Report On My Personality Analysis
WHO AM I? It’s been a while since I asked this question to myself who am I? It’s the hardest question that I could ever answer. But I feel it’s the most important question for which we should find the answer. It’s very easy to find positives and negatives of another person but it’s very hard to analyze ourselves and find our strengths and weakness. Everybody are unique and they have their own ways of handling things. I am an extrovert person who likes to be with people and get energized when I am around them. I am very interactive because of which I make friends easily. I am a confident person and doesn’t get discouraged or feel down when others try to put me down. Whenever I feel down I talk to my parents and friends to boost my energy up. From my younger age I had good leadership skills. I first start analyzing about the factors that can make someone happy or make someone sad and then only I will start thinking about the logic. But Logics are very important to become successful. Only with feelings we cannot become successful.
Therefore, I have to improve my logical thinking skills. I always think about the present and do things which is happening. In some cases, I think about the future but never think about the past and worry because nothing could be done even after a second is passed. But I take things that should be corrected so that no mistakes happen next time. People tend to change sometimes according to the situation. I will just keep my choices open and try to gain some knowledge about new things that is happening. There are some situations where I judge, but I believe in one phrase from bible “For with whatever judgement you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured on you (Matthew 7: 2).
Everyone have their own strengths and weaknesses. It’s important to overcome the weakness and to improve our own strengths. Strengths can help us in overcoming our weaknesses because our strengths are the powerful weapons which can mould our weakness to strengths. I am in the process of analyzing my strengths and weakness to improve myself professionally and personally. As a project Manager, I am on a good track with the qualities wanted but there are some areas which I should work on. I have done some tests and collected opinions from my close friends and family. Based on MBTI Results: From the MBTI test, the results were like I am an extrovert person and the way I take in information is through sensing, do logical thinking and judge people[ESTJ]. From my understanding from the report I am an extrovert and sensible person but when it comes to thinking and judging my thought differs. I am somewhere near to other dimensions like feeling and perceiving. The result might have gone wrong because I might have not understood the complete meaning of the question. I feel I will come under feeling and perceiving because I always give importance to people rather than thinking about the logic.
This test says, I should concentrate more on conscientiousness and intellectual ability. Opinion from Family and Friends. I have taken opinion from my family and friends and have filtered it equally like 50% from family and 50% from friends. I gathered general comments and also opinions for comparison with MBTI test. In general, I received comments on my strengths like I am a very interactive, honest person who cares for others in all the situations and respect everybody. When I turned to the other side and asked about my weakness they just answered immediately that I trust believe everybody are good people in the world and I have been cheated some times because of this. Though, I have been cheated by some people still I trust people because I have not lost hope in humanity. Secondly, I am so straight forward which they think as my strength and also my weakness. Sometimes some people might get hurt and this straightforwardness does not work everywhere and every time. Based on MBTI test, I took a survey from them and compared with my test results.
The survey results are portrayed below in the form of chart: In comparison to the MBTI Results, their opinion was like I am an extrovert person who takes in information through sensing the situation. When talking about feeling and thinking they told me that I have always been influenced by feelings than thinking. Coming to perceiving and judging, I am half-way between those rather standing on either poles. But some of my friends(new) have different opinion from old friends. They gave me feedback like I am an introvert person who do things keeping future things in my mind. I had a common feedback in the factors Judging and perceiving that I am somewhere in the middle i. e. , I am open to thoughts and also judge people. My Strengths I believe that life is a learning experience and we learn about our strengths and weakness every day. From all the personality tests I have taken One of my biggest strength is I am a friendly person and hard worker who works hard to chase the goals and achieve it. I can think creative ideas in short span of time. I have good decision making skills which helps to take quick decisions without hurting others or with justice. I am a good team worker and I enjoy working as a team. These are my top 3 strengths whereas some are pictured in the list below.
My Weakness: Like every coin has two faces everybody has their own strengths and weakness. My first weakness is I am sensitive and impatient. I get hurt easily for simple reasons but I will not get discouraged. Sometimes I do things which will go wrong but I learn from those mistakes. Secondly, I have difficulty in saying “NO”. I always tell yes and sometimes I will be in trouble because of that. I may not be able to help others after agreeing to them or I will help them and not complete my work. With the help of other personality tests (emotional Intelligence,
Cattell’s 16PF) some of my weaknesses are listed below:
All these weaknesses had and has a lot of impacts in my day to day life. I reflected individually by taking emotional intelligence test and the report says that I need to improve myself in managing emotions. Through that test I found out I have to improve in managing emotions. But I feel like I also have to improve in self-awareness. How to improve my Weaknesses? To improve my weaknesses, I should reflect on it and do something to overcome it. I wanted to mainly focus on managing emotions because it is the most important quality that a project manager should possess. To overcome this, I should set a S. M. A. R. T goal which will help me to improve on my weakness. Secondly, I should spend some quality time with my friends and family and discuss with them about what and where should I improve. The most important measure which I can take is I can find a good mentor who will help me to change my weakness in to strength. The S. M. A. R. T goal is designed in such a way that my weakness is turning as my strength.
Specific : I want to be stable in managing emotions because it is an important skill for a successful career.
Measurable : I wanted to get stabilized in managing emotions which includes many internal factors like sad, happy, guilt etc. To know how my progress, I can take help from my parents, friends and mentor. I can take the help from my professors who can help me in improving as well as give some feedback on how I am improving.
Achievable : My goal is achievable. I will not say it as my weakness also, but it’s just an area where I should improve myself. I can achieve this on my own by reflecting on myself and think of some situations where I used my emotions in a wrong place. Other method is I can take help from my dear ones, mentor because emotions are always involved with other people.
Relevant : I think this is the right time to work on this weakness because there is no time to wait. I have to deal with many people and projects in the upcoming years and if I am having problems in managing emotions I will be portrayed as not a proper project manager. If I start working on this factor slowly some of my other weaknesses will turn to positive ones.
Time-bound : I can achieve this goal in 6 months of time if I work on it honestly. I have already started working on it and I will improve myself in some areas in 1 month of time and ask feedback from others to know about my progress and every month I will improve at least one or two factors and gather feedback. I read a journal on “The Science of Emotional Intelligence”, it says the emotions can be shown in four different ways and they are: through face, pictures, voices and cultural artifacts. This paper explains about the personality tests such as Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test and Big Five Personality Test which was taken by college graduate students to find out their behaviors. From this Journal, I came to a conclusion that taking personality tests will help me understand where I stand right now. After some involvement and improvement another test can be taken and the test report can be compared with the old test report which will help me identify where I have improved and where I have to improve more.
There is another journal “The Leadership Quarterly which I referred and that explained about managing emotions by a leader. It says that, a leader should have the ability to perceive their own emotions and perceive other’s as well. At the same time a leader should be able to manage their own emotions and others. It is possible with planning and organizing team activities. To become a good leader, I should plan and organize to improve my emotional status. I read an article on how to manage emotions without fighting them. In that article there was an example of Mikhail Gorbhachev (Russian and Former Soviet Politician) who managed is emotions in hard situations. The article explains that, when there was a time when he was struggling in managing emotions he just realized and accepted it. He spent some quality time in reflecting what is right and took advice from a career coach who helped him to overcome the situation. This article says that improving this skill will help us understand what our inner feelings and deepest values are. From my perspective, I feel what he done was absolutely right because instead of just thinking and worrying about that if I start working on it I can improve myself and every step of improvement is counted.
