2_JohnstonJ

Dear Mrs. Kim,

I would like to address what I think are my strengths, weakness, and areas that I want to develop/improve in this class. As you have said before communication skill in a business are very important in many ways. I hope to fine tune the skills that I already bring to this class, as well as grow and build the ones that I learn. My goal in this class is to be able to point out what makes me unique, write professional letters and reports, and expand my vocabulary.

I have strengths that I bring with me to this class already. One of which is that I have a good understanding of workplace etiquette. Through other business classes and my job I have had to learn and perform workplace etiquette many times. Another strength that I bring to this class is speaking professionally. When communicating with people like teachers or bosses you must speak professionally and not use slang or sound foolish. I have had to do this many times. I am also strong in presenting with confidence and other presentation skills. In the public speaking class that I took, the other year, I had to do many presentations. The teacher really instilled an importance of appropriate language, speaking with confidence, and keeping the audiences’ attention. Even though I do bring strengths to this class I have weaknesses that follow.

I plan to develop these weaknesses in this class and to hopefully improve enough to call them strengths. One weakness I have is when describing my abilities to others, I have trouble maximizing them. In this class I hope to find those skills and traits that set me apart from everyone else and utilize them in my writing. I also have trouble with the formality of business writing. I wish to learn what formality is used in e-mails, letters, and any other semi formal occasions. Lastly I wish to build my vocabulary and grammar skills. I feel as though grammar and vocabulary can impress a business or future boss, if used right and it is always good to keep improving and working it.

I feel as though I have a lot of skills I can learn from this class that I can use in the "real" world. When this class is done I know I will be ready to communicate in all aspects of a business environment. I hope to make my weakness strengths and my strengths stronger. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely, Jake Johnston