal in life is to make my life proud. It helped me understand what are my quantiles that my friends and family like about me. It showed me what are my strong point are like my beliefs. It also helped me what my strong leadership skills

Personal Development Plan (PDP) is a specific plan for your future in short-term of six months or twelve months. It is necessary that you have objectives set up for yourself, and plans and actions to be taken in order to achieve those objectives. Following PDP is a good way to improve yourself, and to acquire skills and knowledge. Therefore, it is advisable to continue doing PDP one after another. Also, PDP includes your CV, so you can update it with new experiences or skills acquired.

Tom Rath began working with a group of scientists in 1998 to start a conversation about our strengths (Rath, 2007). A 40-year study, led by Donald O. Clifton, helped to create a language of common talents, and in 2001, included this assessment into their bestselling management book Now, Discover Your Strengths (Rath, 2007). During their study, they found out that “people who do have the opportunity to focus on their strengths every day are six times as likely to be engaged in their jobs and more than three times as likely to report having an excellent quality of life in general” (Rath, 2007, pg. iii). A major problem with this was a majority of people were either unsure of or unable to explain their strengths (Rath, 2007). When developing StrengthFinder 2.0, the ultimate goal was to build upon your true strengths which take practice and hard work (Rath, 2007).

I am not a professional writer, but I am a writer with sufficient imagination and positive attitudes. Through last two-semester-writing training, I understand the basic requirements of academic writing, such as the format, the citation and so forth. However, there is still an extensive space for me to improve my skills in both reading and writing. As a reader, I enjoy appreciating masterpieces and I am good at thinking through reading, but sometimes either cultural shock or linguistic barriers limit my reading speed and reduce my interests.

Reflective learning is important as it allows one to realize their strengths and weaknesses, develop self-awareness, understand how you learn, and plan your own development (University of Kent, 2012). According to Barbour (2013), “reflective practice is the cyclic process of internally examining and exploring an issue of concern, triggered by an experience, which creates and clarifies meaning in terms of self, existing knowledge, and experience; resulting in a changed conceptual perceptive and practice” (p. 7). This allows us to better understand ourselves so that we can grow and develop. There are ten complexity principles that help leaders thrive in the environment of chaos and complexity. Moreover, leaders need to qualities of courage and will to be effective. There are several leadership assessment surveys that one can take to learn more about themselves in order to understand areas of strengths and areas where growth is needed.

My results after taking the o*net interest profile test I have found that my results lead to artistic, social and enterprising as my highest ones. When I read all three of them I mostly agree with the artistic and social portions. I've always had a big passion for art, when it comes to making something boring too great i find alot of intrest. When I think about doing anything art related I think about doing it as a side job, I don't think I would like it much as an everyday thing.

Over the past week, what am I learning in the class is where I have to put in mind the discipline strategies when I work with children. In addition, it is also important to support and appreciate the efforts of the children in their work by giving informational comments. Informational comments will help children to reinforce their work and to try experiment things in different ways. They can also learn vocabulary words depending on how and what the teacher will say.

From a young age, I have worked with my dad restoring cars. I took a great interest in the electrical, mechanical, and body work he was doing. He is a do-it-yourself kind of guy and I helped him work on renovating bedrooms, bathrooms, and hallways in the house. I really enjoyed the hands on work that I was helping him with. When I got to high school, I learned about an aerospace engineering class that sounded like something I would really like. I took an intro to engineering class so I could take the aerospace class. Through the intro class, I learned of all the different types of engineering and I no longer wanted to take just the aerospace class, but any engineering course I could. The next year I took a computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) class

What I learned is you can set a goal and tell yourself it’s easy but in reality it’s not. It’s expensive you would have to work really hard in life. I learned you would have to get things you need first not what you want. Well you can get what you want but until your settle down and have money left over. Then you can get things you

In the beginning of the semester, we all took a survey on survey monkey that gave us our top 5 strengths. My top 5 strengths were learner, restorative, individualization, achiever, and focus. Using these trying to find a career will be easy and also being able to use others strengths to be able to grow my weakness. Not only was I able to use my strengths to find a career I wanted to pursue in but it was my strengths helping me with athletics, school, and my personal life. These strengths and values encouraged and pushed me to help others. For others who see my strengths as their weaknesses, it also gives us a chance to help eachother have a better understanding and help  turn our weaknesses into our strengths. After I had gotten a chance to clearly analyze my strengths, I made a list including my strengths on how I have used them in the past, how I use them today, and how I am planning on using them in the future. When I did this, it helped me and pushed me to become more proactive and taught me how to use them with consistency, productivity, and efficiency. This list helped me create a better understanding and a vision towards what I ultimately want to be when I grow up. The reason why I feel

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My personal strengths are that I am a keen learner and organized person because like Benjamin Franklin I believe that if I fail to plan then I am planning to fail. Above all I am confident that I have made the right choice and that I am a suitable candidate for

The aim of this reflective report is to identify the critical factors for managing and developing people based on my own experiences in reality. I am going to use David Kolb’s learning cycle, which are concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization and active experimentation(Kolb, 1984). To begin with, several relevant experiences will be described. In the middle, to identify the theories, concepts and models applied on my experiences and analyze what those can provide me with insight such as bringing me more about the different forms of leadership. Academic references would be cited during the report. Eventually, I am going to discuss how it can alter my behavior in the future and what the critical elements are for management and development of people as a conclusion.