# Professional Development Assignment:

## What is your greatest strength and how do you know?

  My greatest strength is being able to adapt unknown environments. I know this because throughout my short life, I have been put into many situations that I feel tested my comfortability to the max. I adjusted quite well and efficiently to these situations. Although constant change is not the best setting to be in, I thrive under these conditions.

## How do you work best?

  I believe I work best in a team environment. When everyone is collaborating together, it is great to have multiple point of views and ideas to give the product the absolute best potential. A lot of what is being said in a group setting is often discussion I would not be able to come up with in a solo position. If everyone is able to understand and accept out of the box ideas, I think that is when the magic starts to happen.

## What is your greatest area of improvement?

My greatest improvement is my willingness to hear others out and give them a chance without completely disregarding their input. This is something I really struggled with throughout highschool. I felt as if I was more intelligent, so your opinion on any matter would certainly not trump mine. Since graduating last year, I have realized as stated aboved, I do not always come up with the best solutions. Even crazy, out of this world ideas, have the capability of kickstarting really great plans.

## How do you hope to maximize your strengths for your new career in software development?

  With Turing being a diverse and collaborative environment, I feel this is going to be a great setting to boost my strenths even more. A strentgh that I have yet to obtain but am working on is, getting more organized. This is something I have struggled with all my life, but I know that I need to start working on that if I even want to have a chance at completing this course. This is another huge oportunity for me to gain and maximize a new strength.

## How might knowing about your strengths and working preferences benefit you as a software developer?

  Identifyig my strengths and working preferences allows me to understand where and when I am most effective. Understanding my effectiveness will be much more useful to myself and in a group setting. Increasing my organizational skills will be a strength that will be very beneficial to myself too. It will allow me to work more efficiently and also allow me to slow down and focus on the task at hand. All in all, Turing will allow me to jumpstart and continue growing through all my strengths and weaknesses.