Skills, Self-Awareness, Positive Attitude, and Empathy (Essay Sample)

Self-assessment is knowing oneself based on likes, dislikes, values, behaviors, and traits in character. During completion of my bachelors, I realized that I have some strong interpersonal skills. I'm Chinese boy, on the basis of my abilities and traits I decided to do master's degree in the UK. So, in this essay, I will examine those skills that brought me in the UK, because self-awareness is based on person's past and recent experiences, coming in the UK and getting a degree in the master is a one of the big parts of my life. I have observed my interpersonal skills based on my abilities, skills, and traits. Self-awareness is the capability to know oneself thoroughly (Hays, 2016) I have that urge to learn new skills and information by living in a different environment. I have strong expectation from myself as I have effective communication skills, positive attitude, empathy, ability to strongly recognize things and urge for getting knowledge.
My inter-personnel skills which I'm going to discuss are communication skills, self-awareness, positive attitude, and empathy (understanding other's thoughts). During my college days, I have been so interactive with all the fellows. I used to take part in different games, societies, debates which enhanced my confidence and communication skills. From there, I realized that I can adjust myself to understand others view and opinions. The way I took myself is independent, strong, and free to do anything. I have effective communication skills either its face to face communication skills or voice communication. I have an inborn habit of connecting with other peoples. This helps me to share knowledge with the other students and people around me and engrave my connection with other. It enables me how to behave with others. To study in a different country one must have the ability to communicate with the people of that area ( Merrell and Gimpel, 2014) and I find myself good at interacting with new peoples. Since my childhood, I'm living a social life that enhances my ability to connect with people easily. I have delivered different speeches publicly which gives me benefit. The strong trait that my personality has got because of communication skill is convincing ability. In order get the education in a different country one must have the ability to communicate with others productively with the help of communication skills like listening, answering, working on projects or in other cases for example if you go for shopping or groceries. The ability to listen attentively, is need of a student, as it is highly beneficial to get good grades and compete other in you education circle. Being a student, I have some quires and questions which I needed to sort out and for that, I have to communicate with my lecturer. Sometimes, I have to assist other students effectively. To have a good interaction one must have knowledge, information and thinking abilities. Since my childhood, I am good in writing and speaking and completely express myself to another person in a calm way.
If a person wants to get success in any field he must have inter-personnel skills that respect toward others, trustworthiness, genuine, honesty, positive attitude (Cheruvelil et al., 2014). In an educational institute, it is required that student should give respect, dignity, and worth to his class fellows and his lecturers (Goetsch and Davis, 2014). Since my childhood, I have always been appreciated by my teachers and relatives and fellow members that I always give them respect. I never show negative behavior toward others. After my performance in my assignments and in quizzes, I always examine my strength and weaknesses. To live in the country with people having different culture, traditions, and customer one must show respect toward them. I always give respect for the dignity of other beliefs. Respect always makes a positive outcome on others. People get attracted toward you and they want to know and explore you. In this way, one can easily manage to live in a different environment and me as a student can also indulge myself in group activities easily.
One of my strong point is helping other and showing a positive attitude. I always give motivation to others because of my positive attitude toward life. This is one my excellent ability. Though I am far away from my home, I never get sad or think negative. Still, I am motivated and have optimism in myself, due to which I encourage my fellows to work hard, grow and attain success. This is how I develop the trust of others in me. Another ability is empathy which means to completely understand what other person wants to deliver. It includes asking questions, listening carefully, nonjudgmental attitude, motivation, and understanding. This ability always helps me to work effectively in a team. One more effective skill is self-awareness which is highly compulsory nowadays (Howard et al., 2016). I have strong self-awareness about myself. Today I am studying in the UK because I know my strength and weaknesses and can handle difficulties in my life effectively. This helps me to settles my aims and objectives. I always learn from my mistake, self-awareness gives me skill for education. By knowing myself I can handle every uncertain situation and adjust myself into it. I completely know about my inspirations, thoughts, and motivations. I have self-confidence and self-determination that always created paths for me. Because of this self-awareness, I have attained leadership quality. I can decide which decision or move is right for me or the whole team or not.
Thorough my interpersonal skills, I can perform well in team work. I can convince people through my effective communication skills. I have often received positive feedback from people related to my abilities. People always have encouraged me, which helped me improve myself in a more better way. Whenever I am taking a lecture or working with my team mates the right way I have chosen is to completely listen, understand and then give a response. Team projects or a group study always needed and is done by interacting and communicating with other students and members (Ramazani, J. and Jergeas, G., 2015). While working on a project or on team nonverbal communication is an essential part. Communication is a significant factor in team work and it was given a progressive outcome. Communication skills help to find a role of each member in the team. If team members have positive thoughts they will never discourage or make one another feel inferior (Brock, 2013). Through effective communication goals of the teamwork can easily recognize. By means of communication team members can interchange their thoughts and information. Lack of communication is highly unproductive for teamwork. If people don't have honest communication, they cannot work appropriately. Moreover, to work in a team it is necessary to show respect and trust to other members. This will create a strong bound between members (Salas, E. 2015). If working in a team, a person knows his strength and weakness, he can easily choose on which part he can work properly so to have a successful outcome. Empathy is always required in working with others. Conflicts can arise when we are working...