What you might not be doing right
What’s your uniqueness?
Do you have any? You will need to make some decisions because you want a change in who you are, what you are doing, or what your results have been. You may also be interested in improving yourself. Whatever your reason, every individual is uniquely woven as the distinction in our fingerprints. Your uniqueness has advantages and disadvantages, strengths and weaknesses, and they sometimes define the opportunities you have and threats to achieving your dream. Taking deliberate steps to assess yourself is an activity that must be incorporated into your plan to avoid wasting the resources of time, energy and other consumables. When this is not done, you may get little or nothing from the efforts put into daily life. Hence, the need for proper self-assessment.
What’s worth doing?
It is simple. Start today and now. Conduct an assessment. It is not a difficult task if you are thinking of the complexity. There are standards you can follow to achieve this, like the Briggs Personal Style Inventory, one of the most popular. Although it involves some calculations because figures are required, there are online self-helps to speedup up the process. Do a search.
What’s it?
The personal assessment is an inventory of yourself in certain areas that make you think about your personality shape and become known to yourself and how to deal with others, challenge some of the things you do and reflect on your own personal and professional development.
You need to know how you react to people and situations under certain conditions, how you form an opinion, your value for quality, and how to manage yourself in success and failure situations. Since experiences cannot be the same forever, the assessment will make you proactively address them. For example, if you find out it is always hard to make a quick decision, you may need to tell your team members to always inform you early to have enough time to process and arrive at a final decision.
What’s the benefit?
Personal assessment should include your level of introversion, extroversion, intuition, thinking ability, perception, sensing, feeling and judging. Generally, there are pairs of questions on which you are expected to rate yourself on some qualities based on your preferences. In the end, you get some values for each of the qualities that explain your uniqueness. Depending on a scale, you can determine the dominance of quality in your personality. There are also clear explanations of the traits of people with those qualities. Alongside this, there are explanations of their positive and negative sides. Thus, those attributes you feel are odd or supposed negative dimensions of you may be relevant in some situations and not totally a disadvantage. However, you can improve yourself such that when you do not need them, they are suppressed to get your results.
What’s the essence?
I came across a sample manuscript on a personal statement, which I downloaded some time ago. As I read through, I found the author referring to Personal Style Inventory. Fortunately, before writing this post, I needed a self-assessment to recommit myself to some values, one of which is writing this post and other contents of this blog. I won’t look back on this. I see the need to move on positively in my profession. I will be adding more initiatives in the future to keep moving with the vision in my first post on this blog. You can join me by appending your commitment in the comment section. Also, remember to share.
By the way, are you aware I started a video channel a few years ago? Those times I am not dropping a post here, I might be up to something on my channel.
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