Today was my agency coreteam retreat at my boss’s condo and normally we will be having it once every 6mth to buid bond and do some macro discussion. Well for today, we played some simple games and after which we proceeded to do some sharing about ourselves.

All of us are supposed to share each of our own strengths and everyone of us are to comment whether he/she approves or to have anything to add on. It was quite an insightful sharing as each of us really gives our honest opinion of one another and we indeed get to know each other better. Most importantly, i believe such positive sharing is good because it is able to build up the positive spirit in you and allows you to be more motivated.

My boss, Alva, taught us something on how to develop yourselves in a more smarter way. He shared that in order to be an more successful person, one should not always work on improving their weaknesses but rather they should be looking at how to make use of their strength to their advantage and find people to complement what they are lacking at. This way, you are able to capitalise more and to achieve more. Personally i felt it was very true because most of us are always saying that they should improve on their weakness to be a better person or to be more successful. However at the end of the day, did they really become a more efficient or effective person? Not really i guess.

In my line before you come into this industry, you are supposed to take a personality test whereby it will be able to identify what is your bird type. The purpose of this test is so that we can have a better understanding of you and to also determine whether are you suitable for this job and what kind of methods of training works well for you. There are basically 4 types of birds namely: Peacock, Eagle, Dove & Owl. Well i shall not go into details on the personality of each bird but from the name of it, i hope you guys can roughly figure out the traits in them.

Another thing that i learnt from Alva was that to build up yourself in a more effective way, one should always find a BIGGER bird to learn and a OPPOSITE bird to work together. Eg: If you are someone who likes to lead, you should be finding someone similar to you but are more successful than you to learn from this person. In other words, MODEL HIM/HER. So how can an opposite bird works with you? In fact, they are the best person to work with because they are different from you! Another example: If you are a doer and seldom think of the details aspect of a project, you will need someone who thinks alot and analyse the whole project in a systematic way so that when you take actions, all things can go smoothly.

Having learnt these two things today, i hope to share with all my readers about this issue of understanding yourself. Spend some time to do some reflections and ask your good friends on what do they think of you? Thought sometimes the truth may hurts for some but i can assure you that it is good for you in the long run. Or if you like to do the bird personality test, do drop me an email and i will tell you how you can go about taking it =)

Have fun discovering about yourselves! Cheers!

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