Improving Myself :)

Realizing my strengths and weaknesses is hard for me to do, especially realizing my strengths. It is so easy to point out every little thing that I have done wrong, and just skip over all of the accomplishments that I have. What I am going to try to do now is list all the things that I am good at in the realm of System Development Phases, because this is a tech blog :), and see what I can improve on to make goals to better myself.

I love getting to know people. One of the part time jobs that I have is doing promotions for Dodge, Jeep, and Chrysler. All I do for them is go to football games and different events and talk about how great it is to own one of their vehicles. With every person that I talk to I try to get a feel for them to see what their personality is so that I can make sure they get the most out of the experience of talking with me about cars. I listen to everything that they say and make sure that I say something like, "well just like you said" or "I get where you are coming from" so that they know I actually care about them as an individual and not just trying to push a vehicle on them. Listen and getting to know someone is key to understanding what they need and then you can plan on what you are able to deliver to them and build a structured plan off of that.

I also feel that I am able to remain flexible with what people want out of something. Usually I am able to adapt pretty to well to what people need. But this can be bad however when I am I am trying to give an accurate price to someone. I like to save people money and sometimes give them a little more then I should so that I can assure that they are happy with a product or service. I need to just give people a price and stick to it.

I can plan out every detail when designing a program or even planning out an event. But I just dont like to have others be my task manager over me. I like to work at my own pace, but when your boss is trying to make you accountable for your work it can make it hard at times. I know why they are asking for status reports along the way, but there are some tasks that will just take longer as planned and I for some reason, dont like to let people down and dont want to tell them I didnt want to reach my goal. I know this isnt the right mentality, so this is another area I think that I can improve on.