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Hello, everybody. Um gonna be talking about politics in the workplace. My
strength when it comes to um Politics in the workplace and being political
and all that. When I took the assessment, I got a 48 which is about in the
middle of being political and being not political. Um I feel like being
political in the workplace which it is, it's abusing power to your
advantage. Um I don't get personal from, to get things for my advantage,
which is a strength of mine and some people may see that as a weakness, but
I don't think that's right. Um And I'll work for my achievements. I got my
job. Another strength is I tell the truth and I don't talk bad about others
behind my back. Um Being political is like, I feel like being very, being
almost fake towards either your manager trying to create a good
relationship with your manager to get close with them and get promotions
and kind of using it to get what you want and doing it for you. Um I don't
try to use influence in any way. Like I do have a good relationship with my
manager but I'm also not gonna overstep and abuse that and create a bad
relationship between us if she ever thinks I would do that, which I
wouldn't um I don't make everything about me. I know that I am one of, I am
a manager and there are also a lot of other managers that I have to work
with. So it's not just me like when I'm working, I have to think about
everybody else. Um And I also don't use social power to try and be better
than anyone else or say that I'm better than anyone else, even if I've been
there longer than someone that doesn't mean exactly that I'm better than
them. Um And I really think it's important to build relationships and not
abuse the power from building that relationship. Weakness. I do need
approval on is gossiping. I don't ever like lie or talk bad about anybody
but you know how it is in the workplace. Sometimes there's just things that
get said and certain things that happened that I just go and tell my other
coworkers about and it's not really like, it's not anything really negative,
but I probably should just if I hear something or see something or just
like, keep it to myself to avoid that because I feel like when that happens

2. it just creates scenarios or creates problems with each other. Um Another
thing I need to work on is being opinion opinionated. Um I don't
necessarily tell my opinion to some things, but sometimes I have issues
with kind of not judging people, but just if I meet somebody or if I first
meet someone new and I see how they act and if it's like, not something I'm
used to that I might have opinion on them before, like, actually getting to
know them. So I think that's something I need to work on. And also I feel
like keeping your view on certain things too, like how you view certain
things. Sometimes I feel like you need to keep that to yourself because not
even have the same opinion as you. And I don't always like, voice my
opinion or this should be like this or this should be like that. But I
think it's important that we just keep that to a minimum, uh, to improve
myself. I will be more cautious of what I say and who I say it to from now
on just because of, like I said, not everybody has the same opinion as you.
Um, and I will also try to not gossip as much if I see or hear something
because it's just not necessary sometimes.
Requirements: 300+