Component of Success

Question 1

Understanding one’s strengths and weaknesses is an essential component of success. It is important that employees are able to successfully communicate their knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as areas in which training and development are necessary.

For this Career Development Assignment, you will evaluate your personal skills in relationship to your chosen degree program.

Your well-written paper should include the following:

• A self-evaluation of your personal strengths and weaknesses, personality, interests, and values as they relate to your chosen degree field. If you have not yet chosen a degree field, you may evaluate your personal skills in the context of degree programs that are of interest to you.
• A proposal of how you plan to acquire the additional knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to capitalize on your strengths and improve upon your weaknesses.

Question 2

The Secretary of the department of Veterans Affairs has emphasized the importance of providing good customer service to all of our stakeholders. How should the Office of Small Disadvantaged Business Utilization – OSDBU apply the principles of customer service in order to create a culture and a system for achieving the secretary’s objective? What are the biggest challenges the organization will face in achieving those objectives and how can we overcome them? What are the key elements you would propose to be included in such a system?

• The paper can be a maximum of 5 pages and in any format you deem appropriate.