Personal Skills & Competencies



Personal Skills & Competencies

a. What are the competencies, skills, and habit of mind, necessary for success in college, a career, and in life?

In order to attain success in every field of life, it is necessary for an individual to have certain skills, competencies and habit of mind. Some these are born traits that vary from person to person, while some can be learned, adopted and polished (Ackerman, 2011). These skills include:

Interpersonal Skills

Self-motivated learner

Strategic thinking

Innovative Thinking

Resistant to change

b. Of the competencies, skills, and habits of mind, which skills do you feel are your strengths and which ones are challenges that needs to be further developed?

I am not afraid of challenging other people affirmations when I am sure I can come with a reasonable reply. I am very Well Organized, I am Studying a full time course and I also have a full time job which is quite demanding but I am managing to do it all and also completing my other day to day tasks in time fashion. I don't forget to make time to rest and for my hobbies

I have a strong, compulsive need to do things quickly and remove them from my "to do" list, and sometimes the quality of my work suffers as a result. The same need to get things done also causes me stress when I have too many tasks and when the time is pressuring me.

A weakness of mine would be the fact that I get very nervous when speaking in front of other people/groups, I haven't had a lot of experience with this over the past several years, and because of this reason I am not very good with Group presentations. I have fear of rejection, this stopped me from doing many things in life, and it kept me taking my ...