Personality and Communication Skills Evaluation Report

This report is a detailed self-evaluation of the author's communication skills, focusing on strengths such as improved writing, reading, and speaking abilities, along with strong listening skills enhanced by nonverbal communication lessons. The report also acknowledges drawbacks like a judgmental mindset during arguments and rushing to answer questions. Strategies for improvement include reducing reliance on visual aids, preparing thoroughly, and seeking feedback. The author compares their personality traits to INFP, ENFP, and INFJ, highlighting similarities in dedication, leadership, and decisiveness, respectively. Contrasting personalities like ESFP, ISTP, and ESFJ are also discussed, emphasizing differences in talkativeness, emotional sensitivity, and openness to change. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of good communication and personality traits for healthy relationships.

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Personality Evaluation
Name
Institution
Author’s Note

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Personal Reflection
Introduction
In the day to day life, people interact with their environment in one way or the other. One
way of interaction is through communication, which is an essential part of the interaction.
Communication is a skill that a person should possess. Without proper communication with
people, a person may experience isolation (Borman, 2017). Communication is wide, and it
includes writing, reading, speaking, and listening. Personally, I have taken much of my time to
be able to sharpen these skills that enable me to speak out clearly. This does not make me perfect
but just steps away to success.
Strength
Having good communication skills is a process full of practices and determination.
Within my social environment, poor communication skills never allowed for much interaction as
there is today. With improved writing, reading, and speaking skills, I can manage to make and
maintain friends, converse with teachers, and understand instructions as given. I can proudly
brag about my strong listening skills that have been greatly enhanced by practical lessons that I
have been taken through. During such practical lessons, I learned much of nonverbal
communication and their meaning. I have been able to explore quite more of these nonverbal
behaviours that gave me the kind of proficiency that I command today. Together with this, I have
been trying my level best to keep the kind of clarity that is required for proper communication. In
managing clarity and audibility, I usually ask questions to ascertain whether or not my points and
instructions are received according to my intentions. These skills had helped me in various levels

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of communication, including when I was mandated to represent the university in the report
writing regional competition.
Drawbacks
Despite the level of my communication skills, there are quite a number of shortcomings
on my way to perfection. I was not able to emerge the best in the competition that was conducted
within the region because of some minor mistakes and misunderstandings. One big problem that
hinders my communication skills is the judgmental mind. In an argument, I often lose my
attention on people who fumble with language and are not sure about what they speak. Some of
the time, I rush into answering questions without proper understanding, and this always makes
me irrelevant to the topic. In the event this happens, I quickly realize and move back to the topic.
Strengthening skills
Sometimes failure finds us despite our efforts. To be able to clear the drawbacks in my
communication skills, I will have to go an extra mile in my training process so as to avoid
relying on the visual assistors during a conversation. According to Steve Jobs, he realized that
most of the visual aids in communication, such as the use of PowerPoint, hinder communication
rather than enhancing understanding. Clearing such visual aids in my communication will help
me to learn more ways of connecting to my audience. I believe my interaction is not enough, and
I need to engage my audience more to keep their attention. From my findings, I have been
mixing up at times, making me miss the flow of events sometimes. To overcome this, I will be
taking my time to prepare and understand the flow properly to help me in my narrations.
Occasionally, I will be asking for honest feedback from the audience. This will help me rate
myself to be able to realize the points that need much ironing and those that are perfected.

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Comparison of personalities
Within the INFP personality, dedication plays an important role and is embraced to be
able to create an environment for people around (Benson, 2014). Within me, I had an experience
with poor social life, and I decided to make it better to attract more people in my social
environment. Because of this, I can now attend to many friends who always want to hear from
me. People of ENFP personality type, have strong communication skills, and are leaders by
nature. I have been able to realize a series of leadership experiences at different levels in my life
due to my excellent communication skills. In most things I do, I always want to have an impact
on other people. I have been able to influence a lot of people ranging from friends to many of the
public who listen to me. This matches to the ENFP personality. On to the third comparison,
people with INFJ personality are defined with the decisiveness that enables them to pursue their
ideas until the end. Their main aim is to always bring changes to their environment (Eysenck,
2017). I have not been able to be among the best communicators despite my consistency in
practice, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. My skills are growing at a very good rate.
This kind of determination and desires to grow compares to the INFJ personality.

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Different personalities
There are many differences between my personalities to the ESFP, which is a very
talkative personality (Dlugoborskytė, Norvilaitė, & Petraitė, 2015). This kind is related to fun
and making pleasure out of almost everything around. I am not that sensitive to emotions despite
seeking attentions (Dweck, 2017). Unlike the ISTPs, I do welcome people within my
surroundings and engages them in most of the things that I do. My attention, on the other hand, is
lasting for such a short period of time and cannot overstrain. According to the ESFJ personality,
much of their attention is paid to other peoples' needs but not theirs. This personality, unlike me,
is not comfortable with changes (Chang, 2014). I always find joy whenever there is a positive
change within my environment.
Conclusion
Excellent communication is brought about by several factors, such as personal traits. To
be able to have a healthy relationship, a person must be able to have good characters, too, since a
good personality defines the kind of life a person is living. I have been able to conduct a personal
evaluation, and through that, I was able to create chances for some skills and quality that I
desired to have, and now I have a different definition.

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