Strengths and Weaknesses

There are a ton of tips and tricks out there that help people improve on managing their time effectively. I recently came upon a blogpost from a student in another class, Aaron Goldstein, that is also researching about time management skills. In his first primary research post, Goldstein mentions his way of improving his time management is by taking part in a time management quiz for productivity. The quiz consists of 16 questions 16 questions and the scores are divided up into 3 separate categories ranging from 16–36 as needing improvement, 37–58 is on the right track, and 59–80 as having clear understanding of priorities.

After taking the quiz, Goldstein observes that “My main weakness was Productive Systems scoring a twelve out of twenty. Productive Systems can be defined as the way you and your team work. The quiz suggests that I adopt more techniques such as, Kanban, Kaizen and Job Analysis that all have to do with improving group productivity.” (Goldstein, Blog post 2). In other words, how he should incorporate the methods of Kanban, Kaizen and Job Analysis into his work ethic in order to improve his productivity. Goldstein learned his main weakness was productive systems which is defined as the way and your team work.

I found this piece of information to be very interesting because taking a quiz and learning about your weaknesses gives you an insight on what needs to be improved on. Moreover, you are given another perspective on the weaknesses you didn’t know you had and what techniques to adopt in order to improve from it. Kanban is a proven japanese scheduling system for lean manufacturing, Kaizen is defined as seeking small, incremental changes in order to improve efficiency and quality, and Job Analysis is to determine in detail the certain job duties and requirements for a given job. All of these techniques are to benefit Goldstein because it all has to do with improving group productivity. I will definitely take this quiz next time in order to get a different perspective on my weaknesses and what techniques I should adopt to improve from it.

Peers Blog: https://medium.com/time-managment/primary-research-1-1aec29f7377a