Strengths Inventory

We all have strengths and weaknesses. Something I've been needing to do is to reevaluate my own strengths inventory. This has something to do with self-knowledge and awareness, which is always a good thing to do, but maybe something more to do with finding a full-time job and getting onto a real career track.

To jump right into it, here are some bullets representing what I think my strengths are:

• Interactive Communications Skills/Abilities
• Communications
• People Skills
• Maturity
• Diplomacy
• Negotiations
• Writing ability
• Personal Affinity/Inclinations
• Crisis Management
• Problem solving
• Execution phase project management
• Customer Focus
• Strategic View
• Integrated, inter-disciplinary viewpoint
• Ability to connect the dots
• General Business Knowledge
• understanding of legal, hr, contracts
• understanding of finance, money
• business analysis, metrics
• understanding of project management methodology (waterfall vs. Agile)

While I want to focus on my strengths, it's instructive to understand what my weaknesses are as well, so that I can avoid, mitigate their impact.

• Long-term, detailed planning activities - it's one thing to put together the broad outlines of a plan, which is more of a strategic approach, it's quite another to deal with all of the little details at the task level. This is where my patience tends to run out. For example, dealing with all of the little details of planning a very simple event like the PMI dinner meetings just drives me crazy. At the same time, it's pretty easy for me to see why it's so difficult, i.e. lack of documentation, lack of standardization of routine processes, lack of a checklist.
• Some level of shyness when in an unfamiliar organization - very reliant on developing situational confidence based on my role - in retrospect, when I came into my current organization, I could have done better with going around and introducing myelf. This is something of a limiting belief issue on my part and is related to my failure to take action and market myself. I tend to get comfortable where I'm at and let things ride.
• Tend to dislike lesser tasks, committments, the small stuff - examples include things like updating SharePoint sites, creating the sensitivity calendar
• Taking notes: this might be my biggest weakness as a PM - I'm adequate at this when I'm engaged in a subject and I understand what the issues are, but if I lack that understanding, it's almost impossible for me to take effective notes.