Reflection About Personal Strength and Weaknesses

This strength and weaknesses essay examples contain a reflection on my strength and weaknesses of how I communicate with people close to me in my everyday life, for me communication is the most important thing and happen everyday in our life and with communication we understand other people and they understand us. How to do this is my listening and speaking face to face, written, non verbal and visual communication eye contact with the person we are communicating with could create trust and in order for effective communication to happen we can use a strong and confident speaking voice. Especially when are in front of a group of people and trying to give an information to the group so that everyone can understand us loud and clear and ideas are easy to understand for others, read carefully what written text on the paper is, watch the opposite body language to understand whether they are lying, telling the truth or hiding something but from my experience I have seen people being defense by crossing their hand when talking, hiding something by putting their hands in their pocket during job intervew, their eyeballs moving to the left and right trying to make up stories or remembering their past experience. I have also learn a lot by visually looking at how people put down hand with hand face up and down which means they are sincere and strong, confident. This is one of my strength that I can see a person’s body language just by looking. This is one example of body language which is part of the communication with people opposite us.


Another stregth that I have amd what to share in one of the personal strengths and weaknesses essays is being a leader which I obtain by working for 5 years as a restaurant manager. I have the ability to be a good leader which made me learn a lot by communicating with the staffs I used to work with. I happen to attend a lot of meeting talking about a problem, giving ideas and presenting my idea infront of a group of people. My ability came in a good used when i have to communicate with people if there are problems with customer, staffs, upper chain command and etc. my job is not just communicating with people around me but I have to know how to use social media such as whatsapp, instagram, snapchat, Line, facebook and etc. This is part of indirect communication because we use technology to communicate by using mobile phones, laptop, and etc. mobile phones and computers can be used as an advance technology to access internet that we can use to communicate with people accross the globe and communicating with friends, family and colleague.

And my last strength of me that I am going to talk about is, I am good at respecting other people’s opinion, during a meeting I dont just reject or refuse nor did I stop them from talking untill they finish giving me an idea so I could think again and again whether that is a good idea and what is the advantage and disadvatage of the idea and I am going to talk again the next month during the monthly meeting of the restaurant managers and owner. I respect any idea and i am willing to learn from other people who is even younger than me about something I do now know about , I am willing to learn anything and communicate with everyone even if they are younger and more amateur than me during working and I have the ability to train people and they understand me so easily easier than other train by other people.

Now I am about to talk about my own weakness within one of the essays on strengths and weaknesses. There are people who have the feeling of keep saying yes to prevent us thinking if I say no I would hurt other’s feeling or thinking that they will stop liking me and that is who I am. I realized that is not a good kind of personality or habit especially when I am talking to people I am close to like my working colleague. I should have been able to say no if I have to and it should be easier if the person I am talking to is really close to me like my family or my good friend working with me in the restaurant, but for some reason it is very hard for me to say no because I kept on thinking whether do I hurt others my colleague feeling? Or my family? Instead they took advantage of my kindness and gets upset when I tried to say no, it is very hard for me to change this kind of bad habit since and still I am trying to change my behavior.

Another weakness that i have is I find it very hard to meet new people especially talking to them for the first time because I am very shy and I could not find any idea to talk with other people even though my friend introduce a new friend to me. This is because I feel uncomfortable speaking with people I met the first time, it may take some time for me to adapt with the new people that was introduce to me, altough I do like to have a friend and enjoy making friend with other people but my weakness made me feel difficult to get close to people. But when i get close to them I can be really attach and everyone will like me because I am a really easygoing and friendly person who listen to every people’s problem and they like having me around as a friend because I could be a really good friend for them

And my last weakness within weakness and strengths essay is that I apologies too much for something that I do not really mean for example someone accidently bump into me, instead of that person saying sorry, I am the one apologising even though they apologise too,. And the way I speak is too soft for people to hear or understand what I am saying because that is what I think about respecting other people by speaking softly instead of speaking loudly to prevent people thinking that I am being rude and i am shouting at them. I learn this from experience when I worked at the restaurant from a customer. That is why this has became a bad habit for me and one of the bad habit I would like to change.

In conclusion to the essay on strengths and weakness, where there are advantages there will be disadvantages it is a natural thing that happen to our everyday life there will always be a pro and a cons. I have a lot of strength and weakneses. We are human and not perfect. Everyone will always have strength and weaknesses in their life no matter what and it is inevitable, but my weaknesses are: I cant say no to people, I am shy and i apologies way too much to people and this could be bad for communication with people around me because it made me uncomfortable to speak to my friends and colleague and also it will be difficult for me to gain a new friend with my shyness in me and people will also be feeling nervous when talking to me for my apologetic behavior. People can be scared that they will think they made me feel apologetic with everything even if they are my closest friends and hard for them to understand when I speak too soft. However I made a lot of efforts to surpress all my weaknesses so it will not come out and concentrate how to be a better person to everyone around me with my strength.