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Dear Professor Kim,

Business climate is a far cry from that of the past, meaning the skills and talents required to be unique and successful today have changed immensely. Certain strengths/weakness which may have been a positive influence on Business may not have the same effect today. Public speaking, the art of talking in front of other people has always been a positive skill to possess and still is as important as ever. I feel as if I need to improve my public speaking along with understanding workplace etiquette and business writing of all types. Conversely, non-verbal and verbal skills have always been high up on the strength list. Also another skill I believe is incredibly important to have is time management, getting things done when they need to be done, quickly and efficiently.

Public speaking for me has always been something that has needed work, so in order to become more proficient I started to practice whenever I had some extra time. I do not believe I am a bad public speaker but I know that there is room for improvement. The negative aspect which comes from public speaking for me would be the fear and nervousness I get when I am in front of others. This is the main problem I would like to avoid and I believe that just getting up there and practicing more public speaking would get me on the road to becoming a great public speaker. Understanding the workplace would greatly improve my chances for success. I have never held a job in which the workplace is formal. The next step for me would be to obtain an internship with a formal work environment, this would lead me to understand what businesses’ want from me, a prospective employee. The last weakness I will discuss is business writing. I say business writing because I would like to improve in all aspects of business writing from writing emails to memos. The lack of experience is the most detracting aspect of my writing today.

Non-Verbal skills and Verbal skills are very important to obtain in order to be successful in business and I believe I have some key strength in these areas. The first strength is my ability to read between the lines, and example of this would be times when body language would differ from what is being verbally said. I’ve always had a knack of trying to figure out what is actually trying to be said when I am communicating with anyone. A Verbal skill I have is my communication skills or knowing how to talk to certain people in different ways. This would be important in the business world because the ability to delegate tasks is sought after. The last and just as important skill I have is time management. Without time management the chances of your schedule running perfectly efficient are low, and low efficiency means not a lot of tasks and completed.

As long as I keep improving my ability to communicate the more chances will start to open up for me in the future. Although I need to improve some things, I know overall that I am making steps in the right direction with my abilities in communication from verbal, non verbal and even my writing skills.

Sincerely,

Cameron