Self Reflection on Top Five Strengths and Challenges to Achieve Personal and Career Goals

This report discusses the top five strengths of the author, their utilisation, and challenges faced in achieving personal and career goals. It also highlights the impact of over utilisation of key strengths and provides insights on self-reflection.

UNDERSTANDING
PEOPLE AND
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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
1. Top five strengths....................................................................................................................3
2. Surprised by any top five strength...........................................................................................3
3. To utilise the strength..............................................................................................................4
4. To use strength differently and results of overusing it...........................................................4
5. Greatest challenges to reach personal, academic and career goals..........................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCE..................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Reflection helps Identifying the areas for improvements, it helps in developing the skills and
to review its effectiveness (Casper Tremmel and Sonnentag, 2019). It is all about questioning in
a positive manner as what to do and why to do and to decide whether it is efficient or not or
should carry forward in future. This report will carry out the own self reflection by addressing
questions as top five strengths, and its current use. It also discusses the challenges which is faced
in reaching the personal, academic and career goals.
MAIN BODY
1. Top five strengths
My top five strengths are kindness, curiosity, leadership, social intelligence and teamwork.
These are my most five efficient skills which helps me in driving positive energy to complete
any task with greater efficiency. For the team work strength the key domain is relationship
building, for leadership theme is influencing, for the social intelligence skills it comes under the
strategic thinking domain. And for the other two skills curiosity it categorise under strategic
thinking and in executing and last kindness it can be in relationship building domain.
2. Surprised by any top five strength
For my top five strength as it offers me positivity in every aspect of the work, not
necessarily I am surprised with all strength but there are two strengths which I found as amazed

(Roy and Uekusa 2020). As I still thinks that how I achieved or developed this skill which are
leadership and social intelligence. As I very well know that leadership skills always come with
the greater responsibility, it is not like that I am not responsible but I always used to be a
introvert person but in a group project I lead my team from front food, I guide them to do things
in organised manner, then I analyse that I have developed the leadership skills, which I always
used to concern as complex strength to be developed and required a lot of time but by practising
and leading the group project made me realise that I have developed this strengths.
Other is social intelligence, I always surprised to think about this as due to my shy nature
I was not able to develop the relationship with other, I was not self aware but by working on the
project I see that I only talk when its needed and before this I revise my words and seeing the
opportunity as when to talk which helps me in understanding the people’s motive as well as
because of this I am able to manage the social interactions.
3. To utilise the strength
To use my top five strength, I usually set the priority to complete any work, it helps me in
managing the time and to deliver the projects on time.
Kindness: It is the most common strength which mainly developed from the surrounding
environment. I always used to help other without any expectation that they also need to return
the favour. As I help others in my team to solve their problems, they always show their trust in
me to find the solution.
Curiosity: Its my common strength and usually my nature is curious to go deep into the topic or
to explore particular subjects (Kiersch and Gullekson, 2021). As i always asked professor about
the lecture as what will be the next, as it helps me in clearing my doubts.
Social Intelligence: To use this strength I always tries to listen and talk when its needed, as in
group project I always speak when its required not to talk unnecessarily to waste the time of
team members.
Leadership: Currently I am using this skills in my group project, as I am a project leader to
guide all the team members to done the work in a manner.
Team work: Team work is always remain my famous strength, currently I am working with my
team, we all have the assigned work to done separately and also helping each other when we
encountering any problems.

4. To use strength differently and results of overusing it
As for me the different use of leadership strength as to influence or motivates other people,
but overusing it might give consequence as what people contradict my decision and do not
follow what I am instructing them to. As for team work I can take work which I am specialised
in it so I will show my better input but overusing it will affect others as what if they want same
work too. For kindness I used to help others in note making but overusing it will be seen as my
over utilisation which also cause delay in my work (Wei and et.al 2022). For the social
intelligence skills I used to develop network but over utilisation will make other people to
misinterpret me and last curiosity skills to use it for developing other skills but by overusing it
will make me confuse.
5. Greatest challenges to reach personal, academic and career goals
For achieving the goals, I might encounter some challenges due to my introvert nature and
not able to converse with others. Bad communication and time management skills is the main
barrier to reach my personal, academic and career goals (Falon, Kangas and Crane, 2021).
Team work, kindness skills and social intelligence skills will help me , as with team work I will
be able to done work on time and with kindness I used to converse with others to improve
communication and also with social intelligence I will be able to revise my words before
speaking. Thus it will help me in achieving my desired goals.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that having a good strength makes the work
efficient and easier. Following report have discussed the top five strengths and their utilisation. It
also illustrated the challenges to achieve career and personal goals. It also illustrated the
utilisation of the key strengths in different manner and its impact for over utilisation.

REFERENCE
Books and journals
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Falon, S.L., Kangas, M. and Crane, M.F., 2021. The coping insights involved in strengthening
resilience: The Self-Reflection and Coping Insight Framework. Anxiety, Stress, &
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Kiersch, C. and Gullekson, N., 2021. Developing character-based leadership through guided
self-reflection. The International Journal of Management Education. 19(3). p.100573.
Roy, R. and Uekusa, S., 2020. Collaborative autoethnography:“Self-reflection” as a timely
alternative research approach during the global pandemic. Qualitative Research Journal.
Wei, W. and et.al 2022. Comparing self-reflection and peer feedback practices in an academic
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