I have a lot of concerns in all three categories and not a lot of strengths. I don’t tend to have any good ideas that contribute to the group and I don’t communicate with other classmates outside of class, but I do respond to other people’s contributions so that’s something. I think that most of my strengths come from the fact that I tend to go follow the group more than trying to lead it and so I don’t spend time adding to the discussion of where we should go. In some ways, it’s a good thing because that means the group takes less time to get started. On the other hand, it’s a bad thing because then I don’t contribute my thoughts and don’t communicate with the group.

So for this semester or term, I decided to focus on setting and working towards a goal (Self-Management), contributing to discussions(Collaboration), and expressing ideas verbally (Communication). For Self-Management, I should start by realising what I want (in this case, it would be having digital discussions and verbal expression) and to set reminders whenever I need to have one on what I should do and when I should have it done by. For Collaboration, I should first contribute to discussions digitally, learn people’s emails and/or phone numbers so I can contact them outside of class, and set a reminder when I have a question. Communication goes hand-in-hand a little with Collaboration. To go express ideas out verbally, I should plan out what I want to say and how to say it beforehand and predict how the conversation will go to prepare my answers because most of the time I don’t say anything in discussions because I know that I wouldn’t have any answer to give them and I don’t want to seem stupid.

For skills like these, I hope to keep them for the rest of my life, but I hope to have them and be able to use them frequently by the end of this first semester.